Small
£5 – £15
Keyrings, clips, brackets, knobs, small signs, fidgets, anything under roughly 50 g or a couple of hours of print time.
Send us a 3D model and we print the real thing and post it to you, anywhere in the UK. Replacement parts, brackets, miniatures, prototypes. Firm price from £6 in seconds, no quote forms, no surprise charges. Everyday PLA through to engineering-grade materials, printed in-house.
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Export a sliced 3MF from Bambu Studio or OrcaSlicer, or a STEP straight from Fusion, SolidWorks, FreeCAD or Onshape, and we price it instantly, with a live 3D preview at true printed size. Multi-plate 3MF? We read every plate and you pick which to print. Most UK print services take STL only, they reject sliced 3MF and STEP outright, or bounce you to a manual quote form.
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Our order minimum is just £6, and small prints start from £4. Many established UK print services set a minimum order of £15 to £40, so one-off parts and small jobs that other places turn away are welcome here. You get a firm price up front from the instant calculator, with no quote form and no minimum-order surprise at checkout.
It’s the standard file format for 3D printing. If you’ve downloaded a model from sites like Thingiverse, Printables or MakerWorld, it’ll usually be an .stl file. Don’t have a model yet? If it’s a simple replacement part, send a photo (a ruler in shot helps) or rough dimensions through the contact page and we’ll tell you if we can get it modelled and printed for you. The modelling is done by CEEQ Design, a local Basingstoke CAD firm we partner with. They produce the file and we print it.
Send us a photo and we will arrange a free replacement. You are dealing with one UK workshop, so there is always a real person to put it right.
We will not reproduce branded, trademarked or licensed parts without proof you hold the rights. Your own designs and freely licensed models are absolutely fine.
Sliced .3mf files get the same instant price as STLs, the slicer’s embedded grams and print time are what we use. In Bambu Studio or OrcaSlicer, slice your plates, then File → Export → Export plate sliced file (or Export all plate sliced files) and drop the result into the uploader. The price tool will show each plate with a thumbnail so you can tick just the ones you want printed; the colours in the file decide which filaments we load. Only project files that aren’t sliced yet fall back to a same-day manual quote.
Yes. Drop your .step or .stp file into the uploader and it gets the same instant price as an STL, no need to export a mesh from Fusion 360, FreeCAD, SolidWorks or Onshape first. We convert the CAD solid to a print-ready mesh in-house, keeping your exact dimensions. If a particular STEP file won’t convert (it happens with some exports), send it via the contact page and we’ll quote it manually the same day.
PLA is the most popular 3D printing material, it produces clean prints with a nice finish, and it’s great for decorative items, prototypes and general-purpose parts. PETG is tougher and more resistant to heat and moisture, making it better for functional parts that need to withstand stress, outdoor use or higher temperatures.
3D printed parts aren’t solid all the way through, the inside has a pattern (called infill) that determines how strong the part is. Light is fine for display items and covers. Standard works for most everyday parts. Strong or above is for parts that will bear loads or take mechanical stress.
FDM 3D printing builds parts up in fine layers, so a printed part has a subtle layered texture rather than the dead-smooth finish of an injection-moulded original, this is normal for the process, not a fault. For most functional and display parts it looks great straight off the printer. If you’re after a flawless, paint-ready or show finish, the part may need a little post-processing, light sanding, filler-primer and paint, which you can do yourself or we can quote as an add-on. Tell us what the part is for and we’ll recommend the best material and orientation for the cleanest result.
Yes, what you see is what you pay. No hidden fees, no surprise extras once you’ve paid. Shipping is priced separately at checkout (free second-class on orders over £40). If we spot a problem with the file after you’ve paid (bad mesh, unprintable geometry, anything else we can’t sensibly fix) we’ll email you and refund in full within 24 hours, no questions asked.
PLA Basic and PETG are in stock, so they are the cheapest options. Engineering materials (PC, ABS, ASA, TPU, Nylon and the carbon-fibre composites PETG-CF and PA-CF) carry a higher per-gram rate, and a £40 minimum order, which covers buying in the specialist filament. Ordered-in materials add one working day to dispatch. It’s all shown in your price up front, and these materials come in a focused range of colours we can reliably source.
It means we choose the filament colour for you from whatever we have in stock. To make good use of spare filament we sometimes print different parts of an order in different colours. This keeps your cost down and often speeds up dispatch, and it never affects the fit or print quality. If colour matters to you, pick a specific colour before ordering, as no-preference orders can’t be refunded or reprinted on colour grounds alone.
Upload an STL or sliced .3mf and the price tool gives you a firm price up-front, material, machine time and any PETG surcharge already included. That’s what you pay: order, pay through Stripe, we print. (Anything we can’t auto-price, we’ll quote manually the same day.)
Final price depends on size, material, infill, print time and any post-processing. Three broad tiers cover most jobs:
£5 – £15
Keyrings, clips, brackets, knobs, small signs, fidgets, anything under roughly 50 g or a couple of hours of print time.
£18 – £45
Lamps, letters, line-art pieces, small enclosures, decorative prints. Where the bulk of jobs sit.
£45+
Busts, props, multi-part models, full-size replacement shells, engineering jobs. Quoted individually to the part.
Unsure which tier applies? Upload your STL, we’ll price it in seconds.
