Real projects, practical tips and the occasional rescue story from our Tauranga 3D printing studio.
The plastic wall mounts on a customer's heated towel rail failed. We 3D scanned the broken part, reverse engineered it and printed replacements in heat resistant ASA, so no new holes went into the tile.
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The Kiwifruit Capital of the World Heritage Hub asked whether we could 3D print an indoor orchard canopy showing all four seasons at once. Here is how it was built.
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The owner had the wheels, and he had bought the Toyota emblem he wanted on them. What did not exist was the piece that joins the two, so we designed and printed it.
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A snapped handle or a worn-out plastic gear should not mean replacing the whole appliance. Here is how 3D scanning and printing brings them back to life.
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Off-the-shelf accessories rarely fit exactly right. Custom 3D printing means parts designed around your machine, your style and your use case.
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From weighing plates to blade holders, our 3D printed accessories, made to fit the TM5, TM6 and TM7, solve the small everyday annoyances owners know well.
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A customer had already solved the problem in wood. They carved a sample by hand, and asked us to turn it into something that could be made again, and again, in a material that lives outdoors.
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A returning customer needed an easier and safer way to lift and carry their canoe mast. Here is the purpose-built handle we designed and printed around their exact mast dimensions.
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ClueMart, a Kiwi startup building smart tech for markets and stallholders, wanted a giveaway their subscribers would actually keep. The answer was a two-slot phone holder made only for them, and we could not resist printing a TechTribe one too.
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Not every kitchen accessory has to look like it came off a factory line. Erin wanted roses and her own name instead of the usual cooking icons, so that is what we made, as a one-off.
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Sometimes the perfect gift, decoration or practical item just does not exist anywhere you can buy it. This one started as nothing more than a reference picture, and ended up as a one-of-a-kind 3D printed keepsake.
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When a local canoe business needed a way to reproduce a hand-built canoe outrigger reliably, we used 3D scanning and reverse engineering to capture it once and rebuild it accurately, every time.
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