Mechanical Design Services
With CAD Drafters’ mechanical design capabilities, you will receive fully detailed 2D drawings and 3D CAD models for your product, component, or system, whether you are designing industrial equipment, custom sheet metal parts, or a prototype for a furniture line.
From design briefs to manufacturing outputs, CAD Drafters specializes in providing transparent and compliant CAD files that reduce rework, accelerate production and remove ambiguity between the engineering and fabrication teams.
1. Comprehensive Mechanical CAD Expertise
From conceptualization to drawings ready for manufacturing, we offer complete mechanical design services including 2D drafting, 3D modeling, and design automation with accuracy, swiftness and fluid workflows of production.
2. Ready for Industry Deliverables and Zero Rework
Our CAD files are production-ready, layered, and follow industry standards (ANSI, AWS, IS, TEMA). They are ready for fabrication, allowing for a reduction in costly rework, RFIs, or interruptions from a shop floor level.
3. Scalable Team and Global Collaboration
We boast over 200 mechanical engineers, and we are present in 51 countries. Therefore, we can scale up or down according to your project demands. We will always engage your in-house engineers to provide equipment design to fit your tools, timelines and project specifics.
Why Manufacturers, Fabricators, and Engineers Trust Our Mechanical Design Services
With over 20 years of experience providing accurate and production-ready mechanical CAD services, we have partnered with many of the major manufacturers, design engineers, and fabricators across the US, UK, Canada, and Europe as they have brought thousands of complex designs to life. Whether it’s custom furniture components, millwork details, sheet metal components, or industrial assemblies, we provide solutions that make them happen.
Our engineers use industry-standard tools like SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inventor, Creo, or Drive Works, allowing us to support the whole product development cycle from concept sketches to detailed 3D models, to engineering drawings, bills of materials, and automated product configurators. We are familiar with the various international drafting standards (ANSI, AWS, TEMA), as well as taking into account your manufacturing abilities, resulting in fewer errors, faster fabrication times, and reduced time to market.
When you outsource mechanical design services to CAD Drafters, you will have a responsive, experienced, and flexible team as a part of your process, providing accurate, cost-effective drawings with fewer engineering change orders. With a global delivery model, 200+ engineers available in multiple countries, and evidence of strong data security practices, we provide quality and reliable support to provide real production value for our clients.
Mechanical Design Services: Powering Innovation from Concept to Creation
Mechanical design services are integral to innovative engineering and product development by helping turn ideas into real working mechanical designs for modern mechanical systems. At CAD Drafters, we provide high-value mechanical CAD designs, technical drawings and 3D models to clients in almost all industries: commercial/industrial equipment, consumer products, furniture, and sheet metal product manufacturing are just a few examples of industries we work closely with. With details, collaboration and efficiency as our design team’s core values, we consider it our mission to help empower our clients to manufacture, engineer and innovate faster, smarter and cheaper.
1. 2D Mechanical Drafting
Our 2D mechanical drafting services provide clear, standardized and highly detailed technical drawings aimed at production and manufacturing teams. Whether designing industrial equipment or custom machines, our drawings follow internationally recognized standards as per ANSI, ISO, and ASME, which reduces any ambiguity between designers and fabricators.
2. 3D CAD Modeling
We develop fully parametric 3D CAD models, drawing upon various CAD software platforms such as SolidWorks, AutoCAD, and Inventor®. Lastly, our parametric models provide precise geometric data, dimensions, and visual representation, which would make prototyping faster, revision simpler, and design validation within teams easier.
3. Driving Design Automation
We use DriveWorks to automate repetitive design processes for businesses that manufacture custom products. This allows enterprises to quickly design configurations for items such as enclosures, structural frames, or furniture while minimizing manual error and drastically reducing engineering time.
4. Paper to CAD
If you still have old designs on paper and rely on those legacy designs, we provide paper-to-CAD conversion services. Typically, with almost no loss of data, we can convert paper documents to CAD files. The digital formats from our paper-to-CAD service can also be reused, modified, or archived for future product development, providing speed, clarity, and future access to designs.
5. Sheet Metal Design
We provide sheet metal design services to create the flat patterns, with the correct bend allowance, as well as fabrication drawings, for anything from HVAC components to industrial panels. We also produce sheet metal components that are optimized for cost-effective manufacturing and material save.
6. Millwork & Furniture Shop Drawings
To facilitate smooth production and installation, our team will create millwork and furniture shop drawings from architectural floor plans. This service is suitable for manufacturers of commercial interior spaces, restaurants, custom cabinetry, and retail fit-outs.
7. Product Design & Development
We start from sketches and help take a product through the entire design process to final engineering files. This process includes iterative designs, preliminary feasibility studies, 3D renderings, mechanical analysis, and prototyping for invention or iterative product design.
