Capabilities / Prototyping
Prototyping
We don't just cut your prototype, we tell you how to make it cheaper and better before you commit to production. That's the smarter way in.
PROTOTYPE STANDARD±0.025mm
ON REQUEST±0.005mm
APPROACHDfM-first
// What it is
Prototyping
Prototyping at Numachine isn't a print service, it's an engineering conversation. Bring us a concept and our team applies Design for Machining before a single chip flies, finding the features that'll fight you in production and fixing them while it's cheap to change.
Smart iteration, real materials, production-representative parts. When the prototype is right, the path to volume is already mapped, because we designed for it from the first part.
// Materials
Most production metals
3D-printed patterns & fixtures
Engineering plastics
Rapid-cast aluminium
// Machinery
5-axis machining
In-house 3D printing
Adaptive fixturing
Optimised programming
// Tolerances
The numbers we hold.
Prototype standard±0.025mm
On request±0.005mm
ApproachDfM-first
// Proof
Seen it in the wild.
// Insights
Worth a read
Need prototyping?
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