Casting Toolbox
Casting process calculations, without the spreadsheet
Details
- External ID
- 1252389
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Casting Toolbox
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Design Tools, Productivity, GitHub, Tech
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- specialized calculators and estimation tools
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- metal casting process calculator for foundry engineers
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
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Attention rank: #18 of 101 (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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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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