3design and FDM Technology

Get Products to Market Faster with FDM Technology!

3Design offers a comprehensive suite of solutions and specialized applications to cover the most demanding design and manufacturing requirements. Leveraging advanced 3D printing technologies, materials, services and more than 20 years of industry experience, 3Design can guide you through these exciting and game-changing technologies and materials.

Concept Models

Concept models allow you to communicate design concepts to clients, colleagues and marketers with tangible products. Small design and engineering firms extend their reach by testing more ideas and developing only the right projects. For large companies, concept modeling within departments, or even in individual cubicles, is a way to hone ideas before presenting them to decision makers. 

Prototyping

Companies are turning to 3D printing for prototyping as a cost effective way to reduce product and part development time, which is key to succeeding in the marketplace. This is especially useful to produce high quality prototypes of parts that match your design and accurately represent your final product’s functionality and performance, accelerating the time to market for new innovative products.

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3D print with us

Over the past two years we have developed our 3d printing studio and systems, selling desk top 3dprinters to consumers was our main focus in the early stages of our business but the services and design soon become a big part of what we offer as whole. here are some examples of what we have achieved this year.

Jacks Machinery Owner, Steve Jacks tendered 3Design Ltd. to reproduce a bearing case from a piece of

farming equipment. The farming manufacturer's only replacement option was to purchase a multiple component encasing in which costs were running around $3500 dollars.Since the only part to wear and brake was the bearing casing, Steve was looking for an alternative to reduce costs. 3Design Ltd. drafted up the model using a used broken portion of the casing and printed the design for testing purposes. After a few revisions, we were able to produce the part for under $50, saving Jack’s Machinery thousands.

Printstock Gear set

Determined to turn an older printing machine into a newer metric setup. Our client approached us

to replicated and modify the gear set for timing the print cycle. These are now being printed on the

Mankati Fullscale XT Plus in PLA and are producing accurate results, withstanding the necessary

loading. A perfect example of minimising costs and time of by using 3D printing technology.

Usabus

Bracket.Old buses usually have many parts that have become obsolete or hard to get. This particular item breaks regularly and is hard get. With reverse engineering using our Next Engine 3D scanner we

were able to replicated the bracket and print it. With the digital file readily at hand there is no need

to carry spares. Simply press print when the need arises.

Tattoo Machines

This has been a labour of love for a local tattoo machine manufacturer. We embarked on this

journey with him to create a new look machine with amazing adaptability in a very close knit

community of tattoo artists. With every millimetre being precious we were able to create a great

looking machine with the functionality of high end machines. With great balance and size this will

rival some of the smallest light weight machines available. This has been printed in titanium to

reduce weight speed up development time and reduce the cost of small run CNC. More detail can’t be revealed due to manor in which this performs and launch being close at hand. But watch this space.