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Geek Engineering provides mechanical engineering and machine design: 3D CAD models, detail and assembly drawings, material selections, tolerance and fit decisions, and complete bills of materials that a shop can actually build from. Based in Rosemont near Chicago, the team designs machines, fixtures, frames and product mechanics for Illinois manufacturers and for OEM programs across the United States.
A mechanical design is only as good as the drawing package behind it. A model that renders beautifully but carries no tolerances, no material callouts and no thought for how the parts are fixtured, machined and assembled produces quotes that vary wildly and parts that fight each other at assembly. The deliverable here is not a model — it is a package a shop prices confidently and builds without phone calls.
The mechanical scope rarely travels alone: frames carry panels, actuators need controls, and guarding has interlocks. Designing the mechanics in the same office as the electrical and software work means the interfaces — mounting, routing, sensor placement, service access — are decided in the model, where changes cost minutes, instead of on the floor, where they cost days.
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Project process
Fix the rates, loads, variants and environment the design must survive, in writing.
Develop and review the architecture-level layout before any detail work is spent.
Model the assemblies, make the tolerance and material decisions and resolve the interfaces.
Review against requirements and manufacturability, close comments and release the package.
Answer shop and assembly questions and fold reality back into the drawings as revisions.
| Level | What it is for | What exists at the end |
|---|---|---|
| Concept layout | Proving an architecture and framing a budget before committing | A reviewed layout model and the major purchased components identified |
| Detail design | Building one machine, fixture or assembly well | Full models, toleranced drawings and a quotable bill of materials |
| Production package | An OEM design that will be built repeatedly by different hands | The detail package plus variant handling, assembly documentation and revision discipline |
We do not publish fixed prices: these are the factors that determine effort. A scoped proposal follows the technical fit review.
We design; we do not fabricate. Machining, welding and assembly belong to your shop or to qualified fabrication partners, and professional engineer stamping, where a jurisdiction requires it, is routed to licensed engineers — both are flagged at scoping, not at delivery. The design package is written to make whoever builds it successful.
Last reviewed by Geek Engineering senior engineering review.
Yes — that path runs requirements, concept layout, detail design and design-for-manufacture review in that order, and the discipline is the same whether the object is a machine for your plant or a product for your customers. What we will not do is skip the requirements step, because a design can only be judged against what it was supposed to do.
The platform is agreed at scoping and the native files are yours at handover, alongside neutral formats for whoever quotes the parts. If your organization already standardizes on a CAD system and drawing template, deliverables land in that standard rather than forcing a translation step onto your team.
That is the usual arrangement, and it is where single-team design earns its keep: sensor placement, cable routing, panel mounting and guarding interlocks get resolved while they are still model geometry. One engagement, one interface owner, one revision history across the disciplines.
Modeling, drawings and reviews are produced in Rosemont, with video design reviews that work identically for a plant in Chicago or an OEM three time zones away. Machine inspections and first-assembly support are straightforward across Illinois and Chicagoland and are planned visits elsewhere in the United States. Fabrication and machining stay with your shop or qualified partners.
The full electrical and mechanical design capability.
When the mechanical design is part of a complete machine build.
Mechanical design inside a repeatable OEM machine program.
The broader machine-building capability this design work feeds.
Describe your equipment, objectives, timeline, and constraints. We will confirm whether this solution fits — and say so plainly if it does not.
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