From first sketch to production-ready part.
We can handle the engineering, validation, prototyping, and manufacturing coordination to get your product from concept to reality.
Automotive & Off-Road Product Development
Engineering that's built RAD.
LVE RAD (Las Vegas Engineering, Research, and Development) works with manufacturers, fabricators, and aftermarket brands to develop production-ready products: from 3D scanning, reverse engineering, and CAD development through prototyping, validation, and manufacturing release.
3D Scanning · CAD · FEA · Prototyping · Product Development
Our team has been in race vehicles, wrenched on racecars, worked in fabrication shops, ran lasers, brake presses, and cnc machines, and welded their own designs. We aren't your typical engineers, we've been dirty. It's more than a lifestyle, we LiVE RAD!
10+
Years Aftermarket engineering
450+
Projects Delivered
3
mechanical engineers
1
RAD-Ass Engineering Team
What We Do
Engineering Capabilities
01
3D Scanning & Reverse Engineering
High-resolution 3D scanning to reverse-engineer chassis, mounts, and OEM surfaces for a perfect fit, every time.
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02
Product Development
Full 3D modeling and engineering drawings built for manufacturability. Solidworks-driven, tolerance-checked, ready for the shop floor.
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03
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) / Motion Study Simulation
Static stress, frequency, buckling, thermal, fatigue, and dynamic response simulation so you know it will survive before metal is cut.
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04
3D Printing — Prototyping & Production
Rapid prototypes to validate fit and function, plus production part runs once the design is locked.
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05
Fabrication — First Articles
Through our partnered shops, first articles have never been easier. Sheet, Tube, Welding, and Machining; we got you handled.
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06
Training
On-site or remote training to teach offroad cad design, 3d scanning and reverse engineering, and designing off scan data.
Engineering Validation
Lighter. Faster. Stronger.
FEA isn't about making a part look good in a simulation. It's about understanding how the part actually fails, then designing around it. That means fewer failed prototypes, less wasted material, and parts that hold up in the field.
Static Stress
Frequency
Buckling
Thermal
Fatigue
Dynamic Response
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Static stress validation on a suspension knuckle
Who We Work With
BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO BUILD
01
Aftermarket Brands
Need a new product engineered from concept to production?
02
Fabricators
Have a customer asking for something outside your normal fabrication capability?
03
Manufacturers
Need engineering resources without hiring another full-time engineer?
04
Race Teams
Need components designed around real-world performance requirements?
05
Startups / Inventors
Have an idea but don't know how to turn it into a manufacturable product?
In The Shop
Design Meets Metal
A look into the past. Designed from 3D scans, OEM data, or... from thin air.
Full roll cage design, color-coded by tube assembly for easier assembly
Truck bumper designed from 3D scan data
Carbon fiber hood scoop, CAD surfacing and rendering
Ground-up complete race chassis design
FEA stress validation on a knuckle
Optimized suspension design
ATV products
Fabrication tooling
Drop deck trailer design
Roll cage rollover simulation
Luxury Prerunner design
UTV race cage design
our focus
What we design for
From race cars to pavement princesses. If it has wheels, we're interested.
HAVE AN IDEA?
Let's build the damn thing.
Tell us what you're building, what problem you're solving, and where you're stuck. We'll figure out the engineering path forward.
We are happy to work under NDA if required.
Las Vegas, Nevada