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Boundary Conditions
Because pressure and temperature condition share the same surface,you can copy it Select Pressure press Copy, select Temperature press Paste and Store it
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Symmetry
You can check if the symmetry is well applied in Boundary Conditions/Assign Surface
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Materials
For each material select the type of material and set it empty or not
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Run Parameters
From the Pre-Defined Run Parameters select LPDC Filling
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Run Parameters
Set the stopping criterion based upon Final Temperature in oห้องสมุดไป่ตู้der to end the calculation as soon as all casting temperature nodes are below this criterion (better control of the calculation)
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Geometry
Check if in the mesh is free of Neg-Jac elements
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Geometry
If you select Volumes, you can check materials and their volumes
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Geometry
Min-Max allows you to check minimal and maximal dimensions
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Symmetry
In Geometry press symmetry Select rotational Enter the axe of rotation (for this example it’s y axis) Enter the number of sectors that are necessary to describe the complete volume
Select the material of your choice in the material DB list
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Interface
In case of a COINC mesh, switch all interfaces from EQUIV to COINC (except in case two domains would belong to the casting).
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Boundary Conditions
Add Heat condition for side walls of die (select by Propagate-Select and Store)
Select Air_cooling heat condition
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Boundary Conditions
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ViewCAST
Go to Thermal/Temperature to show temperature distribution
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ViewCAST
Go to Thermal/Fraction Solid to show distribution of solid fraction and formation of hot spots (leading to defects)
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Boundary Conditions
Create Temperature BC and set the pouring temperature
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Gravity
Set the right direction for gravity
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Initial Conditions
Set initial temperatures for each material
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PreCAST
Optimize, save and exit PreCAST
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ProCAST
Run ProCAST
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ViewCAST
Open ViewCAST and set symmetry in order to display the full casting
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ViewCAST
Add a Pressure BC for inlet (select by Propagate-Select and Store) Create Pressure condition and build a pressure ramp according to your process (time dependent)
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ViewCAST
Go to Thermal/Solidification Time to show times of solidification for each part
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ViewCAST
Go to Thermal/Shrinkage Porosity to predict risk of shrinkage porosity
Hide the die using the Active Materials option (switch the die to IN-invisible)
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ViewCAST
Select plane in order to look at Velocities
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ViewCAST
Go to Fluids/Fluid Velocity-Magnitude to show velocity of molten metal
ProCAST LPDC - filling
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Load the mesh file
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Geometry information
The mesh information is displayed It is important to check the units and dimensions.