making a fish bait mold

[jrogers80]

Hello guys and gals. 

I am trying to make a fish bait mold, a one piece open pour mold. It is all modeled up and ready to put tool paths to it but it is just a mold for one plastic worm. I need to copy it and make a multiple worm mold... My question is what is the best way to copy it and can the tool path be copied as well or will i have to put tool paths to each worm cavity individually? See in the file you can see the one cavity mold, i need to make a multiple cavity mold with say as many cavities as i can get on a piece of aluminum 24" long and 8" wide by .75" thick. any help will be much appreciated.. PS i did not draw so i may have questions about how to modify this as well.

[johnswetz1982]

I turned on design history so you can step through what I did one action at a time. You can program CAM operations as a whole or only do one section and pattern that based off of the center/construction point.

[jrogers80]

Thank you for the help. As I am still learning, how exactly did you copy all of those? I want to make the width 12" and the length 24" so can i go to sketch and make it the right dimensions and then it will all just change or will i have to copy and paste each cavity because i still can not figure out the copy/move function like in autocad......

[jrogers80]

would there be any way for you to make a video?

[johnswetz1982]

Your original file only had a body with no design history so you cannot just change the sketch. If you can somehow edit the body/component that I started with without breaking my actions it should probably work.

[jrogers80]

Exactly sounds good. But being new to all this i do not know how. what I think would work is edit your sketch to be 12 wide X 24 long. Then copy and paste the cavities to the new block. or draw a new block and copy the cavities to that and add as many more as i need to take up the additional space. But every time i try to copy nothing happens for me and i get frustrated....