Casting Toolbox
Casting process calculations, without the spreadsheet
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Free, open-source calculators for casting process engineers: riser design, gating, yield, shrinkage, machining allowance and STL hotspot analysis. Runs fully offline in your browser. No account, no upload, no data leaves your machine.
PH · launched Sep 17, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: mechanical engineering and fabrication tools · 39 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Manufacturing
- Vertical SaaS
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Design Tools
- Productivity
- GitHub
- Tech
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Could you build this?
Partial Standard metal casting formulas and offline calculators are easily vibe-coded, but performing 3D STL hotspot analysis (estimating thermal modulus or Chvorinov's rule over complex 3D meshes in the browser) requires specialized geometric algorithms.
What it would actually take: Building the hotspot analysis requires Three.js or WebAssembly-compiled C++ geometry libraries to perform geometric partitioning, distance field computations, or simplified finite element thermal diffusion across arbitrary 3D triangular meshes. It demands domain expertise in computational geometry and metallurgical process engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 288 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #220 of 289 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 11 days after the earliest competitor.
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