Process screening · quantity breakpoints · constraints & alternatives · recommended family
Drop in a part and ProcessDFM screens it against every process family the suite supports — casting, molding, forging, machining, sheet metal, additive — and comes back with a feasible/marginal/infeasible verdict per process, each naming the constraint that drove it, a should-cost curve across quantities, and the exact quantity where one process gets cheaper than another. Pick the family, and it hands off into the specialist tool for the deeper check.
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The problem
Committing to die casting, injection tooling, or a machined billet run without knowing where the volume actually favors a cheaper process means the crossover gets found after the invoice, not before it.
Whether a part should be cast, molded, forged, machined, or fabricated usually comes down to whoever's in the room and what they've done before — not a screen of the part's own geometry and quantity against what each process can do.
A wall too thin for the process, an undercut a die can't core, a part over the common machine class — these are usually found once a die or a fixture is already being priced, not while the process is still an open question.
What you get
Casting, injection, forging, MIM, CNC, and — via the same screen — sheet metal and additive all get checked against the part's geometry, alloy, and quantity — verdicts sorted feasible-first, every one naming the capability rule that produced it.
Every feasible process gets its own cost curve across the quantities that matter, from the same engines that price the rest of the suite — a machining number and a casting number mean the same thing.
Don't estimate where die casting starts beating a machined billet run — see the exact quantity the two curves cross, solved directly instead of eyeballed off a chart.
Pick a process family and the part, its context, and the screening findings carry straight into MachDFM, Castimation, FabDFM, or AdditiveDFM — no re-uploading, no re-explaining the part.
How it works
Upload a 3D model. No process decision required first.
Every process family gets a feasible/marginal/infeasible verdict, each naming the constraint behind it.
See should-cost across quantities per process, and the exact quantity where a cheaper one takes over.
Pick the recommended family 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 sourcing desk alike. Screening is unmetered — run as many parts as you like.
EUR 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.
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
ProcessDFM answers which process family should even be in the running. Once it's picked, PlanDFM plans the operations inside that family, and RouteDFM plans the handoff when a part needs more than one family to finish. All three sit on top of the same DFM screening and should-cost engine as the rest of the suite.
One part, three questions, in order:
Priced by CostDFM — see the rest of the suite at partimation.com/#modules.
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