Molding prep is releasing a design a toolmaker can quote.

Year

2026

Client

BrahmWorks Insights

DFM and manufacturing

Robotic hand prototype with a green control board and wiring

The Challenge

You prepare it by locking the decisions a tool will freeze: resin family, part split, draw direction, cosmetic standard, joints to the other parts, and the evidence the tool is supposed to create. Preparation is not an evening of draft angles on a shape that was never meant to be moulded.

Ready to quote and ready to cut steel are different states. A quote can be a lesson about actions and risk.

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Molding Preparation

What we did

DFM and manufacturing

Industry

DFM and manufacturing

Description

This Insights guide explains Molding Preparation for founders and engineering teams building hardware that must be manufactured, tested, and handed off. Ready to quote and ready to cut steel are different states. A quote can be a lesson about actions and risk. It also covers what the pack must already say; what you are not ready to freeze; quote, then decide, then cut.

Concept product models and drawings on a workbench.

Dark blue Locust Imperial moulded housing marked Made in India

Assembled BrahmWorks circuit board on a desk beside a keyboard

The Outcome

Resin family is named. Claims that constrain it are written. Open items are marked open. Part split, cavity side and allowed witness lines are drawn. Every undercut is a slide, a lifter, a shut-off, or gone.

“You prepare it by locking the decisions a tool will freeze: resin family, part split, draw direction, cosmetic standard, joints to the other parts, and the evidence the tool is supposed to create.”
BrahmWorksHardware practice note