Printed on our own fleet, never a marketplace
A mix of my own work and prints I produce for other makers and shops. Hover to pause, tap or click any tile to see more recent work.
PLA and PETG stay on the shelf in a good range of colours. For most customer jobs the right pick is obvious once you know the difference:
| PLA | PETG | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Display pieces, props, decorative parts, prototypes | Functional brackets, enclosures, replacement parts that have to take load |
| Strength | Stiff but brittle, snaps under impact | Tough & a bit flexible, shrugs off knocks |
| Heat resistance | Softens around 55–60°C | Holds shape to about 75–80°C |
| Outdoor / sunlight | Not recommended, warps & goes brittle | OK for short periods outside |
| Finish | Matte, easy to sand & paint | Slight sheen, glues well, harder to sand |
| Relative cost | Standard | Around 10–15% more |
Need something tougher? ABS, ASA, TPU, PC, nylon and the carbon-fibre composites PETG-CF and PA-CF are all orderable straight from the price tool above; we buy the reel in for your job (+1 working day, £40 engineering minimum). We keep PLA and PETG on the shelf because 90% of jobs use one of them. Full detail in the materials guide and on the carbon fibre page.
What it actually takes to get a printed part to your house. Skip to the price tool →
Firm price in seconds. No quote forms.
Material, quantity, lead time. Price updates live.
Card or PayPal. £6 order minimum.
Bench-checked and photographed before packing.
Royal Mail Tracked from £3.95 (free over £40).
Browse millions of free 3D-printable designs on these libraries, then come back and upload the .stl file for an instant price.
Prusa-run library, very active community, high-quality models. Free to download with an account.
The original. Massive back-catalogue, great for everyday parts, brackets and props. No login needed.
Bambu Lab’s library, lots of polished, ready-to-print designs. Download the .stl from the file list.
Mix of free and paid; the free section has strong cosplay, miniatures and decor categories.
Curated quality, tabletop minis, scan-the-world artefacts, licensed franchises. Free + paid.
Search engine across most of the libraries above. Best when you know what you want and just need to find it.
Need a custom design from scratch? We partner with CEEQ Design, a Basingstoke CAD and mechanical design firm, who can model it for you, then we print it. Got a sketch or rough idea? Send us a message and we’ll point you in the right direction.
Got an idea, a sketch or a broken part but no 3D file? You don’t need to learn CAD or trawl a freelance marketplace. For full custom design we partner with CEEQ Design, a Basingstoke CAD and mechanical design studio. They turn your concept, photo or worn-out part into a clean, print-ready model, then we print it in PLA, PETG, ASA or PC and post it to you. One job, idea to finished part.
Need a part modelled, simple or precision? Just send a photo with a ruler in shot. All modelling is handled by our partner, CEEQ Design. Or if you’d rather buy something finished than commission a custom part, browse ready-made 3D-printed décor from our partners.
Build volume, tolerances and materials at a glance. If your part needs something not listed here, email us, most requests are doable, we just don’t stock the exotic stuff by default.
A fleet of machines, each picked for different jobs. Between them we cover everyday colour prints, large engineering parts, faster turnarounds, and demanding engineering materials.
Fully enclosed CoreXY machine with a large build volume, heated chamber and automatic multi-material switching. Runs custom Klipper firmware for faster, cleaner output than the factory software ships with. This is our printer for engineering jobs, larger brackets, and anything that wants PETG or higher-temp materials without warping.
A fast bedslinger with automatic multi-colour and multi-material switching. Perfect for everyday PLA work, colour miniatures, decorative pieces and anything where you’d rather see a finished part tomorrow than three days from now.
A fully enclosed CoreXY printer running up to 600 mm/s with a hardened 300 °C hotend and automatic multi-colour and multi-material switching. The sealed chamber lets us print engineering materials in-house, ABS, ASA, PC, nylon (PA) and carbon-fibre-reinforced filaments, for tough, heat- and UV-resistant parts like console housings, outdoor mounts and functional gears, with excellent surface quality even on the toughest filaments.
Free workshop-authored guides on 3D printing, slicer settings, and printer choice. Worth reading before you upload, or browse the full help library.
Drop an STL or a sliced .3mf onto the quoter and you get a firm price in about three seconds. No forms, no waiting for an email back, no surprise charges at the end. The price you see is the price you pay, and it covers the print itself in the material and colour you chose.
If you upload a raw STL we slice it on our side using sensible defaults for the material, wall count, infill and layer height tuned for a part that actually holds up. If you upload a sliced .3mf from Bambu Studio or OrcaSlicer we honour your settings, so power users stay in control of walls, infill pattern and supports.
The quote covers the printed part in your chosen material, everyday PLA through to PA-CF carbon fibre, single or multi-colour, plus basic support removal and a visual check before it goes in the post. Bulk runs of 5 or more identical parts get a discount that shows up automatically in the quote.
Once you confirm and pay, the part goes into the print queue. Turnaround is typically 2 to 4 working days from order to dispatch, then Royal Mail or a tracked courier across the UK depending on size and weight. Small parts ship in a padded envelope; larger or fragile prints go in a box with foam.
A handful of files will not quote automatically, usually broken meshes, wildly oversized models, or geometry that needs custom support work. If that happens, send the file through contact and we will look at it by hand and come back with a price and a realistic timeline.