Can 3D printing be used for production, not just prototypes?
Yes, and that is where most of our work sits. Over 2.5 million components we have printed are in service across 25 vehicle programmes. The case studies on this page are production parts — 350 car-sets of HVAC ducting, hundreds of parts per car across a full hypercar production run, and a 700-car programme of engine-bay ducting. Instant online pricing runs from one part to 100,000.
What tolerance can you hold on a 3D printed part?
Our standard tolerance is ±0.3 mm for parts up to 100 mm in size. For larger dimensions it is generally calculated as ±0.3 mm for the first 100 mm, plus an additional ±0.1% for every 100 mm thereafter. Tighter fits, bores and mating faces are achieved by printing near-net and machining the critical features — tell us which dimensions matter at quote and we will plan and inspect around them.
What is bridge production?
Producing parts additively to keep a line running while injection tooling is being cut or modified, then handing over to the tool once it is good. Our Jaguar Land Rover work is the clearest example: 350 car-sets of HVAC ducting delivered in three months, tested at 80°C for 96 hours and crush-matched to the original HDPE part, so vehicles kept shipping instead of waiting on the tool.
How large a 3D printed part have you made?
The Longbow Speedster show-car body, at 5,850 × 3,200 mm, printed in large-format FDM sections and bonded into one shell. Our single-piece FDM envelope is 500 × 500 × 900 mm; anything larger is split, printed, bonded, finished and inspected as an assembly.
What 3D printed parts have you made for automotive OEMs?
Ducting, cooling components, housings, turbo intakes, clean-air manifolds, centre consoles, interior trim and ESD-safe parts, across 25 vehicle programmes. We are a polymer bureau, so we do not make load-path critical parts — anything holding the car together is not ours, and we will say so.
Which manufacturers has RYSE 3D worked with?
Named programmes include Aston Martin, Mercedes-AMG, Jaguar Land Rover, Lotus, Gordon Murray Design, Williams Advanced Engineering, Red Bull Advanced Technologies, Multimatic, Morgan, McMurtry, Norton Motorcycles, Textron Specialized Vehicles, Longbow Motors and Esox Group. A significant amount of our work sits under confidentiality and cannot be named.
Do you work under NDA?
Routinely. Much of our automotive work is under confidentiality and never appears publicly. We are Cyber Essentials certified and your CAD stays inside our own systems, with full traceability on every part. If a programme needs an NDA in place before you send us anything, tell us and we will sort it first.
How do I start a programme with RYSE 3D?
Upload your CAD to the instant quote tool for GBP pricing in seconds, on anything from one part to 100,000. No CAD yet? Send us the physical part and we will 3D-scan and quote it back, or request free samples to judge a material before you commit to a spec. For anything programme-scale, call our engineers on 024 7736 0144 and talk it through.
