Where designs become physical objects. This is the digital-fabrication side of the shop — the fast loop between an idea, a CAD model, and a part you can hold.
The tools:
- CAD — modeling parts and assemblies before a single gram of filament or square inch of stock gets cut. Design for the process, then make it.
- 3D printing — functional prototypes, brackets, jigs, enclosures, and one-off parts that don’t exist anywhere to buy.
- Laser cutting — flat stock into precise profiles: panels, templates, gaskets, and parts that get folded or assembled into something bigger.
The point of this room is iteration speed: print it, find what’s wrong, fix the model, print it again. Most projects bounce between here and the metal shop — printed prototypes that become welded final versions, or laser-cut fixtures that hold a weldment square. Prototypes that worked and ones that didn’t both get written up here.