Upload tonight, parts in days, $27.50 a revision. The loop between 'I think this works' and 'I know this works' is the whole product — we make it short.
No RFQ, no sales call, no three-day silence. Upload at 11pm, get the firm price in under a minute, pay, and the queue starts without you. The slowest part of prototyping here is the courier.
Good prototyping means being wrong quickly and often. At $27.50 a revision, printing both candidate designs costs less than the meeting where you'd argue about which one to print.
Validate in PLA, switch the same file to PETG or PA-CF for the keeper, then batch it — discounts apply automatically from ten parts. No re-quoting, no new supplier, no surprises between v5 and the pilot run.
Print the housing, click the board in, find the standoff that's 0.5 mm off — today, not after tooling.
Functional mechanisms in PETG and nylon that survive real testing, not just the photo.
PLA Matte presentation models for stakeholders, pitches and pre-orders.
The classic loop: electronics enclosure v1 through v6, one spool of PLA, one week.
Ten to a few hundred units while tooling is decided — or instead of tooling entirely.
The jig that holds the prototype during testing is also three days away.
The iteration material: cheapest, crispest, measures closest to CAD. Burn through revisions here.
About PLA →The validation material: tough enough for real testing, weatherproof enough for the field trial.
About PETG →The final-proof material: when v6 must behave like the moulded or machined production part.
About PA-CF →A 60 g enclosure revision in PLA is about $16 — call it $27.50 with the minimum. Six revisions, two of them admitted mistakes, lands near $165 door to door. That's less than one hand-quoted prototype from a traditional bureau, and an order of magnitude less than discovering the cable clearance problem after tooling.
Two-step prototyping is the pattern that wins: iterate in PLA until the geometry is right, then print the keeper in the end-use material. The quote tool reprices the same file in one click, so the step costs nothing but the plastic difference.
Confidential project? Uploads are private, never shared, deleted on request — and you're dealing with one person, not a quoting team. NDAs welcome: hello@assysts.com.
Upload an STL — firm price in under a minute, GST included, dispatch date shown before you pay. STEP, 3MF or just a drawing? A person quotes it within one business day.