Design & Manufacturing Guides
Free expert guides covering sheet metal fabrication, CNC machining, enclosure design, and manufacturing best practices.
Sheet Metal Design
Our comprehensive 31-page guide covers all the essential concepts of sheet metal design. Learn about metal selection, bending best practices, fasteners, finishing options and other key design considerations to optimize your parts for manufacturing.
Custom Enclosures for Motherboards
Learn how to design a custom enclosure for your motherboard-based system. This guide is filled with detailed diagrams, professional tips, and essential insights to help you create a functional and manufacturable enclosure design for your specific motherboard.
CNC Machining Complexity
Our guide explains the internal rubric we use to assess machining complexity, covering elements like part operations, tolerances, tooling and material choice to help you better understand manufacturing lead times and costs.
Bus Bar
Explore our detailed guide on designing custom bus bars. This resource covers the fundamentals of bus bar design, including material selection (copper and aluminum), key design tips for manufacturability and how they can improve your electrical systems.
Silkscreen vs. Digital Printing
This single-page guide compares silkscreening and digital printing, helping you choose the best option for your custom sheet metal and machined parts based on your project's specific requirements.
Sheet Metal Bending
Whether you're a seasoned engineer or just starting off, this resource covers everything you need to know, from core concepts and bend radii to designing specialty bends and overcoming common manufacturing challenges.
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