Whether you are a manufacturing engineer, a startup founder or a project manager, ASR will work with you using computer-aided design (CAD) to design to your specifications allowing you to surpass your customer’s expectations with an affordable and optimized product.
How CAD Services Benefit You
Regardless of where who you are, we provide the CAD services you need for success.
Model-Based Definition (MBD)
Our Model-based definition (MBD) services can help make your product design ready for prototyping and production. We use your preferred 3D CAD platform to develop fully defined models of each component with geometric dimensioning, tolerancing, material specifications, and manufacturing notes. Model based definition applies dimensions and notes directly to the 3D model which improves communication between engineers and manufacturers and helps prevent the need for clarifications. With these models you can approach prototype shops or production suppliers to have your components manufactured. We also offer in-house services to oversee sourcing, quoting, prototyping, and production of your products.
Model-based definition CAD services also allows us to easily generate a bill of materials (BOM) for the entire assembly of your product. A bill of materials is a list of all the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, parts, and the quantities of each. The bill of materials helps you stay organized and keep track of the production costs for your product as well as plan for product assembly and part warehousing.
Composite Design
When you’re developing a product that needs performance, composites offer unparalleled properties. For this reason composites are used in everything from sports cars to bridge repair to spacecraft and more. Our CAD services assist with designing composite parts and assemblies, and laying out manufacturing plans. We also offer in house composite analysis which allows us to meet design strength requirements while minimizing weight to deliver the performance your customers crave.
Our substantial experience in engineering for high performance parts range from hovercraft to defense helicopter components so you can be confident that we’re prepared to deliver exceptional composite design and analysis services.
Engineering Drawings
Engineering drawings are used to communicate between engineers and your manufacturers. Engineering drawings have been used for decades since before computers and CAD ever existed. Engineering drawings are scale 2D fully defined drawing sets that are directly generated from our 3D Model and are used for communication between engineers, designers, manufacturers, and others. Engineering drawings contain everything from part geometry and tolerances to manufacturing notes to assembly requirements to material specifications and anything else that is required for manufacturing. Your manufacturer will only be able to deliver as quality of a product as your drawings dictate so its crucial for your drawings to be well defined and professionally developed.
3D Drafting
Whether you’re looking to patent a new idea, show off your product or idea with a computer render for a proposal or pitch, develop a proof of concept, generate a 3D printed part, or manufacture a prototype you will need drafting services. We will work with you to help take your idea from a concept or a sketch on a napkin to a fully defined 3D model that is ready to help drive your project forward.
Drawing Conversions
Are you looking to save yourself time and energy in the future by converting your paper drawings to easily editable digital models? Our drawing conversion services can help by taking your hand sketches or old engineering drawings and converting them to a vector based digital CAD file. CAD files allow for easy editing for design revisions, straightforward file share for communication, and file backups so that you never lose critical information.
You will need CAD models and renderings for all of the following and more:
- Product Design
- 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, and CNC
- Prototyping
- Project Proposals
- Startup Pitch Decks
We maintain the following CAD Engineering Tools:
- CATIA V5
- SolidWorks
- Solid Edge
- Creo Foundation
- AutoCAD
- NX (Formerly UG)
- Inventor
Contact us today to learn more or for a free quote or to speak with an experienced engineer!