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Hello everyone, I would like to know if anyone can give me info about solid cast...
Thank you.
 
Yeah, you know how to give me some info? I have no idea anything... I know what I should do, but I know how...
I made the model with solidworks, with overmetals, sforms, fittings and withdrawal... Now... I have to structure the casting channels and the materozzes (I thought they were doing with this software, but I was told not) and therefore brancolo in the dark...
 
I think solidcast is a casting simulation program, and simulation programs don't give you directions on how to change a particular one.
should have features for the realization of casting channels and various other things.
Why don't you contact the software house and ask them for some information?
I've heard about it, but I've never seen it use... I'm sorry.
 
Hello valeria
If you want you can post the message I sent you yesterday on the program in general, I can't recover it because it doesn't show me those sent. . .

However I recommend you do everything on solidworks... Solidcast does not simulate casting (that does flowcast and at least in my university there was no license) but realizes to have the shape filled with liquid metal and then part solidification. so you have to import a complete stl of materozze and just because the casting channel is useless.

Then I put a couple of solidification pictures that I did...
 
So... I was told at the moment....


solidcast serves to simulate solidification (you will say "what discovery" ahahah) but it is a bad cad program. In fact, you have to import a model in stl already complete with materozze, that is the model that you really will put in the brackets. In fact, the simulation of solidification takes place in an approximate way considering the re-epito model already of liquid metal! It's like you can fill it in a short time so that you don't start solidification, then start time and see how the process goes. I tell you this because of the casting system to the program it doesn't give a damn because you don't see the metal flowing in the shape but already parts with the shape filled with liquid metal.

First you have to do "new model" from files, then you have to go to edit and select "add form". Scroll the various shapes to the bottom of the list and select to import the file to stl. upload it and you will see it appear in the screen. Look that moving along the axis, the z axis is directed upwards! the program takes into account the gravity force for which your piece must be properly oriented!
now select "material list" and choose the material you want to make the jet... I think it's "cast iron" that is cast iron. select also the forming material that is "silica sand" for silica sand.. .

Now the case wanted me not to have solidcast on this pc but on what I just brought in assistance. I would risk giving you too close directions. . If patients until Wednesday, Thursday I can tell you for sure.

cmq once selected the material you have to create the mesh by inserting in a number of nodes (the more you put it more will be accurate but also slower solidification, the program recommends you an appropriate value) and then you start the simulation but there are options to set that now in memory I do not remember where they are... Basically you have to tell him if you have open-air mats or blinds and how much sand you have around the jet...


but ste_unipi also told me that I have to do the materozzes with solidworks, so I have to take a step back and solve this problem first... .
 
Here's a couple photos of my simulation. . as you can see my piece has 2 cynical jaws and photos refer to various moments of the process. in total it lasted 36 minutes complete solidification. the photo with "integrity level 1" shows where the blanks are in the piece and how I wanted they came in the materozzes, so the piece is healthy!

Then when I pick up the pc, I'll explain to you step by step how to do it, I threw away a few days ago the paper I wrote when they taught us at:frown:
 

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I tell you step by step
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Yes, thank you. I have the model... I'm currently calculating the cooling modules... with paper and pen of course... I tried to search in sw if there is a function that calculates the volumes and surfaces automatically... because my values are very approximate, do not include sforms and fittings... I don't know if it's okay.
 
sampom said:
Yeah, sure.
from tools > mass properties.

greetings
Marco:smile:
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Yeah, okay, but it just makes me a total calculation. I have to disassemble my model in 3 parts and each part calculate surface and volume
 
We don't go... I also found myself faced with this problem and I solved by taking the measurements of the parts through the "measure" function and doing the calculations by hand! Otherwise I think you should draw every part where you divide the piece and do the calculations with the sw but I think you do first by hand (I split it into 7 parts even)... so much is that you have to have precise results, by itself the method is already very approximate! only the verification with solidcast (which then also the slightly approximate one is) gives you some guarantee of having healthy pieces!
 
I calculated split my model into 3 parts and calculated cooling modules. . .
m1 =12.58
m2 =9.86
m3 =9.85

Now, I know I have to put the madness at the point with m greater... but my piece will have the symmetry plan corresponding to the division plan of the brackets... (I also can't direct it well with sw)... but the "part 1" has yes m greater, but it's not the height greater. . .
 

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Why would you want him to have greater height? If you put a straightness in point 1 in the open sky and coli from there you should be quiet for filling... what is not confortant is the fact that you have 2 module areas practically equal and you do not have at least 10% difference. I think you'll have some cavity problems in those two parts because you don't have directional solidification. . .

ps: the division plan of the brackets must remain horizontal eh!
 
it is enough that the wheels a little with the mouse wheel until it seems almost horizontal to you... then you have to click on "normal to" and it fits perfectly horizontal. It's a key with a plan icon and a normal arrow on the floor... you can find it by clicking on that blue cube...
 
valeria_emme said:
already... but how do I rotate the figure in solidworks???? I can't make it normal on the symmetry plan
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Ste_unipi said:
it is enough that the wheels a little with the mouse wheel until it seems almost horizontal to you... then you have to click on "normal to" and it fits perfectly horizontal. It's a key with a plan icon and a normal arrow on the floor... you can find it by clicking on that blue cube...
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..and not only;
Try using arrow keys in combination with ctrl, alt and shift.. (and adjust the angle step from options)

greetings
Marco:smile:
 
sampom said:
..and not only;
Try using arrow keys in combination with ctrl, alt and shift.. (and adjust the angle step from options)

greetings
Marco:smile:
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I actually managed to revolve it with "scorri vista"... then I saved, and if I reopen the visual already rotated... but if amount on the table, or in solidcast, I see cmq in its original position. . I would like to rotate it and display it always so
 
I do not know if they are off topic but I would like to ask if by chance you can export the model from autocad in solidcast
 

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