Capabilities
A farm built around two hard problems
Printing soft materials at volume is a different discipline from printing rigid ones: feed paths, retraction, drying, plate adhesion, every setting that works for PLA fights you at 70A. Printing foamed materials adds another: expansion changes with temperature and speed, so holding a target density across a fleet takes real process control. Most farms avoid both. Ours runs both all day, and they share one virtue: the weight and the feel of the part are things we tune, not things the filament dictates.
The fleet
100+ Bambu Lab H2D, one material family
The farm runs high-volume consumer production year-round, seven days a week. Drone components ride on the same machines, the same materials, and the same process discipline. That matters more than any single machine spec: the printers that make your parts were not warmed up for the demo. They never cooled down.
What the H2D platform gives your parts
- Dual-nozzle printing: soft part body, rigid break-away supports, no glue and no solvent bath
- Enclosed, temperature-managed chambers for consistent elastomer behavior
- Filament drying and feed handling tuned for soft and foaming materials
- Fleet-level monitoring, so a failed print gets caught in minutes, not at the end of a shift
Where we fit in your volume curve
The economic band for printed elastomers is roughly 100 to 5,000 units per SKU: below molding's tooling break-even, above what an engineering team should be hand-feeding. Design changes cost nothing but a new file, which is why this band is also where fast iteration lives. At true mass scale, molding wins, and we will tell you when your volume gets there.
Part categories
What we print every week
| Category | Typical materials | Why printed beats molded here |
|---|---|---|
| Antenna mounts | TPU 85A–95A | Crash survival, geometry churn across airframe revisions |
| Camera cages & gimbal isolators | Foamed TPU, 70A–85A | Weight cut where it matters most; damping tuned per camera mass |
| Arm bumpers & skid plates | TPU 90A–95A | Sacrificial parts, reordered often, no tooling to amortize |
| Landing gear | TPU 95A, foamed | Large soft parts that are painful on powder-bed per-cm³ pricing |
| Vibration dampers & FC mounts | Very soft TPU, 60A–70A | Cleaner gyro data; durometer matched to board mass |
| Battery pads & internal cushioning | Foamed TPU | Conforming geometry, density graded through the part |
| Wing sections & skins | Foamed PLA | Structural weight cut where every gram costs range or payload |
| Fuselage components, formers & nose cones | Foamed PLA, lightweight foaming polymers | Complex internal geometry with no tooling, revised as fast as the airframe |
Rigid H2D-compatible materials (PETG, ASA, PA blends) quoted on request alongside elastomer orders.
Files
Send what your CAD exports
3MF preferred (including Bambu Studio project files with your print profile embedded), STL and STEP welcome. If you already tuned a profile you like, send it; we will start from yours and tell you what we changed and why.