Automatic Conformal Cooling Curve 

Access: Open this function from one of the following locations:

  • Select Mold Design > Cooling > Automatic Conformal Cooling Curve from the menu bar.

  • Select Cooling > Automatic Conformal Cooling from the Mold Design Guide Toolbar.

Automatically create conformal cooling curves by analyzing the part's geometry.

The Part that will be used to create the automatic conformal cooling curves. Note that this part already has conformal cooling channels.

Automatically created conformal cooling curve. This curve is used as input to create conformal cooling channels.

Example of conformal cooling channels created on automatically created conformal cooling curves

Active faces that require cooling are selected and the diameter of the cooling channels is defined along with required distances from walls and from other cooling lines. The system will then calculate the optimal path of the conformal cooling channel and create a curve to be used as an input for the Conformal Cooling Design function.

Optional stages of the function allow selecting additional cooling channels (even if they were not yet cut with the part) to make sure the cooling channel stays further away from them and also to select a closed object that defines a virtual volume used to split the cooling circuit into several circuits.

Additional examples of automatically created conformal cooling curves:

Conical Shaped

Cylindrical Shaped

Spherical Shaped

Thin Wall Shaped

General Interaction

The following is the Feature Guide for Auto Conformal Cooling.

   Tip: You can open the Feature Guide at any time by right-clicking the mouse in the graphic display area.

Required Step 1 : Pick the active faces that need to be cooled.

Required Step 2 : Set the cooling parameters and pick the In/Out points, if required.

Optional Step 1 : Pick additional closed object(s), such as cooling channels (even if they were not yet cut with the part), to make sure that the created cooling curve circuit stays further away from them.

Optional Step 2 : Pick a closed object that defines a virtual volume used to split the cooling circuit into several circuits. The circuit may be created either inside or outside the virtual volume.

Detailed Interaction

See Options and Results.

Some functionality may be dependent on the product package. Contact your Reseller if you require a license.