CAD Design Service
If you have an idea for a part or product, Click2detail’s contract CAD designers can work with you to bring your idea to life. Our designers have created the parts and products that you see on this website. All are experienced in creating files specifically for scale modeling applications and they are familiar with the constraints, requirements, & geometric capabilities that are unique to 3D printing.
The process will require the following steps:
1. Tell us about your project. Provide a description of what you’d like, measured 3-view drawings, and photographic references. You’ll need to define very specifically what parts you’ll need to have created.
2. We’ll assign your project to an experienced CAD designer who will review the references and contact you with any questions or clarification requests.
We will provide you with a price quote, terms, and estimated time line along with a standard contract for CAD design service.
4. Your designer will collaborate with you to create the necessary CAD files and can arrange for any “test prints” (at additional cost) that you would like to have done to ensure that the parts are just right. We can also arrange for the design of instruction sheets, decals, photoetched frets, renderings, videos, & art for your kit or parts.
5. Once the design work is complete we can print casting masters or arrange for you to sell your product on the Click2detail website with our Revenue Partner Program and earn money with each sale.
If you have existing CAD files in valid, .stl format we can print them for you. We can also, in some cases, assist in modifying CAD files that are not yet print-ready in order to achieve printable geometries and optimum part structure.
Tips For Success
1. Be involved: your project is a collaboration between you and your designer. His task is formidable. He will need to understand the part that you’re trying to create, the way in which the parts will have to fit to one another (and to an existing kit which he may or may not have access to), and your vision for the parts.
2. Provide good diagrams & precise measurements
3. Don’t provide extraneous or unnecessary information.
4. Be patient: The design process is iterative.It will require several drafts and lots of feedback from you. Each draft should get closer to the part that you envision. Along the way we will provide you with opportunities to provide input as the design progresses. Typically, it will take several back-and-forth discussions.
5. Mark up screenshots. Draw stuff. Make notes pointing to areas of the design that require changes. Illustration helps to get your ideas across to the designer.