Mold Preheating provides the following options:

By default, the number trees in the preheat furnace is the number of trees that can fit into the furnace, as described in Mold Preheating Machine Selection. With this setup option, users can override the default on a per-part basis.

The number of trees in the furnace affects times and costs for Mold Preheating—see Mold Preheating Formulas.

By default, preheat soak time is specified by the cost model variable defaultSoakTime_preheatFurnace (14400 seconds in starting point Digital Factories). With this setup option, users can override the default on a per-part basis.

Preheat soak time affects times and costs for Mold Preheating—see Mold Preheating Formulas.