Make your design and manufacturing processes more efficient with casting simulation!
Discover Cast-Designer, an advanced simulation tool tailored specifically for the casting industry. With over 50 years of experience, our solution provides end-to-end solutions, from metal charging and DFM analysis to detailed thermal, flow, solidification, and stress simulations. The software helps to optimize casting designs, predict defects like shrinkage, porosity, and air entrapment, and significantly improve quality, yield, and manufacturability. The user-friendly interface combined with robust algorithms support various casting processes, from die casting through gravity casting to investment casting, making it essential for enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and accelerating time-to-market for high-quality cast components. Enjoy the benefits of simulation technology with Cast-Designer!
- Design for manufacturing
- Die casting
- Gravity casting
- Investment casting
- Gating design advisor
- Precise flow evaluation
- Distortion and stress analysis
- Micro-structure visualization
- Cooling system design
- Mould tempering calculation
- Automatic design and process optimization (DOE)
- Coupled mechanical analysis with CDPE
- Grain structure prediction
- Advanced CFD solver
Check out the key features of Cast-Designer
Powerful and easy to use tool for DFM analysis
Geo-Designer is a DFM tool linking part designers and manufacturing suppliers. It offers fast MDI (Mass Distribution Index)/HDI (Heat Distribution Index) analysis, slider checking, draft angle and undercut checking, ejection force evaluation, riser and feeder design, and cooling system design.
Gating design advisor for optimal gate placement
Gating Design Advisor offers detailed guidance for die casting system design. Features like shot machine tonnage analysis, wall thickness analysis, cooling channel calculators and reverse engineering streamline your workflow. The intuitive Free-Style module enables easy 3D gating design with customizable templates.
Boost Your design efficiency in the field of gravity casting
Leveraging AI-driven 'Smart riser' and 'Smart chill' technologies, it automates optimal riser and chill designs, reducing shrinkage porosity and improving thermal balance. With a rich database of exothermic and insulative sleeves Cast-Designer minimizes design time and effort.
Advanced CFD solver for precise flow prediction
The CFD solver in Cast-Designer models surface tension effects, viscous shear stress, buoyant flow, and turbulent phenomena. It solves conservation equations for mass and momentum for immiscible, incompressible fluids, and effectively tracks their interfaces, ensuring accurate simulations of complex fluid dynamics.
High quality meshing technology
Cast-Designer supports 3D hexahedron and tetrahedron mesh capabilities, automatic mould assembly, and various mesh options, including local, thin region, 2D surface, and shell meshes. It provides special features for CAD defects and ensures accurate meshing for high-quality simulations.
Detailed flow and solidification analysis
Cast-Designer offers detailed flow simulations including results for fluid fraction, gas entrapment, velocity and temperature over time and mould erosion. Solidification calculations cover solid fraction, solidification time, shrinkage porosity and Niyama micro porosity, dendrite arm spacing, elongation and piping.
Stress and distortion analysis to enable compensation
Stress module simulates thermal, flow, and mechanical stresses, predicting residual stresses and distortion with high accuracy, examining stress distribution, deformation, and gap formation. The Distortion Compensation Solver (DCS) enhances accuracy by automatically finding compensation geometry!
In-depth analysis of the full mould
Cast-Designer provides automatic mould assembly meshing from 3D CAD, saving over 90% of time and manual work. The die casting module offers control over mould cycling, ejection times, die sequences, and cooling channels, maintaining thermal balance and optimizing efficiency. HPDC, GDC, and LPDC technologies are supported.
AI-powered optimization tools
Discover the AI-powered optimizer to fine-tune flow, thermal and stress properties. It adjusts gate locations and riser sizes to maximize yield, minimize shrinkage and gas entrapment. The DOE feature ensures ideal parameter settings, while the Production Optimizer enhances cycle times boosting productivity and reducing costs.
Predicting grain structure
The CDCA model accurately predicts grain structure during solidification using cellular automaton growth and finite-difference diffusion equations. It simulates nucleation and growth, including pre-fixed and stochastic nucleation, diffusion-controlled growth, gas issues and models three-dimensional porosity morphology.
Software Sales
If you have any general questions about our Ansys, Moldex3D, Dante, Particleworks, or CF Turbo simulation software (quotation, licensing, training), please contact us using one of the following contact details. Please note that our software is only available to customers from the following countries: Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Macedonia.
sales (at) econengineering.com
+36 1 279 0320
Greg Lipóczi, Dr.
Commercial Director
László Molnár, Ph.D.
Academic & Key Account Representative
Péter Bara
Key Account Manager
East Hungary
János Simon
Key Account Manager
West Hungary
