{"id":64,"date":"2012-06-07T10:21:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T09:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2013-05-09T14:07:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:07:22","slug":"free-design-for-manaufacturing-feedback-inside-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/free-design-for-manaufacturing-feedback-inside-solidworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Design for Manaufacturing Feedback inside SolidWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/cadcamstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Spindle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spindle\" src=\"http:\/\/cadcamstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Spindle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It will happen, one day you will receive a part that is nearly impossible to manufacture. Not because the part is on the \u201ctop secret out of space\u201d difficult level, but because something as simple as an unexperienced engineer\/designer did not realize that there is some physics rules that apply to make a design that actually can be manufactured in a very competitive industry.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>DFMXpress\u2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>SolidWorks has a nifty tool that pretty quickly can run an analysis on you part, and provide you with some feedback on some possible manufacturing street bumps, or should I say stop the design in its tracks before its manufacturability becomes too costly.<\/p>\n<p>DFMXpress belongs to the Xpress family that you will find right at top of your Tools dropdown menu right inside SolidWorks.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/cadcamstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Selction-inside-SW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Selction inside SW\" src=\"http:\/\/cadcamstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Selction-inside-SW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h4><strong>Who should use this\u2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This tool is seamlessly integrated into SolidWorks, and will give you an opportunity to apply some basic sets of rules for drilling, milling, turning, sheetmetal and even give you a thickness analysis of a injected plastic parts. This tool was created, fed and raised for manufacturing!<\/p>\n<p>So this tool should defiantly be on the list of CAM programers who gets designs handed to them, and\/or if you are one of those young unexperienced engineer\/designers\u2026well, this can safe you from having one of those grumpy machinest yelling at you.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>What is some of the things it does\u2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Figuring out how to use it could not be more simple. In SolidWorks go to your Tools dropdown-&gt; Select DFMXpress and when it open in your left panel, Go to the settings tab, select your application, and set your parameters.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>DFMXpress has parameters like\u2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Hole Depth to Diameter Ratio.<\/li>\n<li>Mill Tool Depth to Diameter Ratio.<\/li>\n<li>Minimum Corner Radius (Turn Part).<\/li>\n<li>Minimum % Bore Relief (Turn Part).<\/li>\n<li>Hole Diameter to Thickness Ratio (Sheet metal).<\/li>\n<li>Recommended Bend Radius (Sheet metal).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h4><strong>Help\u2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>What really rocks is that if you start looking in the DFMXpress help section you will find what for many has been hard earned advice.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/cadcamstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Sharp-corners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sharp corners\" src=\"http:\/\/cadcamstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Sharp-corners.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4><strong>Conclusion\u2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>I think we sometimes forget some of these tools excist. Tools that could improve the bottom line should get a fair trial or the result can be loosing parts to the scrap bin.<\/p>\n<p>This being the Xpress version there is a big brother with more options and strength. We will visit DFMPro later for review.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will happen, one day you will receive a part that is nearly impossible to manufacture. Not because the part is on the \u201ctop secret out of space\u201d difficult level,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,20,21,22,23,24,25],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solidworks","tag-cad","tag-cadcam","tag-cam","tag-cnc","tag-design","tag-manufacturing","tag-solidworks-2"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}