question about aluminum casting moulds

[giocamb]

hello to all
I have been using pro/e for several years, casting molds have always made me do it without emptying all the part behind the mold, I was only loading what I needed for positioning the movements but I never made the constant thickness. Now they ask me if there is the possibility of having the constant thickness to have the calculation more or less accurate than the weight of the fusion.
I have always used as mold cavity function but have never used casting cavity,in this function there is the way to make the constant thickness that is usually 25mm?
with emptying is practically impossible especially when the pieces are complex and there are small surfaces that overlap.

Thank you.
I know I'm asking for the impossible but maybe someone has already managed to find a system because now they ask you less and less time and quickly create everything and to do it almost use the whip... .

 

[gio14]

if it is just to determine the weight of the model there is no need to have a constant thickness
analysis-> model -> mass properties, multiply for the specific weight of the material and you have the exact weight of your casting jet (or maybe I misunderstood?)

 

[Momy985]

If the thickness is not constant you can not calculate the volume as if it were...you have to perform it at the time of the modeling the offset of the desired thickness and then get it with the various merges...of course if the geometry is simple to cover the surfaces and the thickness...to cut all and calculations. .