To Edit Mold Base Patterns
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  1. Click Image Top to switch to the top view of the mold base.
  2. Select the Main Guide 1 Image pattern.
    • Either by double-click inside the top view
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    • Or by double-click on the listed pattern inside the summary tree.
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    The Pattern dialog box appears.
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    If a plate supplier provides default dimensions for a certain pattern in its catalog, this values will be used as default in the entries Quantity and Pattern Size.
     Note
    Be careful with changing pattern dimensions provided by suppliers. For guide patterns its very unusual to change. The following steps are just described as an example.
  3. Click the visibility icon symbol Image in the first column. The icon switches to Image which indicates that this pattern instance should be removed from the axis-pattern.
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     Note
    Leader pins, bushings etc. assembled on this axis pattern will also appear only on the visible members of this pattern.
  4. Close the dialog with OK.
    The modification will be applied to the mold base assembly model.
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  5. Reopen the Main Guide 1 pattern dialog box
  6. Modify the Y entry for Pattern Size to 200.
  7. Recalculate the pattern members with the Image button.
    The preview in Mold Base Definition shows the new position automatically without regeneration of the 3D model.
     Note
    Hidden members will become visible again when recalculate the pattern!
  8. Close the dialog with OK.
    The modification will be applied to the mold base assembly model.
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  9. Reopen the Main Guide 1 pattern dialog box
  10. Reset the Y entry for Pattern Size to 324.
  11. Click Image again.
  12. Close the dialog with OK.
    The pattern is set back to the default values.
     Note
    When changing the mold base Size, all default patterns are reset to the values from catalog. Only patterns that are not explicitly defined by the plate supplier (i.e. ejector guide patterns for Meusburger) will remain to the values you have specified.
Using 1+3 patterns
A common technique to avoid assembling mistakes of the mold base stack is to assemble leader pins and bushings with different inner diameter at one pattern instance.
  1. Reopen the Main Guide 1 pattern dialog box
  2. Click Image.
    Only the pattern leader of Main Guide 1 remains visible. In addition the pattern Main Guide 2 is added with same Quantity and Pattern Size. In Main Guide 2 only the first position is suppressed. The different patterns are represented in Mold Base Definition by different colors.
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  3. Close the Main Guide 1 dialog box with OK.
    The suppressed pattern MAIN_GUIDE2 is resumed in the skeleton model, position and amount of axis match to the definition you have made.
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