Hello everybody, I’m trying to build a casting mold from a 3D model by building 2 single bodies (top+bottom mold) around my actual model. After substracting my model from the boxes I still havent found a decent way how to intersect it along each mold’s surface (not in the center, since i need to pr…

@Carlotto In the attached a Cube and simple Solid Body were Created. [Casting%20Mould] Using Tools > Color > setting Opacity Slider the Cube was rendered transparent. Use Transform > Move/Rotate/Scale to place the Mould Pattern centrally inside the Cube. Use Tools > Subtract to remove the Soli…

It’s great to see users helping newer users, Community is everything! Best, Tommy

@tommyn Every request for assistance that appears on the Forum receives attention as part of my learning curve. Writing up a solution is also part of the journey because it helps to hammer home routines. I absolutely agree Community is Important and needs to start by making all New Users feel welc…

THX for your explanation, think I should have attached a screenshot of my model, which is more complex than a sphere, unfortunately. Let’s call it a wavy disc The solution you describe first would lead to an unwanted result for casting :smiley: I had tried also your second option before, but I didn…

@Carlotto Sorry to hear that you have problems with an import. Subtract only allows you to select one Item, as per my alternative above. Not at all sure if this will work. In Items > Select all the components of WD > hit [image] bottom left > goto Folder. ## that you just created at top of It…

Hey Carla - just a quick note - selection in Items doesn’t work in Tools yet unfortunately.

Thank you so much for your support :slight_smile: Ill try as you propose and let you know if it worked out. Have a good day

@DanielR The shapr. File below file seems to prove us both ‘behind the times’? Things do move really fast in S3D :sunglasses: @Carlotto With a large number of Components to be moulded it might be useful to place them in a Folder for ease of Selecting? Casting Splitting Demo.shapr (328 KB) For …

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