Design Services

Expertise in Your Corner

Our team of experts, at Stratasys Direct, is dedicated to helping your company design freely, improve product quality, and create new opportunities with advanced manufacturing. From ensuring seamless 3D designs to product manufacturing, our Design Services will help you achieve your final results quickly and effectively. Our services incorporate operational management for smooth and unified workflows that include your existing manufacturing processes, like design and engineering. This will speed up your product development process and quickly ramp to production to introduce new products to the market.

Collaboration and Consultation

Navigating the shift towards additive manufacturing can be challenging for your business, but our Design Services are here to guide you through the adoption process. With decades of experience in additive manufacturing, we offer tailored manufacturing solutions to help shorten the adoption cycle. Collaborate with our material and process experts to develop customized solutions, implementing highly controlled additive production processes to achieve exceptional results. Leverage the unique capabilities of advanced manufacturing for efficient production, reducing costs and constraints associated with traditional manufacturing methods.

Accelerate your product development by collaborating with Stratasys Direct Design services team. We help our customers turn their ideas from 2D to 3D, optimize using design reviews, and scale from prototyping to production by creating manufacturing tools, jigs & fixtures.

2D to 3D Drawing Conversion

Need a 3D model of your part? We can transform your 2D drawings into fully realized 3D models suitable for part manufacturing. Bring your ideas to 3D printing and accelerate go-to-market. Great for visualizing concepts that you previously only had in 2D.

Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM)

DFAM, an extension of DFM, focuses on optimizing designs specifically for additive manufacturing processes. It considers factors like geometric complexity, material usage, support structures, and build orientation. Our design team review may help improve the quality, functionality, speed of manufacturing, and cost of your part.

Design Modifications of Existing Components

Tweak existing designs to improve their functionality, performance, or ease of manufacturing using 3D printing.

Full-Color PolyJet Printing

We will help you applying colors and textures to your models. These must be saved in specific file formats and set up in a certain way to get a print-ready file.

Manufacturing Aid Design

We can design your manufacturing tools! What are 3d printed manufacturing aids? Jigs or fixtures that we can design and print for you to use in your manufacturing process. These can reduce the cost, weight, and time spent to build your parts. These manufacturing tools are custom-designed for the user and accessibility.

Simple Concept Development

Simple concept development entails brainstorming, ideation, and preliminary design work to develop new product concepts or ideas. This service lays the foundation for further refinement and optimization of designs for 3D printing.

STL File Repair

STL file repair refers to the process of fixing errors or issues in STL files, which are commonly used for 3D printing. This service ensures that the digital files are suitable for accurate and reliable 3D printing.

Tweak existing designs to improve their functionality, performance, or ease of manufacturing using 3D printing.

We will help you applying colors and textures to your models. These must be saved in specific file formats and set up in a certain way to get a print-ready file.

Multi Color Concept Model Design Services | Stratasys Direct

3D Design Services for Your Business Needs

Whether you’re looking for assistance in making small changes on your CAD or need more robust design solutions for your application, we have expansive services to make your project successful.

Discover new value-added opportunities that were not originally considered to leverage increased efficiencies and expedite time-to-market.

Design for Additive Manufacturing

Create products that leverage the power of additive manufacturing. Our designers help optimize CAD models for functionality, appearance and value for use with our 3D printing services.

Design Modifications

Need to make CAD modifications to an existing product? Collaborate with our experienced designers to enhance your designs and quickly implement changes before manufacturing your parts.

Design Service Manufacturing Jig Fixture | Stratasys Direct

Manufacturing Done Differently

Our team designs, analyzes, and builds manufacturing tools to streamline your production floor.

Manufacturing Tooling

Our team collaborates with yours towards a common goal for each stage of the manufacturing process, which is to design and manufacture tooling solutions optimized for the specific application or ergonomic needs of your employees

Jigs & Fixtures

Streamline operations with custom and cost-effective jigs and fixtures. Our designers partner with your team to offer solutions for lightweight and ergonomic jigs and fixtures that take advantage of our advanced manufacturing methods.

Frequently Asked Questions

Computer-aided design (CAD) utilizes a vast range of digital 3D drafting software that help designers, engineers, architects and other manufacturing professionals develop, define and shape a particular component or product in three-dimensional space.

In this day and age, 3D CAD files are the main defining authority for a product and are necessary to fabricate your creations successfully.

Yes; we do offer CAD design services for your projects, or we can recommend several companies who can make your design ready for the real-world if the CAD design involves high levels of product development and concept functionality evaluation. Contact us to learn more.

Yes, we will sign an NDA. We always keep customer information confidential and only release information at the customer’s discretion. If you or your company do not have a standard NDA we can provide you with our NDA which protects both the customer and SDM.

All of our facilities are meet ITAR security regulations and carry ISO 9001 certifications. In addition, we have several sites that carry the aerospace AS91000 certification and more. Additional information on the above and other certifications are available on our Quality Assurance.

Design Resources

How To Prepare STL Files

STL is the standard file type used by most additive manufacturing systems. Learn how to convert CAD to STL for many popular platforms.

Three Mistakes to Avoid when Designing for Injection Molding

This article details three mistakes designers should avoid for successful injection molded parts.

A machined injection mold | Stratasys Direct

How Design and Material Choices Impact Injection Molding Costs

Unlock efficient injection molding with optimized design, uniform thickness, proper draft angles, and smart material selection. Stratasys Direct provides expert support for cost-effective, high-quality production.

Designing with Photopolymers

Since the general properties of photopolymers widely vary, it is important to know which type of material is right for your model.

Four Key Factors for a Balanced Design

The four factors that must be in conjunction with one another for a balanced design: size, layer resolution, wall thickness and orientation.

The opaque flexible material has been over-molded into the transparent rigid material. This was achieved via a single print.

3D Printing and Molding: Finding the Right Process to Manufacture Over-Molded Designs

Wherever you are in your design process, you’re not limited in manufacturing solutions. Learn more about designing over-molded parts.

FDM 3D Printed Design Guide | Stratasys Direct

FDM Design Guide

Use these guidelines to understand the basic aspects of part design and preparation for Fused Deposition Modeling components.

PolyJet 3D Printing Design Guide

Go beyond the basics of PolyJet 3D printing with design guidelines that include file exporting procedures and color selection for PolyJet parts.

MJF 3d Printing Design Guide | Stratasys Direct

Multi Jet Fusion Design Guide

Download our Design Guide to learn about the part design process for Multi Jet Fusion including size, orientation, and dimensional accuracy considerations.

SAF 3D Printing Design Guide | Stratasys Direct

Design Guide: Selective Absorption Fusion (SAF™)

Design guidelines providing instructions for design considerations, including file exporting procedures & color selection for SAF parts.

Stereolithography Design Guide

Expand your working knowledge of SLA 3D printing including file preparation and material choices for this versatile 3D printing method. Download the guide.

SLS 3D Printing Design Guide | Stratasys Direct

Selective Laser Sintering Design Guide

Gain a greater understanding of Selective Laser Sintering. Learn about the benefits, limitations, design, and material considerations for SLS. Download the guide.

Injection Molding Design Guide

Injection molding is used to manufacture everything from AAA battery boxes to truck body panels. Get key injection molding design considerations in this guide.