Optimize your metal casting process and eliminate guesswork with IronFoundryPro, the ultimate digital workshop companion for home foundry enthusiasts and metalworkers. Designed for sand mold casting, this application helps you size gating systems, manage mold formulas, and track your pouring history to achieve clean, defect-free results.
Key Features:
Precision Casting Calculator: Select your target alloy—Cast Iron, Aluminum, Bronze, or Brass—to automatically apply exact density and shrinkage baselines. Input your part geometry (Box/Rectangular, Cylinder, or Sphere) alongside dimensional specs to compute casting weight, total metal required, sprue diameter, runner area, and riser configurations.
Molding Sand Library: Browse a curated catalog of sand recipes and formulas organized by categories like Green Sand, Oil-Bond, and Plaster. Find the ideal mix for your project, from iron-grade heavy variants to fine-finish blends for high-detail decorative castings.
Comprehensive Melt Log: Keep a structured archive of your workshop history. Track your total number of pours, monitor your most frequent casting issues, and log your favorite alloys to guide systematic process improvements.
Custom Workshop Preferences: Configure your default workspace preferences by toggling between Metric and Imperial unit systems, setting up standard alloys, or manually adjusting shrinkage overrides and process loss percentages.
Size your gating systems, browse molding sand formulas, log metal pours.