Handling Customer-Provided 3D Models Effectively

Every digital manufacturer knows the drill: a new RFQ lands in your inbox with a STEP file, an STL, maybe a Parasolid — sometimes all three for the same part. One file is watertight. Another has flipped normals. A third is missing critical features because the export...

When Customers Send STEP Files With Errors

Every shop gets them: STEP files with missing faces, open edges, flipped normals, or units that don’t match the drawing. The customer expects a quote by lunch. Your CAM seat is tied up trying to heal geometry that should have been clean.Bad CAD doesn’t...

When Customer CAD Models Break Quotes

You open the RFQ, import the STEP file, and your quoting engine spits out an error — or worse, a price based on a model with missing faces, inverted normals, or geometry that doesn’t match the customer’s drawing. In digital manufacturing, bad CAD...