Guides
Longer, technical guides for engineers who want to understand the process before they commit a part to it. Each one is written to be the page you bookmark and come back to, with real substance on how the work is done and where it fits. The reverse engineering guide leads the set, because it is the capability MV is known for.
Start with a worn, failed or discontinued part. We reconstruct the design and agree improvements before manufacture.
Digital surface capture to support CAD reconstruction and the wider reverse engineering job.
Machine angled features and complex surfaces, with the set-up planned around the critical relationships.
Milled housings, brackets and precision components in metals and engineering plastics.
Stepped shafts, threaded fittings and housings, made to drawing or reverse engineered from a sample.
Bring us the application. Our engineers recommend the material and approach for your prototype or part.
Brackets, panels and enclosures, developed around the bends, interfaces and finished assembly.
Moulded plastic components, with material, tool design and production requirements considered together.
Small, complex metal components where geometry and quantity suit moulding and sintering.
Aluminium housings and components, with casting geometry and any secondary machining planned together.
Custom sections developed for the application, then cut, machined and finished as required.
Manufactured and bought-in components brought together, with the interfaces and checks agreed first.
Welded components and fabrications, planned around material, joint access and distortion control.
How a discontinued, worn or failed part is measured, modelled and remade better than the original, step by step.
Milling and turning explained: when to use each, what they hold, and how to get a part right first time.
Plastic and metal moulding, the cost of tooling, and how to prove the geometry before the tool is cut.
