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Application & objectives of C3P simulation Software
Application High/Low pressure die casting
Semi-solid casting Gravity sand & die casting Gravity tilt pouring Investment casting Continuous casting Centrifugal casting Liquid stamping and Ladling operations
Objectives
Mold filling animations Solidification animations Solidification times & directions Shrinkage Hot spots
CAST-DESIGNER BASIC
An Expert System for High Pressure Die Casting gating system design to help designer and engineer make a reasonable die casting system in a quick way Designer application Includes gating system , overflow, cooling and venting system Standard alone software based on last Open CASCADE technology or fully integrated to common MCAD system, such as Pro-E, UG NX, SolidWorks etc. The design approach is much faster and simple compared with tradition CAD system and fully parametric Standard and special data exchanger for 3D CAD system and CAE system Short learning curve and enhance company design ability shortly
Application of CAST-DESIGNER
Help designer and engineer to make a better casting system design
Guide by industrial knowledge database, better quality and more reasonable Much faster and simple compared with tradition CAD tools Easily modify and update designed data
Provide an express method to modify the existed design As pre-processor of CAE system to design/re-design the casting system geometry with fully parametric
Main Features of CAST-DESIGNER

Standalone version and integrated version with fully integrated to MCAD system Start from 3D casting part in existed solid model (MCAD system) or STEP/IGES/STL format (standalone system) Powerful 3D gating system design with natural design concept, industrial know-how and knowledge Fully parametric design for gating and overflow system with template support, no complex F-S relationship compared with CAD system Natural and stream line design, i.e. from paper draft to 2D vector to 3D design; from inner gate, gate-runner to runner, sprue-runner and absorber; All design of gating, overflow, cooling and venting system in the same working environment with industrial guide Data exchange capability with CAD and CAE system Powerful, flexible, simple and easily to use, very short learn curve
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Natural Design of Gating in Cast-Designer
Design concept to 3D data in a quick way

It is really hard for me to make a clear decision before I have a detail 3D casting system
No problem! Cast-Designer can do that in a few minutes
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Cast-Designer & CPI
30 min
Cast-Designer Basic
1 hour
Cast-Designer CPI
15 min
Cast-Designer Basic
Cast-Designer & CPI Analysis helps make decision
Cast-Designer & CPI
30 min
Cast-Designer Basic
1 hour
Cast-Designer CPI
15 min
Cast-Designer Basic
1 hour
Cast-Designer CPI
15 min
Cast-Designer Basic
Designer have the opportunity to complete his design within 8 hours

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Filling process of different gating system
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Casting Design Advisor

Gating System Design Advisor Casting Volume
(metal, mass, quality requirement)
Fine turning
(Design finished)
Gating & Overflow

(estimate the mass Ratio of casting)
Sprue runner
(Nbs & section area Oyher parameters)
Casting machine
(select machine, ton, Filling ratio, piston Dia.)
Gate / Runner
(Design gate runner and runner, Nbs & section area)
Inner Gate
(Nbs, section area)
Speed Up Ratio
(Increase ratio of Spure: Runner :gate runner : inner gate)
Casting Zone concept

It is a very useful method for multi inner gate design The metal flow in all inner gates should balance, such as the similar max. flow distance Inner gate area calculated by the flow mass and filling time Save result as inner gate format.

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Build in Draft Design Concept

Most effective way to bring out your design as natural thinking Flexible to discuss with teachers, colleagues, leads, customers Design/Re-design/Modify in free style Internal meeting & web meeting, codesign in different location Suitable to complex part design
Support many picture formats: JPG, BMP, TIF etc. Raster format as background Vector format for snap with automatic converter from Raster Advance adjustment tools for mapping
Streamline Design
Workspace Draft design Gating system Overflow Cooling & Venting Design check All functions of casting system design were summarized in one toolbar Streamline design from the left to right or up to down to complete a design Similar user interface to speedup the work affections and reduce learning curve Help new designer have a clear design image and guide the work
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Kernel & Users Interface of Cast-Designer

Build Build in in OpenCascade OpenCascade technology, technology, one one of of the the most most famous famous CAD CAD kernel kernel Module Module design design style style to to simple simple operation operation Powerful Powerful 3D 3D CAD CAD function function Advance Advance 3D 3D solid/ solid/ surface surface capability capability Full Full integration integration of of CAD/CAE/CAPP CAD/CAE/CAPP Powerful Powerful data data exchanger exchanger
Kernel & Users Interface of Cast-Designer

3D CAD & Mesh in the same working environment Advance features for CAD & Mesh selection in the similar way Full display control for both CAD & Mesh (WF/ Color/ Shade etc.) Support a wide range element types (1D/ 2D/ 3D) Complete mesh operation functions Many advance mesh functions for defined application www.auto-design-online.com
Cast-Designer for MCAD

