Who owns the CAD you produce for me?

You do, completely. You receive the STEP and STL files and full rights to the design. We don't retain the right to reuse, resell or license your geometry, and we don't print it for anyone else.

What do you need to reverse engineer a broken part?

The part itself is ideal, even in pieces. Failing that, clear photographs from several angles with a ruler or a caliper in frame, plus the key dimensions measured as accurately as you can manage. Tell us what it mates with, because the interfacing dimensions are the ones that have to be right.

Can you improve a design that keeps breaking?

That's usually the point of the exercise. A part that failed is telling you where the stress concentrated, so we thicken that section, add a fillet to the sharp internal corner where the crack started, or reorient it so the layers run along the load rather than across it. Often a material change does more than a geometry change.

Custom 3D Modeling & Design Support

No model yet? Bring a sketch, a photograph or a broken part, and we'll produce manufacturing-ready CAD and print it in the same engagement.

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Right for

People who know exactly what they need but don't have it in CAD. And teams with a model that needs a design-for-additive pass before it will print well.

Not right for

Full industrial design programmes or regulated-product engineering. We do manufacturing-ready modelling, not aesthetic concept development or certification work.

From a sketch to a printable model

A surprising share of the parts we make start life as a photograph with a ruler next to it, or a hand-drawn sketch on the back of an invoice. That's a perfectly good starting point. What we produce from it's a parametric solid model with real dimensions, correct wall thicknesses and features that will actually survive the process.

You get the STEP file as well as the STL. That matters: an STL is a mesh of triangles that's painful to modify, whereas a STEP file can be opened and edited in any CAD package later. You own both outright, along with the design.

Reverse engineering a physical part

The most common request we get is some version of "this broke and nobody sells it any more". An obsolete appliance clip, a discontinued bracket, a fitting from a machine whose manufacturer no longer exists.

If you can send us the part, or the pieces of it, we can measure it and rebuild it in CAD. Where it has broken, we'll usually thicken the section or add a fillet at the failure point rather than faithfully reproducing a design that already proved it was too weak.

Design for additive manufacturing review

If you already have a model, the DfAM review is free with every quote and it's the single highest-value thing we do. Most files that arrive were drawn for machining or moulding, and a handful of changes make them dramatically better as printed parts.

The recurring issues are consistent: walls thinner than the nozzle can produce, holes that will come out undersized, unsupported overhangs steeper than 50°, sharp internal corners that concentrate stress, and parts oriented so the load runs across the layer lines instead of along them. Each is trivial to fix in CAD and expensive to discover in a failed part.

What the DfAM review covers

Wall thickness against nozzle diameter and load
Hole sizing allowances and press-fit clearances
Overhang angles and support strategy
Orientation for strength and for surface finish
Part consolidation, combining an assembly into one print
Splitting oversized geometry with self-aligning seams