PRODUCT DESIGN
Product design and development is at the core of our company. MakerBot 3D printers are used in all phases of product development by designers and engineers in every industry - from consumer electronics to industrial products to medical devices and beyond.
Hear the stories of design teams, test engineers and businesses who are using 3D printing today and learn how you can incorporate this transformative technology into your product design workflow.
Quickly realize your ideas with easy concept models
Concept models are like 3D sketches for your products. They allow you to better understand the repercussions of design decisions and share early iterations with your teammates. Desktop 3D printers allow you to create quick concept models, get feedback and make quick and cost-effective iterations all in the course of hours and days.
Produce functional products for real-world testing
Take your design to the next level by 3D printing your parts with real production materials and a high degree of dimensional accuracy. 3D print some or all of the components of your assembly, then conduct user testing, environmental testing, or torture testing to ensure your product performs as expected.
Create custom tools and test rigs to put your products through their paces
Product testing demands its own innovation and engineering. Test engineers must often create custom rigs that can put products through their paces - reaching a lifetime of wear in days, weeks, or months.
Design custom tools, rigs, fixtures, and anything else you could need to do thorough product testing and 3D print out the components for assembly or instant use. Need to make a change? Just modify your design and print a new one in as little as a few hours.
Hear the stories of design teams, test engineers and businesses who are using 3D printing today and learn how you can incorporate this transformative technology into your product design workflow.
Quickly realize your ideas with easy concept models
Concept models are like 3D sketches for your products. They allow you to better understand the repercussions of design decisions and share early iterations with your teammates.
Desktop 3D printers allow you to create quick concept models, get feedback and make quick and cost-effective iterations all in the course of hours and days.
Produce functional products for real-world testing
Take your design to the next level by 3D printing your parts with real production materials and a high degree of dimensional accuracy.
3D print some or all of the components of your assembly, then conduct user testing, environmental testing, or torture testing to ensure your product performs as expected.
Create custom tools and test rigs to put your products through their paces
Product testing demands its own innovation and engineering. Test engineers must often create custom rigs that can put products through their paces - reaching a lifetime of wear in days, weeks, or months.
Design custom tools, rigs, fixtures, and anything else you could need to do thorough product testing and 3D print out the components for assembly or instant use. Need to make a change? Just modify your design and print a new one in as little as a few hours.
How top design firms and brands are creating innovative products with METHOD
PENSA
“METHOD has proven itself to be an extremely reliable tool. The dimensional accuracy that we are getting with METHOD compared to any industrial FDM is as good or better than anything we have owned or used in the past.”
Marco Perry - CEO
How top design firms and brands are creating innovative products with METHOD
PENSA
“METHOD has proven itself to be an extremely reliable tool. The dimensional accuracy that we are getting with METHOD compared to any industrial FDM is as good or better than anything we have owned or used in the past.”
Marco Perry - CEO
Marco Perry is an award winning industrial designer and a founding partner of NYC-based product design firm PENSA. With consumers becoming more educated (and demanding), user experience and hardware design is becoming more important. Industrial designers at PENSA lean heavily on 3D printers to check their designs and communicate them to their customers. Learn more about how Marco and his team have elevated their own experience with METHOD.
Razor handle
Printer: METHOD X
TOUGH
Print Time: 1h 19m
Handle base
Printer: METHOD X
Material: TOUGH
Print Time: 0h 27m
Paul Doe is the Chief Engineer of Chassis at Prodrive. His job is to design and build the most advanced high performance race cars in the world. In 2020, his task was to build two rally cars from scratch for upstart team BRX ahead of the 2021 Dakar Rally. Learn how Paul and his team leaned on two METHOD X 3D printers - one in the shop and one in the desert for the creation of low volume, high-performance car parts.
STARRY
“With METHOD we’re taking our ideas on Monday morning and seeing what they look like on Monday afternoon or Monday Evening."
Don Lehman Head of Product Design
Don Lehman is Head of Product Design at Starry - a New York City-based company that is redefining what it means to be an internet service provider. Two of the core elements of the Starry solution are hardware products - one a customer box that looks more like a sculpture than a modem - and two an antenna for the rooftop of large residential buildings. Starry is able to prototype and test both using METHOD and its selection of materials.
PCB Holder
Printer: METHOD
Material: TOUGH
Print Time: 17h 42m
Outer shell
Printer: METHOD
Material: TOUGH
Print Time: 14h 23m
Starry
“With METHOD we’re taking our ideas on Monday morning and seeing what they look like on Monday afternoon or Monday Evening."
Don Lehman Head of Product Design
Smart Design
“If we didn’t have the METHOD I would have to plan out my prints like everyone else who is using the industrial machine whereas the METHOD is a quick print out that we can just pump out”
Brandon Rodriguez - Smart Design
Albert Kwak is an industrial designer at Smart Design who spends most of his time developing products for OXO. As a designer at one of the big NYC industrial design firms he’s no stranger to 3D printers - they have many industrial machines in the workshop. With METHOD in their design bay, Albert and his colleague Brandon Rodriguez are able to skip the cue for the industrial machines and get industrial-level prototypes in hours instead of days.
Oxo Kettle
Printer: Z18
Material: TOUGH
Print Time: 17h 20m
Smart Design
“If we didn’t have the METHOD I would have to plan out my prints like everyone else who is using the industrial machine whereas the METHOD is a quick print out that we can just pump out”
Brandon Rodriguez - Smart Design
Automotive companies we work with
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