Geometry checks · feature extraction · missing-info flags · likely process
Drop in a part — a 3D model or a 2D drawing — and PartDFM runs the geometry checks, pulls out the features, and tells you what's missing or ambiguous before you spend an afternoon quoting from a file that was never going to work. Get a plain DFM summary and the processes it's likely to fit, then move straight into the right specialist tool.
Free to start · no credit card · your files stay yours.
The problem
Upload a model or a drawing and most tools give you nothing back until deep into a quote — you want to know what you're holding the moment it lands, not after it's already routed somewhere.
A missing tolerance, an unreadable note, a model that doesn't match its own drawing — these usually turn up halfway through a quote or a program, not in the first ten seconds.
Specialist tools want clean, complete geometry and a decided process — nobody checks the file itself first, so the gap becomes someone's afternoon.
What you get
STL and STEP geometry or a DXF/PDF drawing go through the same first look — no separate tool depending on what you happened to receive.
The same feature detection the specialist modules run internally comes back to you first, each feature carrying a confidence and where it came from — not a guess dressed up as certainty.
When a drawing and a model both exist, PartDFM reconciles them and flags where they disagree or where information is simply missing — at the point where it's still a quick fix, not a rerun.
A plain DFM summary and the processes the part is likely to fit come back with the file — pick one and carry the part, its features, and its findings straight into MFGDFM or the matching specialist module.
How it works
Upload a 3D model or a 2D drawing. No process decision, no template, required first.
Geometry checks and feature extraction run immediately — holes, bores, flats, and more, named with a confidence.
Missing tolerances, ambiguous notes, and model-vs-drawing conflicts surface before they cost you a quote.
See the likely processes and hand off into MFGDFM or the specialist module that fits, with everything carried over.
Pricing
Priced for a one-person design shop and a sourcing team alike. Intake — geometry checks and feature extraction — is unmetered — run as many files 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 check 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 first stop for any part — geometry checks, feature extraction, and missing-information flags on the file itself. Once it checks out, MFGDFM screens it across every process family Partimation supports and ranks the best fit. Same account, same part, one hand-off.
Once a part checks out, MFGDFM ranks it against:
FAQ
An STL or STEP model, or a DXF/PDF drawing, goes through the same first look. Geometry checks run immediately. Detected holes and the overall envelope come back named, each carrying its own confidence rather than a bare number. General manufacturability findings come with them, before any process has been picked — so you know what the file holds before an afternoon goes into quoting it.
No process decision is needed first — DFM findings come back on any uploaded part before a process is chosen. There is no template to fill in and no configuration to set before you drop the file. General manufacturability problems get flagged on the file itself, which is the point where a fix is still a change to a model rather than a change to a running job.
Callouts with no matching geometry, geometry with no matching callout, and part numbers that disagree across sheets all surface as their own flagged items. A degraded read — OCR fallback on a poor scan — is labelled as degraded rather than quietly accepted at full confidence. Each flag names what is missing, so you know whether to go back to the customer or carry on.
PartDFM is an intake and triage step, not a final DFM verdict. Every extracted feature and every flagged gap names its source, so nothing in the summary is unattributed. Take those findings into MFGDFM or the specialist module for the process you are heading toward, and apply your own engineering judgment, before a process or a supplier gets committed.
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