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The board and the box, designed together.
Our mechanical team designs enclosures with a great fit, finish and function while staying inside budget — then prints them on demand.
Quote an enclosureOn-demand 3D printing for prototyping and production. Modern manufacturing brought to bear on the part of the product your customer actually touches.
Most enclosure problems are really interface problems: a connector that sits two millimetres too high, a mounting boss that fouls a capacitor, a light pipe that misses its LED. Because we design the PCB as well, those interfaces get resolved in CAD instead of on the bench with a file in hand.
As 3D printing costs continue to fall, the applications keep widening — rapid prototyping, spare-parts management, low-volume production, jigs and fixtures for your own line.
At a glance
| Technology | FDM |
|---|---|
| Materials | PLA · ABS · PETG · Nylon 6 |
| Colour | Multicolour printing |
| Volumes | Prototype to full-scale |
| IP | NDA-backed protection |
The technology
Why FDM, specifically.
In fused deposition modelling, the part is built by depositing melted thermoplastic layer by layer, following the 3D CAD file. It uses thermoplastic polymers and is well suited to cost-effective small batch production.
Commonly used materials are PLA, ABS and Nylon 6. If you are reaching for additive manufacturing to prototype quickly, FDM is almost always the right first choice — the tooling cost is zero and a design change is a re-slice, not a new mould.
Faster turnaround
Robust quality in the shortest time, so your time-to-market shortens rather than your specification.
Prototype to production
Rapid prototyping and full-scale production from the same data, with no re-tooling between them.
Colour choice
Multicolour printing across a range of colours, so early samples can look like the product.
IP protection
Your models stay yours. NDA available before files are shared, and designs are never passed to third parties.
Applications
Additive manufacturing across industries.
The same sectors we build electronics for use printing for housings, jigs, fixtures and spares.
Send the board outline and the connector list.
A DXF or STEP of the PCB outline, the height of your tallest component, and where the connectors and indicators need to appear. That is enough for a first concept.