A huge Thank You! Merry Christmas from PT Design! Wow, what a year! A HUGE THANK YOU to all our great clients, suppliers and network of friends and family that make running our business possible on a daily basis! So what did 2019 bring for PT Design? This year has seen us grow our partnerships with industry leading suppliers. These partnerships have allowed us to grow our product offerings to our client base. We can…

For the next month our spotlight is on Jigs and Fixtures. Jigs and fixtures are production tools that allow you as manufacturers to accurately produce duplicate and interchangeable parts. Put simply jigs guide tools and fixtures hold the work in place. We work with a wide variety of manufacturers when they need extra resource for their Jig and Fixture design. Our engineers normally attend your manufacturing site to understand the exact requirements. We then work…

Here at PT Design we know a fair bit about paper to CAD conversions. We have spent many an hour converting engineering drawings from 2D drawings to 3D files. We convert for a wide variety of companies and for a multitude of reasons. The purpose of this blog is to give you an understanding of the benefits to your business of outsourcing your paper to CAD conversions. Effective resource deployment Outsourcing Paper to CAD conversions…

Trafford Live 2019 was held last Sunday and we were super pleased to be invited along to the day. Trafford Live is a free family festival where Trafford Council promotes all the great things that it has to offer. It is also an opportunity to say thank you with the Trafford Volunteer Awards. We were very pleased to be one of the companies to receive an award. The Trafford Volunteer Awards have a variety of…

Running a CAD engineering company means I constantly receive information about 3D printing and how it is changing the manufacturing world. I attend exhibitions where additive manufacturing companies lure me to their presentations promising to tell me how aerospace are now using their printers. I arrive thinking I am going to hear that the next time I fly I will fold down a 3D printed table only to find that actually we are still very…