AutoCAST- X1
About AutoCAST-X1
AutoCast-X1 is an advanced casting simulation software designed to optimize the entire casting process. With integrated features for casting methoding design, process optimization and defect analysis. AutoCast-X1 is the complete solution for foundries looking to enhance casting quality, efficiency, and production output. It streamlines methoding, simulates filling and solidification, and pinpoints defects early.
AutoCAST-X1 enables engineers to virtually design, test, and optimize gating, feeding, and mold layouts before production. It combines fast methoding with advanced mold filling and solidification simulation to accurately evaluate solidification behavior and defect formation, helping achieve first-time-right castings with reduced development time and manufacturing risk.
Part Analysis
- Geometric and mass properties
- Sectional thickness analysis
- Cored feature recognition
Mold Cavity Design
- Part orientation, stepped parting line
- Horizontal and vertical molding
- Core and print design, plug drilled hole
- Mold size and multi-cavity layout
Feeder Design & Optimization
- Hotspot location; Feeder design
- Feedaids: Neck down sleeve, chill, padding
- Directional solidification: feed-paths
- Automatic feeder size optimization
Gating Design & Optimization
- Multi-sprue, gate, runner layout
- Automatic gating optimization
- Pressurized and non pressurized gating design
Simulation
- Coupled mold filling and casting solidification
- Results include temperature history, liquid metal fraction, cooling curves, and air fraction
- Major defects like misrun, air blow hole, shrinkage porosity, and hard zone
Layout Optimization
- Easy and Quick Iterations
- Tracks yield at each layout
- Detailed method report for each layout
Benefits
- Predicts critical casting defects such as shrinkage porosity, cold shuts, misruns, air entrapment, and blow holes at an early design stage, allowing corrective actions before physical trials begin.
- Enables intelligent optimization of gating systems, feeders, chills, and mold layouts to improve metal flow, solidification, and overall casting yield.
- Significantly reduces trial-and-error, shop-floor rework leading to faster development cycles and lower production and tooling costs.
- Supports a wide range of materials and casting processes including sand casting, shell molding, investment casting, gravity die casting, and ferrous as well as non-ferrous alloys.
- Provides clear visualization of mold filling, temperature distribution, solidification sequence, helping engineers make confident, data-driven process decisions.
AutoCAST Works
About AutoCAST Works
AutoCAST Works is the world’s first metal casting simulation solution natively integrated within the SOLIDWORKS® platform, enabling users to perform casting simulation directly inside the same CAD environment. The software is architected to allow seamless execution of simulation tasks alongside design activities, ensuring that users gain maximum benefit from an integrated workflow. It enhances methods design through the inclusion of process characteristics, alloy behavior, and mold or die design parameters.
Built on a model-driven methods design philosophy, AutoCAST Works helps engineers significantly reduce development time while improving casting quality and yield during new product development. By allowing early visualization, analysis, and optimization of casting behavior, the software supports faster decision-making and more efficient casting development with reduced production risk.
Benefits
- Enables complete methods design, simulation, analysis, and optimization within a single SOLIDWORKS® - based environment, eliminating data transfer and workflow disruptions.
- Delivers a fast, reliable, and user-friendly approach to casting development, reducing dependency on repeated physical trials and shop-floor experimentation.
- Accelerates development and quality assurance of complex castings through early-stage virtual validation of filling, solidification behavior and defect analysis.
- Identifies potential defects such as shrinkage and blow holes early in the design phase, avoiding costly tooling and production investments.
- Generates comprehensive reports that support that can be used for client communicationand internal reviews.
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