For Engineering & DFM

Catch errors before
they require heroics.

SourceOptima reads your drawings the way a senior engineer would - GD&T, tolerances, materials, threads, geometry - and runs continuous design-for-X checks across your whole portfolio. Every release. Every revision.

Design-for-X review

Every drawing reviewed
the way your best engineer would.

Stop relying on a senior engineer's pattern recognition. SourceOptima runs a continuous, consistent review over every drawing, every revision - and ranks the issues by impact.

Design integrity

Tolerance interactions, GD&T consistency, under-dimensioned features, and weight-vs-geometry mismatches - caught before they reach the shop floor.

Reuse & should-cost

New designs fingerprinted against your existing library - so highly similar parts surface before tooling and qualification spend, with a should-cost baseline learned from the prices your own part families actually achieved.

Change & release confidence

Downstream impact of every modification traced across assemblies and active ECOs, with material callouts pre-checked against compliance requirements before release.

Clean, reconciled metadata

Part numbers, revisions, materials, and finishes extracted from every title block, normalized, and reconciled against your PLM namespace.

Tolerance stack-up

Catch the stack before the stack catches production.

SourceOptima reads each GD&T frame, traces the dimensional chain across mating features, and simulates the worst-case and statistical stack. Risky stacks get ranked, with the offending features highlighted.

  • Worst-case + RSS (root-sum-square) simulations on every assembly.
  • Cumulative tolerance budget tracked across the BOM tree.
  • Per-feature contribution - see which dimension is eating the budget.
STACK CONTRIBUTION ANALYSIS Feature A · ±0.05 12% budget Feature B · ±0.10 24% budget Feature C · ±0.15 36% budget Feature D · ±0.05 12% budget Feature E · ±0.08 19% budget SIMULATED STACK ±0.43 mm ⚠ Exceeds 0.30 mm acceptance · downgrade B → ±0.05 to clear
Geometric similarity

Stop redesigning what you've already built.

When a new drawing comes in, SourceOptima fingerprints the geometry and searches your existing library. Highly similar parts surface immediately - with their drawings, BOMs, and supplier history attached.

  • Geometry fingerprinting - envelope, features, holes, pockets, threads.
  • Supplier history - who's already qualified to make near-matches.
  • Tooling reuse - flag designs that could share fixtures or programs.
GEOMETRIC SIMILARITY · NEW PART NEW: NPI-2026-018 98% MATCH EXISTING: 442-A Material matchAl 6061-T6 Suppliers qualified3 (Kemet, Protolabs, KMC) Tooling reusableYes · est. $15k saved
Try it on one of your drawings - extraction back in 30 minutes
Engineers don't want another tool. They want their existing tools to stop catching mistakes too late. - how we design the engineering experience
How engineering teams get started

Running in your team
before the end of the week.

No CAD plugin or PLM migration to get started. SourceOptima fits into your existing review process and starts returning value from day one - and connects deeper into your engineering systems when you're ready to scale.

Day 1

Zero disruption to your team

Drop in your existing PDF drawings - no new software for your engineers to install, no change to how they work in CAD or PLM. You're running checks the same afternoon.

Week 1

A report you can show upstairs

A ranked workbook of issues and savings across your active drawings - with direct links to the offending features. Something concrete to bring to your next program review.

Month 1

Catches what slips through review

New revisions get a delta report automatically. Your team sees what changed, what's at risk downstream, and what can be reused - before anything goes to manufacturing.

Ongoing

Your portfolio, queryable

Ask in plain English: "show me all parts with ±0.001 tolerance and lead time over 12 weeks." Your institutional knowledge stops living in someone's head.

Bring a drawing.
Watch it think.

Email a sample drawing - we'll send back the structured extraction, similarity matches, and DFX flags within 30 minutes.