Partimation

Process screening · manufacturability · best-fit ranking · specialist hand-off

Find out what's wrong with a part — before you've picked a process.

Drop in a part and MFGDFM screens it across machining, fabrication, additive, casting, molding, and forging — flagging manufacturability issues and ranking the processes that actually fit, before you've committed to any one of them. Pick the process, and it hands you straight into the specialist tool for the deeper check.

Free to start · no credit card · your files stay yours.

6 process familiesmachining, fabrication, additive, casting, molding, forging screened together
Ranked, not guessedbest-fit processes ranked with a stated reason
One uploadscreen every process from a single file, no re-uploading per tool
Straight hand-offmove into the matching specialist tool with context carried over

The problem

You shouldn't need 20 years of experience to know where to start.

The process choice is a gut call

Whether a part should be machined, cast, printed, or fabricated usually comes down to whoever's in the room and what they've done before, not a screen of the part itself.

Every specialist tool assumes you've already decided

Machining tools want a machining part, casting tools want a casting part — none of them help when the real question is which process even makes sense.

DFM shows up after the decision's made

By the time a manufacturability review happens, a process and often a supplier are already picked — too late to change course cheaply.

What you get

Screen every process, before you commit to one.

Every process, one upload

Screen machining, fabrication, additive, casting, molding, and forging together

One file goes in, and it's checked against every process family Partimation supports — not run through six different tools with six different uploads.

Ranked, with a reason

See which processes fit, and why

Processes come back ranked by fit, each with the geometric or quantity reason it does or doesn't work — not a single opaque recommendation.

Manufacturability, not just process fit

General DFM issues flagged before you've picked anything

Broad manufacturability problems — features that are hard to make in any process, missing information, ambiguous requirements — surface here, at the point where they're still cheap to fix.

A real hand-off, not a dead end

Move straight into the specialist tool you need

Pick a process and the part, its context, and the findings so far carry straight into MachDFM, FabDFM, AdditiveDFM, or Castimation — no re-uploading, no starting over.

How it works

Four steps from an undecided part to the right specialist tool.

01

Drop the part

Upload a 3D model or drawing. No process decision required first.

02

See what fits

Machining, fabrication, additive, casting, molding, and forging get screened together, ranked by fit.

03

See what's wrong

General manufacturability issues surface before you've locked in a process or a supplier.

04

Move into the right tool

Pick a process and hand off into the matching specialist tool with your part and findings carried over.

Pricing

Start free. One plan, every process.

Priced for a one-person design team and a multi-process manufacturer alike. Screening is unmetered — run as many parts as you like.

Free
$0
  • 10 parts a month
  • Cross-process screening + manufacturability flags
  • Advisory analysis, draft resolution
  • No credit card
Pro
$199 /seat · mo
  • Unlimited parts, full process ranking
  • Should-cost, reports, exports
  • Hand-off into every specialist tool
  • 30 simulation runs a month
Shop
$699 /mo · 5 seats
  • Everything in Pro
  • Your shop's process capability data
  • Quote calibration + API access
  • 150 pooled simulation runs a month
On-prem
$15k yr 1 · $10k renewal
  • Runs on your hardware
  • Unlimited simulation, no metering
  • Signed updates, never phones home
  • 10 seats · optional device lock
Enterprise
from $25k /yr
Multi-site licensing, custom processes and rules, a model tuned on your own quote history, and an SLA.

EUR prices exclude VAT, added at checkout where it applies. Early adopters keep their price as the suite grows.

Run it your way

In the cloud by default. Behind your firewall when it has to be.

Cloud

Nothing to install

Sign in and screen a part from any browser. We run the compute, ship the updates, and keep your data yours.

On-prem & air-gapped

For parts that can't leave the building

Defense, aerospace, and anyone under NDA can run the whole thing on their own hardware. Licenses and updates are signed files — it never phones home, so an air-gapped install stays air-gapped.

Where this fits

Every part starts at PartDFM. MFGDFM picks the process.

PartDFM is the file's first stop — geometry checks, feature extraction, and missing-information flags before anything else happens to it. Once the file checks out, MFGDFM ranks it against every process family Partimation supports. Same account, same part, one hand-off.

PartDFM → MFGDFM

Six process families, screened together

Once a part's ready, MFGDFM ranks it against:

Machining Fabrication Additive Casting Molding Forging

Get started

Find out what fits before you commit to a process.

Screen a real part free in your browser, or book a walkthrough across every process your program is considering.

Book a demo

Tell us about your project.

We reply within one business day.

MFGDFM is a screening step, not a final answer — every process ranking and every flagged issue names the rule behind it. Confirm the fit with the specialist tool and your own engineering judgment before committing tooling or a supplier.