Our Manufacturing Standards

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Workmanship Standards

Orders with Xometry will meet the minimum workmanship standards outlined below (as applicable to the process). If your project requires a level of workmanship that goes beyond the standards listed below, please clearly list the requirement in your engineering drawings, purchase orders, or specifications.

Finished Surfaces Cosmetics

• Paint coverage on surfaces will be uniform, including adjacent materials of assemblies.
• Finished surfaces will be free of defects, including chips, scrapes, or other damage.

Mill Steps, Tooling, and Chatter

• Tool marks on as-milled surfaces will be free of defects, including burrs, chatter, tool gauges, and will meet surface roughness specifications.
• Indicated critical surfaces will be free of mill steps and marks across the entire surface.

Chips, Burrs, and Sharp Edges

• All exposed edges will be free of burrs, sharp edges, and metal slivers.*
  • *Parts made with Sheet Cutting are not deburred unless specified through a selected finish.

Foreign Object Debris (FOD)

• Surfaces will be free of cutting fluid, metal chips, foreign objects, and other debris.

Threads

• Threads will be fully formed and cut to specified size and class indicated in provided drawings.
• Threads will be free of defects, notable damage, and contamination.

Plated Surfaces

• Plated surfaces will be uniform, including adjacent surfaces of assemblies.
• Plated surfaces will be free of machining marks, scratches, pits, protrusions, or visible bare metal.

Weld Joints

• Weld joints are performed as indicated in the customer-provided drawing.
• Welds without specific requirements are cleaned to remove slag or other surface contamination.
• Weld joints will not be painted until the welding has been completed and the weld has passed inspection.

Countersinks

• Countersinks shall be round and made to print specifications and allow the proper designed fit with the mating screw.

Painted Surfaces

• Painted surfaces shall be consistent and continuous in the finish.

CNC Orientation and Form General Tolerances for Metals

Standard Plastic Extrusion Tolerances By Feature Size