Design from a problem
Develop geometry and construction around your equipment, workflow, product, or installation.
Design assistance
You don’t need a finished design to begin.
Miami Makes helps businesses define and develop custom physical solutions. Bring a problem, a sample, a sketch, or existing files. We can help turn that starting point into a design that can be made, assembled, and used.
From need to definition
Make the decisions that make the part work.
Design effort is scoped to the application. A spacer, an electronics enclosure, and an illuminated sign require different kinds of development.
Reverse engineering
Reconstruct suitable parts from samples, dimensions, photographs, and mating interfaces, accounting for wear and missing information.
Adapt existing files
Revise a design for a new component, material, process, quantity, or assembly approach.
Production documentation
Prepare the agreed CAD, drawings, sign artwork, material requirements, assembly details, and acceptance criteria.
Material & process selection
Compare fabrication approaches against environment, finish, immediate quantity, and the cost of reaching a useful result.
Specialist production support
Prepare files for an outside producer, answer technical questions, or coordinate production and incoming checks within the agreed scope.
Engineering is a deliverable
The design can be the whole engagement.
You can engage Miami Makes for design and documentation even when fabrication will happen elsewhere. We define the files, formats, drawings, review stages, and production support included in the scope.
Native models, interchange formats, fabrication files, and assembly documentation are agreed to suit the next user of the information.
Explore the solutions we help design →A practical working sequence
Define. Develop. Check. Deliver.
The number of iterations follows the uncertainty and the importance of the decisions.
01
Define the job
What must fit, move, hold, protect, or communicate? We establish the interfaces, environment, quantity, and criteria that make the solution useful.
02
Develop the design
We can create or revise CAD, select candidate materials and processes, resolve assembly details, and prepare drawings or fabrication artwork.
03
Check the important details
A fit sample, fixture trial, material swatch, or functional prototype can resolve the questions that matter before the full quantity is produced.
04
Deliver the next useful result
The agreed deliverable may be design documentation, fabricated parts, an assembled solution, a repeat batch, or a technical handoff to another producer.
Your next useful step
Start with the information you have.
Share the application, photos or sketches, existing parts or files, immediate quantity, and timing. We will help identify what needs to be developed.