The right process depends on what the part has to survive, how many you need, and when you need them. Here is the full range, with the machine specifications behind it.
Test a shape in your hand before you commit to a mould or a machining run.
Send us a CAD file in the morning and we will usually have a part on the courier the same week. We print iterations at low cost so you can find the problems that only show up in physical form — clearances that are too tight, a grip that feels wrong, a rib that flexes.
Printed parts that go into the finished product, not just onto the desk.
For runs from ten to a few thousand pieces, printing beats tooling on both cost and lead time. We print in engineering-grade plastics, control the build orientation for load direction, and inspect to your drawing before anything ships.
Shop-floor tooling made to fit your line, at a fraction of machining cost.
Assembly jigs, drill guides, soft jaws, inspection gauges and pick-and-place nests. Because they are printed, you can revise a fixture on Tuesday and have the new one in use on Thursday — which is how tooling should work.
A part with no drawing, no supplier and no replacement — rebuilt from the one you have.
We 3D-scan the original, rebuild a clean parametric model from the scan data, correct the wear and damage, and print a replacement. Common for discontinued machine components and obsolete spares where the tooling is long gone.
Parts that leave looking like product, not like they came off a build plate.
Support removal and bead blasting come as standard. Beyond that we offer vapour smoothing, hand sanding to a paint-ready surface, primer and colour-matched spray, dyeing, threaded inserts and heat staking.
We look over your model before it prints and tell you what will fail.
Every quote includes a manufacturability check at no cost: wall thicknesses that are too thin to survive, unsupported overhangs, trapped powder or resin, holes that will print undersize. Where a redesign would save you real money, we will say so and show you the change.
Everything is printed in our own workshop in Casarano. Nothing is brokered out, so the tolerances below are the ones we hold ourselves to.
Melted thermoplastic laid down in layers. The most economical process, and the one to choose for large, tough parts where a visible layer texture is acceptable.
A laser cures liquid photopolymer point by point. Choose it when surface finish and fine detail matter more than toughness — the layer lines are effectively invisible.
Nylon powder fused by laser, with the unsintered powder supporting the part. No support structures means true design freedom — interlocking and enclosed geometry prints in one piece.
Powder fused across a whole layer at once rather than traced by a laser. Faster than SLS on full builds, with denser parts and more consistent mechanical properties.
Resin droplets jetted and cured in place, with several materials in the same part. The only process here that gives us full colour and rigid-to-flexible zones in a single print.
Upload a STEP, STL or 3MF file, or a photograph and a dimensioned sketch if you do not have a model yet. Tell us what the part has to survive.
An engineer reviews the geometry for anything that will not print, recommends a process and material, and sends a fixed price. Usually within one working day.
Once you confirm the quote we schedule the build. You get a confirmed ship date at that point, not an estimate that moves.
Supports removed, surfaces finished to the agreed spec, critical dimensions measured against your drawing, then packed and couriered with the inspection record.