3D Printing.
Digital files become physical objects, one slice at a time.
A 3D printer doesn't carve a shape — it builds one. The model is sliced into a stack of layers as thin as a sheet of paper. The machine lays down (or cures, or sinters) one layer at a time, and the part grows upward as the bed drops. What was a polygon mesh in the morning is a holdable object by lunch.
Z 0.2 mm
HOTEND 210°C
A pancake stack made of plastic.
Take any 3D model. A piece of software called a slicer chops it into hundreds of horizontal cross-sections — each as thin as 0.1 mm. For each slice, it generates a path that the printer's nozzle (or laser, or UV light) needs to follow to draw that layer in the correct material. That whole instruction list is exported as G-code.
The printer reads the G-code line by line. FDM printers melt plastic filament and squirt it through a heated nozzle, building each layer in molten ribbons that fuse as they cool. SLA printers cure liquid resin layer by layer with UV light, producing impossibly smooth surfaces. SLS printers fuse nylon powder with a laser, leaving the unfused powder around the part as built-in support.
Different processes give wildly different parts. FDM is fast, cheap, and rough. SLA is slow, expensive, and glass-smooth. SLS is the strongest, supports complex internal geometry, and produces functional parts that can be drilled, threaded, and used. We pick the process to match what the prop has to do once it's in the room.
From CAD to part.
Five stages, each with their own pitfalls. A failed print teaches you which stage was the weak link.
Processes, materials, software.
Different parts demand different tools. We keep multiple printers in the lab so we can pick per project, not per default.
Where we've shipped printed parts.
Real parts from real installs.
Drop replacement images as projects ship. Each card is sized for a 4:3 product photo — labelled, captioned, ready to swap in.
Tell us what it has to do. We'll pick the process.
Prototype, prop, enclosure, structural mount — different jobs, different processes. We've got FDM in-house and SLS/MJF on demand. We'll quote material + process + timeline within a business day.