DFMPro for Injection Molding release plan

DFMPro version 2.0 will address the Design for Manufacturing issues related to Injection Molding. The beta version will be out in couple of months. Following features have been planned for the beta release:

• Minimum Radius at Base of Boss : This rule will check if the radius at root of a boss is greater than specified value.
• Minimum Radius at Tip of Boss : This rule will check if the radius at tip of a boss is greater than specified value.
• Mold wall thickness : This rule will check if the clearance between surfaces in the model is greater than a specified value; thus ensuring that the mold wall thickness is above a specified minimum.
• Maximum cutout area : This rule will check whether the cross sectional of area of a through cutout in the part is greater than a user specified value.
• Rib Reinforcement Check : This rule will check whether the rib in the part needs to be reinforced or not.
• Recommended Rib Parameters : This rule will check whether height, width and thickness of rib are as per specified values.
• Minimum Draft Angle for Core & Cavity : This rule will check whether the draft angle on the part surfaces matches or is greater than the specified draft angle.

The final release will contain some more rules requested by beta users. The initial plan is to provide these rules on Pro/ENGINEER. Later, these will be added to SolidWorks as well.

DFMPro is now SolidWorks Solution Partner

Geometric's DFMPro product has now been awarded solution partner status by SolidWorks.

DFMPro is published to the Partners section of SolidWorks website here: http://www.solidworks.com/pages/partners/PartnerDetails.html?ProductID=3002

DFMPro from Geometric facilitates upstream manufacturability validation. DFMPro helps in identification of areas of a design that are difficult, expensive, or impossible to manufacture. It automates the iterative design review process for manufacturability issues. It also provides mechanism for manufacturability knowledge capture and reuse for continuous improvement.

Key Features:

• Easy to learn and use - seamlessly integrated within CAD system
• Common manufacturability checks related to machining and sheet metal fabrication
• Provide reasons and suggest best practices related to manufacturability issues
• Rule Manager to configure parameters and criticality of rules
• Create different standard files for different vendors, machine shops
• Ability to generate reports, which can be viewed with any internet browser

DFMPro also provides a framework to capture and reuse manufacturability expertise in the form of design rules. Using DFMPro Custom, organizations get the ability to automate in-house DFM practices into their overall standard operating procedures.

Visit http://dfmpro.geometricglobal.com/ for more details.

DFMPro Demo Videos

Three part series which explains how DFMPro helps to automate Design for Manufacturing reviews and how to customize it for your DFM guidelines.

Introducing DFMPro

DFMPro is available as addon on SolidWorks CAD System. Visit http://dfmpro.com to read more details about it.