Shut-off Surfaces
To cut a tooling block into two pieces, you need two complete surfaces (a core surface and a cavity surface) without any through holes. Shut-off surfaces close up the through holes. You create shut-off surfaces after you create the parting lines.
A shut-off surface closes up a through hole by creating a surface patch along
one of the following:
and Core
Surface Bodies
with the appropriate surfaces. See
Mold Folders.
- Edges that form a continuous loop.
- A parting line you previously created to define a loop.