Medical & Anatomical Models
Every patient is a different shape, so every patient-specific model is a production run of one. Conventional manufacturing is bad at that; additive does not notice.
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From the Scan to Something You Can Hold
The route already exists: a CT or MRI series becomes a segmented surface model, and that model becomes a physical object a surgeon can hold, rotate and rehearse on before the theatre is booked. The step that used to be missing was the last one.
What decides the quality of the model is almost never the printer — it is the segmentation. Send us the STL you have already segmented and reviewed clinically; we will tell you where it is too thin to print, where it will not survive handling and what it will cost.
Talk to an EngineerSix Things That Decide Whether It Works
The mistakes that come back to us, and how to design them out before the file is sent.
Segmentation quality decides everything
A model is only as good as the threshold that made it. Review the mesh clinically before it is printed, not after.
Thicken thin vessels to survive handling
Sub-millimetre vessel walls are anatomically correct and physically fragile. Offset them and say by how much.
Clear resin for anything you must see into
Vascular and airway models want polished clear SLA — the interior is the point.
Print a cut plane if the model will be cut
Registering a planned osteotomy into the model is more useful than a solid one.
Two materials read better than two colours
A rigid bone-white structure with a soft translucent lesion communicates faster than paint.
Say what the model is for
Planning, training and patient communication want different fidelity and different budgets — tell us which.
Which Material for Which Part
| The part | Process & material | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Bone / skeletal model | SLA · standard resin | Detail and a hard, workable surface |
| Vascular / airway model | SLA · clear resin, polished | See the interior |
| Large or cheap teaching model | FDM · PLA | Cheap enough to cut, drill and discard |
| Soft-tissue analogue | FDM · TPU 95A | Compliant, handleable |
| Complex one-piece anatomy | SLS · Nylon 12 | No supports in undercuts |
| Device fit-check | FDM · ABS or PC | Real polymer for a real bench test |
How We Would Make It
Vacuum Casting
Moulded-looking parts in colour, without a steel tool.
Finishing & Assembly
Sanded, painted, inserted and assembled before it ships.
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Functional Prototyping
A prototype earns its cost by telling you that you were wrong, quickly. Printed in the polymer the production part will use, it tells you that under load rather than on a screen.
End-Use Parts
Somewhere between ten parts and ten thousand, tooling stops making sense. Additive fills that gap with parts that go into the product, not into a review.
Architectural Models
A massing model at 1:200 has to hold detail at a millimetre and be on the table on Thursday. Printing it is the only route that does both.
Send us the part
Upload the file and tell us the quantity and what it has to survive. You will get a design-for-manufacturability review and a price back — not just a price.