Product Design & Engineering

Designed to be made, not just drawn

A design that looks right on screen and is awkward to mould costs more than a slightly plainer design that produces cleanly. Most of the value we add is in that gap: simplifying geometry, choosing a material that behaves predictably in the tool, moving away from features that will flash, warp or snag, and specifying tolerances a factory can actually hold.

Because we also buy and manufacture, our drawings are tested against real suppliers and real machines rather than assumed to be correct.

Services

• Concept and feasibility. Early-stage thinking translated into geometry that can actually be produced, with the trade-offs made explicit.
• CAD and modelling. Solid models and production drawings to your chosen standard, fully dimensioned and tolerance-specified.
• Design for manufacture. Draft angles, wall thicknesses, ribs and radii, parting lines, gate positions and ejection reviewed against the process you intend to use.
• Material selection. Plastics, resins and composites chosen for mechanical load, temperature, chemical exposure, finish and cost — not for appearance alone.
• Prototyping. 3D printed prototypes from the same CAD model that will go into tooling, so what you sign off is what gets built.
• Reverse engineering. Existing products measured, modelled and documented so you can produce or resell them legitimately.
• Manufacture-ready handover. Drawing packs, bill of materials and inspection criteria packaged so any competent factory can quote against them.

How we engage

Fixed-scope concept work is quoted as a project. Iteration on an existing design, and support through a production run, is quoted hourly or as a retainer. Where a project moves into manufacture, the design and manufacturing phases are quoted together so the interface between them is not a gap.

We work in SolidWorks, Fusion 360 and Autodesk Inventor, and can deliver STEP, IGES, STL and 2D drawing formats including PDF and DXF. If you have an existing in-house engineering team, we work alongside them rather than replacing them.