Services
Three services that usually run together. A part comes in, a file goes out, and sometimes a new part goes back with it.
3D scanning
Bring us a part with no drawing, no CAD and no supplier, and you'll leave with a digital version of it. What you plan to do with the file — print a copy, modify the design, send it to a manufacturer — decides how far we need to take it.
We scan on an EinScan Rigil, which handles anything from a palm-sized bracket to a full vehicle. The scanner is the easy part. The skill is in the rest: knowing how to prep a surface that won't cooperate, holding alignment across dozens of passes so the geometry doesn't drift, and recognizing when the data is genuinely good enough versus when it only looks like it. Most parts that come to us have already been somewhere that got that wrong.
Tier 01
The scan itself
The captured mesh, aligned and trimmed to the part. Noise and small holes left as scanned — this is the raw measurement data.
$600 Fixed price for qualifying parts
Tier 02 · most common
Everything in Tier 1
Watertight and print-ready. Holes filled, noise removed, geometry repaired. This is what you need if the goal is to reproduce the part.
From $750 Tier 1, plus mesh work at $150/hr
Tier 03
Everything in Tier 2
A parametric solid rebuilt from the scan — real features, real dimensions, fully editable. The scan becomes a starting point rather than the finished product.
Quoted Priced per part after we've seen it
Chrome, glass, deeply recessed features, vehicle-scale parts and broken assemblies take considerably longer to capture, so those are quoted from photos before anything ships. We'll tell you which side of the line you're on before you commit to anything.
Hourly rate
$150per hour, billed in half-hour increments
Typical mesh work
1–4 hrsClean simple parts land at the low end. Damage, internal features and fine detail run 4–8.
What you pay
A fixed numberConfirmed in writing before work starts
Hours are how we build the estimate, not how we bill you. We review the part, quote a fixed price, and start once you've approved it. 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.
Straight answers
It's rarely size. A car hood is big and easy. A turbocharger housing fits in one hand and takes four times as long.
Matte plastic scans as-is. Anything chrome, glossy, black or transparent has to be prepped with a temporary coating first — real time before a single frame is captured.
Deep pockets, undercuts and internal passages need more passes from more angles, and every extra pass is more alignment work. Open, continuous surfaces go quickly.
Capturing a thread or a fine texture means higher resolution, which means longer scans, larger files and slower processing. A rough shape is a much faster job.
Scans as-is, open geometry. The easy end of the range.
Big, but simple. Size adds passes, not difficulty.
Simple geometry, but every surface needs prep before scanning.
Smallest part here, longest job. Internal features drive everything.
Timing
From the day the part lands on the bench. Confirmed with your quote.
Tier 01 · Raw scan
2–3 days
Capture and alignment only. Complex parts add a day.
Tier 02 · Cleaned mesh
3–5 days
Adds repair and watertight processing after the scan.
Tier 03 · CAD-ready
1–2 weeks
Modeling time depends on feature count. Confirmed at quote.
CAD review & optimization
Plenty of files are geometrically fine and still won't print well, or will print and then fail in service. Wall thicknesses that are too thin to survive, unsupported overhangs, stress risers in the wrong place, features that fight the build direction.
We'll review a file before it goes to the printer and tell you what we'd change and why. Where a part needs real design work — adding structure, adapting a fit, reworking a feature — that's quoted per job after we've seen the file and understood what the part has to do.
STEP, STL or native. Tell us what it's for and where it lives, and we'll come back with what we'd change before printing.
A part that keeps breaking in the same place, a fit that isn't working, a design that needs to survive somewhere harder. Quoted per job.
3D printing
We print on a Bambu Lab H2D across six materials, from cheap-and-fast prototyping plastic through to nylon and UV-stable ASA. Already have a file? Send it over — printing is a standalone service and plenty of customers never need the scanner at all.
Pricing depends on material, size and print time, so parts are quoted from the file. Send an STL or STEP and you'll have a number back the same day in most cases.
Send an STL or STEP with your material preference, or tell us what the part does and we'll recommend one. Quoted from the file.
Scan it, clean it, print it — one job, one quote. This is the most common path for a discontinued or broken part.
Not sure which material you need? The toughest one is usually the wrong answer. Our guide covers all six, what each survives, and four worked examples of picking wrong.
Read the materials guideWe don't reproduce or modify parts whose failure could disrupt a safety system, cause injury, or cause a loss of control.
In practice that means no brakes, steering, suspension, fuel systems or restraint components, nothing that carries load or holds a wheel, and nothing inside an intake tract. The same principle applies on the water and in the air — steering and control linkages, through-hull fittings, and any aircraft part, certified or not. It also rules out some parts that look purely cosmetic: interior trim sitting in an airbag deployment path is engineered to break a specific way, and a printed replacement isn't.
If you're not sure which side of that line your part falls on, ask — it's usually a two-minute answer, and it's a conversation we'd rather have before you ship anything. Full details in our terms and conditions.
That's usually enough for a quote. If we need the part in hand to price it properly, we'll say so before you ship anything.