Hire CNC Machining Design Designers in South Africa

Efficiency and optimization focused CAD Designer with experience creating fully parametric, optimized for manufacturing ready designs and production drawings. With over 7 years experience designing p... Read more

Efficiency and optimization focused CAD Designer with experience creating fully parametric, optimized for manufacturing ready designs and production drawings. With over 7 years experience designing products of different niches, I have become a versatile CAD designer with expertise in multiple sectors including sheet metal, fibre laser cutting, sheet metal bending, CNC milling and CNC turning as well as 3D printed enclosures for outdoor applications. Software that I've worked with: - Autodesk Inventor - Autodesk Inventor CAM Suite - AutoCAD - Autodesk Fusion 360 - Ultimaker Cura - Keyshot Tasks / roles that I can fulfil: - Drafter / Drafting Tasks - Product Design - Sheet metal and bending designer - Reverse Engineer / Reverse Engineering - CAD Design - DFM / Design For Manufacturing - Design for 3D printing - Design for CNC Machining and CNC Turning - Design for Injection Moulding I was involved in: - Creating flat patterns for laser cutting, - Bend drawings for the bending team, - Assembly instructions for the assemblers - Steel tube cut list's for the manufacturing team, - Designing parts and then programming and running them on our CNC milling machine, - Designing optimised parts for 3D printing - Keeping an eye open for design optimisations in general I refined my skills further with my time working hands on with the production process, seeing and deeply understanding the processes involved in building your final product. This has taught me to always imagine the assembly process and keep an eye out for any design choices that could make manufacturing more difficult or downright impossible. My hands on experience comes from spending time working on a Sheet Metal Fibre laser, producing the flat parts for assembly as well as hand on assembly in an IoT device that was manufactured using 3D printing.

I am a mechanical engineer and product design specialist with over three years of experience turning ideas, sketches and reference photos into CAD models that can actually be manufactured, not just re... Read more

I am a mechanical engineer and product design specialist with over three years of experience turning ideas, sketches and reference photos into CAD models that can actually be manufactured, not just rendered. WHAT I DO - Product design and 3D CAD modelling in Fusion 360, SolidWorks and AutoCAD - Design for Manufacturing (DFM) reviews before tooling: draft angles, wall thickness, undercuts and features that drive up production cost - Injection-moulded parts, machined parts and sheet metal design - Print-ready STL and 3MF files for FDM and SLA, checked watertight and manifold after export, with tested 0.3–0.5 mm fits so parts assemble first time - Reverse engineering from sketches, photos, PDFs and legacy drawings into clean, editable parametric models - Dimensioned technical drawings with tolerances and GD&T callouts, assembly drawings and bills of materials - CNC programming, nesting and MPR file generation - Photorealistic renders in Blender for pitch decks, listings and investors HOW I WORK Every model is built as a parametric master with a clean feature tree, so a new size or variant is a parameter change, not a full remodel. Before I start, I tell you honestly if a feature will be hard or expensive to manufacture, so problems are caught on screen rather than at the quote stage. RECENT PROJECTS - CAD optimisation and structural verification of a packaging insert with complex internal cavities, including finite element validation (SolidWorks) - Redesign of a gas-driven piston accumulator for manufacturability (SolidWorks) - Consumer product delivered in two production-optimised variants with full 3D data and 2D drawings - CNC nesting and custom MPR file generation for production machining - 3D printable lamp shade and base, validated for FDM production WHAT YOU RECEIVE Native source files, STEP, STL/3MF, DXF and PDF drawings, plus a BOM where needed

Efficiency and optimization focused CAD Designer with experience creating fully parametric, optimized for manufacturing ready designs and production drawings. With over 7 years experience designing p... Read more

Efficiency and optimization focused CAD Designer with experience creating fully parametric, optimized for manufacturing ready designs and production drawings. With over 7 years experience designing products of different niches, I have become a versatile CAD designer with expertise in multiple sectors including sheet metal, fibre laser cutting, sheet metal bending, CNC milling and CNC turning as well as 3D printed enclosures for outdoor applications. Software that I've worked with: - Autodesk Inventor - Autodesk Inventor CAM Suite - AutoCAD - Autodesk Fusion 360 - Ultimaker Cura - Keyshot Tasks / roles that I can fulfil: - Drafter / Drafting Tasks - Product Design - Sheet metal and bending designer - Reverse Engineer / Reverse Engineering - CAD Design - DFM / Design For Manufacturing - Design for 3D printing - Design for CNC Machining and CNC Turning - Design for Injection Moulding I was involved in: - Creating flat patterns for laser cutting, - Bend drawings for the bending team, - Assembly instructions for the assemblers - Steel tube cut list's for the manufacturing team, - Designing parts and then programming and running them on our CNC milling machine, - Designing optimised parts for 3D printing - Keeping an eye open for design optimisations in general I refined my skills further with my time working hands on with the production process, seeing and deeply understanding the processes involved in building your final product. This has taught me to always imagine the assembly process and keep an eye out for any design choices that could make manufacturing more difficult or downright impossible. My hands on experience comes from spending time working on a Sheet Metal Fibre laser, producing the flat parts for assembly as well as hand on assembly in an IoT device that was manufactured using 3D printing.