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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Overview of Mold Wizard</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">Mold Wizard is an application for the design of plastic injection molds and other types of molds. Mold Wizard's advanced modeling tools for the creation of cavities, cores, sliders, lifters, and sub-inserts are easy to use and provide fast, associative, 3D-solid results.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Mold Wizard leverages the full power of NX and uses UG WAVE and Master Model technologies.</p>
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      <div class="title_division">Benefits</div>
      <p class="para_division">Mold Wizard was developed and tested with continuous input from mold designers and manufacturers. This ensures Mold Wizard matches the needs and priorities of mold makers, and meets real world design challenges. </p>
      <p class="para_division">Mold Wizard provides design tools and procedures to automate the difficult and complex tasks involved in mold design. It helps you save time throughout the design process while providing full 3D models to manufacturing. If the product design is altered, additional time is saved because changes to the product model are associative to the mold design elements.&nbsp; </p>
      <p class="para_division">Parting is the process of creating a core and cavity based on a plastic part model. The parting process is an important part of the plastic mold design, especially for parts with complicated shapes. The Parting module greatly automates this process by providing key automation tools. Furthermore, the parting operation is completely associative to the original plastic model. </p>
      <p class="para_division">Mold bases and component libraries are included from a variety of catalogs. Custom components, including sliders and lifters, sub-inserts, and electrodes, are also provided in the Standard Parts module. The Standard Parts module allows you to associatively place components with fitted pockets.</p>
      <p class="para_division">Mold Wizard provides a user-friendly way to manage different kinds of standard parts. You can use the standard parts in the library, and customize the standard parts libraries as required.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Prerequisites</div>
      <p class="para_division">To use Mold Wizard effectively, you should be familiar with mold design and possess a working knowledge of the following NX applications and tools.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Feature Modeling</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Freeform Modeling</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Curves</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Assembly Navigation Tool (ANT)</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Change the Display and Work Part</p>
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