CAD Concept Drawings
We use Autodesk Inventor 2025 to design solutions for customers wanting a renewable packaging solution.
A customer will send their part as an STP file or another type of CAD file to our CAD team. With our experience, we will create a suitable stillage to hold the customer’s part.
When designing the stillage, we think about how people will handle it. We also consider the cost of the product.
We look at transportation, like how many parts fit in a large lorry. We focus on how easy it is to make, and health and safety plays an important part too.
Finally, we aim to maximise storage space. This helps us create a product that meets our customers’ needs.
To find out more about what we can provide for your company, contact our design team below.
Designing Custom Stillages for Your Business
Whether it’s a PVC insert, Polyurethane dunnage or a customised steel stillage, we can provide the best quality stillages to meet your requirements. Our team of expert designers makes sure your stillages are of the highest quality and are made precisely to meet your specific needs.
The process to getting your custom stillages is simple. Send your enquiry to our sales team and we can provide a concept design to you within 1-2 weeks. After approval, our design team will create the full working drawing. The manufacturing team will then make the prototype.
3D Printing and Laser Cutting
Using 3D printing and laser cut suppliers our prototype stillages will be manufactured to the lowest tolerances and bring the 3D model to life.
Once we receive and approve the prototype, we can start making the volume production you need, which usually takes about 3 to 6 weeks.
You can read some of the great feedback we have had from our customers for our custom stillages below.
Benefits of Using Custom Stillages
Many benefits exist in using custom stillages to transport your company’s goods. The advantages include:
- Maximising space saving and stackability
- Improving the safe storage and transportation of your goods
- Protection to keep your products safe during handling
- Reducing your carbon footprint by minimising breakages
Custom Stillage Design – How To Order
1. Contact our sales team – get in touch on sales@bluestarproducts.co.uk to enquire about custom stillages and get a quote.
2. Provide a CAD model of your part – this ensures our design team can effectively design your custom stillage to maximise storage space and security.
3. Approve the design concept – using all of the information your provided our design team, we should have a design concept for approval within 1 to 2 weeks.
4. Approve the full drawing – once the concept is approved, our design team will work on the full drawing within 2-3 weeks.
5. Approve the custom stillage prototype – after designs are approved by you, we will work on creating a prototype stillage for you to see how your custom stillages will perform.
6. Final production – following signing off our prototype, we turn around the final production within a matter of weeks.
I've collaborated with Bluestar on several transport and storage solutions, the design prototypes are exceptional.
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Read our case studies
Here, we showcase how businesses from diverse industries have leveraged our services to achieve remarkable production results.
Focusing on maximising transportation space, we created a 3D model of a large articulated lorry loaded with our fully custom stillages.
This showed JCB how our products help to increase the amount of room in a lorry and how to help reduce the number of trips needed to carry the same amount of parts.
We work on providing cutting edge transport and storage solutions for automotive giants McLaren.
Taking advantage of our polyurethane moulding and insert department, McLaren specify a variety of different measurements via thorough designs.
We take these and provide a fully bespoke output featuring the highest-quality materials and levels of production.
Lotus supplied us with CAD data for parts to be stored in one of our bespoke stillages. We designed a fully customised solution around the CAD drawings.
Taking this brief, we’ve completed thorough drawings and designed how the stillage will look.
With prototypes provided and approval secured, the bespoke stillages have revolutionised both transport and storage for Lotus.
Lotus
Lotus supplied us with CAD data for parts to be stored in one of our bespoke stillages. We designed a fully customised solution around the CAD drawings.
Taking this brief, we’ve completed thorough drawings and designed how the stillage will look.
With prototypes provided and approval secured, the bespoke stillages have revolutionised both transport and storage for Lotus.
Our Services
Stillages, pallets, and cages are all essential tools for storage and transport, yet they are not all created equal.
We dissect what a stillage is, what they are used for and the different types of stillages.
Polyurethane (PU) dunnage, on the other hand, is durable, reusable and highly customisable, meaning operations can be streamlined while costs are reduced.
