Weekly design iterations
Fit and ergonomics checks at draft finish, cheap enough to be wrong
PLAfrom ₹350
3D Printing for Hardware Startups
Iterate on real parts weekly instead of quarterly, launch on printed components without committing capital to a mould, and switch to tooling only once demand has proved itself.
The problem you are actually solving
A hardware startup has two scarce resources: runway and information. Every week spent waiting on parts burns the first without buying any of the second.
The traditional path makes this worse. A machined prototype takes two weeks and costs thousands. A tool costs lakhs and locks in a design you aren't yet sure about. Both force you to commit before you've learned what you needed to learn.
The result is the classic failure mode: a startup tools up for a design that customers then ask them to change, and the money is already in the steel.
What we make for hardware startups
Indicative prices from our published rates. Every figure is what the estimator would quote for a representative part, configure your own for an exact number.
Investor demo units
Showpiece finish, sanded and primed for photography
PETGfrom ₹1,400Enclosures for pilot units
Functional housings for the first customers
PETG / ASAfrom ₹770Launch batch, 50-300 units
Bridge production with no tooling cost
PETG / ASAfrom ₹480
Prices exclude GST and courier. An engineer confirms the final figure within one business day, submitting a request costs nothing.
Materials that suit this work
- PLA
PLA
Cheapest possible iteration. Use it for anything you'll throw away next week.
- PETG
PETG
The default for pilot units, tough enough to hand to a real customer.
- ASA
ASA
If the product lives outdoors, this is the only correct choice.
- PA-C
PA-CF
When a part is genuinely structural and PETG is flexing too much.
Not sure which applies to your part? Use the material selector , four questions and it tells you, with the reasoning.
How working with us goes
- 1
Upload your STL and get a price in rupees in about thirty seconds
- 2
We flag anything that won't print well before you pay
- 3
Draft parts in 2-4 days, rush in 24 hours if the demo is Friday
- 4
Iterate as many times as you need, repeat geometry is priced lower
- 5
When the design settles, the same file becomes your production run
The questions hardware startups customers actually ask
Printed parts will look like prototypes. Will customers accept them?
At draft or standard finish, yes they will look printed. At showpiece finish, 0.08 mm layers, sanded to 400 grit, primed, most people can't tell without being told. Budget the finish level by who is looking: draft for your own testing, showpiece for the ones you photograph or hand to investors.
When should we actually tool up?
Not until you've shipped a few hundred units of a design nobody has asked you to change. The crossover on cost is usually somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 units, but the real trigger is design stability, not volume. Tooling a design that then changes costs you the whole tool.
Can you keep up if we suddenly get an order for 200 units?
Both cells run in parallel and parts are plated to fill the build area, so throughput is considerably higher than a single-part lead time suggests. Send the geometry and the quantity and we'll give you a realistic schedule rather than an optimistic one.
Services you will use
- Rapid PrototypingSame-week design iterations so your team tests physical hardware on the cadence of a software sprint instead of a quarterly tooling cycle.
- Low-Volume Production RunsBridge production between a prototype and a tooled part, 10 to 300 units, plated efficiently and priced with volume discounts up to 18%.
- Custom 3D Modeling & Design SupportNo model yet? Bring a sketch, a photo or a broken part and we'll produce manufacturing-ready CAD and print it in the same engagement.
You have the file. Get the price in 30 seconds.
Drop in an STL and the estimator measures it in your browser, no upload, no account, no sales call before you see a number.