Notes from the print bed.
Fitment guides, material breakdowns and reverse-engineering write-ups for discontinued and hard-to-find car parts.
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What happens to the plastic: waste, recycling and reclaimed filament
3D printing has a waste problem, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. Here's what we do with failed prints, supports and...
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Before you order: the questions we get asked most
Lead times, pricing, files, minimum orders and the dreaded 'is this thing going to break?' — the answers we give most often,...
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Designing a part for 3D printing: what to send us
The difference between a file that prints first time and one that costs three revisions is usually decided before we open the...
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Sanding, priming and painting 3D-printed parts: a finishing guide
FDM parts come off the printer with layer lines. Here's how we go from a raw print to a part that looks...
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From CAD file to finished part: our quality control checklist
Every part gets checked against the same list before it ships, whether it's a €24 ashtray insert or a forty-piece B2B production...
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From broken part to CAD file: how we 3D scan for reprints
Most parts we reproduce start as a worn or broken sample, not a drawing. Here's what happens between the part landing on...
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Inside the workshop: how a custom part gets made at O43D
What happens between 'I uploaded my STL' and 'a box arrived at the door' — file review, process choice, printing, finishing and...
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Our mission: manufacturing without the gatekeepers
Why we started O43D — and why we think 3D printing is the shortest path from an idea to a part in...
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