High-pressure die casting routings consist of the following processes:

Gravity die casting routings are never auto-selected. You must manually select gravity die casting routings. They consist of the following processes:

By default in starting point VPEs, refractory coating and drying are assumed to be applied to any sand cores. (Refractory coating is also known as "foundry coating", "protective coating", "wash", and "blacking".) There can be multiple instances of a core coating process in order to model the application of multiple coats. See Core Refractory Coating for Die Casting for more information.

Coated cores are oven dried by default, if they can fit in an oven; otherwise they are air dried. There can be multiple instances of a drying process in order to model drying after each of multiple coats. See Refractory Coat Oven Dry for Die Casting and Refractory Coat Air Dry for Die Casting.

Users can manually exclude individual cores from being coated, and can also include air drying instead of oven drying, on per-GCD basis. See Refractory Coating Setup Options for Sand Casting for more information.

If you have licensed the Machining process group, your routing can include any of the following secondary processes:

If you have licensed the optional Turning module, your routing can include the turning processes using the following lathe types:

Note that if you select This part is not machined in the Production Scenario tab of the Cost Guide, but then manually select any GCD operation sequences which require machining, the corresponding GCDs will fail to cost with the message User-selected operations are unavailable in the current routing.

Your routing can also include processes from the following process groups, if you have licensed these modules: