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Product Design.

Designed for the way it will be printed
Concept to CAD · DFM review · Reverse engineering

We design your product, or optimize the design you already have. Our team takes a part from idea, sketch, or rough CAD to a file that prints cleanly and costs less to run — and you keep the files.

How it works

Three steps,
sketch to printed part.

Share the idea
01

Bring whatever you have — a sketch, a photo, a rough CAD file, a part you want to replace, or just a description of the problem it has to solve.

We design it
02

Our team builds the model, drawn from the start for the process it will actually be printed on rather than adapted to it afterwards.

Print and revise
03

You review a printed prototype in your hand. From there we revise the geometry, or take it straight into production.

What you get

You keep the files.

The files are yoursSTEP · STL · 3MF · Native
01
No lock-in

You get the CAD in any common format, plus the native file from the software it was designed in — whether or not you print it with us.

Prototypes are discountedPrinted along the way
02
Cheaper iterations

Prints of your own design are heavily discounted while the project is live. On larger jobs they are often folded into the contract.

Designed for 3D printingWhere that is the plan
03
Printed parts

If the part is headed for a printer and the shape is open to suggestion, we design it to print cleanly and cost less. If it is headed somewhere else, we design for that instead.

CAD render of the thigh cradle, a broad curved cuff
Thigh-Cradle
CAD render of the cradle, a shallow round dish with bolt bosses
Cradle
CAD render of the knee support, a slender ribbed upright
Knee-Support
CAD render of the shin-outer part, a squat cylindrical block with a flanged, bolt-holed top
Shin-Outer
CAD render of the shin-inner part, a stepped cylinder with a narrow threaded neck
Shin-Inner
CAD render of the flap holder, a tall lattice panel
Flap-Holder
CAD render of the ankle block, a stepped square boss
Ankle-Block
CAD render of the foot core
Foot-Core
CAD render of the left foot sole
Foot-Sole-Left
CAD render of the right foot sole
Foot-Sole-Right
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Assembled in-house.
Services

Where we come in.

DFM ReviewDesign for Manufacturing
01
Files you've already designed

We review your CAD for printability, suggest changes, and quote the optimized version.

Part OptimizationLightweighting · Consolidation
02
Reducing cost or weight

Take an existing part and re-design it for additive — combining assemblies, reducing mass.

Concept DesignIdea → Printable CAD
03
Starting from zero

From a sketch, brief, or reference part to a production-ready 3D model.

Reverse EngineeringPhysical → CAD
04
Legacy parts · No drawings

From a physical part or scan to a clean, parametric CAD model.

What customers bring us
  • Sketches, photographs, or rough hand-drawings
  • Existing CAD (STEP, STL, native SolidWorks / Fusion / Onshape)
  • Physical parts to reverse-engineer
  • CT scans or 3D scans for medical / archaeology projects
  • A written brief and a budget
Product Design

From idea
to printable file.

A short conversation goes a long way. Tell us what you're building and we'll tell you what's possible — and what it will take to get there.

Email
quotes@incept3d.com
Phone
(858) 731-9335