AutoCAD Services: Drafting, Design, Modeling Conversion

Professional Outsourced Autodesk AutoCAD and Inventor Services

Autodesk offers two of the more popular CAD programs on the market: AutoCAD and Inventor. Inventor is the more expensive CAD software that can do a lot more — it can create powerful 3D assemblies, generate photorealistic renderings, and go through a series of engineering simulations. AutoCAD is the little brother that offers some incredible 2D functionality, and decent 3D modeling if you know what you’re doing.

A lot of companies currently use an Autodesk program as their daily CAD software, and it can be hard to find an outsourced company that’s able to help. At CAD/CAM Services, we offer full-service AutoCAD and Inventor outsourced engineering help. We can create entire assemblies from scratch for your project.

With our Autodesk services, we will create every file as a native file. This means that we’ll draw the part in your program of choice, rather than making it in SolidWorks and exporting it to an Inventor file, for instance.

Our professional outsourced Inventor services can save you a ton of time and money.

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What Are Autodesk AutoCAD and Inventor Services?

Our high-quality outsourced Inventor engineering services take all the work off of your plate. Instead of your in-house engineers designing, drawing, and modeling a part, our internal engineers will do it. By outsourcing the work to us, you don’t have to worry about overpaying for engineering effort — you don’t pay for our sick time, paid time off, or any breaks that we take. You’re only paying for direct engineering effort that goes into your project.

With this structure, you should see how you can start quickly saving money. Without worrying about salaries and admin costs, you automatically save money on every hour we dedicate to your project.

Our outsourced Autodesk engineering services can be as complicated and intricate as you’d like. Need a full 3D digital twin of your warehouse? Not a problem, we’ve done it before. What about a native Inventor file of an entire piece of machinery, assembled with proper tolerancing? We’ve done that, too.

There’s no challenge too big or difficult for our team to handle. This is why so many Fortune 500 companies use CAD/CAM Services as their go-to outsourced engineering service. We can handle any project so you don’t have to worry about it.

Why Autodesk AutoCAD and Inventor Services Matter

When you’re choosing an outsourced AutoCAD and Inventor company, make sure you do your homework. A lot of companies will only draw in SolidWorks and export the final product to Inventor and hope everything works. While this might work to some degree, it definitely doesn’t give you all the data you need in your drawings. You’ll lose out on the functionality of your parts.

Instead, you need to pick a company that works with native Inventor and AutoCAD modeling. Our team at CAD/CAM Services only draws files in their native CAD program. This means that the final model has an adjustable model tree, material properties, and everything you need.

If you provide us with your typical drawing title block and template, we can ensure every 2D manufacturing drawing is put on your standardized drawing template. It’s small details like this that you won’t find elsewhere, and it’s why we can guarantee CAD Perfect® files for all of our customers.

At CAD/CAM Services, you get more.

Benefits of Autodesk AutoCAD and Inventor Services from CAD/CAM Services

When you choose to outsource your Autodesk AutoCAD or Inventor work through CAD/CAM Services, you’re signing up for a long list of benefits:

Leverage our experts.

We have over 100 engineers and drafters on our team, and a lot of them are industry experts, or they have a ton of experience within a certain field. This means that you not only get a CAD expert, but also an expert from different industries and applications.

Faster turnarounds.

Our team works on staggered shifts to make sure our doors are open 24/7. With day-long effort towards your project, we can commit to tighter timelines and provide faster turnaround times.

High-quality models that can do more.

Our Inventor and AutoCAD models do more. We provide feature-rich 3D CAD files that will let your team adjust parts as needed in the future.

Perfect execution on the largest, most difficult projects.

Thanks to our massive team of talented engineers, we can take on the largest, most difficult projects that you might have. With our help, you can multiply your engineering workforce and get better results.

Ability to handle a lot of work at once.

A lot of engineering companies choose CAD/CAM Services so they can handle a bigger workload. With more projects completed each year, your company will enjoy a bigger profit and more improvements.

What Goes into Autodesk AutoCAD and Inventor Services from CAD/CAM Services?

Our AutoCAD and Inventor services depend on what you’re looking for. We start every project with a quick conversation. This is your opportunity to explain what you’re looking for and what kind of timeline you’re dealing with. It’s also our chance to explain specifically how we can help, what services we can offer you, and what you can expect at the end of the day.

From there, our engineers will get to work. For larger projects, we will assign multiple engineers and a project manager to keep everything on track. You can expect regular check-ins from our team, and we can even join into weekly calls with you to give status updates.

Our team can be as hands-on or hands-off as you’d like — it’s all up to you.

