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Engineering Support
For teams with more backlog than engineers.
Two engineers and forty open tasks? This is overflow help for the mechanical design work that keeps slipping: part and fixture models, drawing cleanup, tolerance reviews, revision updates. Each task is quoted up front within 24-48 hours, every deliverable is a file you own, and when a design needs to become parts, the same team quotes that too.
Updated October 2026
The gap this fills
The people who can model a fixture or fix a drawing are often the same people running the product, so the small design tasks wait: a set of prints that needs cleaning up, a fixture nobody has had time to model, a revision that has to be folded into the model.
This service is task-sized: send one job, get it quoted, get it done, repeat as needed. A job as small as “we need eleven drawings cleaned up” is the normal case.
What the team takes on
New part models from sketches or requirements. Fixture design from a sketch, a new sample part or requirements, quoted as its own line: send the part, the features to locate and check, and how it’s loaded. Old prints redrawn into clean, current documentation. Tolerance and fit reviews of your design before it goes out for quotes. DFM passes over existing models. Turning a new sample of a legacy part into real files. That one’s common enough to have its own page.
And an honest line on scope: this is mechanical, part-level work. Full product-development programs, electronics, firmware, and industrial-design styling aren’t what this is. If a task is outside the lane, you’ll hear it straight when you ask.
How working together works
Send the task through the quote form with whatever files exist. Scope, price, and timeline come back within 24-48 hours: quoted per task, no retainer, no minimum commitment. Deliverables are STEP models and PDF prints you own.
When the design is done, the handoff problem disappears: the team that drew the print can quote making the parts, and the print was built knowing it would have to face a quote. One thread from CAD to quote to shipped parts.
Sources
All accessed 4 October 2026. Where a figure here differs from your print, the print governs.
1. Wikipedia, “ISO 10303”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303 (STEP, formally ISO 10303, is a family of standards for describing and exchanging product data independent of any particular system, typically between CAD, CAM and other systems).
2. Library of Congress, “STEP-file, ISO 10303-21,” Sustainability of Digital Formats, updated 30 July 2026: loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000448.shtml (typically a middle-state format for exchange between systems operated by different parties involved in building or manufacturing activities).
Questions
Before you send a job.
01 What kinds of tasks fit this service?
Part models, fixture and jig design, drawing cleanup and redraws, tolerance reviews, DFM passes, and revision updates. Not sure if yours fits? Send it. You’ll get a straight yes or no, not a stretch.
02 How is the work priced?
Per task, up front: scope, price, and timeline within 24-48 hours of sending it, with no retainer. A task is a defined job, such as redrawing a set of prints or modeling a fixture, so the quote names what is included before you agree to anything.
03 Who owns the work product?
You do: models, prints, and revisions, with no lock-in. Use them with any supplier, including this one.
04 Can you work in our CAD system?
STEP and PDF as standard. STEP is a neutral exchange format meant for moving product data between systems (sources 1 and 2), which is why it is the standard deliverable. If your workflow needs a native SolidWorks file, a DXF of a flat part or the revision history, say so and the quote confirms it.
05 What’s out of scope?
Full product-development programs, electronics and firmware, and pure styling work. The lane is mechanical parts, fixtures, and documentation (the work that turns into machined hardware).
06 What should I send to start a task?
Whatever exists: a sketch, a photo with measurements on it, an old print, a STEP model that needs revising, or a new sample part. Add what the part has to do and what it has to fit. If something is missing, the quote lists it. The sample ships back with the parts, or on its own when the job ends in files only.
07 Is this the same as the free design review?
No. The free design review comes with every quote and looks at your own design for what will drive the price or may not work. This service is work past that: models, redrawn prints, revisions, fixtures and standalone tolerance or DFM reviews, each quoted per task as its own line.
08 Will you sign an NDA?
Vendor setup takes a day: W-9, NDA, net terms available.
Get Started
Send us your files.
We’ll take it from there.
A quote in 24-48 hours, no minimums. Like the quote, and we’ll make your parts and ship them to you.
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