3-D Printing – Additive Prototyping

Fast, accurate prototypes in plastics and metals

3-D printing of machined part prototypes offers CED clients cost- and time-efficient solutions for reviewing simple to complex design concepts. Harnessing the speed and efficiency of additive printing can allow examination and testing of concept and design prior to machining production.

Working through select 3-D Printing partners, CED carefully coordinates and manages this technology to deliver on time functional models from your 3-D CAD designs or ours. Collectively, the partners we work with offer a wide range of materials capabilities using metals, nylons, flexible and rigid plastics and thermoplastics, and other ridged substrates.

Coordinating and delivering a 3-D printed prototype —and ensuring that prototype is also efficiently machinable — is another engineering advantage CED provides.