- [Instructor] The DFMXpress Analysis Wizard
gives us a quick overview of our part
and makes sure that it passes a series of rules
for manufacturing.
If I go ahead and start that up on DFMXpress,
click on that and DFM is designed for manufacturing,
by the way and this company here called Geometric,
they make a bunch of other pretty cool software
and they do a good job.
Their software here is a pretty nice product
and we can actually get the Pro version if you wanted to,
if you want to look into it more,
but right now, you look at the settings,
you can see we've got a couple different options here.
So I can say a Mill/Drill center, Turn with Mill Drill,
Sheet metal or Injection Molding.
And then down here are the different rules.
Take a look at those and make sure they match
your manufacturing operations.
Go ahead and click on Back and then click on Run,
it's going to evaluate your part and it's going to say,
hey, these fillets over here have caused problems,
and it's going to tell us what's going on.
It says, These fillets on the top edge are difficult
to manufacture with a traditional mill,
which is true, right?
You have to switch to a different style of tool
and then, when you get to these corners over here,
you're going to end up with a little bit of an issue.
So, those fillets are a little bit of a problem.
But down here, you can see all the other holes and features
are just fine for machining and, as you can see here,
it's not giving you a value or a cost for making this part.
You might want to look at the costing module for that.
This tool is just giving us a quick overview
and running a series of rules around that part
to make sure that you're designing the part
that's the easiest to manufacture as possible.
You can, obviously ignore these recommendations
and leave these fillets on there,
but you will probably pay more for manufacturing those parts
if your manufacturer will have to create a fillet
exactly as it's shown on the screen.