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Model
3D scanning and reverse engineering from the part itself, an original drawing, or a sketch. What comes out is a CAD model built to be revised, and drawings a shop can quote from.
MultiModal Manufacturing · Sarnia, Ontario
From a problem part to a finished one.
Imperial City Solutions is a design and manufacturing shop in Sarnia, Ontario. We can scan and reverse engineer existing parts, design new ones, and manufacture them in the material the job calls for. Custom tooling, replacement parts and end-use components, made right here in Canada.
- BASED IN
- Sarnia, Ontario
- SHIPS
- Canada-wide
coast to coast - FILE FORMATS
- STEP STL 3MF
MADE IN CANADA · 3D SCANNING · REVERSE ENGINEERING · CAD DESIGN · END-USE PARTS
MultiModal Manufacturing
ALL CAPABILITIES →One route from first model to finished part. The process is chosen on the part's merits, not on what happens to be sitting in the building.
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Prototype
A working part in your hands, so fit and function get proven on the real thing rather than in the model. The geometry is revised before anything commits to a production run.
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Produce
Printed in the material the duty requires, from ABS-equivalent and polypropylene-like resins to glass-filled rigids, high-temperature grades and nylons. Machining is coordinated where a part genuinely needs it.
What we make
If you can describe the problem, Imperial City Solutions can solve it. Whether it's custom tools, end-use parts or OEM spec replacements, we've got you covered.
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Custom tools
The grip, adapter or driver that turns an awkward job into a straightforward one, and that no hardware store stocks. Something that reaches a recessed fastener. Something that holds the part still while you work on it.
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End-use parts
Finished components that go into service, not just prototypes. Plastic fasteners, bushings, clips and housings that the manufacturer never sold separately, or stopped supplying years ago.
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Replacement parts
A component that is no longer manufactured, scanned and rebuilt from the original. Where the original had a weak point, it gets designed out rather than faithfully copied.
Print on demand
Send a file, get the part
Send us a model and we will produce it in a material and finish suited to the job, with no tooling to pay for and no minimum run.
Files can be kept on record, so a repeat order is a message rather than a fresh quote. That makes it a practical alternative to holding slow-moving spares on a shelf, and it covers the awkward case of needing two parts now and twenty later.
WHAT WE NEED
- A 3D model, or a drawing we can model from
- The quantity you want, down to one
- What the part is used for, so we can match a material and appropriate method of manufacturing
- Your timeline
How a project runs
Three steps from enquiry to part
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Send what you have
A 3D model, a drawing, or the part itself. If all you have is a photo and one known dimension, that is enough to begin.
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We confirm the route
You get the process the part should be made by, the material, the cost and the lead time. If a different approach would serve you better, we will say so.
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Prototype, then production
A test part first where it matters, so you can prove the fit yourself. Then the run, in the quantity you need rather than a minimum order.
Who you're working with
Designed from the technician's side
We design from a technician's point of view rather than the original engineer's. Whoever has to service a thing usually works out a quicker or simpler way of doing it than the engineer who drew it considered, and that insight normally dies as a workaround nobody wrote down.
Turning those ideas into real parts is the whole business.
With the team at Imperial City Solutions the people who model a part are the people who manufacture it, so there is no gap for the detail to fall through, and no job gets turned away for being small.
GOOD FIT IF YOU
- Need a part that is no longer manufactured
- Have an idea or a drawing but no route to production
- Want one part now and a run of them later
- Have been told your job is too small to be worth doing
Have a part that needs making?
Send a model, a drawing, or the part itself. We will come back with the process, the material and the lead time. No job is too small to ask about.