Quick and interactive feedback while

?
designing

Assured quality of design

?

Integrated access to the

?
organizations knowledge repository
Productivity improvements
?

Ensures fulfillment of
?
acceptance criteria or input
filter for receiving jobs

Training on manufacturability aspects

?
for new design teams

Saves downstream time and

?
re-work

Technical Specification
Supported CAD Systems
?
Creo (Pro/Engineer)
?
SolidWorks
?
Siemens NX (UGS)

?
Reduced cost

System Requirements
?
Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, Windows 7,
32 and 64 bit

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

?
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

About Geometric

America

+1.480.367.0132

Europe

+49.711.49.039.730

For further details about Geometrics GTS business unit, please visit
www.geometricglobal.com/products

Asia-Pacific

+91.22.6705.6880

or call +1.480.367.0132

www.dfmpro.com
dfmpro.marketing@geometricglobal.com

The copyright/ trademarks of all products referenced herein are held by their respective companies.

03/2012 Geometric Ltd.

Contact us

Geometric 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.

www.dfmpro.com

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.
Key Features
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
?

Injection Molding

Machining

Assembly

Benefits of DFMPro:

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.

Machining 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 now not only supports analysis of parts but also assemblies!

Leads to overall cost reduction

?

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.

Captures mistakes early in the design stage

?

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.

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.

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.

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
?

DFMPro Customizability
DFMPro provides a framework to capture and reuse manufacturability expertise in the form of design rules. Organizations get the ability to automate inhouse 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.

Sheet metal

Castings

The 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.

The 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 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.

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.

Automate,

Capture

and

Reuse

"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

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 Ninomiya
Senior Manager
Design & Development Center Design Dept. 12
Toshiba Corporation, Digital Products & Services Company

Intelligence

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.
Key Features
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
?

Injection Molding

Machining

Assembly

Benefits of DFMPro:

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.

Machining 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 now not only supports analysis of parts but also assemblies!

Leads to overall cost reduction

?

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.

Captures mistakes early in the design stage

?

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.

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.

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.

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
?

DFMPro Customizability
DFMPro provides a framework to capture and reuse manufacturability expertise in the form of design rules. Organizations get the ability to automate inhouse 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.

Sheet metal

Castings

The 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.

The 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 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.

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.

Automate,

Capture

and

Reuse

"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

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 Ninomiya
Senior Manager
Design & Development Center Design Dept. 12
Toshiba Corporation, Digital Products & Services Company

Intelligence

Quick and interactive feedback while

?
designing

Assured quality of design

?

Integrated access to the

?
organizations knowledge repository
Productivity improvements
?

Ensures fulfillment of
?
acceptance criteria or input
filter for receiving jobs

Training on manufacturability aspects

?
for new design teams

Saves downstream time and

?
re-work

Technical Specification
Supported CAD Systems
?
Creo (Pro/Engineer)
?
SolidWorks
?
Siemens NX (UGS)

?
Reduced cost

System Requirements
?
Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, Windows 7,
32 and 64 bit

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

?
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

About Geometric

America

+1.480.367.0132

Europe

+49.711.49.039.730

For further details about Geometrics GTS business unit, please visit
www.geometricglobal.com/products

Asia-Pacific

+91.22.6705.6880

or call +1.480.367.0132

www.dfmpro.com
dfmpro.marketing@geometricglobal.com

The copyright/ trademarks of all products referenced herein are held by their respective companies.

03/2012 Geometric Ltd.

Contact us

Geometric 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.

www.dfmpro.com