CAD Services

The CAD services we offer are dedicated to the commercial furniture and fixture industry, including custom store fixtures, kiosks, and commercial interior furnishings.

Whether you're a manufacturer looking to get your project to the shop floor on time or design firm who wants to give your vendors a complete drawing package to bid on, look no further. With over 10 years experience in the store fixture industry we've been involved in projects for some of the biggest names in the business.* Our knowledge extends to all materials such as wood, metal, glass, acrylic, solid surface, laminates and veneers.

We understand as a business owner you're constantly facing the tough decision of how much staff you need. If you're not fully staffed you end up passing up projects you can't complete, forcing the shop into overtime or missing ship dates and potentially losing your most valuable asset - your customer. Being fully staffed on the other hand can easily cut $20-30,000 or more from your bottom line in unused labor and expenses. Why not let us put that money back where it belongs?

Why choose Triage for your CAD services?

• Store fixtures & commercial interior spaces are all we do. - Unlike other companies offering "CAD Services", store fixtures and interior furnishings are what we're all about. We've got the manufacturing knowledge needed to produce complete ready to manufacture documentation for your projects.
• Accurate cutlisting & BOMs at no additional charge - Traditional 2D drafting requires additional labor and can be error prone when creating cutlists and BOMs. Using state of the art 3D engineering software, cutlists and BOMs are a byproduct of the process. They are therefore extremely accurate and require no additional labor.
• No conflict of interest. - Other companies offering engineering/drafting services may also be manufacturers and your direct competitors. We do not manufacture anything - our only interest is in assisting you to meet your goals. Your intellectual property remains your property.
• Bid projects with impossible deadlines. - Have a juicy project dangling in front of you but know you can't get it to manufacture in time due to the engineering time involved? We'll bend over backwards to see your product hits the shop floor on time and on budget.
• Fill in for vacationing or sick employees. - Have you ever taken on a project with a short lead time only to realize your free drafter is scheduled for two weeks of vacation? Let Triage Information Services fill the void until they return.
• No need to retain an unused full-time engineer. - Stuck between "Can't justify employing another drafter" and "Can't justify not employing another drafter"? Triage Information Services may be the middle ground you've been looking for.

What do we mean by "Ready to Manufacture"?

We provide a complete service including:

• Submittal drawings
• Highly detailed construction drawings
• Complete Cutlisting
• Bills of Materials
• Machined Part Drawings
• CNC Ready Part Geometry

We also offer general CAD services such as:

• 2D to 3D conversion
• 3D content creation* for on-line catalogs, etc.
• 2D content creation
• Floor plan assistance (2D and 3D)

To gain a better understanding of how our service works and to view sample drawings we invite you to visit the Sample Client Site by clicking the link to the left. When you're a Triage client you'll be set up with an identical site of your own (unless you prefer another collaboration solution) and it will appear in the Quick Launch bar to the left along with the Sample Client Site. Your site will be completely secure and password protected (Actual client sites are not visible in the left navigation except to the logged-in client). With your own site you'll be able to upload design drawings & sketches, assign and track tasks, and review work in-progress.

Using the latest mechanical engineering software** we'll completely build your product in 3D - checking form, fit and function the entire time. We'll upload a light-weight file of our work in progress every night so you can see the direction we're going and at any time make corrections. You'll also be able to track the status of the tasks you assign graphically.

Available 2D Output	Available 3D Output
Inventor (*.idw & *.dwg) AutoCAD (*.dwg) DXF DWF(x) PDF	Autodesk Inventor native files AutoCAD solids DWF(x) IGES JT Parasolid Binary (*.x_b) Parasolid Text (*.x_t) ProE Granite (*.g) ProE Neutral (*.neu) SAT STEP STL XGL ZGL

Note that you can choose any light-weight format for progress review and approval you choose however dwf(x) contains the most information (2D, 3D & BOM in a single file). Vista and Windows 7 users can view 2D dwfx files without installing a viewer.

*Content creation may be negotiated at a reduced rate based on our workload when used to fill segmented time vacancies.

**Triage Information Services uses Autodesk Inventor as our main engineering tool. We'll be adding eDrawings and Acrobat 3D shortly to provide you with even more options for native and review file formats.