- #CAN MAGMASOFT SIMULATION LOST FOAM CASTING SOFTWARE#
- #CAN MAGMASOFT SIMULATION LOST FOAM CASTING WINDOWS 7#
Pre-made pouring basins, runners, and risers can be hot glued to the pattern to finish it. The final pattern is approximately 97.5% air and 2.5% polystyrene. Steam is then applied to the polystyrene which causes it to expand more to fill the die. Pre-expanded beads of polystyrene are injected into a preheated aluminum mold at low pressure. If the volume is large, then the pattern can be mass-produced by a process similar to injection molding. For small volume runs the pattern can be hand cut or machined from a solid block of foam, or a sheet of foam core board if the geometry is simple enough it can even be cut using a hot-wire foam cutter. At the same time, a new, independent mode for modelling the horizontal continuous casting process simplifies the modelling of this process for the user.First, a pattern is made from polystyrene foam, which can be done by many different ways. MAGMA CC, the program for simulation and optimization of the continuous casting process, has been extended by various thermal criteria. In this way, the realistic contact situation is modelled and it is ensured that the predicted distortion corresponds to reality at all times.Īdvanced Simulation of Continuous Casting Processes For heat treatment simulations, significant improvements have been realized for the automatic determination of contact between the component and the heat treatment rack. All contact pairings are automatically detected and continuously updated based on the part and rack distortion. For example, distortion predictions can be evaluated and optimized with regard to their deviations from defined points, lines or angles. New optimization objectives are available for users of stress simulations. The picking function can now be used to display different results at defined locations. In the Result Perspective, numerous improvements have been implemented for fast display and evaluation of project results. For users of MAGMA C+M, there is now the possibility to interactively place nozzles from the parametric database onto the surface of the core geometry in a few simple steps. Together with FOSECO, new datasets for SCK risers were added to the geometry database. In cooperation with DISA, the database for the MAGMAdisa module was updated for all current molding lines. Typical application examples include the assessment of different flow velocities of gas and sand flow or the investigation of the cooling behavior of air for drying inorganically bound cores. MAGMA C+M users can now also use the new possibilities for evaluating the flow with virtual particles for the design and optimization of core production. For the design of the shot profile, various options are now available for evaluating curves for plunger speeds and the pressure curve reduced by the PQ² function. This simplifies the judgment of complex, flow-relevant questions.
#CAN MAGMASOFT SIMULATION LOST FOAM CASTING WINDOWS 7#
MAGMAinteract® can be downloaded free of charge by anyone interested in viewing exported MAGMASOFT® results from the MAGMA website (for use on computers running Microsoft Windows 7 or higher.įor die casting processes, temperature, velocity and pressure results as well as the gate from which the melt originated can be displayed and animated directly on virtual particles (tracer particles). With the current release, MAGMASOFT® users can export results selected by them and make these results available to third parties in the compressed MAGMAinteract® format. All results can be rotated, zoomed and panned by the user.
MAGMAinteract® offers the following key functionality: interactive display of all MAGMASOFT® 3D results, animations of mold filling (also with tracer particles) and the solidification process, visualization of all results and criteria including distortion for previously defined cross-sections, and the interactive evaluation of virtual designs of experiments in a parallel coordinate diagram. The fast and easy presentation promotes communication between interested parties within a company as well as between suppliers and customers.
The free 3D viewer allows the intuitive visualization of information exported from MAGMASOFT® 5.4.1.
#CAN MAGMASOFT SIMULATION LOST FOAM CASTING SOFTWARE#
MAGMAinteract® is a new and innovative software for the visualization of MAGMASOFT® results.