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…

We are a CAD engineering company with a wealth of experience from working in foundries. What we have learnt from our experiences, is that during peak workloads it is good to have a reliable subcontractor that you can outsource your foundry CAD work to. The top 3 reasons that our clients outsource to us are: 1. It is cost efficient Outsourcing your foundry CAD requirements means that you don’t need the overhead of a large…

Foundry tooling design is an area that we are experts in. We have over 20 years experience within the sand casting industry in aluminium, iron and steel foundries. We understand the most complex pattern requirements and have always been able to support projects both onsite and remotely. Our exciting news is that we have recently partnered with a trusted and knowledgeable pattern manufacturer, so we can now offer our customers a complete tooling service. We…