Mold Tool & Die

Professional Outsourced Mold Tool and Die Services

Our outsourced mold tool and die services will help you jumpstart your next injection molding, die casting, or urethane casting project. Our services involve full conceptualization, design, engineering, and final manufacturing drawings for the molds, dies, and tooling used in these manufacturing options mentioned earlier.

In other words, our engineers will create manufacturable drawings and designs for tooling that can be manufactured and used to run your full-scale injection molding operation. The tooling is the metal part that fills with molten plastic to create your final product. As you probably know, the biggest cost of injection molding, blow molding, urethane casting, or even die casting are the upfront costs associated with manufacturing the tooling used in the operation. A bad design adds even more to these costs.

When it comes to mold tool and die designs, there’s a massive learning curve. Even senior-level engineers can struggle a lot when it comes to designing their first tooling. In this industry, a difference of a few thousandths of an inch can make or break the design.

With CAD/CAM Services, we have plenty of experience creating professional-grade mold, tooling, and die designs for countless companies. As a result, we have direct experience in your industry, and we can go through each design with less time wasted and fewer mistakes.

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What Goes Into Outsourced Mold Tool and Die Services from CAD/CAM Services?

If you’re like any of the companies we’ve worked with in the past, your engineers are probably tied up doing a thousand different tasks. Having time to model a mold is already asking too much, but your team first has to go through a long learning curve and hope that everything comes together in the design.

Alternatively, you can outsource the mold tool and die design to our experts at CAD/CAM Services. When you work with us, our engineers will do all of the design work, freeing up your internal resources and allowing your team to focus on other tasks.

Our engineers will create your mold from scratch, providing you with professional-grade 3D CAD files, 2D manufacturing drawings, and full assembly models on your CAD program of choice. With our designs, you can go to a high-quality machine shop to manufacture your tooling, then start your mass-production operation.

With us, a lot of common pitfalls are avoided. Once you get the mold manufactured, you’ll enjoy a longer tool lifespan and less expensive manufacturing, which adds up to some serious savings over time. How is this possible? It’s because our team has experience designing molds, tooling, and dies — plus, we always use Design for Manufacturing (DFM) best practices in all of our designs. The result is less expensive tooling that lasts longer. Not to mention, you’ll save a ton of time and money on the design work itself, since you don’t have to struggle with engineers who are already busy and aren’t familiar with this application.

Leverage our experience and talent pool to get faster, more affordable, and more reliable results.

Why Choose CAD/CAM Services?

Our team at CAD/CAM Services is one of the most popular choices in the country. We’ve seen success with thousands of companies across dozens of industries in our 35+ years in business. Why does that matter? It shows that we have the background and experience that your team of engineers deserves. We can handle your most complicated mold tool and die designs.

Our engineers are highly trained and experienced when it comes to designing custom and one-off molds and tooling. With our experience, you’ll notice lower upfront manufacturing costs, better tooling longevity, and fewer headaches to deal with over the life of your project.

To put it simply, our team knows what we’re doing. Our company was built to help engineers just like you, and our mold tool and die services are just another way that we can do that.

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Our Mold Tool and Die Services Include:

Production Design and Development
Design for Manufacturing
Creating Manufacturing Drawings
2D and 3D Engineering, Mechanical Design, and CAD files
FEA, Fluid, Thermal, and Dynamic Simulation and Analysis
And Much More (including Custom Services)

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FAQ's

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.

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.