3DP Printing Service 

The Fabrication Underground operates four industry-standard 3D printers to handle a variety of needs: small parts, big parts, full color parts, clear parts, and parts that require variable ‘Shore A Softness’ values. The types of 3D printers in our collection include:

• General Purpose 3D Printing - The Formlabs Form 3 is a cost effective desktop stereolithography (SLA) 3D printer that can produce parts with smooth surfaces and high feature detail in a variety of materials such as tough, high temperature, elastic, and clear.

• Multi-Material 3D Printing - The Stratasys J850 is an advanced high resolution PolyJet 3d printer that provides the best surface quality and dimensional accuracy. The J850 is capable of digitally blending up to 6 materials which allows for the production of clear, color, or rubber-like flexible parts. Even a combination of rigid and flexible bodies within the same part is possible. 

• Large Format 3D Printing - The BigRep Studio G2 fused filament fabrication (FFF) operates much like a typical desktop 3D printer but offers 10 times the build volume. BigRep offers many materials that have been specially formulated for best results such as flexible TPU, Pro-HT, and high strength PET-CF. 

Getting started is easy, submit your 3D computer model through our online 3DP Quote Request form and you will receive a quote within 1-2 business days. Once approved, parts are ready for pick-up typically within 5 business days but that can vary dependent of the print queue. If you are curious about the print queue check out our new 3DP-Stats dashboard. 

We are happy to 3D print parts for anyone at the university but all 3D prints must be paid for with a U-M short code, no cash, no credit cards.