8. Mechanical Assemblies & BOMs
We design complex multi-part mechanical assemblies and bundled Bill of Materials (BOMs) for easier part procurement, assembly line planning, and estimating costs, ready to be fed into an ERP integration or production workflow.
9. Reverse Engineering
Suppose we do not have the original design files and need to recreate a product or improve something that already exists. In that case, we provide reverse engineering with measurements, scans, or prototypes to produce a CAD model suitable for performance and manufacturability improvements.
10. Manufacturing Drawings
We deliver manufacturing-ready drawings including tolerances, instructions for machining, welding symbol, and GD&T specifications that are very important to CNC machining, fabrication, and quality inspection teams to ensure accurate reproduction of designs.
11. Mechanical Prototyping Support
We assist your development process prior to going to full scale production, with CAD files optimized for 3D printing, CNC milling, or sheet metal prototyping. The development risk is lowered with our ability to facilitate very quick iterations and testing of mechanical concepts.
12. Engineering Change Management
Along with your mechanical design support we provide ECN/ECO (engineering Change Notice/Order); tracking, changes, and updates to your mechanical documentation to keep it explained and up to date on real-time improvements, compliance, and/or manufacturing limitations.
Sample CAD Works
CAD Drafting Project & Sample
Land Scaping
Shop Drawing
Plumbing Sample
Mechanical Sample
Expert Freelance Mechanical Design Services, On Demand, On Budget
Looking for high-quality flexible mechanical design services without hiring full-time? CAD Drafters can provide trusted freelance mechanical design services to accommodate your engineering and manufacturing requirements. Whether you are an entrepreneur developing a prototype, a growing company with overflow, or a large manufacturer needing CAD assistance, our freelance service provides cost-effective high-quality mechanical design services whenever and where you want.
Design Services with Capacity for Short and Long Term Projects
Our freelance mechanical designers use industry standard tools such as SolidWorks, AutoCAD and Fusion 360, but without commitment. We can help with 2D mechanical drafting, 3D CAD modelling, sheet metal design, full assemblies, engineering drawings, and more., as an extension of your team. We adhere to your timelines, align with your goals, and protect your IP all while moving your project forward.
Remote CAD Collaboration, but with Real-Time Availability
Collaboration is easy with each of us working through shared cloud platforms, like Dropbox, GoogleDrive or instancing a project management system. We can benefit from regular design reviews, Zoom or Teams video calls and provide timely project updates throughout the many facets of your project. If you have quick turnaround times, flexibility is key and you want a trusted freelance CAD drafter for your mechanical design CAD requests.
Trusted Clients
Our Drawing Process
- Understand your design direction
- Confirm compliance with codes and policies
- Develop CAD files from sketches (2D & 3D)
- Add specs, sizes, comments etc.
- Include services and structure info
- Double check to avoid errors
- Create shop-ready files
- Send in the format requested
- Send updates until complete
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Why Choose CAD Drafters for Freelance Mechanical Design Services?
Use CAD Drafters freelance drafters who offer deep industry knowledge, combined with the flexibility and speed of freelance support, to provide the highest quality mechanical design to meet your exact project requirements. Whether you are a startup needing prototypes quickly, a manufacturer looking to improve design-to-manufacturing capabilities, or an architect needing some specific component designs, our drafting team works as an on-call extension of your internal workforce. We work with leading design tools, such as SolidWorks, AutoCAD, and Inventor, to develop accurate CAD files that are manufacturable and minimize the costs of expensive revisions, while speeding up time to market. With CAD Drafters, you also have a scalable partner that is fully committed to clear communication, technical competence, timeliness, and on-time delivery, without the overhead of full-time resources.
Industries We Serve with Expert Architectural Drafting Services
Residential Housing
Commercial Builders
Hospitality and Hotels
Mixed-Use Development
Industrial Facilities
Institutional Projects
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What sort of mechanical design services do your freelancers offer?
Our freelance mechanical designers provide full design services, which include, but are not limited to 2D drafting, 3D CAD modeling, product design, sheet metal design, millwork drawings, and number of design automation.
2. Can I hire a freelance designer for a short-term or one-time project?
Of course! Our focus is in helping with a flexible engagement model whether it is a single task, short-term or ongoing design and development aid.
3. What software tools do the freelance designers use?
The freelance designers use the industry standard CAD tools such as SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Creo and DriveWorks. We can assign you a freelancer who can work on the tool you prefer depending on your project requirements.
4. How do you ensure the quality of the freelance mechanical design work is appropriate for my project?
All design work goes through our own strict internal quality assurance process. We write to international standards ANSI, ISO, AWS, etc. All of our freelancers go through our vetting process, measures experience, software proficiency and industry sector knowledge.
5. Is the project data safe when I am working with a freelance designer?
Yes, we take data protection seriously. We use strict confidentiality agreements and secure file transfer protocols.