High pressure die casting, low pressure, gravity casting, lost foam, continuous and centrifugal casting, core box: these are only few examples of all the processes that FLOW-3D CAST can simulate.

FLOW-3D CAST is a very flexible simulation tool and there are no limitations of the foundry processes that can be simulated.
The previous list could be continued including: FEM analysis on the solidifying metal or the mould, core blowing, tilt pouring and conformal cooling channels.
Users can quickly import any 3D cad geometry into the software, setting the metal properties, and run the calculation.

Simulation provides in output several interesting information to technicians, like:
    • pouring time
    • metal temperature
    • surface defects
    • oxidation
    • air entrainment
    • solidification rate
    • heat transfer coefficients
    • mould temperature
    • thermal stresses and deformation of the solidified metal or the mould

Users can also simulate their process going far ahead in representing the real physical condition, for a really physical simulation: pistons with first and second phase, pouring laddle, without any constrain on the motion or the geometry, in a fully 3D turbulent environment.

Nowadays, to get into the market with the highest quality level product as possible, it is often used to perform an optimization study of the own casting design.
To search for very extremum performance in a very quick way, try the software IOSO Technology (by SigmaTechnology).
IOSO will work in loop with your modeling tools, using a new optimization "push-button" technology, that adopt a Self-Organization Strategy making use of up to 7 different well-known optimization methods (gradients, genetic, neural network, search region,...).