Cast-Designer build in the existed CAD system Familiar working environment, save learning time No data transfer problems. The system handle all the data automatically to avoid data lose Better integration with design data management capability Full function as standard software version and widely CAD version support
C AD SYSTEM Pro-ENGINEER UG NX SolidWorks
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Different of standalone & MCAD version

Start point Casting System Design
Same working environment. Special designed technology to speed up the casting system design. A plug in window in MCAD system also with data management. Same interface and function as standard version.
Couple to CPI/CAE
Very good! Same working environment with full mesh functions. Special technology in meshing for defects of CAD. Possible, but limited to mesh function usually. Except also with Cast-Design CPI for MCAD system together.
Couple to CAD/CAM
OK! But need do some fine turning, (Boolean, fillet, sew, partition etc.) Some function is time consuming if the geometry is complex. Very good! No data lose and can enjoy all fine turning functions of CAD system, and sometimes it is more advance.
STD
Existed 3D CAD part in STEP/ IGES /STL format. Not recommended to design a full casting from zero, repair is possible. Same as standard 3D CAD software, it is used in industrial for product & mould design widely with a lots of learning material.
MCAD
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Full Integrated CAX Environment
Complete CAD functions from basic primitives, Vertex, surface & solid generation to CAD transformation, Boolean operation & Check.
Full range mesh generation & operation functions, include 1D/2D/ 3D manual-Auto generation, mesh transformation & info. check.
Gating System Designer
Workspace Draft design Gating system Overflow Cooling & Venting Design check
Overflow shock absorber Inner gate Gate runner Runner Sprue runner
Piston
Gating system design procedure

Casting Design Advisor Inner gate & centre of piston location
Casting-Zone analysis (if any)
Runner, Gate-Runner trace define
Detail parameter define and turning
Overflow, cooling & venting design
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Cast-Designer Working procedure

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Work Space / Part plane Easy to draft, snap, dimension CAD method or mesh method Draft Design Load draft from BMP, JPG, TIF Convert bitmap to vector Advance tools for CAD match
Natural draft concept in Cast-Designer
Load in draft as background (Raster format)
Natural draft concept in Cast-Designer
Load in draft and convert to vector objects
Gate System Design

(General)
Streamline design process
Each design can be assigned to a project name for data manage, multi-plans and multi-versions is possible Work plane and location could be set as general in one button and also possible to modify it in separate Support gate system geometry operation to speed up design (translation, rotation and symmetry) Support gate system template and data exchange (save, load, import, export)
Gate System Design

(General)
Choose the type of shot machine from the data base Choose type of chambers Wide data base of the manufacturer According to the machine, it will automatically consider the other required details e.g. piston dia, ton filling ratio etc.
Gate System Design
(Inner Gate)
Similar interface for all components 1 Object list, 2 Data table 3 Properties, 4 Coordinates 5 Function button Multi-objects support WYSWYG (What You See, What You Get), both 2D and 3D preview Flexible coordinate adjusting Online tips and area checking
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Gate System Design
(Inner Gate)
Inner gate data management Quick design transformation Translation, Rotation, mirror Online tips and section area checking, velocity vector preview Online tens year industrial experience & know-how to guide the design Filling velocity & filling time base on casting metal and wall thickness www.auto-design-online.com
Gate System Design
(Inner Gate)
Advance filling time calculator suggested by NADCA. The filling time with a high accurate since it is also consider the quality requirement of casting products.
Ingate evaluation to help design/check inner gate based on casting metal and geometry, it is widely approved in real mould industry. www.auto-design-online.com
Gate System Design
(Inner Gate)
Online velocity vector preview bases on simple geometry calculation. It could be used to, Inner gate filling angle check Casting zone check Unfilled zone check Since this is a very rough evaluation it is recommended to have a detail CPI analysis for detail.
Gate System Design
(Gate Runner)
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Very Similar interface as inner gate design WYSWYG (What You See, What You Get), both 2D and 3D preview Online runner design wizard
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Gate System Design
(Gate Runner)
Full parameters for complex design User defined trace feature line Sections, Start & last angle Sections & sweep method, smoothing or not, automatic connection www.auto-design-online.com
Gate System Design
(Gate Runner)
Pre-defined gate-runner/runner: Straight sided, curve sided and tangential. Full parameters control and simple/fast setup.
Gate System Design

