PRINTED BLUEPRINT
CUSTOM 3D PRINTING & RAPID PROTOTYPING
⚙ 17 PRINTERS
🕑 24/7 OPERATION
📍 KENOSHA, WI
SKIP THE MACHINE SHOP
Sixteen hydraulic port covers. A four-figure machining quote. One week, printed in PETG, fitted straight onto the hardware — and the client's own machines never stopped running. This is what a production fleet is for.
CASE STUDY: FILE TO FITTED PARTS
THE PROBLEM
OVER BUDGET AND OUT OF SLACK
A local manufacturer was already over budget on a job
when sixteen custom port covers for their hydraulic systems came due. Cutting
and machining metal caps meant another four-figure
quote — and worse, hours of machine time their own floor needed
for the work they're actually in business to do.
THE TWIST
THEIR ENGINEERS, OUR FLEET
They didn't need design help — their own engineers
already had the file ready. That's all we required. The model came in, we
reviewed it for printability, picked PETG for the job, and put the full fleet
on deck to hit their timeline.
THE RUN
SIXTEEN COVERS, ONE WEEK
Printed in PETG — tough, chemical-resistant, and stable
enough for the environment they'd live in. Each cover machined the holes and
features it needed right into the print. Sixteen parts, precision fits,
delivered within a week of receiving the file.
THE SECOND SAVING
THEIR MACHINES STAYED BUSY
The machining route's real cost isn't the quote —
it's the CNC hours it would have consumed. Ours absorbed the run in parallel.
Their floor kept making what they're good at, and their budget stopped
bleeding on a side quest.
THE RUN, ON PAPER
| PART | HYDRAULIC PORT COVERS |
|---|---|
| QUANTITY | 16 |
| MATERIAL | PETG |
| SOURCE FILE | CLIENT'S OWN ENGINEERS |
| TURNAROUND | ONE WEEK |
| MACHINING QUOTE | FOUR FIGURES — AVOIDED |
| CLIENT CNC HOURS USED | ZERO |
WHEN PRINT BEATS MACHINING
- A four-figure quote for 16 caps — or a print fleet that absorbs the run in a week
- Zero CAD hours on your side — send the file your engineers already have
- PETG is a working part, not a placeholder: tough, chemical-resistant, stable
- Your CNC floor never stops — no machine hours lost to a side job
- Fits like the original — bolted straight onto the hardware, no rework
- Deadlines are the point: 17 machines on deck means the schedule bends around you
HOW IT WORKS
01
SEND THE FILE
CAD, STEP, or 3MF from your engineers — or a sketch, and we model it.
02
REVIEW & MATERIAL
We check printability and pick the material for the environment. Quote within 24 hours.
03
FLEET ON DECK
Machines scheduled around your deadline — 17 of them, running 24/7.
04
FITTED & DELIVERED
Quality-checked, shipped nationwide or picked up in Kenosha.
GOT A PART THE MACHINE SHOP PRICED TOO HIGH?
Send the file. We'll tell you within 24 hours what a printed run costs — and what your floor gets to keep doing instead.