The Moldex3D Shell Utility Menu consists buttons that provide shortcuts to functionalities in HyperMesh. The layout of the buttons mimic the process flow required to set up a model for Moldex3D Shell.
The main Utility Menu is shown below, along with descriptions of each macro button.
 
 
 
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Tools  | 
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Midplane Wizard | 
Opens the Midplane Wizard tab, which contains a step-by-step procedure to set up a midplane injection molding input data. See the Midplane Wizard submenu.  | 
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Surfaces | 
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Cleanup | 
Shortcut to the Edge Edit panel. This shortcut provides quick access to the Edge Edit, Defeature, and Point Edit panels for geometry cleanup operations.  | 
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Midsurface | 
Shortcut to the Midsurface panel, which provides tools to extract a midsurface from selected surfaces.  | 
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Lines | 
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Create | 
Shortcut to the Lines panel, which is used to create lines.  | 
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Edit | 
Shortcut to the Line Edit panel, which is used to edit lines.  | 
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Shell Mesh | 
Opens the panel to generate surface mesh (tria).  | 
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Runner System Mesh | 
Opens the panel to generate 1D beam mesh for the runner  | 
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Coolant System Mesh | 
Opens the panel to generate 1D beam mesh for the coolant channel.  | 
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Model Setup  | 
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Create Property Cards | 
Opens a submenu for setting up the model. See Create Property Cards for details.  | 
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Diagnostics | 
Computes the element quality of the displayed solid elements.  | 
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Export | 
Opens the Moldex3D MSH Export dialog for exporting the model. See Export for details.  | 
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