The difference between showing a client a render and handing them the actual piece is usually the difference between a pitch and a purchase order. Here is how 48-hour acrylic prototyping works in Dubai.
Process guides · 2026-08-20 · 4 min read
Day one: your sketch, brand file or CAD becomes a production drawing, gets a same-day approval cycle, and cutting starts. Day two: bonding, polishing and any printing finish, then delivery. The compression works because design, cutting and finishing sit in one Al Quoz workshop with no handoffs.
A design consultation plus one physical prototype runs AED 500 to 1,500 depending on complexity. That figure is usually credited or absorbed into the production order that follows, which makes the prototype effectively free for jobs that proceed.
A display that looks perfect in CAD can hide a wobble, a glare angle or a slot that fights the product. Finding that in one prototype costs hundreds; finding it across a 50-store rollout costs the whole batch. Agencies also close pitches faster by putting the actual object on the client's table.
Come with decisions made: exact product dimensions, brand colours as Pantone or hex, and where the piece will live. Ask for the prototype in the true final material and thickness, a 3mm mockup of a 6mm design tells you nothing about rigidity.
Prototype anything that will be produced in quantity: AED 500 to 1,500 buys certainty, two days buys the pitch, and the cost usually folds into the production run anyway.
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48 hours from approved drawing to physical piece at RS Acrylics, because design, cutting, bonding and finishing happen in one workshop without handoffs.
Design consultation plus one prototype runs AED 500 to 1,500 by complexity, and it is commonly credited into the production order that follows.
Yes. One prototype catches fit, stability and glare issues that CAD renders hide. Fixing them before a 50-unit rollout protects the entire batch.
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