PCB and enclosure, made real
Files in.
Product out.
You finished the design. Safegrows does the unglamorous rest: checks that your board actually fits its case, quotes the build, and runs fabrication, assembly, and testing until a working unit is in your hands.
Fit check $19.00. The designer is free.
Between a finished design and a finished product sits the swamp: three quote emails, a case that almost fits, a connector buried a millimeter too deep. Most projects drown there. Ours get walked across.
How it works
- 01
Bring files, or start from words
A kicad_pcb, Gerbers with a drill file, an STL or STEP. Nothing yet? Describe the product and a starting board and case appear in the designer, ready to shape.
- 02
Get the fit checked
We compare the actual geometry. Board against cavity, holes against standoffs, every port against its wall opening, with the measured number next to the required one.
- 03
Approve one quote
Boards, parts, the case, and assembly, priced as one number. You see the fit report and the quote side by side before anything is committed.
- 04
Follow the build to your door
Fabrication, assembly, testing, shipping. Every stage lands in your order history with a note, so the answer to where is it is always one click.
The fit check
Numbers, not vibes
The report reads your real geometry: parsed KiCad boards, Gerber outlines, drill files, meshes. Every finding carries the measured number and the required one, in plain words a first time builder can act on. A fail here costs you a revision. The same fail after fabrication costs you the batch.
Uploaded a mesh we can only estimate inside? The report says so, out loud, instead of pretending.
USB C opening misses by 2.3 mm
The cutout centers at 18.0 mm but the port sits at 20.3 mm. The plug will not seat.
Clearance tight on the long side
0.6 mm where you asked for 1.0 mm. It assembles, but a thick solder joint could bind.
All four holes land on standoffs
Within 0.1 mm. M3 screws bite a 2.5 mm pilot, which is right.
The designer
Board and case, drawn together
One source of truth
Outline, mounting holes, and every port live in one document. The case follows automatically: a standoff under each hole, an opening for each connector, at the right height.
Exports that open elsewhere
STL for the printer, OpenSCAD you can tweak by hand, a DXF outline for any CAD tool, and a kicad_pcb with edge cuts and holes placed, ready for routing.
A copilot that edits, not chats
Say add usb c on the left or make it 80 by 55 and the design changes, with a note about anything you should check.
Words become a starting point
Describe the product when you create a project and a real, editable board and case are waiting in the designer.
The assistant
It reads your files, not your mind
Ask why a finding matters, what screws your holes take, or what to fix before ordering, and the answer quotes your project's own numbers. It drafts a bill of materials from your board with sourcing links per line, and a first build guide walks the whole path for people doing this the first time. When it does not know, it says what is missing instead of improvising.
Two sides, one bench
A marketplace, not a middleman
Safegrows is Shopify for hardware. Makers design and buy builds. The shops that fabricate, assemble, and case them get a storefront and a steady flow of jobs that arrive ready to build.
For makers
Design it, see the real budget, cut the cost with cheaper part suggestions, fit check it, and find a shop that can build it.
For providers
Run a fab, assembly, or enclosure shop? Get a storefront and jobs that reach you designed, fit checked, and costed. No cold leads.
Your design deserves to exist
Start with the free designer or a fit check for $19.00. The first honest answer about your build takes about a minute.