Fabdose
For product designers

Which process will actually take this part?

Fabdose reads one STEP file on your computer and gives you a manufacturability verdict in about a minute. Run it before you pick a process, a supplier, or a tool, while the answer is still cheap to act on.
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Your CAD files are never uploadedTen processes, one STEP file5 free analyses, no card

When you find out

The factory does tell you what won't work. Just not until the quote call.

By then you have waited a week and called the design done. The check that decides which process takes your part, and what it costs, is the one nobody runs on your behalf.

01Your CAD tool

Checks the model

It answers whether the geometry is sound and whether it breaks the rules you configured. It was never asked which manufacturing process would accept the part as drawn.

02Your supplier

Checks the process

And they will tell you. On the quote call, days after the file went out, once you have already picked a direction and moved on.

03So the money question

Gets answered last

The one check that decides where the spend goes is the one that lands after the spend is hard to undo.

Fabdose runs that check first. One STEP file, read on your computer against the rules of the process you pick, in about a minute.

One STEP file, read against each process

Injection molding gets a face-by-face review, with exact undercut and draft locations on the model. For CNC, sheet metal, and the other eight processes, Fabdose applies that process's rule set, measuring what it can find in the file and stating the rest as rules for you to check. Ten processes, one STEP file.

Plastics (6)

8 rules

Injection Molding

ABS / PC / PP / PA / POM +5

Per-face analysis

6 rules

Extrusion

ABS / PC / PP / Aluminum +6

Rule-based

6 rules

Blow Molding

PC / PP

Rule-based

6 rules

Thermoforming

ABS / PP / PC / PMMA

Rule-based

6 rules

Compression Molding

PA / PEEK

Rule-based

Early coverage, expanding

3 rules

Plastic 3D Printing

ABS / PA / PC-ABS / TPU / PEEK

Rule-based

Early coverage, expanding

Metals (4)

11 rules

CNC Machining

Aluminum / Steel / Brass / Stainless Steel / Magnesium

Rule-based

16 rules

Sheet Metal

Steel / Aluminum / Brass / Stainless Steel

Rule-based

22 rules

Die Casting

Aluminum / Brass / Magnesium

Rule-based

(alloy grades)

16 rules

Metal 3D Printing

Aluminum / Steel / Stainless Steel / Brass

Rule-based

Coming next: sand casting, forging, investment casting, on the v0.5 roadmap.

Three of the rules, with the actual numbers

Injection molding, draft angle
2.0 degrees minimum on a smooth surface, 3.0 on a textured surface, 5.0 on deep features. Checked per face, and the report prints the measured angle next to the minimum.
CNC machining, internal corner radius
An internal corner cannot be smaller than the tool radius, so a sharp corner means EDM or a redesign. When the tool is not known, Fabdose asks for at least the local pocket depth divided by three and names a standard end mill that would get there.
Plastic 3D printing
FDM wants 0.8mm minimum wall, measured against your geometry, and supports past 45 degrees of overhang. SLA and SLS carry their own numbers, 0.5mm and 0.7mm minimum wall.
Pro

Auto Comparison

Instead of naming one process, let Fabdose run your file through every process that fits your material. Each one comes back with its own suitability score, how many findings it hit, and how many of those are critical. Coverage depth differs by process, so the scores tell you where to look rather than which process wins. Your CAD tool checks the model. This checks the model against a process you have not picked yet.

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How it works

One STEP file, four steps, about a minute

  1. 01

    Drag in the STEP file

    Drop a .step or .stp file into Fabdose on your computer, up to 50MB, one part per run.

  2. 02

    Pick the process, or compare them

    Choose the process you have in mind and the material. Or pick Auto Comparison and let Fabdose run every process that fits that material.

  3. 03

    It runs on your computer

    About a minute, depending on how complex the part is. Your CAD file does not move, and nothing waits behind anyone else's job.

  4. 04

    Read the verdict

    Findings ranked critical through low, each with the measured value and the value the process requires. For injection molding, undercut and low-draft faces are pinned on the 3D model.

Free covers 5 analyses, one named process at a time. An account is required, a card is not.

What comes back

One STEP file.
A report you can act on.

01Located findings.

Pinned to a face, or flagged for the part

For injection molding, undercuts and low draft come back as exact locations on the model, face by face. For the other processes the findings are rule checks across the whole part, and the viewer says which is which instead of inventing a location.

02Drag, drop, done.

One drag, you're done

Runs without heavy CAD like Fusion 360 or SolidWorks. Desktop app for macOS and Windows.

03Your CAD stays put.

We don't see your CAD

Your CAD files are never uploaded. Defect findings are processed by AI and synced to your account.

In the report

In: STEP or STP, up to 50MB, one part per run. No assembly handling, so a multi-body file is read as a single solid.
Findings: ranked critical, high, medium and low, each with the measured value and the value the process requires.
Geometry: bounding box, volume, surface area, face count, and the undercut faces found in the file.
Material: weight estimate, shrinkage rate, melt and mold temperature ranges, and alternatives for the process you picked.
Cost: a modeled tooling and unit cost in USD, by region and quantity. Modeled, not quoted. Real quotes typically land 20 to 40 percent away.
Export: the report as a PDF, included on the free tier.
Languages: English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
Not included: Fabdose is a rules-based pre-check. It does not send RFQs, match suppliers, return real quotes, or replace your supplier's review at quote time.

Why local

You need nobody's permission to run it

No upload, no NDA, no security review, no waiting for a revision to be cleared for release. That is what local is for here. It makes the check available at the moment you actually need it, mid-iteration, on a file that is not finished. Your CAD files are never uploaded. Defect findings are processed by AI and synced to your account.

  • No upload step, so there is no “is this version final” decision standing between you and a check.
  • No NDA, no internal security review, no procurement conversation before you can look.
  • Run it on a half-finished revision at 11pm without telling anyone.
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Analysis on your computer
Results in under a minute

Find out before you commit.

Five analyses free, no card. One STEP file, on your computer, about a minute. Because the cheapest time to learn that a process will not take your part is before you have picked one.

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