THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR PC-BASED CASTING SIMULATION SYSTEM

No other casting modeling program offers With SOLIDCast you can import 3D models from CAD, or
POWER, EASE OF USE and ACCURACY like build your own models without CAD.
SOLIDCast™

SOLIDCast lets you see how your casting will solidify

before you make pattern equipment, dies and costly
mistakes. Pour your test castings on the computer,
not on the foundry floor! Design gates, risers and test
them out before making your first casting. Casting
simulation helps you to shorten lead times, produce
higher quality and improve yield. All of this means
lower costs, higher profits and improved
marketability for your foundry.

Aluminum Rigging System Designed by SOLIDCast

Graphics are the most sophisticated available, with fully

movable 3D models, X-ray images, high-resolution color
images and AVI video files. You can send movies to
anyone with a Windows PC!

Investment Cast Steel Valve Body

SOLIDCast can be used to simulate castings poured

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.

With SOLIDCast you can simulate molding processes

such as green sand, chemically-bonded sand, Under-Riser Shrink in Gray Iron Casting
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cooling channels, heating elements and just about
anything else that is used in the metal casting
process.

NEW!! SOLIDCast now contains both the Gating and

Riser Design Wizards!! These tools allow you to rig
new castings in just a few minutes, using actual
simulation results, not guesses based on simple
geometry. Since casting alloy, mold material and mold
inserts are taken into account, there is no more
accurate way to rig a casting than with the Gating and
Riser Design Wizards!
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 FLOW MODELING FOR MOLD FILLING USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

FLOWCast™ is the new flow modeling module from

Finite Solutions, Inc. FLOWCast works in conjunction
with models created by SOLIDCast™.

Flow modeling allows you to view a simulation, on the

computer, showing how the molten metal will flow
through gating systems and fill the casting cavity in the
mold. FLOWCast models convection, conduction and
radiation within the mold cavity. This allows you to
analyze your casting and gating design to predict and
minimize flow-related defects such as misruns due to
premature solidification, or oxide formation or mold
erosion due to excessive velocities during filling.

FLOWCast has two options for modeling mold filling.

The first is a Quick Simulation, which makes a few
simplifying assumptions. For many processes, the
Quick Simulation offers a fast and accurate way to
model the flow of the liquid metal and the temperature
distribution of the casting due to filling.
Initial filling of Iron Casting showing metal velocity
Results from a FLOWCast simulation can be used in
SOLIDCast to model the final solidification of the
casting, resulting in a completely integrated casting
modeling system. Design and analysis of gating and
mold filling with FLOWCast is as simple as solidification
modeling with SOLIDCast.

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The Full Simulation option is a full-featured CFD Flow Path Tracing in an Aluminum Sand Casting
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fluid flow. With FLOWCast, you can view progressive technology.
temperature, fluid velocity and fluid pressure during the
fill, from any angle of view.

FLOWCast is integrated with SOLIDCast and uses

models and meshes created with SOLIDCast. Since
SOLIDCast is the world' s easiest-to-use casting
modeling system, flow modeling has never been easier.
Just import your casting model from 3D CAD or build
your model using SOLIDCast tools, mesh the model,
and run FLOWCast to simulate mold filling.
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 OPTIMIZATION OF CASTING PROCESS DESIGN USING SOLIDCast™ and HyperOpt®

OPTICast™ is a software product that works in
conjunction with the SOLIDCast™ solidification
modeling system. OPTICast uses the HyperOpt®
system from Altair Engineering, Inc., the leader in
the field of optimization software.
Now, for the first time, the technology of automated design is
brought to the foundry in the form of a practical and easy-to-
use design tool. OPTICast can help you to improve your yield
and your quality to an optimum point, while freeing design
engineers from the repetitive task of trial-and-error design.

What does Optimization do?

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.

Optimization is a technique that 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. The user then selects
the following elements:

Design Variables: These are elements of the design

that are allowed to vary. For example, this could be
the height and diameter of a riser. It could also be the
pouring temperature of the alloy, or the preheat
temperature of an investment shell.

Constraints: These are specifications for results that

determine whether a particular design is acceptable.
For example, the foundry engineer might specify a
certain yield percentage as the minimum value
acceptable. One might also specify a certain level of
macroporosity as the maximum level acceptable.
Steel Casting with Optimized Riser Design
The Objective Function: This describes what the 13% Yield Improvement, automatically, while guaranteeing
casting quality!
foundry engineer is trying to achieve. Examples
might be to maximize the yield, minimize shrinkage or
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minimize the total solidification time.

Once these elements are identified in the model, the

user then launches an Optimization Run. This
consists of a series of simulations in which the design
conditions are varied under the control of HyperOpt,
model changes are made and simulation results are
evaluated, all completely automatically, until the
desired result is achieved.

Using OPTICast, the foundry engineer can start with
an initial design and allow the computer to do the
work of modifying the design and running simulations
to achieve an optimum result.
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 Hardware Requirements

Pentium III or 4 Computer (The faster, the better)

256 Mb RAM minimum, 512Mb recommended (1-3Gb
for FLOWCast)
60 Gb Hard Drive or larger
800x600x16 bit graphics minimum
Color Printer recommended
Windows 98/ME or NT/2000/XP(XP recommended)

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