How working with ParcoTech actually works — every step in order, what you send, what you get back, and what it costs to start. Jump in at the step you're at, or start at Step 1 and go the whole way.
Download the ParcoTech NDA and we'll sign it — or send us your own. Nothing about your idea is shared or sent anywhere before you're covered.
Every project gets one. We find your step and talk through your product, its complexity, and what it needs.
You get a fixed price for your step or your full journey — no open-ended billing. Work starts when your files and notes arrive.
Problem identification, brainstorming, feasibility assessment, and how your product can be different. The honest read on whether it's buildable, and what it will take.
The idea becomes a real product direction: the looks-like design, the functional layout — how parts fit, move, and are held — and CAD for appearance and ergonomics, refined in rounds until the direction is locked.
The final step of prototyping: we design and build it, and you end up with a prototype in hand — printed, machined, or made another way, whichever fits the product. The structure, part splits, and fastening are chosen so the same design can become the manufactured product — not a dead end.
Models a manufacturer can actually build from — clean parametric history, real wall thicknesses, and fits and clearances set for your manufacturing process. Headed for injection molding? It is designed for the mold from the first sketch: proper draft, uniform wall thickness, ribs and bosses where they help, and snap-fits and closures engineered, not guessed.
Your design reviewed the way a manufacturer will — before you commit to tooling. Every finding ranked by how much it will cost you if it reaches the mold.
The drawing package manufacturers build and inspect from — tolerances set by function, GD&T where the fit demands it, to ASME Y14.5.
Production CAD, the DFM summary, drawings, and BOM — a package any manufacturer can quote from. Take it and run your own RFQ, or have ParcoTech find manufacturers for you.
Jump in at a single step — a DFM review, a drawing package, a prototype design. Every step has an Advanced tier with custom pricing for complex projects.
All of it, as one milestone project: plausibility → concepting → prototyping → finalization and DFM. One quote, four fixed milestones.
Ongoing design support while your project is active — priority scheduling included.
Yes — that's what Steps 1 and 2 are for. Bring the idea in any form; sketches and reference products are enough.
Yes, before you send a single file — ours or yours, your choice, on every project.
You do — in full, on final payment. Native Fusion 360 files are included, never held back.
No — ParcoTech's scope ends at design ready for manufacturing. But we can find and vet manufacturers for you and bring their quotes back (Option B, at the Manufacturing Ready step).
Every project gets a free consultation.