The Moldex3D Solid Utility menu consists of buttons that provide shortcuts to different functions. The layout of the buttons mimic the process flow required to set up a model for Moldex3D Solid.
The main Utility menu is shown below, along with descriptions of function.
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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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Extract Axis | 
Opens the Extract Axis dialog, which extracts the axis of the given solid. See Extract Axis for more details.  | 
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Generate Mesh | 
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Coolant Channel Line | 
Opens the panel to generate 1D beam mesh for the coolant channel.  | 
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Surface Mesh | 
Opens the size and bias subpanel of General 2D Meshing, which is used to create tria3 elements on surfaces.  | 
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Layered Tet Mesh | 
Opens a submenu of macros for generating a layered CFD solid mesh. See Layered Tet Mesh Submenu.  | 
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Solid Meshing Wizard | 
Opens the Solid Meshing Wizard, which facilitates meshing the solids either with solidmap, tetmesh or CFD mesh.  | 
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Runner Meshing Wizard | 
Opens the Runner Meshing Wizard, which contains a dialogs that help create a high quality solid mesh for the runner system consisting of prism and tetrahedral elements. See Runner Meshing Wizard.  | 
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Moldex3D Wizard | 
Opens the Moldex3D Wizard tab, which contains a step-by-step procedure to set up an Boundary Layer 3D Mesh See Moldex3D Wizard.  | 
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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 MFE Export dialog for exporting the model. See Export for details.  | 
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