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DFMXpress

Check a design for manufacturability

DFMXpress combines practical iterative functionality with accuracy and ease-of-use. Fully embedded inside of SolidWorks, it is perfect for the designer who needs manfacturability analysis, but is not necessarily a manufacturing expert. DFMXpress permits designers to easily gain insight into the cost-effective manufacturability of their designs.

 

DFMXpress Features & Benefits

  • Explanations and recommendations that will help designers identify manufacturing feasibility
  • Basic sets of rules for drilling, milling & turning
  • Rules parameters can be configured
  • Simple Graphical User Interface
  • Seamlessly integrated into SolidWorks
  • Feature Based (works with Automatic Feature Recognition engine)
  • Leverages SolidWorks’ SWIFT technology

 

Mike Baljak, Mechanical Designer, Automation Tooling Systems
I would certainly recommend junior engineers use DFMXpress as they may lack the experience needed to recognize geometry that is difficult, expensive or impossible to machine. DFMXpress would be a great tool that could not only catch some unwanted geometry but help teach them to recognize such geometry.  I would definitely run the tool, simply to make sure I did not over look something in the proposed design, prior to manufacturing.  DFMXpress is certainly one of the more useful pieces of software I have recently seen.

Mike Baljak, Mechanical Designer, Automation Tooling Systems


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SolidWorks recognizes that most of a project's cost is determined upfront in the design cycle. DFMXpress allows engineers and designers to check their designs for manufacturability by identifying areas that are difficult, expensive, or impossible to machine upfront in the design process.

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