3D Printing
Ideas you can hold.
Prototypes, replacement parts, signage, display pieces, short production runs. Printed here in Somerset West on our own machines, or anywhere in South Africa through 3D PrintZA.
What People Print
You Can Probably Use This
Most people have never had anything printed and assume it is not for them. It usually is, and it usually costs less than they think.
Prototypes
Hold your product idea before you commit to tooling. Design it Monday, print it Tuesday, change it Wednesday.
Replacement parts
The knob, the clip, the bracket nobody has stocked since 2011. Send us the broken one or a drawing.
Signage and letters
Three-dimensional letters for shopfronts, reception walls and event branding. Any font, any colour, up to 350mm.
Functional parts
Brackets, jigs, fixtures, housings, enclosures, spacers. In materials that handle heat, weather and load.
Short production runs
Tens, not thousands. The quantity injection moulding will not look at, with no tooling cost.
Display and presentation
Architectural models, exhibition pieces, product mockups. Up to sixteen colours in a single print.
Custom design
No file? Send a sketch, a photo of the broken part, or just describe it. We draw it, then print it.
How It Works
Three Steps
Send the file, or just describe it
Upload an STL, OBJ or STEP. Or send a sketch, a photo of the thing that broke, or a sentence about what you need. No model is a perfectly normal starting point.
We quote it within a day
Material, colour, size, quantity, priced by a person who has looked at it. Want a number this minute instead? 3D PrintZA quotes instantly.
We print it and get it to you
Printed here in Somerset West. Collect it, or we deliver anywhere in South Africa.
Materials
What It Gets Printed In
Five answers cover almost everything. If none of them sounds like your part, that is what the last line is for.
Not sure? Tell us what the part has to survive and we will pick. Or run the full filament finder on 3D PrintZA ↗
The Machine
Creality K2 Plus
A 350mm cubed build volume, a 60°C heated chamber and up to sixteen colours in a single print. Hardened nozzle, so engineering filaments print as standard. Layers from 0.05mm for fine detail to 0.3mm for fast drafts.
Before You Order
Good to Know
Better you read this now than find it out after paying for it.
It is not resin
FDM at a 0.4mm nozzle leaves layer lines. Miniatures, jewellery masters and crisp text under about 2mm want SLA, and we will say so rather than take the job. The network can do that.
350mm is the ceiling
Bigger than that gets sectioned and bonded, which is fine for a lot of things and wrong for others. We will tell you which.
Multi-colour costs filament
Every colour change purges the nozzle. A four-colour part can burn well over its own weight in plastic, and it runs a lot longer.
No multi-colour TPU
Flexible filament will not feed through the multi-material system. TPU prints beautifully here, in one colour.
The Network
Too Big, Too Many, Too Far?
We also built 3D PrintZA, South Africa’s 3D printing network. When a job is bigger than our machine, wants a process we do not run, or wants a studio nearer you, that is what it is for.
- Instant online quotesIn rand, with VAT already in them. No waiting for a person.
- Other processesResin for the fine detail FDM cannot reach, and large format past our 350mm.
- Bulk and production runsVolume pricing built in, past the tens we print here.
Send a File
Tell Us What It Is For
Attach a model, or describe the part and what it has to survive. No model is fine: we can draw it. A real person reads every one and comes back with a price and a lead time.
Also On DezignZA
Need the thing designed, too?
We draw in CAD and Figma, build the websites and apps, and do the branding. One studio, idea to finished product.