Additive Manufacturing
Functional parts in nylon reinforced with carbon or glass fiber, plus engineering thermoplastics. Designed, printed, and measured in the shop. Most orders are in your hands inside a week.
Materials
& Technology
Carbon Fiber Nylon
Chopped carbon fiber in a nylon matrix. Stiff, dimensionally stable, and the right default when a printed part has to carry load rather than just look like the part.
Engineering Thermoplastics
Unfilled workhorses, chosen for the environment the part lives in. ASA for sunlight, PC for heat and impact, TPU where it needs to flex or seal.
Glass Fiber Nylon
Chopped glass fiber. Less brittle than carbon and easier on the budget, for parts that need toughness more than they need maximum stiffness.
The Process
Design Review
We go through your CAD, or draw it from scratch, checking wall thickness, orientation, and load paths before anything is printed.
Material Selection
Filament matched to the part's actual job. Load, temperature, UV exposure, chemical contact, and cost all factor in.
Fabrication
Printed on enclosed FDM with hardened tooling, which the abrasive reinforced filaments require.
Dimensional Check
Every part measured against the drawing before it ships. ±0.2 mm on controlled features.
Rapid Prototyping
Going straight from CAD to a physical part skips tooling entirely. No mold, no fixture, no machine setup. That is what makes it practical to test three versions of a bracket in the time a machine shop would take to quote the first one. There is a real tradeoff. Printed parts are anisotropic, and layer adhesion sets the limit in the Z direction. We design around that rather than pretend it isn't there.
// Typical ranges for a first functional part. Actual timelines vary with geometry, quantity, and vendor queue.
Prototyping Timeline Comparison
Subtractive
(CNC Machining)
Tooling/Setup required
Formative
(Injection Molding)
Mold fabrication required
Additive
(3D Printing)
Direct from CAD, printed here