aPriori analyzes a part’s holes and voids in order to determine which, if any, must be handled by a side core or slide. For those GCDs that require a slide, aPriori determines which can be grouped together onto a common action. In this way, aPriori can determine the number and sizes of the slides required for the part’s mold.

Each resulting slide is represented by a GCD with a name such as SlideBundle:1 or SlideBundle:2, and so forth. These GCDs appear in the Geometric Cost Drivers pane under the Slide Bundles, which appear under the Volume node.

You can override the bundling analysis, and specify the number of small, medium, and large bundles with process setup options. See User Inputs for Die Casting.