dfmpro

About GeometricGeometric is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its Geometry

Technology Solutions (GTS) business unit develops cutting-edge point productivity solutions that

enhance design and improve manufacturing operations. The end-user products from Geometric include

CAMWorks, eDrawings Publisher, DFMPro, GeomCaliper, 3DPaintBrush, CAMWorksXpress and

Glovius. The key technologies from Geometric are NestLib, Feature Recognition (FR), GeomDiff and

3DSearchIT. Geometric licenses these technologies to OEM partners and also designs and implements

customized process solutions using these technologies for industrial customers.

For further details about Geometrics GTS business unit, please visit

www.geometricglobal.com/products

or call +1.480.367.0132

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Quick and interactive feedback while designing

Integrated access to the organizations knowledge repository

Productivity improvements

Training on manufacturability aspects for new design teams

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Assured quality of design

Ensures fulfillment of acceptance criteria or input filter for receiving jobs

Saves downstream time and re-work

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Reduced cost

Facilitates continuous process improvement through Manufacturability knowledge capture and reuse

Supports Design anywhere Manufacture anywhere

Minimizes time-to-market

Injection molding parts are typically complex and difficult to check manually. Compared to earlier manual methods of checking parts for draft angles, wall thickness and undercuts; DFMPro quickly and accurately identifies such regions. It serves the direct purpose of identifying manufacturability problems right at the design stage and helps reduce design iterations.

It is an easy to use tool which significantly helped us to reduce our part checking time by almost 60% while ensuring robust quality of design.

Randy Scherger, Senior Tool Designer

Rockwell Automation

Technical Specification

Supported CAD Systems

?Creo (Pro/Engineer)

?SolidWorks

?Siemens NX (UGS)

System Requirements

?Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, 32 and 64 bit

?1GB of RAM with 500 MB or more of free temp space

Windows 7,

Injection Molding The Injection Molding module in DFMPro helps designers automatically

validate the design of injection molded plastic parts. The design checks include

standard rules and guidelines to improve the moldability of the designs and

the life of the mold, increase the operational life of the part, and reduce

manufacturing cost.

Some of the important rules supported for Injection Molding include uniform

wall thickness, appropriate rib design parameters, minimum mold wall

thickness, undercuts detection, minimum radius at the tip/base of a boss, and

minimum draft angles.

Assembly DFMPro now not only supports analysis of parts but also assemblies!

Minimum clearance requirements can be easily specified as a set of rules or

checks for individual as well as a set of generic components. The analysis

results can also be exported and shared with other users. This drastically

reduces the time required for clearance analysis in assemblies and ensures

adherence to nominal clearance specifications.

The new assembly module also checks alignment of holes. This is a simple yet

powerful functionality as checking hole-alignment visually can be a tedious

process.

Sheet metalThe Sheet metal module of DFMPro supports several common sheet metal

design guidelines, which help produce parts economically, with better quality,

and in a shorter duration.

Some of the common sheet metal design guidelines included in the module

are minimum distance between holes, cutouts, slots to part edge and bends;

multiple bends in same direction and minimum bend radius; minimum radius

of rolled hem, open hem, and tear drop hem; minimum flange width; and

minimum size of slots and holes.

Key Features

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Identifies and highlights problem areas right on CAD model

Suggests better solutions to address design problems

Easy to learn and use - seamlessly integrated within CAD system

Implements common manufacturability checks

Supports native as well as imported CAD models

Simple configuration of checks using Rule Manager interface

Generates comprehensive report that can be viewed in any browser

Package and share these rules with other departments, suppliers, and even vendors

Integrates easily with PLM/PDM and enterprise systems

Organizations can also protect their IP by adding new custom rules

Benefits of DFMPro:

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Leads to overall cost reduction

Captures mistakes early in the design stage

Ensures past mistakes are not repeated (especially by new design engineers)

Leverages experience of experts

Decreases overall cycle time

Facilitates on-the-job training of design engineers

"We have many plastic and sheet metal components in our products. DFMPro helps our designers quickly identify the issues which are otherwise dificult to capture at the design stage. These issues include things like mold wall thickness and undercuts in plastic parts, incorrect bends in sheet metal parts which cause problems downstream. This tool helps our design teams understand the processes involved in manufacturing. In other words, helps them understand how to Design for Manufacturing. This leads to a significant reduction in design iterations due to issues with manufacturability and a reduction in design checking time. Our aim is to get designs right the first time and this tool helps us achieve this goal.

SK Pradeep Kumar, Director - E&T Capabilities

George Angelov, Director - Global Prototyping & Planning

Global Technology and Engineering Centre Whirpool

A u t o m a t e , C a p t u r e a n d R e u s e M a n u f a c t u r a b i l i t y I n t e l l i g e n c e

DFMPro from Geometric is an automated design for manufacturability tool, that identifies areas of design

which are difficult, expensive, or impossible to manufacture.

DFMPro is well integrated within leading CAD platforms like Creo Parametric (formerly Pro/ENGINEER)

from PTC, SolidWorks from Dassault Systems and NX from Siemens.

MachiningMachining module of DFMPro supports common DFM guidelines for

machining, which help in manufacturing parts economically and quickly, while

ensuring quality with readily available machining tools.

DFMPro design rules for the machining process include those for drilling,

prismatic milling, and lathe machining or turning. Some of the common design

guidelines in-built in the product are, avoid deep holes with small diameters;

design milling areas so that longer end mills are not required to machine;

features should be accessible to the cutting tool in the preferred machining

orientation; and many more.

CastingsThe Castings module in DFMPro helps designers automatically validate the

design of castings parts. The design checks include standard rules and

guidelines to improve the producibility of the designs, increase the

operational life of the part, and reduce manufacturing cost.

Some of the important rules supported for Castings include fillet radius,

surface finish for machined faces, uniform wall thickness, mold wall thickness,

wall thickness variation, draft angle and undercut detection.

DFMPro Customizability

DFMPro provides a framework to capture and reuse manufacturability expertise in the form of design rules. Organizations get the ability to automate in-house DFM practices incorporated in their standard operating procedures. The existing set of manufacturability checks can be implemented as a set of DFM rules. Designs are validated against these rules for manufacturability.

"Now 3D design data of our products are checked by the DFMPro in the design process. Our conventional checking process by designers was highly time-consuming. In contrast, the DFMPro checking is truly fast and reliable in searching the parts to be redesigned or corrected, and the checking criteria can be customized for the appropriate checking of our own products. As a result, we successfully reduced 75% of the checking time of the wall thickness to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of our design improvement before the release of drawings."

Ryoji NinomiyaSenior ManagerDesign & Development Center Design Dept. 12Toshiba Corporation, Digital Products & Services Company