Capabilities
MultiModal Manufacturing
One route from a scanned part to a finished one. The material is chosen against what the part actually has to survive, and the catalogue is wide enough for that to be a real decision rather than a default.
Model
Every job starts with geometry that is correct. We scan the part you send and build the model from that, or work from an original drawing, a sketch, or a description of the thing that ought to exist.
3D scanning
The part is scanned to capture the geometry as it really is, including the features nobody ever dimensioned on a drawing.
Reverse engineering
A dimensioned, parametric model rebuilt from the scan, with the wear and the original weak point designed out rather than replicated.
Production drawings
Dimensioned and toleranced prints with material, finish and critical features called out explicitly.
Design from scratch
No part and no drawing needed. Describe the tool or the component you desire and it gets modelled from the description.
The part itself is best, because it can be scanned. A drawing, a photo with one known dimension, or a clear description of what the thing needs to do will all get us started.
Prototype
A model on a screen tells you less than a part in your hand. We produce working prototypes quickly and send them to you, so fit and function get proven on the real thing rather than in the model. The geometry is revised from what you find, before anything commits to a production run.
Functional prototypes
Produced in a material close enough to the finished part to test fit, clearance and load.
Fit and form checks
You try it on the real machine, where the tolerance that matters is usually the one nobody wrote down. Then we adjust to suit.
Fast iteration
Revisions turned around quickly, because the model was built parametrically in the first place.
Bridge parts
Printed parts to keep something running while the longer-term version is being sorted out.
Prototyping is quick by design. Once the model is signed off, a first part does not wait on tooling, a minimum order or a production slot.
Produce
Most of what leaves here is printed, and that is a deliberate choice rather than a limitation. Industrial printing now covers materials that behave like ABS, polypropylene and glass-filled engineering plastics, which means a printed part can go into service rather than standing in for one. The grade gets chosen against what the part has to survive.
End-use parts
Components that go into service and stay there, not prototypes standing in for the real thing.
Complex geometry
Internal channels, lattices and undercuts that would be slow, wasteful or simply impossible to machine.
Low-volume runs
One part or a few hundred, with no tooling to amortise and no minimum order to reach first.
Material selection
The tradeoff between cost, lead time and performance set out plainly before you commit to any of it.
Load, operating temperature, chemical exposure, how much it has to flex, and how many you need. The part's requirements pick the grade, and we show you the reasoning.
MATERIALS
The material is the decision
A printed part is only as good as what it is printed in, and the range available now is far wider than most people expect.
The catalogue runs from grades that behave like ABS and polypropylene, through highly glass-filled rigids that barely flex, to silicones and elastomers you can stretch. That breadth is the point: it turns "what can you print this in" into a real engineering decision rather than a default. Tell us what the part has to survive and the grade gets picked to match.
Tough and impact resistant
Grades comparable to ABS and polypropylene, for parts that get clamped, dropped and knocked about in service.
High temperature
Heat deflection into the low hundreds of degrees, for parts working near engines, ovens, steam and hot fluids.
Rigid and glass filled
Heavily glass-filled grades approaching the stiffness of PEEK, where a part must hold its shape under load.
Flexible and elastomeric
Shore 50A through 80A, plus true silicone, for gaskets, seals, grips, bushings and dampers.
Nylons
Tough, durable nylon for end-use parts that need strength in every direction, including glass-filled grades.
Flame retardant
UL 94 V-0 rated grades for enclosures, electrical work and anywhere a flame rating is a requirement.
Static dissipative
ESD-safe grades for electronics handling, trays and fixtures where static would damage the thing you are holding.
Castable
Wax-filled grades that burn out clean, for investment casting a part in metal from a printed pattern.
If you need the numbers before you commit, ask and we will send the datasheet for the grade we are proposing.
WHAT WE MAKE
Tools and parts you cannot buy
Some of the most useful things we make are the ones no supplier sells, because the need is too specific for anyone to stock them.
A driver that reaches a fastener sunk in a recess nothing else fits. A grip that makes an awkward component possible to hold one-handed. A plastic fastener the manufacturer only ever supplied as part of a complete assembly. None of these are on a shelf anywhere, and all of them take an afternoon to model.
Custom tools and adapters
The grip, driver or adapter that turns an awkward job into a straightforward one. Usually it starts with somebody saying there ought to be a tool for this.
End-use parts and fasteners
Plastic fasteners, clips, bushings and housings that the manufacturer never sold separately, or stopped supplying years ago.
Replacement and obsolete parts
A component that is no longer made, scanned and rebuilt, with the original weak point engineered out of it.
Jigs and fixtures
One-off tooling that holds a part still, sets a position repeatably, or protects a surface during the work.
A single part is a real job. We would rather work out how to make the thing than explain why it is not worth doing.
PRINT ON DEMAND
Send a file, get the part
If the geometry already exists, you do not need a design service. Send a model and we will print 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 once we have them, so a repeat order is a message rather than a fresh quote and a fresh setup. For slow-moving spares that is a real alternative to carrying stock: the part sits as a file until the day you need it, and arrives in the quantity you asked for.
No minimum order
One part is a real order. The economics do not depend on you buying a hundred.
Files held on record
Reorder from the model we already have, at the same spec, without quoting it again.
Material chosen for duty
Tell us what the part does and the material is picked to match, not defaulted to whatever is loaded.
No model? Not a problem
Send a drawing or the part itself and we will build the model first, then print from it.
STEP, STL and 3MF are what we prefer. If you are not sure what you have, send it over and we will tell you.
What it costs
Every part is different, so a price list would not tell you anything useful. Cost comes down to the geometry, the material, the process it needs and the quantity you want.
Send the part or the file and you will get the options priced, with lead times attached and our read on which route makes sense. If all you have at this stage are questions, those are welcome too.