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What came in
An interior trim piece off a Dodge Viper, snapped at the mounting tab. It isn't a wear item and it was never sold separately, so there's no replacement to order — the only way to get one is to make one.
Individuals & restorers
Nobody makes it anymore. That's a solvable problem.
The part snapped. The model went out of production decades ago, the forums all point at the same dead eBay listing, and the one you've got is the last one you're going to find.
We scan what's left of it, rebuild the geometry, and print you a working replacement — or hand you the file and you can take it anywhere. One part is a perfectly normal order. There's no minimum here, and no assumption you already know how any of this works.
Start to finish
Here's a real part, all the way through.
Nothing staged and nothing skipped. This is what the process actually looks like from the day a broken part lands on the bench.
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On the scanner
The scanner projects light across the surface and reads how it deforms, building up a dense point cloud from a lot of overlapping passes. It captures the part as it is right now — every curve, every mounting boss, and the break itself.
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Rebuilt in CAD
The scan tells us what the part looks like now. The model is what it looked like before it broke. The snapped tab gets rebuilt using the geometry on the intact side as reference, so the replacement matches the original rather than the damage.
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Printed
Material gets picked for where the part actually lives — this one sits in a car interior that parks in the Texas sun, so heat resistance and UV stability matter more than raw strength. That choice gets made before anything is printed, not after it warps.
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Back on the car
Fitted, seated, and holding. You get the part, and you get the file — so if it ever breaks again, or a friend with the same car needs one, there's nothing to redo.
None of that is specific to cars.
Car parts are what people ask about most, so that's the example we picked. But the process doesn't know or care what the part came off — it's the same five steps whether the original is a bracket, a knob, a housing or a fitting. If you've got something that can't be bought anymore, it's worth asking about.
Boat & marine fittings
Vintage appliance parts
Motorcycle trim
Tractor & equipment pieces
Furniture hardware
Instrument components
Model & hobby parts
Discontinued household fittings
What it costs
Straight numbers, before you ask.
Scanning a qualifying part starts at $600. Getting that scan cleaned up into a usable mesh starts at $750. A full CAD rebuild — the version where a broken part comes back whole — is quoted per part, because that's the stage where the work genuinely varies.
You get a fixed quote before anything starts. Hours are how we build the estimate, not how we bill you. If a part turns out to need more work than we quoted, we come back and ask — we don't add hours to an invoice you've already agreed to.
The full breakdown, including what makes a part cheap or expensive to scan, is on the services page.
If the part is small and simple, say so in your message. Not everything needs the full process, and we'd rather tell you that up front than quote you for work you don't need.
Worth knowing
A few things we'll tell you up front.
- Shiny, clear and mirrored surfaces are hard to scan. Chrome trim and glass scatter the light the scanner depends on. It's usually workable, but it takes prep and it costs more — so we quote those from photos first.
- A scanner only sees surfaces. It can't see inside a sealed cavity or around a blind corner. If the part has hidden internal geometry, we'll talk about how to get at it before you ship anything.
- Printed plastic isn't the same as the original. If the part started life as cast metal, a printed copy behaves differently. Sometimes that's fine. Sometimes it isn't, and we'll say so.
- There's work we don't take on. We don't reproduce any part whose failure could disrupt a safety system, cause injury, or cause a loss of control — and we don't reproduce anyone's logos or badges. The full standard is in our terms.
Start here
Send a photo and a sentence.
That's genuinely enough to start. You don't need measurements, a drawing, or the right words for it — that's our job. Every enquiry gets a reply within one business day.