Casting Simulation Software PoligonSoft
PoligonSoft is a professional Casting Process Simulation Software for creating, analyzing, and optimizing foundry technology. Based on the Finite Element Method (FEM), it performs mold filling, solidification, and stress analysis for a wide range of casting processes and alloys, helping engineers improve quality, reduce defects, and optimize production parameters before manufacturing.
Professional solution for modeling foundry processes
PoligonSoft is a professional Casting Process Simulation Software designed for foundry engineers and technologists to predict, analyze, and eliminate casting defects during the design stage of molds and gating-feeding systems.
Acting as a virtual foundry environment, PoligonSoft enables users to develop, evaluate, and optimize key stages of the casting process before production begins. By performing simulation-driven analysis before tooling and manufacturing, engineers gain deeper insight into process behavior, improve casting quality, reduce development risks, and lower production costs.
Universal tool
The PoligonSoft computing core consists of three solvers: hydrodynamic, thermal and stress. Together with a range of additional options, they simulate all traditional foundry technologies and many special processes:
End-to-End Modeling
The quality and reliability of the calculation are directly related to the possibility of end-to-end modeling of the technology. In PoligonSoft, all stages of the technological process of obtaining a casting can be sequentially simulated: heating the mold, filling the mold with the melt, solidification on the platform or in a thermostat, removing the casting from the mold, cutting off the gating system and profits, etc.
Engineering Intelligence For Modern Foundries
Quickly start calculations based on templates
In the process of creating a technology, it is often necessary to calculate many options for the gating-feed system or technological modes. In this case, usually only the geometry of the casting block or the pouring temperature changes, while all materials and heat transfer conditions remain unchanged.
To avoid routine operations when starting a calculation, PoligonSoft uses technological process templates that provide the user with ready-made, debugged data sets specific to each technology. Of course, all templates and data can be edited according to the requirements of a particular production.
In addition, PoligonSoft has a built-in mechanism for inheriting all parameters from any previous calculation for the current task.
Working with geometry of any complexity
PoligonSoft works with a model of a casting block and a mold of any complexity, consisting of many elements of arbitrary shape.
Coolers, cores, sand or ceramic molds, heat-insulating and exothermic materials and metallurgical equipment to varying degrees can affect the quality of the casting and should be included in the calculation.
Finite element mesh generation
PoligonSoft uses a modern and accurate finite element method to ensure that the surface area and volume of the shaped casting model are as close as possible to the original.
The finite element mesh generator on the SALOME platform allows flexible control of the mesh model creation process for calculations.
Automatic ceramic shell generation
In lost wax casting, the ceramic mold geometry depends on the thickness and surface shape of the wax master model.
Our shell generator creates a mesh model of a ceramic shape with a given thickness without preliminary CAD construction.
Filling the mold with melt
The powerful Euler flow solver simulates mold filling exactly as it happens in a foundry environment.
- From a rotary or stop bucket
- Into one or more risers
- With topping up into the riser or profit
- With constant or variable flow rate
Solidification of the casting
The Fourier thermal solver calculates temperature and phase fields taking into account conduction, convection, radiation and heat release during solidification.
- Temperature changes in the casting and mold
- Solidification behavior
- Formation of thermal nodes
- Residual stress distribution