Production FDM printing for businesses — prototypes, jigs and fixtures, replacement parts, and short runs. Eight engineering-grade filaments — PLA, PETG, ASA, ABS, and polycarbonate among them — an enclosed machine, and soluble supports for geometry other shops turn away.
We work business-to-business. Sole traders and one-person shops are absolutely in scope — private individuals printing personal items are not.
This is the part worth being blunt about, because it saves everyone a wasted email: we print the model you give us. To quote a job we need a 3D model file. Without one there is nothing to price, schedule, or slice.
That means the good fit for us is a business that already has CAD — an engineer, a product designer, a parts catalogue with downloadable models, or a supplier who has sent you a STEP file. If that’s you, the process below is fast and the pricing is predictable.
We do not reverse-engineer parts. If you send us a broken component, a photograph, or a set of caliper measurements and ask us to produce a model from it, we will have to decline. Measuring an existing part and rebuilding it in CAD is a specialist job with its own tolerance risk, and we would rather turn the work away than do it badly.
We do not offer design-from-scratch. “Here’s my idea, please design it” is outside what we currently offer.
We are describing today’s capability, not a permanent policy — this may change. If you’re not sure whether what you have counts as a model, ask us and we’ll tell you straight away rather than leave you guessing.
Once a model exists, we can make reasonable adjustments to it as part of the job:
If a change is big enough to count as designing a new part, we’ll say so in the quote rather than quietly absorbing it.
Any of these formats will quote. If your CAD package exports something else, ask — we can usually work with it.
| Format | Extension | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| STL | .stl | The most common option and perfectly fine. Export at a fine tessellation — a coarse STL prints visible facets on curved faces. |
| 3MF | .3mf | Preferred where you have it. Carries units, scale, and colour reliably, so there is less to misinterpret. |
| STEP | .step, .stp | Ideal for engineering parts. True solid geometry, so we can adjust clearances cleanly if the job needs it. |
| OBJ | .obj | Accepted. Common from sculpting and scanning tools; check the scale before sending. |
Files sent for quoting are used for that quote and the job it becomes. We don’t share your models or reuse your geometry for other customers.
Two capabilities worth calling out, because they decide whether a job is possible at all.
Why soluble supports matter commercially. Most FDM shops print your part with break-away supports in the same material. On a simple bracket that’s fine. On a manifold with an internal channel, a snap-fit with a deep undercut, or a housing with a captive void, break-away support is either impossible to remove or leaves damage where the part needed to be smooth. Dissolving the support instead means the geometry drives the design decision rather than the printer’s limitations. If you have a part that a previous supplier called unprintable, that’s the one we’d like to see.
Iterations you can hand to a customer or put in a test rig, in a material close enough to production to mean something. Turn a design revision around in days, not weeks.
Assembly aids, drill guides, alignment blocks, and soft jaws made to your bench rather than adapted from a catalogue. Usually the fastest payback on the shop floor.
Housings, knobs, clips, brackets, and covers for equipment the manufacturer no longer supports — provided you can supply or obtain the model.
Tens to low hundreds of units where injection tooling can’t be justified. Consistent settings across the batch and per-unit pricing that improves with quantity.
Cases for electronics, sensor mounts, and control-panel fascias — in ASA when they live outdoors, PETG or ABS when they don’t.
Branded stands, product cradles, and signage components in the colours you specify, produced in matched batches.
Use the quote request form to tell us the model format, quantity, target date, and what the part has to survive. We will reply with secure file-transfer instructions.
We check the geometry is watertight, confirm the scale, and flag anything that will cause a problem — thin walls, unsupported spans, tolerances that FDM can’t hold. You hear about it before you’re committed.
Material, machine time, support removal, and finishing quoted as a single per-unit price, with a firm lead time. Quotes hold for 30 days.
On a run of any size we print one and confirm it’s right before committing the batch. Cheaper for everyone than discovering a fit problem at unit ninety.
Supports removed or dissolved, parts checked against the agreed critical features, and packed for collection or shipping.
Collection from Monrovia, MD, or shipped nationwide. Invoiced against your PO where you use one; net-30 available on approved accounts.
Honest numbers for FDM. If your part needs tighter than this, it needs machining, and we’d rather tell you now.
| Parameter | Typical | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dimensional tolerance | ±0.3 mm or ±0.5% | Whichever is greater. Larger parts and high-shrinkage materials sit at the looser end. |
| Layer height | 0.12–0.28 mm | Finer layers for cosmetic surfaces, coarser for speed on bulk functional parts. |
| Minimum wall thickness | 1.2 mm | Thinner is possible but stops being structural. Design for 2 mm+ on load-bearing walls. |
| Minimum feature size | 0.8 mm | Embossed text needs roughly 1 mm stroke width to stay legible. |
| Threads | M6 and above | Below that, design for a heat-set insert or a tapped hole — printed fine threads strip. |
| Oversized parts | Split and joined | Parts beyond the build volume are sectioned with alignment features and bonded, agreed at quote. |
Not at the moment. We print from a model you supply, and we don’t currently offer design-from-scratch or reverse-engineering from a physical sample. We can adjust and prepare a model you already have — scaling, clearances, splitting, printability fixes — but the geometry has to start with you.
If you need a model created, a freelance CAD designer or your equipment supplier is usually the right next call. Come back to us once you have the file.
No. We are a filament (FDM) shop only — there is no resin or SLA capability here. For very fine detail work like jewellery masters or miniatures, a resin bureau is the right choice and we’ll say so.
Tell us what the part has to survive — sunlight, heat, chemicals, impact, load — and we’ll recommend one. The short version: PETG for general tough parts, ASA for anything outdoors, ABS for impact and heat, polycarbonate when it has to be as strong as FDM gets, PLA for cosmetic and fit-check work. The materials guide covers all eight in detail.
Per-unit pricing based on material consumed, machine time, support removal, and any finishing — quoted as one number, not a stack of line items. Quantity brings the unit price down because setup is amortised across the batch. We don’t publish a rate card because a 20-gram clip and a 400-gram housing aren’t the same job; send the details and we’ll reply with secure file-transfer instructions so you can get a real number quickly.
Small jobs are often days rather than weeks, but it depends entirely on the part and the queue. Give us the date you actually need and we’ll tell you yes or no honestly — we would rather decline a deadline than miss one.
We’ll match as closely as the available filament stock allows, and we’ll show you what we have before committing a batch. Exact brand-colour matching isn’t something FDM filament can promise. For a run where colour consistency matters, we buy enough of one batch to complete it — filament colour can shift slightly between manufacturing lots.
Yes. Send yours over with the enquiry and we’ll review it. Either way, models you send are used for your job only — we don’t share geometry or reuse it for other customers.
If a part misses the spec we agreed in the quote, we reprint it at our cost. If the model itself had the problem, we’ll show you what we found and re-quote the corrected version — which is exactly why we review geometry before printing and offer a first article on runs.
We’re a business-to-business shop. A sole trader or a one-person company is a business as far as we’re concerned and very welcome. Personal projects for private individuals aren’t something we take on.
Send the model, the quantity, and the date. You’ll get a per-unit price and a firm lead time back — or an honest explanation of why the part needs a change first.