Casting Design: Die Casting
Cast-Designer's Gating Design Advisor is designed with 50 years of industrial experience and NADCA standard recommendations. It provides step-by-step guidance to the user to design an effective gating system, starting from the shot machine selection, inner gate area, runner section, velocity, fill-time, overflow, venting and cooling channels etc.
With Cast-Designer's Automatic Optimizer, this initial gating design could be fully optimized to produce error-free castings.
HPDC gating system design
- PQ Graph evaluation of the design
- Provides fill time and required inner gate area
- First phase and Second phase velocity
- Cooling channel calculator
- Overflow requirement calculator
- Sprue runner, venting design tools
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Gating Design Advisor main page
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PQ Graph Evaluation of the gating system design
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Shot sleeve and vacuum design
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Detail components design
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Parametrically defined "Template Gating Designs"
DESIGN TOOLS FOR HPDC
- Shot Machine Tonnage Calculation Tool: Using user given projected-area of the casting and casting pressure category, this tool provides shot machine tonnage required to manufacture the casting.
- Shot Machine Database: Cast-Designer has a collection of shot machine data. This database can be referred for machine tonnage and for PQ graph analysis.
- Casting Wall Thickness Analysis Tool: A handy tool to find average wall thickness of the casting and thin and thick regions in the casting.
- Casting Zone Analysis: Provides selected region/zone's volume and in-gate sizes for the designed in-gate velocity and fill time. Helps to design uniform filling.
- Shot Sleeve Model Generator and Velocity Curve Generator: CAD models are automatically created with filled, unfilled regions and piston of the shot sleeve. Piston velocity or distance curve can be created and verified for vacuum system and shot-machine's capability.
- Overflow Design Tools : Different standard shapes supported.
- Cooling Calculators and Design Tools : Cooling channels calculator helps designer to arrive at length and size of the cooling channels and design tools to create cooling channels for analysis.
- Venting Calculators and Design Tools : Chill vent designer can create standard design quickly.
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FREE STYLE GATING DESIGN
Working in "Free-Style" gating design module is fun and easy & get your design done in minutes.
It's like drawing on a paper
4 STEPS IN FREE STYLE DESIGN
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Draw directly on the 3D gating system
- Free-Style' gating design tools has intelligence about the standard definition of different runner shapes.
- By simply picking few points on the parting surface a spline created as a projected 3D spline.
- Taking this spline as controlling center line, runner geometry is created in 3D with required draft, rounds etc.
- 3D runner is always created as a swept blend with smooth bends.
- Based on the designed local speed-up ratio, runner section’s start area and end areas are controlled.
- Free design also supports pre-defined template library. The customize tools can help user to make customization in a few clicks.
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Step 1: Get Design from Gating Design Wizard
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Step 2: Draw your concept lines using 4 simple tools – main runner, runner, gaterunner and sprue
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Step 3: Apply Design from Wizard, runner section areas are copied from thedesign sheet.
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Step 4: Runners, in-gates and sprue are created with design sheet values in 3D in a single click. Adjust, if required.
REVERSE ENGINEERING OF EXISTING GATING DESIGN
- Special tool for Reverse Engineering of existed gating system from ANY CAD system(CAD, STL, mesh etc.).
- Convert to full parametric gating in few minutes to optimize the design performance.
- 3D runner projection is another useful function to convert the 2D plan runner.
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With parametrically designed gating model, it is easy to modify the design for better flow performance results