Investacast have experience of producing castings for the following industries:-
Valve, Automotive, Marine, Communications, Aircraft, Military and Electronics.

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Investment Casting from Investacast

Designing Your Product

Starting from just an idea, an outline drawing or a mock-up model, we can quickly provide detailed drawings and diagrams that will help you finalise your design requirements.

We use the latest CAD (Computer Aided Design) Technology - Solidworks™ Software, that will help ensure the design of your product meets your requirements and to visualise the final product.
There are some design guidelines that need to be adhered to, please click on the buttons below to find out more about these and the rest of our development process.

Investment Casting Design Guide Manufacturing your product at Investacast

Casting Design using CAD

We recommend that more communication and design verification at the front end of the manufacturing process, will inevitably lead to a higher success rate during manufacture. This process involves simulating your product design for “castability”. 

Your CAD Models are utilised to simulate the casting process using software methods that mimic the actual casting process. This casting simulation negates the need for actual production trials and gives both the customer and us a high level of confidence before expensive tooling is cut. 

Typically, a single casting trial can take up to 3 weeks to achieve results. More complex parts can take much longer if NDT is required, and can result in expensive tooling modification costs if changes to tooling is required.

Our technical team will liaise with your design engineers to finalise the best possible design to suit the casting process.

Drawings can be received as hard copy or electronic format. The following electronic file formats can be imported into our Solidworks™  Software and used for manufacture:-

DXF, Parasolid, Step, Iges, Solidworks, Catia, Pro-Engineer and more.

Reverse Engineered CAD Data can be produced from physical parts or models via our on site CMM Faro measurement machine.

Fully dimensioned toleranced casting and machining drawings will be compiled from CAD 3D Model files and used for production verification of product.

If you would like to discuss how our design process works, please call us on 01271 866200 or if you prefer, Email: robertporter@investacast.com or tonybuckland@investacast.com or use our Contact Form.

If you would like to send us your drawings or documents, then click here to attach them to our contact form.
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