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Design for Manufacturing Guides
Design decisions made in CAD — bend radius, hole placement, relief cuts — determine whether a part can be manufactured at target cost or must be reworked. Our DFM guides translate manufacturing constraints into concrete design rules: minimum bend radius by material, hole-to-bend clearance formulas, and relief cut geometry. Applying these rules up front cuts scrap rates, eliminates custom tooling, and compresses prototype lead times from weeks to days.
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