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Mechanical Design and Drafting

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Mechanical Design and Drafting Mechanical Design and Drafting is the key to producing a successful project, without a refined plan for manufacture the project remain unrefined or has the potential to be second rate. At Hamilton By Design refining a plan of manufacture can include yet is not limited to: Creating Virtual 3D Parametric models Analysis of Strength, Fatigue or Virtual testing Materials Selection, is the material appropriate for this application Assembly analysis can the project be assembled is there a tolerance build up Development of  manufacturing drawings and final component drawings Years ago Mechanical Design and Drafting took place on a drafting board with hand calculations, slide rules, pencils and ink. Yet today the Mechanical Design and Drafting process at Hamilton By Design takes place in a 3D Virtual space where sharp operators manipulate parametric models to produce automated detail drawings along with the options of 3D Photo-realistic render...