Guides
What you put into a brief determines what you get back. These are short, specific, and written from how the agents actually read your input — not generic advice.
Start here
Writing a brief that gets a sharp DFM critique
The single biggest lever on output quality. Five things a strong brief always states, with two real examples.
DFM
Reading your DFM report
What blocking vs. major vs. minor actually means, where the numbers come from, and what "passes" requires.
Cost
Understanding the cost estimate
What drives the unit-cost range, why it's a range and not a quote, and how to read the breakdown.
Process
Choosing a process by quantity
Where printing, urethane, sheet metal, moulding and die casting each win — and how to read the break-even table.
Sourcing
From a run to a quote
The RFQ pack, BOM and files to send, what to ask suppliers, and how to log quotes against the estimate.
Homes
Briefing a home design
Location, budget, household and refinements — how region-aware home design works and what it is not.
Geometry
Uploading an STL for a measured DFM check
What gets measured vs. sampled, size limits, and why a real mesh beats a text description every time.
Also useful: the DFM rulebook (the actual rule values these guides reference), and the free instant check to try any of this against your own part.