Extracting a Behavior

You can extract a rib from a product, which is generally done during the process of generating the mold for a product. When extracting the core and/or cavity to create the mold plates, it is sometimes helpful to exclude some features and then to machine them into the mold plates using a different process.

  1. Click Behavior Extraction .

    The Behavior Extraction dialog box appears.



  2. Select Rib.1 under Solid Functional Set.1 as the Feature to extract.



  3. Click Change functional behavior to select it and select Added in the list.



  4. Click OK.

  5. Right-click PartBody in the specification tree and select Hide/Show.

  6. Right-click Body.1 in the specification tree and select Hide/Show.

    The resulting geometry in MoldModification (Solid Functional Set.2) can be used as starting geometry when generating the EMF sinker to modify the mold.



  7. Any changes to the target is propagated into the extracted feature. For example, right-click RibSketch under PartBody and select Replace....

  8. Select StrongRibSketch as the replacing sketch.



  9. Click OK.