Design Inc · Design-led engineering studio · Newcastle, KZN
3D modelling, industrial design and technical drawings that resolve your product or plant on screen, where changes are cheap, before anything gets machined, moulded, printed or fabricated.
The model is where thinking happens. The drawing is the contract between design intent and what gets built. We take both that seriously.
The work this studio is built around. Products, equipment and plant modelled and resolved in three dimensions, so the first physical version is the right one.
Contract CAD capacity for engineering teams. We slot into your standards, your title blocks and your deadlines, and hand back drawings you don't have to re-check.
The record work. As-builts, general arrangements, fabrication and detail drawings, surveyed and checked so the record matches the plant, not the wishful version of it.
Live drawings from a waste water treatment works upgrade: structural steel, pump stations and pipework, modelled in 3D and issued for fabrication.
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FIG. 05DRAWN FOR KANTECH SERVICES · SITE AND PROJECT DETAIL WITHHELD BY AGREEMENT
What leaves this studio isn't a picture. It's a working simulation of the thing you're about to pay for, checked until we'd build from it ourselves.
We start by understanding what the model or drawing has to do and who has to trust it: the fabricator, the inspector, the next engineer. Scope, standards and deadline get agreed in writing before a line is drawn.
Layers, title blocks, naming, sheet structure, model organisation. Set up once, properly, so revision twelve is as clean as revision one. This is where the time goes early so it doesn't go missing later.
Survey, model, draft, annotate. You see work in progress, not a surprise at the end, and problems get solved on screen where they're cheap.
Fresh-eyes checking is part of the process, not a favour. Then controlled issue, with a revision history that tells the truth.
We dimension and annotate for the person holding the sheet on site, not for the person filing it in the office. Every member sized, every connection called out, every reference where you expect to find it. Nothing left to interpretation.
An hour spent in the model saves days on site and thousands of rands in rework.
Design Inc is run by Brendon McIntosh, a designer working in engineering. That order matters. Most drafting shops learned CAD and stopped there. We came from design, where a grid is a philosophy before it's a command, and brought that discipline to engineering work.
The result is simple to verify: look at this site, then look at the last set of drawings you received. A firm that sweats its own presentation this hard is not going to go casual on your title block.
We're building Design Inc into a full studio: designers, draftsmen and 3D modellers under one standard, with Brendon on client relationships and quality. The ambition is industrial design and product work, and we're hiring the projects to match.
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