Mechanical Design & CAD Studio
Mechanical Design Engineer
Send the sketch.
Get files that build.
We turn rough ideas, napkin sketches and half-finished models into production-ready CAD and manufacturing files — drawings the shop floor can actually cut, bend and assemble without calling you back.
What we do
Design that survives the shop floor.
Most CAD looks fine on screen and fails in production. We design around the process from the first sketch — so tolerances, bend radii and tooling are right before anything gets quoted. Early on we were losing close to 20% of every sheet to layout and design choices. Designing for manufacture from the first sketch is what fixed it.
Sheet Metal Design
Flat patterns, bend allowances and weldments built to your machine’s real capability — not theoretical geometry.
Laser Cutting
Cut-ready geometry and nesting for fibre laser — flat patterns, lead-ins and part spacing prepared in CNCKAD, Cypcut and TubesT.
Weldments & Metallic Structures
Frames, skids, brackets and structures detailed for the welder — joint access, fit-up, distortion control and weld symbols that mean something on the floor.
CNC Machining
Machinable parts with sane tolerances, clear GD&T and drawings a machinist can quote from directly.
3D Printing
Print-ready geometry tuned for the process — wall thickness, orientation and supports handled up front.
Injection Molding
Draft angles, uniform walls and parting lines designed in early, so tooling quotes come back reasonable.
Aluminium Extrusion Dies
Profile and die design for aluminium extrusion, or part design that works inside an existing die. Wall balance, tongue ratio and draw settled before tooling is cut.
Sheet Metal Blanking Dies
Blanking and piercing die sets — strip layout, punch and die clearance, material utilisation. Or part design a die can produce without a redesign.
Who we work with
Built for people who actually make things.
Most of our work comes from three places. If you recognise your setup here, we already speak your language — and you will not spend the first week explaining your process to us. Recent work includes solar-mounting structures, laser-cut privacy screens and full machine layouts.
Sheet metal fabricators & job shops
You have the laser and the press brake. You need flat patterns with the right bend allowance, drawings your operators can read without ringing you, and geometry that respects what the tooling can actually hold.
Product & furniture manufacturers
Tube, sheet and weldments for things made in volume. Part count, fixture access and finishing reviewed before tooling is quoted — so the first production run is not the one that finds the problem.
Engineering teams at capacity
Overflow CAD, FEA and CFD when your own people are full. We work inside your file structure and drawing standards rather than asking you to adopt ours.
Analysis & validation
We prove it before you pay for tooling.
A drawing can look correct and still fail under load, choke on flow, or cost a fortune to assemble. We run the numbers first — so the expensive discovery happens on screen, not on the shop floor.
Finite Element Analysis
Stress, deflection and safety factor checked under real load cases in SolidWorks Simulation. We find the thin wall or the sharp corner before it cracks in service — and remove material where it is doing nothing but adding cost.
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Flow, pressure drop and thermal behaviour modelled in SolidWorks Flow Simulation. Useful when a duct, manifold or enclosure has to move air or fluid predictably, and guessing the geometry is not good enough.
Design for Manufacture & Assembly
Part count, tooling access, fastener choice and build sequence reviewed before release. Fewer parts, fewer operations, fewer chances for the line to put it together wrong.
Toolchain
Every stage, one studio.
From first sketch to a file the machine accepts. We do not hand you off between specialists — the same people who design the part prepare it for the floor.
01Design
SolidWorksArtCAMCorelDRAWAdobe Illustrator
02Simulate
SolidWorks SimulationFlow Simulation
03CAM
CNCKAD (Metalix)CypcutTubesT
04Print
CuraBambu Studio
05Visualise
KeyShot
Next step
Tell us what you need built.
Send the sketch, the process and the material. You will get a straight answer from the engineers doing the work — usually within four hours.