Xometry Pro: Engineering, Manufacturing, Product Design

🌍 We’ve expanded the 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 on Xometry Pro with 5 additional languages: German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish. The tool helps engineers and machinists quickly verify fit, sizing, and strength calculations for bolted joints by instantly providing tap drill sizes, clearance hole diameters, and tensile stress areas for both Metric and Imperial fasteners, all aligned with ISO and ASME standards. By incorporating fit types (close, normal, loose) and highlighting critical parameters like tensile stress area, it supports more informed decisions around strength, assembly, and overall reliability. ⚙️ Test the tool for your next assembly design: • English: https://lnkd.in/d73cq_Ky • German: https://lnkd.in/d9sTc3WT • French: https://lnkd.in/dj-UbQZm • Italian: https://lnkd.in/ddpsgD3S • Spanish: https://lnkd.in/dzT-K6rS • Turkish: https://lnkd.in/dbbCZYrW

Even the smallest clearance issue can impact an entire machine build. In this project, Emiel Noorlander, The Practical Engineer shows what iteration looks like in practice: identifying the issue, optimising the design, manufacturing an updated part, and keeping the build moving ⚙️ Follow the project journey and watch the full video: https://lnkd.in/ds-H2YQK

📐 First angle and third angle projection are the two universally accepted methods for representing 3D objects in 2D engineering drawings. While both systems communicate the exact same manufacturing information from basic dimensions to complex GD&T, they arrange the views in opposite positions on the drawing sheet. Even experienced engineers can misread a drawing if they assume the wrong regional standard. • First angle projection (ISO, common in Europe, Asia, India): views are placed opposite to the viewing direction • Third angle projection (ASME, common in the USA, Canada, Australia): views are placed on the same side as the viewing direction Check out our new article that breaks down the key differences between first and third angle projection, and also gives a clear explanation of orthographic projection and the “Glass Box” concept. A useful reminder of how 3D parts are translated into accurate 2D manufacturing drawings without perspective distortion. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dUJm9SA4

🌍 The 𝗜𝗦𝗢 𝟮𝟴𝟲 𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 on Xometry Pro is now available in 5 more languages: German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish. Enter your nominal size to instantly check tolerance ranges and identify the appropriate fit type: clearance, transition, or interference. The calculator helps reduce manual reference checks, lowers the risk of errors, and makes working with tight tolerances easier. It’s designed to simplify one of the more detail-heavy parts of mechanical design and make precision calculations faster and easier to work with. ⚙️Try it in your preferred language:  • English: https://lnkd.in/drutHGRk • German:https://lnkd.in/dfZk5992 • French: https://lnkd.in/dEr8s-fG • Italian: https://lnkd.in/d3A5YwEU • Spanish: https://lnkd.in/dByXc3dF • Turkish: https://lnkd.in/djTDhB-w

🎙️ In this new interview, Martin Bielicki, CEO and co-founder of Bench explains how they’re building an engineering execution system that connects existing CAD and CAE tools and runs tasks between them. Instead of replacing software, Bench operates on top of it, tackling things like geometry preparation and CAD reconstruction (including STL-to-parametric workflows). This matters because engineers still spend a huge share of time on manual work, with geometry cleanup alone taking up to 70% in some cases. At the core is a clear idea: context matters more than raw model power. By capturing design intent, constraints, engineering knowledge, and grounding outputs in deterministic math, Bench aims to make automation more reliable in complex engineering processes. 👉 Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/dbrUmy7T

📐 Parallelism is a GD&T orientation tolerance that ensures a feature remains at a constant distance from a reference datum along its entire length. It defines a 0° relationship between features, controlling alignment without restricting their exact position in space. Because it controls orientation only, a feature can meet parallelism requirements and still be mislocated. The tolerance zone represents the allowable variation: • Two parallel planes for surfaces • A cylindrical boundary for axes This control is critical where alignment directly impacts performance, ensuring consistent contact, fit, and load distribution. 🔗 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/dDXJMNSG

📗 We’ve just released a new 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 (𝗦𝗟𝗔) 𝟯𝗗 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 — a practical resource to help you design parts that are ready for production. There’s a lot to consider when designing for SLA. It’s about balancing geometry, material behavior, and process constraints, from feature sizes to support strategy and resin selection. Here are 5 key considerations to start with 👇 Download the full SLA Design Guide: https://lnkd.in/dnXx893F

✏️ "A 3D CAD file defines the perfect geometry. The 2D technical drawing defines the allowable imperfections." CAD models drive machine toolpaths. They don't specify surface finish, GD&T callouts, inspection requirements, or material treatment. All of that lives in the drawing, which is also your legal reference and inspection document. A drawing without Ra values leaves surface finish to supplier interpretation. Without projection standard notation, geometry may be misread across regional teams. Without ISO 286 fit callouts, shaft-to-bore relationships are undefined. The technical drawing is not supplementary to the CAD file. It defines what "correct" means. 🔗 Read the full guide: https://lnkd.in/d436h5zH

🎙️ Rendering processes are changing as generative AI becomes part of product design. In our new interview, Philip Lunn, CEO of Depix Technologies, Inc., explains how teams are moving away from geometry-first approaches toward intent-driven workflows, where ideas can be turned into high-quality visuals and 3D models in minutes. Philip describes a shift where, with tools like Depix, a simple idea can quickly become a visualisation detailed enough to support decision-making. This speed opens up a much broader design space and removes one of the biggest constraints teams have always faced: limited time and resources. 👉 Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/dddJNHAW

Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) is becoming a strong choice for functional 3D printed parts, especially when moving beyond prototyping. By fusing entire layers at once, it delivers faster build times and consistent mechanical properties across the part. No support structures, solid surface quality, and good scalability for low- to mid-volume production. If you're comparing MJF with SLS or considering alternatives to injection molding, this overview is a useful starting point: https://lnkd.in/dfREe2bB