Pre-check your part before you request a manufacturing quote
Before you send a part out for a quote, you want to be sure it will not bounce back for an obvious manufacturability problem. Fabdose runs a local pre-check first, so the quote conversation is about price and finish, not about basic geometry you could have caught yourself.
The problem
Requesting a quote commits your part and your CAD to a manufacturer, and the round trip takes days. If the part comes back rejected for a trapped undercut or missing draft, you have spent that time and exposed your geometry to learn something a pre-check could have told you in a minute. First-time and solo designers feel this most, because there is no in-house engineer to catch it first.
What Fabdose does in that moment
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Run a local pre-check
Drop the STEP file into Fabdose and pick the process. The analysis runs on your computer, so you can vet the part without sending your CAD anywhere yet.
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Clear the obvious rejection reasons
Fabdose applies that process's manufacturing rules and, for injection molding, names the exact faces with undercuts or low draft. Fix those before anyone sees the part.
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Request the quote with a clean part
Now you send the file out knowing the basics are sound. The manufacturer's feedback comes back about price, finish, and edge cases, not about geometry you could have fixed first.
The result
You avoid a one-to-three-day round trip spent on an obvious rejection, keep your CAD private until you choose to share it, and walk into the quote conversation with a part that is already clean.
Honest limits
Fabdose is a pre-check that filters obvious rejection reasons. It does not send RFQs, match suppliers, or return real quotes, and it does not replace the manufacturer's review. The cost figure is an order-of-magnitude signal for comparing processes, not a price.
Questions
- Does Fabdose send my part to factories for a quote?
- No. Fabdose does not send RFQs, match you with suppliers, or return real quotes. It runs a manufacturability pre-check on your computer so you can clean up the part first. You still request the actual quote from a manufacturer yourself.
- Does this replace the manufacturer's DFM review?
- No. The manufacturer's review at quote time is the authoritative one, grounded in their real machines and tooling. Fabdose filters the obvious rejection reasons beforehand so that review is about edge cases and price, not basic geometry. Use it before the quote, not instead of it.
- Does Fabdose give me a price for the part?
- Fabdose gives an order-of-magnitude cost signal to help you compare processes, not a real price. The actual number comes from a manufacturer's quote. The point of the pre-check is to make sure that quote is not wasted on an obvious manufacturability problem.
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