Design & Engineering
The model has to become a real tool.
Prestige can provide and manage the design work required to move a tooling project forward—without pretending every customer arrives with production-ready CAD.
Start with your informationStart earlier
Production-ready CAD is welcome. It is not the entry fee.
Bring the strongest information you have. Prestige helps identify what must be resolved before the project can become a physical tool.
- 01Production CAD
- 02Basic CAD
- 03Drawings
- 04Dimensions
- 05Existing part
- 06Sketch
- 07Napkin drawing
- 08Early concept
The point of the work
Tooling-aware design.
This is not open-ended engineering consulting. It is focused design and modeling work connected to the physical tooling Prestige is being asked to machine or build.
- 01
Draft
Can the intended geometry release and function in the customer’s process?
- 02
Shrink
What material and process behavior needs to be accounted for before the physical tool exists?
- 03
Machining
Can the geometry move cleanly from digital model to the required CNC output?
- 04
Mold construction
How will the pattern, master, or plug support the tooling work that follows?
- 05
Manufacturability
Does the model make practical sense for the customer’s intended production process?
One managed capability
The customer should not have to assemble the design team.
Basic or advanced, Prestige can provide and manage the modeling work needed to get its tooling projects built.
The scope stays tied to the job, and the customer does not have to translate the project into Prestige’s internal workflow before the first conversation.
Where design leads
The model is not the end of the story.
The next physical output depends on who is building the finished mold.