3D Prototype Design Inc

3D Printing Kitchener

Custom SLS 3D printing Kitchener Canada

  3D Printing in Kitchener: Your Local SLS Partner for Prototypes & Short-Run Parts Looking for reliable 3D printing in Kitchener? We specialize in SLS 3D printing in Kitchener for functional prototypes and short-run production. As a result, you get durable parts quickly. Moreover, everything is made locally so lead times are shorter and collaboration […]

Strong, Functional Parts Without the Mold — Made in Canada

SLS 3D printing with nylon producing functional parts as an injection molding alternative in Canada

3D Printing with Nylon: Your Injection Molding Alternative Looking for high-quality, functional parts in Canada without the need for expensive molds? Our SLS 3D printing with nylon produces components that perform like injection-molded parts, including the ability to tap, drill, create snap-fit assemblies, living hinges, and functioning springs. Using our SLS technology, each layer is […]

3D Printing Services Ontario: Fast, Functional, and Locally Trusted

Technician carefully removing finished parts from a Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) 3D printing build in Ontario

Your Trusted Partner for 3D Printing Services in Ontario Ontario is home to some of Canada’s most innovative manufacturers, designers, and engineers — all leveraging 3D printing services to accelerate product development and production. Whether you’re prototyping a new concept or manufacturing short-run production choosing the right 3D printing technology is critical to your project’s […]

How does SLS 3D Printing Work?

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How does SLS 3D Printing Work? Many people are surprised when they learn how truly different SLS 3D printing is from what they thought it was. As Canada’s first 3D Printing Company since ’96 and SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) specialists for over 20 yrs, we still find it fun to share just how different it […]

720 Individual 3d printed K’NEX pieces built this cool digger!

3D Printed K’Nex Excavator

We created this cool K’NEX project for our tradeshow booth display and it was a bit hit! People actually came specifically over to our booth to take pictures and selfies with it to send off to their kids. Made using SLS and nylon12, then post coloured with our own developed process, over 720 individual pieces […]

Honouring Lego Master’s legacy — custom 3D Printed Lego Urn

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In Memory of Alex “aullicks” Sirman — May The Force Be With You It was with great honour and privilege that we were able to be a part of Alex’s memorial and create this 3d printed Lego-like urn with a Star Wars feel. As you read more below from a letter we received from Alex’s […]

Our 3d printed SLS plastic Star Trek TOS communicator -cool right?!

3d printing star trek communicator

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 […]

We Had This IDEA in 2002!

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“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

3d printing oscars

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 […]