SplitWorks Core & Cavity Design
An Advanced Splitting Environment for SolidWorks Mold Design
SplitWorks® uses advanced technology to automate the process of core and cavity separation and creation for the plastic molding, blow molding, sheet metal (progressive dies, bending), aluminum injecting, investment casting, wax molding for ceramics technology industry. SplitWorks includes advanced technology to update the inserts after any modifications or additions to the part including changed IGES files!
- Incorporates process-specific knowledge of mold making in CAMD (Computer Aided Mold Design) software.
- Delivers levels of productivity that dramatically outperform traditional mold making software...at an affordable price!
- Provides time-to-market gains of 2-1 or better!
SplitWorks Features & Benefits
SpiltWorks Process
SplitWorks' intelligence begins by analyzing the part model and then displaying a color coated preview of the part, showing the potential core, cavity, zero draft angle surfaces and surfaces which belong to both the core and the cavity, according to the selected splitting direction.
The part may be a solid created within SolidWorks, or imported from any other CAD system via SolidWorks' translators. SplitWorks will work even on non-solid geometry giving it a significant competitive advantage over other products.
The user can modify the split direction by simply clicking on a plane, planar face or edge, which dynamically updates the preview. Undercuts and "no draft" angle surfaces are analyzed at this stage allowing "you" to determine the best splitting direction.
The geometry is then automatically exploded into six groups (folders)
- Core
- Cavity
- Both Direction
- No Draft
- No Draft Core (optional - can be created in the core group)
- No Draft Cavity (optional - can be created in the cavity group)
then automatically placed into the SplitWorks Property Page along with a parting line folder.
Familiar SolidWorks menus and commands
SplitWorks is a certified gold product which means it is fully integrated with SolidWorks. The SplitWorks menus and commands will be familiar to SolidWorks designers. Context sensitive popup menus and functionality in SplitWorks property page include:
- Automatic Rebuild option which updates face classification and parting line display dynamically.
- Move menus to move faces between groups.
- Show/Hide folders faces and/or parting lines.
- Create Surface to create core, cavity or side core surfaces.
- Update Surface to update core, cavity or side core surfaces (propagating changes from the part to the finished assembly of cores, cavities and side cores.
Other SplitWorks functionality
- Find ALL holes within a part surface and plug them where possible, leaving the unplugged holes highlighted to be plugged with Standard SolidWorks tools.
- Loft menu can be used as an automatic parting surface generator (when appropriate) or as a tool to create parting surfaces step by step using built-in redundancy overcoming composite curve and lofting reorder failures.
- Automatically create solid insert from standard or user defined material blanks.
- Network licensing.
