Process screening · manufacturability · best-fit ranking · specialist hand-off
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.
The problem
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.
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.
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
One file goes in, and it's checked against every process family Partimation supports — not run through six different tools with six different uploads.
Processes come back ranked by fit, each with the geometric or quantity reason it does or doesn't work — not a single opaque recommendation.
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.
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
Upload a 3D model or drawing. No process decision required first.
Machining, fabrication, additive, casting, molding, and forging get screened together, ranked by fit.
General manufacturability issues surface before you've locked in a process or a supplier.
Pick a process and hand off into the matching specialist tool with your part and findings carried over.
Pricing
Priced for a one-person design team and a multi-process manufacturer alike. Screening is unmetered — run as many parts as you like.
EUR and GBP prices exclude VAT, added at checkout where it applies. Early adopters keep their price as the suite grows.
Run it your way
Sign in and screen a part from any browser. We run the compute, ship the updates, and keep your data yours.
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
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.
Once a part's ready, MFGDFM ranks it against:
FAQ
General DFM issues get flagged on any uploaded part before a process is picked. The ordering is the point. By the time a manufacturability review normally happens, a process and often a supplier are already chosen, the tooling conversation has started, and the fix has stopped being cheap. Findings that arrive first are findings you can still act on.
Each finding names the rule that caught it, and each process verdict names the constraint that drove it. You read a named reason rather than a score out of ten. A hot spot the risers will not feed, a face with no draft to release the pattern — that is a specific question you can put to a supplier or an engineer without knowing casting yourself.
The part, its context, and the findings so far carry into the specialist module on the same job. Moving from a screening verdict into a machining or a casting quote is a panel switch on the upload you already made, not a second upload into a second tool. The geometry, the features, and the flags travel with it.
A flagged finding is a screening result, not a verdict on the part. Process fit comes back feasible, marginal, or infeasible with the constraint named, so an infeasible call tells you which rule the geometry broke and where to look. MFGDFM is the screening step — confirm it with the specialist module and your own judgment before tooling or a supplier is committed.
Get started
Screen a real part free in your browser, or book a walkthrough across every process your program is considering.
Book a demo
We reply within one business day.