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What good is a mold design software if you can't work with standards?
Here we will show you how easy it is to insert an angle pin.
Select the angle pin function and the face that we want to apply it to,
and where we'd like to located on the slide.
Next we choose the insertion face on the back of our a-plate.
We choose our standard.
And then specify which standard we would like to insert.
Click OK...TopSolid'Mold does the rest for you.
Here you can see that the angle pin has been included.
However maybe we want to modify the angle pin.
Maybe we want to modify the way it's trimmed at the end there. So we will go find the type parameter and set to zero,
and there you'll see that it automatically trims itself to the back of that plate.
Next let's have a closer look at the slide carrier.
Maybe what we will do is make the slide carrier a little bit transparent so we can see inside.
And that red dimension represents how that angle pin is controlling the overall stroke of the side action.
Here we are going to add a clearance to the hole going through the side action, and you'll see that the driving point shifts dynamically.
Next we will add another common feature. We will go head and add fillets, after the fact, to that hole.
And once more, once we compute them, you'll notice that that driving point changes again.
So here we are always try to do our best to help you quickly design properly.
Next maybe what we'll do is add some screws. So let's turn everything off,
maybe turn the core block on and that the b-plate on...why not?
From here we will choose the screw function,
and we will choose to position it off the center of our mold base using standard ordinate dimensions.
We will choose the last component in the assembly we want to add a screw through,
find the standard that we are looking for,
TopSolid'Mold does the rest. It includes the standard at that position,
and if we make a change to one of the dimensions you'll see that it
moves the component, but it's also going to move the drillings that are associated to it but before we show you that maybe let's go make a pattern of that screw.
So here we will choose a standard XZ/YZ mold base mirror. So we will mirror about the center of the mold base.
And like that we have four screws.
Maybe we will turn off the one screw to show you that the counterbore hole and the tapped hole have been automatically added,
and once more we will make a design change,
and you'll see that everything updates automatically.