Three dimensional solid modeling, or “3D modeling”, is clearly the future for mechanical and architectural design work. And it is the present for Object Design.

A product or structure can be designed or improved now in only hours... a process that can take weeks or months when done on a drawing board or in a prototype shop. Critical information that will augment and enhance a design can be discovered with 3D modeling that is simply unavailable from previous conventional design methods. Data such as mass properties, collisions and interferences can be easily generated with the software tools we use. These and other data require considerable and lengthy effort to calculate otherwise, and the resulting information is typically not as accurate or reliable as those data derived from 3D modeling software.

3D modeling also eliminates many expensive generations of prototyping during the new product design and development process. Prototype shops doing product development the old way assign their best (and most highly paid) machinist or modeler to the project, taking her or him away from production duties and committing her or his skills to weeks or months on just that development project. Obviously a costly and inefficient way to work.

Subcontract such product development with Object Design and accomplish more in less time, more accurately and more creatively. Digital files can be created to go directly to your CNC machines or solid printers. Or print out hard copies of these files for your shop people to use, knowing that much of the old prototyping hurdles have already been cleared.