3D Printed K’nex ‘Digger’ in nylon, final production quality and function!
The new year had me reflecting on some of our past projects and accomplishments and I felt this one was worth sharing again! (this time showing you a direct comparison of the actual K’nex model to our model). Each part was post processed in the desired colour, then assembled using the K’nex instructions. It built […]
3D Printed Baby Yoda from Star’s Wars spin-off Mandalorian
3D Printed Baby Yoda ornament on Jon Favreau’s tree as posted on instagram! (we even commented on his feed). Disney’s Star Wars spin off show, Mandalorian, introduced the world to the cutest thing ever… Baby Yoda! We were trying to determine which process was used to 3d print and thought how amazing it would have […]
3D Printing on the Moon… finally someone is talking sense!
3D Printing on the Moon… finally someone is talking sense! Up until this time I have found the media promoting stories about 3d printing on Mars, how limitless it would be and grand visions of just what could be accomplished, but… missing a very key component. How can you 3d print without limits on any […]
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 […]
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 […]
3D Printing and the Oscar’s Statuettes
With the help of 3d printing technology, Oscar statues now utilize technology to create the coveted awards with precision accuracy. In 2016 designers utilized an original 1929 Oscar statuette were originally designed by Cedric Gibbons and sculpted by George Stanley. The vintage figure was first 3d scanned to create an accurate 3d CAD file that […]
Top 3 Reasons Why 3D Printing Isn’t Mars Worthy (yet)
The other day a colleague of mine came into the office talking about a Doctor he saw on a morning TV show singing the praises of creating 3d printed medical devices and products that could in future be made in space (or possibly on Mars) which got us once again on a rant. While 3d […]
If you want an ABS 3D printed part, don’t get it in ABS
Let me start off with Happy New Year wishes to all! 2017 actually marks our 21st year offering 3d printing services in Canada! Back in the day, we started with one FDM 3d printer (the extruding kind) using primarily ABS and had to inform potential customers why and how rapid prototyping could benefit there development […]