The Moldex3D Solid Utility menu consists of buttons that provide shortcuts to different functions. The layout of the buttons mimic the process flow required to set up a model for Moldex3D Solid.
The main Utility menu is shown below, along with descriptions of function.
Surfaces |
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Cleanup |
Shortcut to the Edge Edit panel. This shortcut provides quick access to the Edge Edit, Defeature, and Point Edit panels for geometry cleanup operations. |
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Midsurface |
Shortcut to the Midsurface panel, which provides tools to extract a midsurface from selected surfaces. |
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Lines |
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Create |
Shortcut to the Lines panel, which is used to create lines. |
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Edit |
Shortcut to the Line Edit panel, which is used to edit lines. |
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Extract Axis |
Opens the Extract Axis dialog, which extracts the axis of the given solid. See Extract Axis for more details. |
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Generate Mesh |
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Coolant Channel Line |
Opens the panel to generate 1D beam mesh for the coolant channel. |
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Surface Mesh |
Opens the size and bias subpanel of the Automesh panel, which is used to create tria3 elements on surfaces. |
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Layered Tet Mesh |
Opens a submenu of macros for generating a layered CFD solid mesh. See Layered Tet Mesh Submenu. |
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Solid Meshing Wizard |
Opens the Solid Meshing Wizard, which facilitates meshing the solids either with solidmap, tetmesh or CFD mesh. |
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Runner Meshing Wizard |
Opens the Runner Meshing Wizard, which contains a dialogs that help create a high quality solid mesh for the runner system consisting of prism and tetrahedral elements. See Runner Meshing Wizard. |
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Moldex3D Wizard |
Opens the Moldex3D Wizard tab, which contains a step-by-step procedure to set up an Boundary Layer 3D Mesh See Moldex3D Wizard. |
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Model Setup |
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Create Property Cards |
Opens a submenu for setting up the model. See Create Property Cards for details. |
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Diagnostics |
Computes the element quality of the displayed solid elements. |
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Export |
Opens the Moldex3D MFE Export dialog for exporting the model. See Export for details. |