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New Software Speeds Mold Design.


Two new releases of mold-design CAD software are said to offer numerous labor-saving features. SplitWorks 2001 and MoldWorks 2001 from R&B Mold Design USA, Cave Creek Cave Creek may refer to:
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, Ariz., are both designed to integrate seamlessly within SolidWorks CAD software from SolidWorks Corp., Concord Concord, cities, United States
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* SplitWorks 2001 streamlines the creation of core and cavity inserts, pins, and other components. It automatically splits plastic parts into cores and cavities and adds side cores and pins. The software offers a quick preview of candidate parting surfaces according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 pull direction. Dynamic, interactive tools let users modify ambiguous or "zero" draft-angle surfaces. Holes in core and cavity surfaces are filled automatically.

* MoldWorks 2001 is 3D solid-based software for speeding the creation of mold-base assemblies. New features include automatic propagation The transmission (spreading) of signals from one place to another.  of plate parameter changes to the completed mold, transformation and/or duplication duplication /du·pli·ca·tion/ (doo-pli-ka´shun)
1. the act or process of doubling, or the state of being doubled.

2.
 of components, new part catalogs, and new component libraries.
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Date:Mar 1, 2001
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