MAGMASOFT® 6.0 - Faster to the Target
IMPROVED USABILITY IN MAGMASOFT® 6.0
Achieve your objectives faster and more easily with a redesigned user experience. A few of the highlights:
- Streamlined and intuitive user interface
- Uniform look and feel from project definition through result evaluation
- Frequently used and required functions are in the forefront
- Customizable user favorites for quick and easy access for geometry creation and manipulation
- Accelerated result visualization for fast display and animations
- Simple synchronization of multiple result animations
- Easier optimization evaluation through access to 3D information from designs
MAGMASOFT® autonomous engineering
MAGMASOFT® is the comprehensive and effective optimization tool for improving metalcasting quality, optimizing process conditions and reducing production costs. Consequently utilizing the methodology of virtual Design of Experiments and Autonomous Optimization, robust process parameters and optimized casting layouts can be established for all cast materials and processes including heat treatment and melt metallurgy – efficiently and comprehensively at the same time.
By means of Autonomous Engineering™, simulations with MAGMASOFT® can be used in an automated virtual test plan to pursue different quality and cost objectives simultaneously. Broad knowledge and tangible hands-on instructions/measures are generated considering design and process conditions for mold filling, solidification and cooling. The range of results comprises residual stresses and distortion, microstructure formation and local properties.
Temperature distribution in the melt during pouring
Thermal modulus for fast riser layout
Solidification patterns showing critical areas
Integrated parametric gating and risering design
A look inside the die including cooling lines
Hot spots in the casting shown in x-ray mode
Prediction of feeding and porosity
Prediction of sand burn-on and penetration
Assessment of the thermal balance in tooling
Easy and automated result evaluation
Autonomous optimization of casting quality and yield
Autonomous optimization of gating systems to avoid turbulence and gas inclusions
Virtual Design of Experiments to autonomously optimize process conditions to reduce casting distortion
Autonomous optimization of cooling system layout for thermal balance in permanent molds
Autonomous transfer of the flow pattern from single to multiple cavity dies
Inverse determination of process parameters and material properties
Common assessment of optimal process conditions for autonomously generated virtual experiments
Correlation matrix to assess the impact of process variables on different quality criteria
A modular software design covers the complete process chain of cast components. The software can be applied for optimized process robustness and part quality from conceptual to final component design, during the tooling layout and prototyping, all the way through to the production and heat treatment processes.
MAGMASOFT® offers the following main benefits:
- Supports all cast materials and all aspects of casting manufacture including melting and metallurgy, pattern and coremaking, cleaning and repair
- Offers a virtual test field for the reduction of metalcasting defects with high degrees of freedom without production risk
- Establishes optimized operating points for quality, yield and cost
- Identifies optimal process conditions for robust process windows early and reliably
- Allows faster decision making to establish saving time for all parties involved
- Empowers quality management by generating systematic understanding how process variability affects quality
- Improves communication and confidence within your company and in cooperation with customers
- Offers reliable and early information to designers for robust product and process development
MAGMASOFT® standard has a modular structure and contains the following functionalities for a comprehensive simulation:
- A common graphical user interface for all modules
- A project management perspective for handling of simulation and optimization projects
- Parametric Solid Modeling of geometries using a CAD kernel as well as import and export of CAD data
- Automatic meshing of geometries for the simulation
- Comprehensive process mapping with direct access to all materials, process steps and the corresponding simulation settings
- Definition of virtual designs and parameters for optimization runs
- Simulation programs for the calculation of mold filling, solidification, cooling and serial casting applications
- Interactive and automatic result evaluation: Several perspectives can be opened and edited at the same time
- Result perspective for comprehensive visualization and evaluation of simulation results
- Easy quantitative assessment of virtual Design of Experiments or optimization runs
- Database module to manage thermo-physical and other relevant process data required for simulation
MAGMASOFT® is modularly expandable
MAGMASOFT® can easily be linked to additional modules for specific processes, materials or quality aspects.
MAGMAiron, MAGMAsteel, MAGMAnonferrous
Material-specific modules allow the prediction of microstructures and properties and consider alloys and metallurgy.
MAGMAhpdc, MAGMAlpdc, MAGMApermanent mold, MAGMAwheel, MAGMAinvestment casting
Process modules allow the consideration of specific process requirements and to control the manufacturing process.
MAGMAc+m (core and mold), MAGMAdielife
Products and functionalities for the prediction of core shooting, gassing, and purging and the assessment of die life aid in making the best use of available knowledge.
MAGMA HT thermal, MAGMAstress, MAGMAlink, MAGMAdielife
Modules for simulating stresses of the component after casting, heat treatment, or machining and the exchange of information based on simulation results, assures the design of cast parts for their performance.
Latest Publication
MAGMASOFT® 6.0 – Simulation Made Easy
The new version of the well-known casting process simulation software, now offers a fundamentally new user experience. Users reach their objectives even faster, thanks to the special focus placed on ease-of-use and time-to-answer.
System Requirements
MAGMASOFT® is available for all suitable current operating systems such as Linux and Windows 10. MAGMASOFT® can be used on dual or multi-processor computers or massively parallel on cluster computers.
