From Idea to Delivery

R2FACT has diverse expertise and develop products with the ultimate goal of commercialization in mind. We work with Sales and Marketing so that the products are properly designed and engineered for the marketplace. Once a concept sketch and detail line drawings are signed off, we model in Solid Works. SW is the most recognized and accepted global CAD software in the product development field.

Being originally educated and trained in traditional free hand drawing and drafting has great advantages over those new combers who develop products having never drawn a line on paper. CAD jockeys, digitizers or prototypers, often move into the CAD stage prior to finalizing the Research and Design stage.

This leap is can be detrimental to the final product and is one of the most often seen mistakes in Product Development. It is much easier and affordable to sketch an array of concepts and refine these concepts over and over until a final concept sketch is selected rather than it is to move into CAD initially just for the sake of prototyping it. This is one true advantage of being a “Industrial Design” firm over a “Prototyping” firm.

Solid Modeling as CAD is more often defined in today’s world, is a fully integrated approach to specifying surfaces and solids so that a part can be prototyped. It’s file data is converted to machine language to be either rapid prototyped, laser cut or machined. Once the Prototype has been Analyzed and Tested, CAD Detail drawings may be created so that a full drawing package can be utilized and the data files can be utilized for tooling during manufacturing.

Virtual Prototype is another form of CAD to consider as a preliminary step to the actual fabrication or prototyping of an item. It can be less expensive than prototyping. “Virtual” by nature is visual only. It can not be touched. It is an illustrated electronic file that can be used in an animation, video or printed to provide the illusion that the product is real in the three dimension.