Forgeability · draft & flash · die tooling · quantity economics
Feed ForgeDFM a part and it screens it against closed-die forging — draft, and the undercuts a closed die can never core out — prices the press tonnage, billet, flash loss, and die tooling, and shows you the quantity where forging beats the machined-from-bar alternative.
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The problem
Closed-die forging can't core an undercut — no slide, no lifter, just a redesign. That's usually found after the die's half machined, not on the drawing.
Every closed-die forging scraps flash and tong-hold as part of the process — treat it as a rounding error and the quote is wrong before the press ever cycles.
Forging's tooling is expensive and its piece price is cheap — whether that trade is worth it depends entirely on quantity, and that crossover rarely makes it into the quote.
What you get
The same geometric undercut scan the rest of the suite uses flags anything a closed die can't release — forging is the one process where that finding is a hard fail, not a redesign nudge, and ForgeDFM says so plainly.
Tonnage comes from the part's projected area against the alloy family's published flow-stress band — aluminum, steel, or copper — not a guess, and it sets the press rate that drives the quote.
Flash and tong-hold loss are built into the billet weight before the price is struck, with saw and flash-trim labor costed as their own stations.
Die cost is real money up front; the should-cost curve shows the exact quantity where forging's cheaper piece price pays that back against machining from bar stock.
How it works
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A pass/fail read — closed dies can't core, so any undercut is flagged plainly.
Press tonnage, billet + flash weight, and forge + trim die tooling, priced.
Should-cost against CNC-from-bar, with the crossover quantity shown, not asserted.
Pricing
Priced for a single engineer screening a part and a forge shop quoting dies alike. Forgeability screens are 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 — the shared model only ever learns from your own jobs to calibrate your rates.
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.
FAQ
A closed-die undercut scan hard-fails geometry a closed die cannot release. There is no slide and no lifter in a closed die, so an undercut is not a nudge toward a redesign — it is the redesign, and every other number on the quote rests on it. Finding that on the drawing costs an afternoon. Finding it with the die block half machined costs the block.
Tonnage is sized from the part's projected plan area against the alloy family's published flow-stress band — aluminum, steel, or copper. That tonnage picks the press, and the press rate is what drives the forming line on the quote. The band is published closed-die practice rather than your own press history, so you can trace the figure and check it against what your shop actually runs.
Flash and tong-hold loss are built into the billet weight before the price is struck, not added back as a percentage afterwards. Saw and flash-trim labour are costed as their own stations on the route. Closed-die forging scraps that metal every cycle, so a billet priced at net part weight puts the quote under water before the press has run once.
The should-cost curve puts forging against machining from bar stock and returns the exact quantity where forging's cheaper piece price pays back the die. The crossover is solved in closed form, not eyeballed off two lines on a chart. Die cost is real money up front and quantity is the whole argument, so the answer you need is that one number.
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