UAV teams iterate weekly. Carbon-filled nylon airframes, gimbal mounts and payload bays print overnight, so a Monday design review can fly by Friday.
PA-CF at tuned infill gives strength-to-weight that machined aluminium can't match at this scale.
Re-upload, re-slice, re-quote in minutes — the configurator prices the new geometry live.
Orientation and wall-count recommendations come out of the slicer, not guesswork.
Primary structure — stiff, light, low warp.
Tough, cheap iteration material for fit checks.
Vibration isolators and landing dampers.
BriefAirframe needed 90 g removed without losing torsional stiffness, across weekly design reviews.
What we printedFour PA-CF variants printed per week with tuned wall counts and gyroid infill in the boom sections.
108 g removed in four weeks; flight-test cadence went from monthly to weekly.
BriefCamera footage showed rolling-shutter jelly from motor vibration.
What we printedTPU-95A isolators at three durometer-equivalent infill settings, printed and flown the same day.
Vibration artefacts removed at the mid setting; part released to serial production.
no RFQ cycle, no phone tag.