3D Printed Star Trek 3D Chess Pieces
Although current technology is still a few years away from Star Trek’s Replicator level, that didn’t stop us from 3d printing chess pieces for this Star Trek Tri-Dimensional Chess set. We always have the coolest items to play with at our trade shows!
Touching Customer Review on Son’s 3D Printed Lego Urn
Our 3d printed SLS plastic Star Trek TOS communicator -cool right?!
From the ‘only because we can’ category… Working at a 3d printing company certainly has its privileges! In 2016 I pre-ordered a Star Trek TOS bluetooth communicator as a gift for my husband. Instead of yet again wrapping a piece of paper with a promise, one or our techs got to work and did me […]
3D Printing request UNLIKE ANYTHING in 23 years
My week started with a phone call and a question as to whether our company could help with a very personalized item. Within one minute, it was shared that this customer wanted a 6” custom Lego brick followed by these words “this will be an urn for my son’s ashes, who recently passed away from cancer […]
5 Common NDA Mistakes (our experiences)
As we are in the 3D Printing business, it’s common for us to be asked by new customers to sign an NDA prior to sending their CAD files. Having worked with 3D Prototype Design now in my 17th year I’ve personally viewed multiple NDA’s, have experienced and found a few common mistakes I think are […]
2.3 Million Gallons of Water pumped through SLS 3D Printed Part
You may have noticed the Zelda pump (3d printed by us with SLS and nylon) on our home page, but I thought I’d bring light to it again as recently our customer let us know that with their last round of testing the pump ran for 2-1/2 days, pumping 2.3 million gallons of water! That’s […]
3D Printing Scaled Down Models
We often receive questions about 3d printing scaled down models that never happen as contacting us first isn’t the right starting point, unless a few things are already taken care of! Watch this quick video and/or visit our Sales Models page to learn more. https://youtu.be/jM0ucRIbPV0
We Had This IDEA in 2002!
“3Doodler Create” I remember years ago when I first started with 3D Prototype Design, our lead technician Tim came up with an invention based on FDM printing. His idea was to make a small hand held device that could be used as a hobby tool to create in mid air random designs. He described it […]
Black Panther’s Queen Ramona Impressive 3D Printed Costume Pieces
While watching Marvel’s Black Panther film over the weekend, I immediately spotted the unmistakable 3d printed pieces worn by actress Angela Bassett. Before I even left the theater, I was consulting Google to confirm I was right. Not only that, there were many other costume pieces throughout the moving that were able to take advantage […]
3D Printed Drone Parts Flying Around
As if 3d printing wasn’t already cool enough, many of our SLS nylon parts are flying around in drones! SLS 3d printed in nylon spinner really flies! Several drone assemblies that are being made and sold direct to customers contain 3D Prototype Design’s SLS 3D printed parts. Because our SLS models offer final production quality, […]