Custom Enclosures, Housings and End-Use Parts
Electronic housings, covers, low-volume products, and custom interfaces.
Validate DesignsAbout Custom Enclosures, Housings and End-Use Parts
Before committing to expensive mass production tooling, it is crucial to rigorously test your design. 3Dit provides functional testing models that perform under real-world conditions.
We utilize engineering-grade materials that mimic the thermal, chemical, and mechanical properties of your final production plastics. This allows your engineering team to perform drop tests, thermal cycling, fluid flow analysis, and mechanical load testing with confidence, ensuring your product is flawless before it hits the market.
Understanding the Problem
Producing custom electronic enclosures in low volumes (10s to 100s) via injection molding is prohibitively expensive due to tooling costs. Off-the-shelf enclosures rarely fit custom PCBs perfectly.
What We Can Produce
- IoT device housings
- Custom control panels
- Low-volume consumer products
Relevant Industries
How It Works
A quick look at the processes and limitations.
Processes & Materials
SLS and MJF are perfect for end-use enclosures as they produce strong, isotropically solid parts without support structures, resulting in a clean, professional finish.
Suitable Materials:
Design Considerations
- 1Designing snap-fits and bosses
- 2Clearances for PCBs and connectors
- 3Surface finishing (painting/texturing)
Scaling IoT Hardware
An IoT startup needed 500 custom housings for a pilot program. We used SLS printing to deliver production-ready enclosures in two weeks, bypassing injection molding entirely.
Start Your ProjectFrequently Asked Questions
Yes, we can either print pre-assembled mechanisms using soluble supports or print individual components with precise tolerances for manual assembly and testing.
Yes, we offer materials like Ultem and PEEK which possess incredibly high heat deflection temperatures, perfect for under-the-hood automotive or aerospace testing.
Modern engineering resins and filaments are formulated to closely simulate the tensile strength, flexural modulus, and impact resistance of standard injection molded thermoplastics.