Complete parameters for gate-runner: 2 parameters for draft angle (DraftL, DraftR), 2 parameters for runner width (WL, WR); Triangle section is possible depend the input data (Angles & width). Flexible adjust tools for both coordinate and width.
(Gate Runner)
WL WR O (X,Y, Z) D
Draft Angle L
Draft Angle R
Gate System Design
(Gate Runner)
Design Complex Gate Runner Trace
Complex gate runner/runner trace could be designed by picking pre-defined curve directly. Parameters of start & end sections could be defined in setup wizard. Section Nbs. Could be assigned by user as the complex ratio of runner Multi gate runners could be connected automatically based on the geometry.
Multi-segments Runner
Powerful runner wizard and runner link
Example: Runner design
Example: Runner design
Gate System Design
(Gate runner)
3D Gate Runner/ Runner Capability
With full capability of 3D gate runner/ runner design. One-direction 3D runner (plan in width direction) could be designed directly as usual. Full 3D runner (it is also curved in width direction) could be designed as above then use Extrusion to extend up/down surface then cut it in the parting plane (curved surface)
Gate System Design
(Gate runner)
Example for fully 3D Gate Runner design

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Define parting surface, it is a 3D surface
Define the gating system as usual (plan in width direction of runner)
Extrusion the runner and cut it in parting surface to obtain the final design
Gate System Design
(Runner design)
Very Similar interface and design method as gate runner Suitable simple shape and long flow path (WL=WR) Online runner design wizard
Gate System Design
(Runner design)
Section Evaluation
Useful tools to check the gate runner /Runner design, ensure the design is correct. Detail information of the section location, area and increase/ decrease ratio. Adjust the design/Dimension immediately and recheck the data again.
Gate System Design

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(Cold Chamber)
Support cold chamber, hot chamber casting machine and no sprue runner design. Full parameter for sprue-runner; Support multi sprue runner design WYSWYG. Online evaluation for casting process and machine selection.
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Gate System Design

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(Hot Chamber)
Support cold chamber, hot chamber casting machine and no sprue runner design. Full parameter for sprue-runner; Support multi sprue runner design WYSWYG. Online evaluation for casting process and machine selection.
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Gate System Design
(Spure Runner)
Plunger Evaluation
Machine selection Process parameter
Gate System Design
(shock absorber)
Full parameters for absorber; Support Multi group definition. WYSWYG.
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Overflow design (Standard design)

Very effective and flexible way to design overflow system
Standardized, full parametric, flexible location and rotation Build in overflow type: rectangular, orbicular and wedge, pre-defined data template to speed up definition. Support multi group overflows with data management capability Design data operation (translation, rotation, mirror, extrusion ) Overflow data exchange (I/O) Support customization template
Overflow design (Standard design)

Flexible method for overflow position and location (fix side or movable side or both side) Design data export and import and support customized template
Overflow design (Non-Standard design)

To design non-standard overflow upon casting geometry or others Define base plane profile of overflow as an edge or wire Define the basic overflow parameters (depth, draft angle and extrusion direction etc.) Define central line of overflow gate (line, gate width and depth) Define the overflow location type (fix or movable half )
Cooling channel design
Pre-defined centre line for cooling channel (2D/3D Import or draft in CastDesigner) Flexible 3D lines operation Section shape and dimension control Support multi channels and multi section area definitions, fully parametric design Automatically CAD Boolean operation Cooling channel advisor for channel length & diameter and HTC calculator Authorised Distributor: Auto-Design-Online www.auto-design-online.com
Cooling channel design

Cooling Channel Calculator
Cooling channel calculator to calculate cooling line length and diameter based on industrial approval formula Build in heat transfer coeff. (HTC) calculator Mould mass and cooling could be considered Heat affection rate could be considered
Venting channel design
Pre-defined centre line for venting channel (2D/3D Import or draft in CastDesigner) Section shape and dimension control Support multi channels and multi section area definitions, parametric design Automatically CAD Boolean operation Support draft angle and partition plane Authorised Distributor: Auto-Design-Online www.auto-design-online.com
Venting block design
Venting block design in die casting to support vacuum system; Full parameter design ; Flexible position and location control; Preview function, WYSWYG Design date export and import, support customized template Link with venting channel easily
Gate System Checking

Section Checking Filling Ratio Casting Yield Shot Checking
Checking the section area in defined cut direction for any 3D geometry Define sections number and distance of each section This checking is important and absolutely necessary for complex geometry, such as multi-runner with Boolean operation in different direction Authorised Distributor: Auto-Design-Online

Section Checking Filling Ratio Casting Yield Shot Checking Machine Selection
Database with more than 200 machines and easily to expend more by user Select correct piston diameter and chamber length to achieve a reasonable filling ratio Predict the 1st and 2nd speed to avoid chamber gas problem Calculate the position and time for critical accelerate point; Machine capability evaluation. Authorised Distributor: Auto-Design-Online
Process parameter

