[SEC 05]About
A drawing office of one, built on shop-floor time
Example CAD exists for the jobs that are too small to hire for and too important to do badly.
Background
Example CAD is run by a single designer with a manufacturing background: time served around CNC mills, press brakes and fabrication bays before moving into design work full time. That matters, because the gap between a model that looks right and a part that machines right is learned on the shop floor rather than in the software.
The bureau works with engineering firms and machine shops in South Yorkshire and across the UK, sometimes as overflow for an in-house drawing office, sometimes as the only drawing office a small shop has. Jobs run from a single measured drawing of a worn part through to a full pack for a fixture or an assembly.
Everything is produced to BS 8888, with GD&T to ISO 1101 where function demands it, and delivered as native CAD plus STEP AP214, IGES or DXF depending on what your machines, suppliers and quoting process need. If a deadline cannot be met you hear it at enquiry stage, not the day before it lands.
Illustrative — drawing conventions, not a client deliverable.
What working together looks like
- One point of contact: the person quoting the job is the person doing it
- A fixed price against a written scope, not an open-ended day rate
- Files delivered in the formats you ask for, named to your conventions
- An NDA signed before anything sensitive changes hands; your IP stays yours
- Revisions tracked properly, so nothing ends up called final_v3_NEW
- A straight answer on whether a job suits the bureau, including when it doesn't
If that is the kind of support your shop needs, send over a project enquiry with whatever you have: a sketch, a sample part, or a drawing that needs bringing up to date.
Something on the bench that needs a drawing behind it?
Send the part count, the formats you need and any fixed date.
Scope, price and lead time come back within one working day.
enquiries@examplecad.co.uk