- [Instructor] The Parting Line Analysis tool is a quick
and dirty way to visualize where your parting lines
might lie when you start getting into molding.
It's a pretty easy tool to use, go ahead
and just click on Parting Line Analysis, and then choose
your direction of pull or multiple directions
of pull to see what's going to happen.
Let's go ahead and choose something like the top plane
right here and we'll just zoom in here.
It's kind of hard to see sometimes, but what it does is
it puts a very small, little purple line here
showing where those faces might be split.
Same thing over here, you can see it kind of
following around this direction over here.
As you spin that around, you can see here
at the bottom, it's giving you a tooling split
or parting line right down here.
Obviously, you have to connect these together over here.
But that's giving you your first look at
where your parting lines might be.
You can leave this on while you're working in the design,
and you can then modify the design, and you can see
where those lines might actually move to.
Now this is not actually creating a parting line.
This is purely letting you know where that line might be
based upon the directions you might choose
or look at in your mold.
In this case here, you pretty much only have one direction
you could be separating that mold in, but if you had
a more complex shape that had multiple options,
you could then see each one of those laid out with
different lines on your model showing you where they are,
and then, again, adjusting your model to get to
the perfect line or the perfect split for your design.