Geometric Ltd. a leader in Product lifecycle Management (PLM), Global Engineering Services and Offshore Product Development (OPD) Solutions and Technologies, announced the release of version 8.0 of its automated design for manufacturability solution, DFMPro for NX software.

The latest version delivers many new customer-driven enhancements for users of NX, a leading integrated 3D computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) software, developed by Siemens' PLM software business.

Key benefits of this release

- NX 1953 series support
- Teamcenter 13.0 support
- Added New PMI Based Geometrical Tolerance Rules
- General Module (7 rules)
- Milling (4 rules)
- Drilling (2 rules)
- Added new "Sheet Metal Forming" module with 3 new rules
- Minimum Bend Radius
- Minimum Sheet Thickness
- Recommended Hole Diameter
- Added new rule for "Additive Manufacturing"
- Avoid Sharp Edges
- Performance improvement for
- "Minimum Clearance Between Components" Assembly rule
- DFMPro New User Interface - key Features

For complete details on the new features of Geometric DFMPro 8.0 please refer to the

Design for manufacturability (DFM), sometimes also known as design for manufacture, is a perfectly straightforward idea: Products should be designed so that they can be manufactured. Moreover, they should be designed so that they are as easy and inexpensive to manufacture as possible. For machined parts, for example, you need to be concerned with the material, with tool accessibility, and with the depth and shape of cavities and holes. Injection-molded parts need to slip easily out of their molds.

For anything other than the simplest parts and products, DFM can involve volumes of rules that can be hard to remember and time-consuming to check. Design reviews consume the time of experts. If a part fails design review, it heads back to the designer to be redesigned. This rework is expensive in terms of both time and money.

Enter DFM software such as DFMPro from Geometric Global. DFMPro is a DFM tool that runs within your CAD software: Creo Parametric (formerly Pro/ENGINEER), Dassault Systemes SolidWorks, Siemens NX and NX series.

DFMPro acts something like a spell checker for your CAD designs, providing quick checking of copious design rules to improve the manufacturability of parts and assemblies, and to reduce their manufacturing cost. It comes out of the box with more than 100 configurable rules-pulled from various handbooks, guidelines and DFM experts. You can customize the application to add more.

DFMPro automatically recognizes key features from your CAD designs. You don't have to tell it where the ribs and bosses are; it will locate them on its own.

Run DFMPro and, after a few seconds or minutes, it returns a hierarchical, interactive list of your problem areas. You can see at a glance how many rules your design breaks, what those rules are, and where each instance of the problem is. You'll also get a list of all the rules your design passed, as well as those rules that don't apply to this design.

Click on a broken rule, and all instances of the problem are highlighted on your CAD model. Click on a problem, and you'll zoom in on that feature and receive a description of the issue.

The descriptions go way beyond "FAILURE: RULE 27." They give the design engineer actual useful information such as, "There is no fillet at the base of the boss, whereas it is recommended to have a fillet 0.25 times the nominal wall thickness of the part."

DFMPro will even explain the rules. It will tell you, for example, not just that your cavity doesn't have the minimum draft angle, but what draft angles are and why they are important, complete with illustrated examples and recommendations. This should actually help new design engineers to understand and implement proper design practices.

DFMPro For NX Overview

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Product: Geometric DFMPro
Version: 8.0.0 build 9498 *
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : http://dfmpro.geometricglobal.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC **
Size: 1.6 Gb

- Geometric DFMPro 8.0.0.9498 for NX 1847-1899 Seies
- Geometric DFMPro 8.0.0.9498 for NX 12
- Geometric DFMPro 8.0.0.9498 for NX 1926-1953 Series

Before installing DFMPro for NX, ensurethat the following system requirements fulfilled

Supported NX Version

- NX 1847 Series
- NX 1872 Series
- NX 1899 Series

- NX 1926 Series
- NX 1953 Series

- NX NX 12.0.1.7 and above

Supported Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
- 64‐bit version of Windows 10 (Home editions are not supported)
- 64‐bit version of Windows 8.1 (Home editions are not supported)
- 64‐bit version of Windows 7 SP1 or higher(Home editions are not supported)

Recommended RAM
- Recommended 8 GB or more (Minimum: 4 GB)
DiskSpace
- Minimum: 4 GB