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DFMXpress Analysis

DFMXpress Analysis - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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DFMXpress Analysis

- [Instructor] The DFMXpress Analysis Wizard gives us a quick overview of our part and makes sure that it passes a series of rules for manufacturing. If I go ahead and start that up on DFMXpress, click on that and DFM is designed for manufacturing, by the way and this company here called Geometric, they make a bunch of other pretty cool software and they do a good job. Their software here is a pretty nice product and we can actually get the Pro version if you wanted to, if you want to look into it more, but right now, you look at the settings, you can see we've got a couple different options here. So I can say a Mill/Drill center, Turn with Mill Drill, Sheet metal or Injection Molding. And then down here are the different rules. Take a look at those and make sure they match your manufacturing operations. Go ahead and click on Back and then click on Run, it's going to evaluate your part and it's going to say, hey, these fillets over here have caused problems, and it's going to tell us…

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