Ishaan Pilar

I started out as a maker: building drones, 3D printing prototypes, designing parts. That curiosity to create turned into a passion for showing how things are created.

Today, I make films and tell stories, and my thing is simple: I show how engineering and manufacturing actually look and feel. Could be a product coming to life, a factory in motion, or a prototype being tested. I focus on the details: the texture of the materials, the rhythm of the machines, the way a design moves from idea to reality.

My background in building gives me a different lens. I know what goes into making things work, and that's what I aim to translate into visual stories that people can feel.

  1. Press releases

    Fracktal Works Raises Seed Funding from Aarin Capital, MEMG

    Bengaluru, November 2024. Fracktal Works, one of India's first homegrown 3D printing companies, has received seed funding of an undisclosed amount from Mr Mohandas Pai of…

    Ishaan Pilar · 5 min read
  2. 3D Printing for Monument Conservation: 530 Karnataka Sites

    3D printing for monument conservation is the largest application of our technology outside engineering and medicine, and it began with a partnership announced in March 2024…

    Ishaan Pilar · 3 min read
  3. 3D Printing Lab for Engineering Colleges: Setting It Up

    A 3D printing lab for engineering colleges is a different thing from a printer in a school: it runs unattended overnight, it prints engineering materials rather…

    Ishaan Pilar · 4 min read
  4. 3D Printing in Schools: What a Classroom Printer Teaches

    3D printing in schools works when the printer is treated as a tool for making things, not as a subject in itself. The schools that get…

    Ishaan Pilar · 5 min read
  5. Knowledge Base

    FDM Print Settings Explained: The Six That Matter

    FDM print settings decide whether a part comes off the machine strong, accurate and on time, or as a stringy, warped object that took nine hours…

    Ishaan Pilar · 6 min read
  6. 3D Printing in Manufacturing: Tooling, Aids, Small Batches

    3D printing in manufacturing pays for itself on the parts nobody puts on a bill of materials: the fixture that holds the assembly, the guide that…

    Ishaan Pilar · 4 min read
  7. 3D Printing in Aerospace: Cabin Parts, Ducts and Tooling

    3D printing in aerospace is famous for the parts that fly: the fuel nozzle, the titanium bracket, the consolidated manifold. Those parts exist, they are metal,…

    Ishaan Pilar · 4 min read
  8. 3D Printing in the Automotive Industry: Where It Pays

    3D printing in the automotive industry has settled into three jobs it does better than anything else: prototypes that arrive in days, tooling that a plant…

    Ishaan Pilar · 4 min read
  9. How Porsche 3D Printed Pistons for the 911 GT2 RS

    Porsche's 3D printed pistons are the clearest case yet of additive manufacturing improving an engine that had already been optimised for decades. In 2020 Porsche, working…

    Ishaan Pilar · 4 min read
  10. 3D Printing in Healthcare: Models, Guides, Devices, Implants

    3D printing in healthcare divides into four things, and it helps to keep them apart: anatomical models that surgeons plan on, guides and instruments used in…

    Ishaan Pilar · 4 min read

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