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Casting (ProCAST)
Keysight CAE Casting (ProCAST) is a comprehensive casting simulation platform for sand, investment, and die-casting processes. Using finite element and finite difference methods, it models filling, solidification, cooling and ejection stages, phase transformations and microstructure evolution, enabling structural integrity assessment and analysis of outcomes including porosity shrinkage, distortion, thermal stresses, and filling quality. Engineers use ProCAST to optimize gating and riser design, reduce casting defects, and improve casting quality. ProCAST helps reduce scrap, improve yield, and ensure dimensional accuracy in castings. It is widely used in automotive, aerospace, heavy and shipbuilding industries for high-performance, defect-free component production.
Simulate and optimize casting processes ensure the manufacturing of sound quality castings.
- Support for the full casting cycle: die heating, filling, solidification, part ejection and final cooling, all within a single environment
- Excellent scalability of the solver for fast turnaround times and capability to handle huge parts – ie Mega-casting
- Optimize gating, risers, and cooling strategies
- Support metallurgical modeling and structural integrity checks
| Release Date | Version | Version Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-30 | 2026.0 | See Release Notes |
| Release Date | Version |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-30 | 2026.0 |
| Version Description |
|---|
| See Release Notes |
Key Highlights of Keysight Casting 2026.0
- New embedded CAD Editor
- Shorter CAD-to-mesh time with in-software CAD repair and simplification
- Fast & flexible HPDC gate design
- Rapid ingate and gating system definition based on HPDC casting rules
- Enhanced physics & solvers
- Improved 2-phase VOF flow solver
- New Stress2G solver with enhanced performance and accuracy
- Improved microstructure modeling
- New multi-phase, multi-component model for sand casting
- Macrosegregation prediction
- Reduced turnaround time
- Improved solver performance and scalability
- Optimized for multi-core Windows and Linux systems
- Early castability & cast-crash coupling
- Filling simulation capabilities added for early design validation & link to performance simulations
- Enhanced result analysis & reporting
- Improved visualization, comparison tools, and automatic reporting
- Foundry cost & CO₂ footprint analysis
- Unit cost, yield, scrap rate, and emissions evaluation with Excel export
- Updated material & thermodynamics databases
- PanEngine 2025 integration
- Extended material and mold databases
How to Download
- Click the Download button
- Continue to Keysight Software Manager to download Software Updates
Licensing
- Requires a License
Supporting Documentation
Installs on: PC
Downloads
ProCAST 2026.0 for Windows
File Size: 5.73 GB
MD5: a8577008f711daf00921ce029c101d7a
Info:
ProCAST 2026.0 installer for Windows 11 or 10.
How to install:
Unzip Keysight_ProCAST-2026.0_Windows.zip in a temporary directory and execute Keysight_ProCAST-2026.0_Windows_Setup.exe
Casting (ProCAST) 2025.0: an integrated software suite for the foundry industry to improve casting yield and quality.
This version includes:
- ProCAST Solver 2025.0,
- QuikCAST Solver 2025.0,
- PAM-OPT 2024.0,
- Visual-Environment 21.0,
- ESI-Player 8.0,
- Datalab 2023.6
How to Download
- Click the Download button
- Continue to Keysight Software Manager to download Software Updates
Licensing
- Requires a License
Operating System
- Windows 64
Prerequisites
Downloads
ProCAST 2025.0 for Windows
File Size: 5.73 GB
MD5: a8577008f711daf00921ce029c101d7a
Info: ProCAST 2026.0 installer for Windows 11 or 10
How to install:
Unzip Keysight_ProCAST-2026.0_Windows.zip in a temporary directory and execute Keysight_ProCAST-2026.0_Windows_Setup.exe
Casting (ProCAST) 2024.0: an integrated software suite for the foundry industry to improve casting yield and quality.
This version includes:
- ProCAST Solver 2024.0,
- QuikCAST Solver 2024.0,
- PAM-OPT 2024.0,
- Visual-Environment 2024.0,
- ESI-Player 7.0,
- Datalab 2023.5
How to Download
- Click the Download button
- Continue to Keysight Software Manager to download Software Updates
Licensing
- Requires a License
Supporting Documentation
- ProCAST 2024.0 - Release Notes (online)
- ProCAST 2024.0 - Release Notes (downloadable)
- ProCAST 2024.0 - Installation Guide
- ProCAST 2024.0 - Reference Manual (online)
- ProCAST 2024.0 - Reference Manual (downloadable)
- ProCAST 2024.0 - Free Open Source Software License Information
- ProCAST 2024.0 - Installation Guide (ProCAST2024.0 インストールガイド(Windows))
- ProCAST 2024.0 - Release Notes (ProCAST 2024.0 リリースノート)
Installs on: PC
Operating System
- Windows 64
Prerequisites
Downloads
ProCAST 2024.0 for Windows
File Size: 5.18 GB
MD5: 3664f3a75221072f75f0f53f6673299e
Info: ProCAST 2024.0 installer for Windows 11 or 10.
How to install:
Unzip ProCAST20240_Windows64.zip in a temporary directory and execute ProCASTSetup.exe
ProCAST 2024.0 for Windows
File Size: 5.18 GB
MD5: 051657ed8bfc679e3219241f3a2bdee1
Info: ProCAST 2024.0 installer for Windows 11 or 10.
How to install:
Unzip ProCAST20240_Windows64.zip in a temporary directory and execute ProCASTSetup.exe
Casting (ProCAST) 2023.0: an integrated software suite for the foundry industry to improve casting yield and quality.
This version includes:
- ProCAST Solver 2023.0,
- QuikCAST Solver 2023.0,
- PAM-OPT 2023.0,
- Visual-Environment 2023.0
- ESI-Player 6.0
How to Download
- Click the Download button
- Continue to Keysight Software Manager to download Software Updates
Licensing
- Requires a License
Supporting Documentation
- ProCAST 2023.0 - Free Open Source Software License Information
- ProCAST 2023.0 - Installation Guide
- ProCAST 2023.0 - Installation Guide (ProCAST2023.0 インストールガイド(Windows))
- ProCAST 2023.0 - Reference Manual (online)
- ProCAST 2023.0 - Reference Manual (downloadable)
- ProCAST 2023.0 - Release Notes (online)
- ProCAST 2023.0 - Release Notes (downloadable)
- ProCAST 2023.0 - Release Notes (ProCAST 2023.0 リリースノート)
Installs on: PC
Operating System
- Windows 64