Reverse Engineering, CAS, CAD and Class A Surfacing
Reverse Engineering,
CAS, CAD and Class A Surfacing
From One Studio
A specialist studio in Hanoi, for automotive, aerospace and medical device programmes across the US, Europe and Japan.
Since 2009
Seventeen years, one discipline
US · EU · Japan
Where the work goes
48 hours
An engineer answers, not a sales desk
Four Disciplines That Are Usually Four Suppliers
A concept, a Class A surface, a production model and a rebuild from scan data normally come from four companies. Here they come from one team.
That matters at the joins. Nothing is handed over a wall and re-interpreted on the way.
Every image on this site is our own work. None of it belongs to a client, because none of it ever will.
Founded in 2009 by Bui Ngoc Phuong, a modeller before there was a company to run. Every designer here is a mechanical engineer, five years or more inside Japanese, German, British and American programmes.
日本語でも対応しています。日本語の記事はこちら →
Concept Design and CAS
For designers with more directions than modelling capacity. A sketch, a photograph or a rough form comes back as a resolved 3D direction in about two weeks.
Not a substitute for your designer. The brand’s intent stays where it belongs. What we add is how many ideas actually get built.
Vehicles, eVTOL, seaplanes, rail, yachts, cabins and seating.
Form, topology, patch layout, finished surface — on our own aircraft.
Class A Surfacing
The layout is the decision. The surface is the consequence.
Built continuously since 2009 for programmes that had to satisfy the design centres of top-tier carmakers in Germany, the UK and Japan. Curvature-continuous, zebra-clean, in your native format.
Tier 1 suppliers need this more than the carmakers do — the carmakers already have it in house.
Exterior, doors, lamps, cockpit, interior. From your data or from a scan.
Cubing and Production CAD
Full-size body masters — the Meisterbock — since 2009. A whole-car cube is roughly 1,000 hours of design work.
We design them; we do not machine them. Machining goes to the best cubing shops in Germany, Japan or China — whichever sits closest to you.
Also: complete automotive modules from Class A through to production CAD, and generative design for parts that will be printed rather than cut.
A whole-car cube, before it is broken into machinable blocks.
Reverse Engineering
Mesh in, a clean model out — with a report that says how close.
Around 300 parts a year, 3,000 hours, for over a decade. Scanning stays with you. Modelling comes to us.
Twelve hours of time difference works in your favour: sent at the end of your day, waiting when you open. Most of it goes out under your name.
Mesh or point cloud in; a clean parametric or Class A model out, with a deviation report.
Where This Work Ends Up
Exterior, interiors, cockpit modules, full-size masters, checking fixtures. Most of what we do. Class A surfacing →
eVTOL, cabin architecture, seating, electric seaplanes. Luxury automotive interior thinking, applied to vehicles that do not exist yet. Concept design →
Patient-specific cranial implants. CT data becomes CAD, rebuilt alongside the surgeon, printed in titanium. CAD engineering →
What We Have Been Writing
Notes on surfacing, scan data and the way vehicle programmes actually run — written by the people doing the work.
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Give Us the Awkward One
Send the part you would normally hesitate to outsource. We model it at our cost, so you judge the result instead of the proposal. NET 30, warranted for as long as you own it. A design engineer reads it — not a sales desk — and answers within 48 hours.
