Download Product Sheet SOLID Cast™s user friendly software simulates multiple casting types with rich features, accounting for variables in sand, investment, and permanent mold castings. Design gates, risers and test them out before making your first casting. Solidification modeling helps to shorten lead times, produce higher quality and improve yield. All of this means lower costs, higher profits and improved marketability for our clients™ foundries…..
Casting Pour Types:
SOLIDCast can be used to simulate castings pour in gray iron, ductile iron, steel, aluminum, copper-base, magnesium, nickel-based
and almost any other alloy. A database of several hundred alloys, with their properties, is included.
Variety of Simulations:
With SOLIDCast you can simulate processes such as green sand, chemically-bonded sand, investment and permanent mold. You can use sleeves (insulating or exothermic), chills, hot topping, cooling channels, heating elements and just about anything else that is used in the metal casting process.
Create New Castings in Minutes:
SOLIDCast now contains the new Riser Design Wizard and Gating Design Wizard. These tools allow you rig new castings in just a few minutes from a 3D CAD model, using actual process data, not guesses based on simple geometry. Since casting alloy, mold material and actual process conditions are taken into account, there is no more accurate way to calculate gating and riser designs for castings. With SOLIDCast you can import 3D models from CAD, or build your
own models without CAD.
FLOWCast is an add-on flow modeling module to SOLIDCast, adding Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis to SOLIDCast™s capabilities. Fluid flow modeling allows users to view a simulation, on the computer, showing how molten metal will flow through gating systems and fill the mold.
OPTICast is an optimization module that works in conjunction with the SOLIDCast solidification modeling system. Most solidification modeling systems require the engineer to create a design, run a simulation, review the results, and then make a decision about how to modify the design to achieve a good casting. This can take several design iterations to get to the end result. OPTICast allows the foundry engineer to start with an initial design for a casting, with gating and risering, as a 3D model in the SOLIDCast modeling system.