Mechanical Design
Designed for the process it will actually be made by.
CAD design and design-for-manufacturability, from concept through a part that's actually cheap and reliable to build.
Live solver: topology optimization, converging as you watch. The optimizer decides where material has to be. Move the load and it rethinks.
Symptoms
Does any of this sound like your program?
The quotes came back three times what we budgeted for this part.
It works, but the supplier says it's difficult to make.
We have an optimized shape and no idea how to turn it into a real part.
We're scaling from prototype volumes and the process needs to change.
Roughly 70% of a part’s cost is locked in during design, and almost none of it is visible on the drawing. It’s decided by which process the geometry has quietly committed you to.
That’s why a part designed without a process in mind gets expensive quotes back and nobody can explain why. Pick the process against your real annual volume first, design into its constraints, and the cost falls out of the geometry rather than being negotiated afterwards.
What this covers
- Concept-to-production CAD design
- Design for manufacturability (DFM) and cost reduction
- Translating topology-optimized geometry into manufacturable parts
- Process selection, process mapping, and production planning support
How an engagement works
- Scope call. The part’s function, its constraints, the target cost, and the manufacturing process — or the range of processes still open.
- Proposal. Scope, deliverables, and timeline in writing.
- Design and iteration. CAD development with manufacturability and cost checked continuously, not audited at the end.
- Deliverables and review. Production-ready CAD, drawings, and a manufacturability and cost assessment.
Deliverables
What you actually receive
Production-ready CAD and dimensioned drawings with sensible tolerances
Manufacturability review against the actual process and its constraints
Unit-cost estimate across candidate processes at your real volume
Process and production-planning support through to first article
Proof
Where this has been done before
Questions
Frequently asked
- Do you design parts, or only analyze parts someone else designed?
- Both, and usually together — the strongest results come from designing with manufacturability and structural performance considered from the first iteration, not analyzed in afterwards as a check.
- Can you take a topology-optimized shape to something that's actually manufacturable?
- Yes, and that translation is often the hardest part of the process. A raw optimization output is rarely buildable as-is; getting it onto a real manufacturing process without giving back the performance gain is the actual skill.
- How early should manufacturing cost enter the design?
- At the first concept. Most of a part's cost is committed long before anyone asks a supplier for a quote — by then the geometry has already chosen the process. Changing the process later usually means redesigning the part.
- Do you work with a specific CAD platform?
- Primarily SolidWorks and Fusion 360. I can work from or deliver into most common formats (STEP, IGES, and similar) if your team uses something else.
What do you need solved?
CAD design and design-for-manufacturability, from concept through a part that's actually cheap and reliable to build. A few lines on the problem is enough to start.
I reply to every enquiry within one business day.
+55 16 99785-1402