From the course: Introduction to Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing

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Manufacturing design rules

Manufacturing design rules

From the course: Introduction to Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing

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Manufacturing design rules

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- [Instructor] Online machine shops offer an easy way to get parts fabricated from a CAD file. Most shops accept CAD files from popular 3D modeling programs in their native file format. Before sending a part to an online machine shop for fabrication, it's important to find and understand the machine shop's capabilities and tolerances. Based on what you find, you may need to adjust your part tolerances and then evaluate whether your parts will fit and function after manufacturing. There are many online machine shops to choose from that provide additive fabrication services, subtractive fabrication services, and bending or forming services. Here is a selection of several representative online machine shops. Plethora is an online machine shop service that gives designers a downloadable manufacturability analysis plugin, which is compatible with several major CAD programs. This plugin will highlight any features which can't be manufactured using Plethora's manufacturing processes. After a…

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