Reply To: Press hardening characterization

[Nicolas]

Hello And thank you for your question. I am assuming that you want to calculate the cost of producing a part from that material, rather than obtaining just the material cost.

The part cost estimator field for primary or secondary process, only apply to shaping processes, and does not include all processes in the Process database. Additionally, press hardening also known as hot stamping, hot press forming, or hot forming die quenching, is not one of our process record. We only have classic press forming.

The Part cost estimator does allow you to use your own added process as mentioned here: https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/Granta/v242/en/Edu_Pack_Help/sel_edu/using_part_cost.html

For that, on Tools, add record, select "other" option and chose Process universe. An alternative is to duplicate an existing record, and just change the properties which should be different. For that you can open the record you want to copy, and use right click->duplicate.

Once populated the created record should be visible in the Part cost estimator. You do not need to fill in all the fields of a created record, and can focus only on the ones necessary for the part cost estimator calculations. You will find those here: https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/Granta/v242/en/Edu_Pack_Help/sel_edu/part_cost_calculations.html
Hope this helps.