Questions about the Design for Manufacture poster

What’s on the Design for Manufacture poster?

10 entries in 2 groups. Most of a part's cost is committed long before anything is cut. Cuts cost: Fewer parts and fewer fasteners, One setup instead of three, Standard tool…; Adds cost: Tight tolerance on a long dimension, Deep pockets and thin ribs, Internal…. A tolerance one grade tighter than the function needs can double a feature's cost for no benefit at all.

Who is the Design for Manufacture poster for?

Design for Manufacture belongs to the Mechanical Engineering section rather than to a school year, because engineering is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning manufacturing can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Design for Manufacture poster?

During detail design, before tolerances and features are locked down. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Design for Manufacture belongs on the wall where that engineering work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Design for Manufacture?

Additive Processes, Casting Processes and Speed & Feed sit alongside Design for Manufacture in the Mechanical Engineering section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Additive ProcessesCasting ProcessesSpeed & Feed

Is the Design for Manufacture poster free to download and print?

Yes. Design for Manufacture downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Mechanical Engineering section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Design for Manufacture poster print at?

Design for Manufacture is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Design for Manufacture loses nothing.Printing guide