Once a drawing is completed, it will go through a series of peer reviews and checks to make sure it’s CAD Perfect®. If everything looks good, we’ll send the file to you digitally through a DoD-trusted, encrypted, safe filesharing service. It’s the best way to share information, in our experience.

If you see anything you don’t like, just let us know. We’ll make changes in as little as 24 hours, and we’ll keep adjusting until everything is perfect. Our main mission is to exceed your expectations and deliver exactly what you’re looking for, so we’re not afraid of going through some modeling adjustments.

Our Autodesk AutoCAD and Inventor Services Include:

2D and 3D CAD Modeling
Creating 2D Manufacturing Drawings
Engineering, Drafting, Designing, and Iterative Designs
Assistance from Prototype Through Production
Engineering Simulations, like Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
Countless Outsourced Engineering Services
Digital Mockups
Reverse Engineering
And Much More (Including Custom Services)

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For high-quality native Inventor or AutoCAD files, you can trust CAD/CAM Services. We’ve been offering outsourced Autodesk engineering services for over 35 years, and we would love to help with whatever projects you have. With dozens of services to choose from, you can be assured that all of your needs will be met by our team. Allow us to save you time and money during your upcoming project.

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FAQ's

General CAD Questions

How do I send a sample, in order to get a quote?

Fill out our quote form, attach your files, or simply send us an email. Tell everything about your project, like the model purpose.

For smaller files < 15 MB you can simply email them to us. For something larger, just drop them in any number of drop boxes like Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and others. Or if you would like, just contact us for a private, hardened link.

It is fine to use most any time of compression such as *.zip, *.rar, *.tar, *.7z, *.arc, *.LBR, and even *.iso images.

A direct email is [email protected]

We also use a hardened OwnCloud web file sharing platform for unlimited file transfers. We provide unique and very private Web Storage Portals, this also supports file syncing for extreme convenience for you. Because so much of our work is DOD or weapons design work, Security – and confidentiality is very important to us.

Will CAD / CAM Services Sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)?

Yes. NDAs are a common part of our business. All data is yours – not ours, and treated as proprietary data and not for public consumption or use. Probably 70% of our work is under NDA agreements. We can generally get these signed within the day.

What is the estimated delivery time?

It depends on the scope of work:

2D drawings – small quantity, normally 48 hours. We have several customers where they contract to us, keeping 4-8 drafters busy full time.
3D models – complexity dependent, but smaller jobs in 2-3 days. Some models we have spent months on. Again, we have several customers where they contract to us, keeping 6-10 3D CAD designers busy full time.

Simple jobs have a lead time of 48 hours. Larger projects are delivered and invoiced weekly.

Did you really own the trademark Cad Perfect™, Cad Perfect CAD Conversions™ and Cad / Cam Services™?

Yes, we did back in 2008. We started using Cad Perfect™ back in the early 1990s because all of our customers wanted only real Cad Perfect™ work. Back then the buzz words were terms like machine ready, or DXF Traceover and others.

The problem is, nobody wanted that. They all wanted drawings and models that they did not have to touch. Everybody wanted drawings just as if they hand redrew the work themselves.

Thus, Cad / Cam Services™ was the first company to start offering ONLY Cad Perfect™ work.

Do you support the PPD-21 Directive?

Yes we do, and have now for several years. In addition, we also support the industry specific plans as well.

3D Modeling FAQs

How do you bill 3D CAD services tasks?

Per hour. Hourly rate depends on what CAD software used and typically starts at $75 per hour. In general, to make this process safer for you, we often provide you a fixed not to exceed the cost as well. That way, you are protected from an open-ended PO. However, the reality is our fees are based on time. In addition, services in say Catia or NX are more expensive than say Solidworks. Or, simulation services are commonly done by real engineers.

What do you need to give me accurate pricing?

First of all, we need to know the target CAD system and whether you have an existing template, or set of CAD standards for this project.

The main question is the overall complexity. As each part and assembly consists of different features and elements the best way is to provide us with an example. Again, a picture is worth a thousand words.

If you already have a model and need us to improve it or update it in any way we need to know which dimensions and features are critical and which can be modified to achieve your desired result. Even a before and after example works very well. We started with x, and got to this CAD file.

We can also offer you better options if you provide us with the purpose of your project (demonstration, 3D printing, FEA Simulation, CNC manufacturing, etc.). This helps us better refine the task.

How do you check your models?

We create 2D drawings from our 3D models for QC purposes. We follow aerospace standards and deliver ±.005” accuracy models for all projects. All of our QC is done by a different person than the designer. On Catia work, we often use Q-Checker for Airbus.

What is the minimum price for your 3D modeling services?

We have a minimum order fee $150.