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About Identifying Surfaces and Features for Cooling Circuits
The Show Waterline command, by default, considers only bore features for cooling circuits that are created with EMX cooling components or Mold Design waterline features. This is often insufficient because cooling circuits can be more complex. Additional manually designed features and cutouts can also be part of a cooling circuit.
You can use the EMX Part Mode > Preparation > Identify for Cooling Circuits command to identify surfaces or entire features as part of cooling circuits. When surfaces or features are identified, the Show Waterline command recognizes them and creates connected cooling circuits. Gaps between sections of cooling circuits are closed.
Identifying Surfaces and Features for Cooling Circuits
1. Open a part.
2. Select EMX Part Mode > Preparation > Identify for Cooling Circuits. The Identify for Cooling Circuits dialog box opens.
3. To identify a single surface, select Surfaces. A selection window opens. Select surfaces and confirm by pressing the middle mouse button. The selected surfaces are now listed in the tree.
4. To identify all surfaces of a feature, select Features. A selection window opens. Select a feature and confirm by pressing the middle mouse button. All surfaces of this feature are now listed in the tree.
5. To remove a single surface, select Surfaces. A selection window opens. Select surfaces and confirm by pressing the middle mouse button. The selected surfaces are removed from the tree.
6. To remove all surfaces of a feature, select Features. A selection window opens. Select a feature and confirm by pressing the middle mouse button. All surfaces of this feature are removed from the tree.
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When you select a surface node in the tree, the surface is highlighted in the graphics window.
7. To remove selected surfaces or features from the tree, right-click the element, then select Remove selected element from the shortcut menu.
8. To zoom on an identified element select it on the tree, right-click the element and select Zoom to selected from the shortcut menu.
9. To close the dialog box, click Close.
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