A menos que esté probando una pieza, creando un prototipo de algo o su pieza sea excesivamente pequeña (unos pocos gramos), la impresión 3D no es un proceso de producción. Es poco probable que esto cambie durante bastante tiempo.

Trabajamos solo con herramientas de producción que no suelen costar menos de £ 3500 para la mayoría de las necesidades. diseño (puede mezclar color).

Injection moulding tooling can make multiple parts per cycle. A 4 impression tool makes 4 parts every cycle – often taking little or no extra time from a 1 impression tool. If you’re making lots of parts, then you want to get a multiple impression tool made because the part price is primarily made up from the cost of the material and the time it takes to make it. More impressions = less machine time = less cost. The extra impressions can cost extra but often that extra cost can be absorbed in the savings made over a year on the part price. Hint, if you’re only planning on getting 500 parts made, you’ll go for a 1 impression tool, if you’re planning on 20,000 parts you’ll almost certainly want a multiple impression tool (8, 16 +)

As a production company we’re not really kitted out for small runs like this. If it’s an ongoing job we’d be happy to consider it but if it’s a one-off it’s unlikely we’ll accept the work as we just don’t have the resources to deal with small batches. On smaller quantities the setup of the machine (tool change, material purging, material drying, testing etc) is absorbed into the part price, so often it’s not really worth your while getting less than a thousand parts made anyway. There are other companies that are better suited to deal with this setup and I hope you don’t feel upset with us if we say no to the project!

Right now, we’re not set up to work as design for manufacturing consultants on our customer’s projects. We will offer advice to our customers if we see there are some issues that are obviously wrong with the part, but we do not accept responsibility for any extra tooling costs involved if you’ve not design your part properly for manufacturing.