Section Checking Filling Ratio Casting Yield Shot Checking
Casting yield checking to compare with industrial requirement Predict locking force for machine selection Evaluate machine capability bases on part geometry, casting metal and product quality requirement
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Cast-Designer result data

Design data was a set of solid components assigned by defined name Solid components were not combined together, it could be done by user if necessary It is possible and often for initiation design: CAD overlay, intersection, tin gaps it could be treated only after the design plan was confirmed (time consuming sometimes ) Cast-Design provides a set of tools to combine the objects and fine turning the design
Useful tools for geometry fine turning
CAD Sew Boolean operation
Fillet
Chamfer
Partition
Glue
Cast-Designer result (Geometry turning)

Prepare data for CPI/CAE Analysis
Unnecessary to fuse solid components, only select the Multi domain option in fast meshing Make fillet for big dimension which may affect the metal flow (i.e. sprue runner), unnecessary for small fillet
Initial design
Prepare data for CAD modeling
Geometry turning
Fuse solid components is necessary usually, also ask to sew the surface for same surface Make fillet is necessary and it is time consuming some times It is always suggest to export the gating, overflow and cooling system in STEP format to MCAD system for geometry combine and fillet or select Cast-Designer MCAD version.
Cast-Designer Data Exchange

CAD CADGeneral General STEP IGES BREP STL DXF CAE CAD System CAEGeneral System Cast-Engineer Ansys Pro-CAST Nastran STL Patran Ideas (UNV) OFF
CAD Advance
CAM System STL
CAM System
CATIA UG Pro-E SolidWorks ParaSolid Extra license

required
Export design data to other CAD system

The design data of Cast-Designer could be exported to other CAD system in 3D Solid objects directly
Support export format STEP, IGES, BREP The recommended export formats for gating system are STEP or BREP, both types file have best geometry quality It is recommended to export all components in one STEP file without Boolean operation
Notice for exporting Cast-Designer to a sole solid/part CAD system

Please select sole solid/part than assemblythen the system will carry out Boolean operation for all the components automatically and get a sole part (i.e. PRO-E, CATIA etc.) System recognizes all the solids and convert to multi files with one file one solid, the user need load one of the above file and insert the others one by one, after that the system will carry out Boolean operation automatically and get an one sole part (i.e UG NX, SolidWorks)
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Cast-Designer Snapshot
Cooling feature line
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Couple Cast-Designer with simulation software

What CAE can do? Bases on Input data, provides output result Detail casting process information: metal filling, solidification, stress etc. What CAE can not do? Modify the existed model geometry directly Fast modify the existed design plan as CAE result Cast-Designer can couple to any CAE system as a preprocess for casting system design or modification, whatever FEM or FDM/FVM code. Cast-Engineer, MAGMA, Pro-CAST, Flow3D, AnyCasting, QUICKCAST, NOVACAST, JSCAST Supports STEP/IGES/STL and many mesh formats
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Major Benefits of CAST-DESIGNER

Very fast design speed
General design time in Cast-Designer Standard casting Ten minute to one hour Complex 3D partition surface 1~2 hour
Easy to use
Streamline design method Similar interface for all components Full parametric design, pre-defined template
Natural design style

Natural design style, draft design approach Support multi design plans
Major Benefits of CAST-DESIGNER

Fully CAD/CAE/MCAD integration
CAD Import/export (STEP, IGES, STL) CAM export (STL) MCAD version built in CAD environment
Design checking and evaluation

Online guide and wizard Special tools for design checking and evaluation
Easily customization
Design database generation and customization
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Main Features of CAST-DESIGNER

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Natural Design of Gating in Cast-Designer

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Design concept to 3D data in a quick way

No problem! Cast-Designer can do that in a few minutes

Cast-Designer & CPI

Cast-Designer & CPI Analysis helps make decision

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Cast-Designer & CPI

Designer have the opportunity to complete his design within 8 hours

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Make Better Gating System -1

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Make Better Gating System -2

Make Better Gating System -3

Filling process of different gating system

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Filling process of different gating system

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Filling process of different gating system

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Filling process of different gating system

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Filling process of different gating system

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Casting Design Advisor

Gating & Overflow

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Casting Zone concept

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Build in Draft Design Concept

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Kernel & Users Interface of Cast-Designer

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Kernel & Users Interface of Cast-Designer

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Cast-Designer for MCAD

C AD SYSTEM Pro-ENGINEER UG NX SolidWorks

SU PPO R T VER SI O N S 2000 ~ WF5 17 ~ NX 7 2004~ 2010

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Different of standalone & MCAD version

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Full Integrated CAX Environment

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Gating System Designer

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Gating system design procedure

Casting-Zone analysis (if any)

Runner, Gate-Runner trace define

Detail parameter define and turning

Overflow, cooling & venting design

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