This tutorial provides a quick overview of how to set up a minimal project for a thermal modulus computation. It is not intended to cover a specific casting process in any detail, nor does it deal with the construction of a casting and feeding system. It aims to familiarize the user with the most basic steps involved to build a simple layout from imported geometry in order to compute a thermal modulus solution over its domain.

Press the New-button to begin a new project.

Open the management panel for discretization domains.

Click on the label of a domain to open its inspector dialog on the right.

Press the Select-button of the domain's material to open the selector dialog for material assignment.

Choose the desired material from the available options and confirm with the Ok-button.

Both the default mold domain [blue] and the default casting domain [red] require an assigned material.

Open the management panel for models.

Click on the “Import-button to show the open file dialog.

Select the files to be imported and confirm the choice by pressing the Open-button.

When the import task is finished, models of the imported geometry should appear in the model list.

Select the import models to be instantiated in the casting system layout.

Instantiate the models by pressing the Instantiate-button. This should open the panel for managing the casting system layout.

The layout panel should display origin entries for every instantiated import model.

Select an origin to designate it for instance type assignment (after instantiating a model, its corresponding origin may already be selected).

Select the Instances-entry in the layout toolbar.

Choose the instance type that is to be assigned to the selected origins.

After assigning the chosen instance type, the selected origins should display its glyph and the color of the associated domain.

All origins need to be assigned an instance type to proceed.

Open the basic settings panel.

Press the “Update Dimensions”-button to fit the mold bounds to the instantiated geometry.

Open the discretization panel.

Choose a discretization resolution preset.

Press the “Update”-button to update the design discretization.

Open the analysis panel.

Press the Update-button of the diffusive modulus solution. A thickness computation task should be started prior to modulus computation if it hasn't been computed already.

When the computation of the modulus solution has finished, the modulus field should be displayed projected on the model geometry.