Have you ever seen a product and thought,
“I came up with that years ago!”?
Well, that doesn’t have to happen anymore.
What if you wanted to publish your own book, develop a software application, or put your company logo on an existing product? Well, there are many platforms that allow you to do that in a single pipeline.
But what if you wanted to create your own product? How do you do that?
Development of a physical product is an expensive, complicated process.
You need to design it, fund it, manufacture it, warehouse it, sell it, and then fulfill and ship it to the customer.
Either you need to learn all these steps yourself, or you need to hire individual professionals to do the work for you.
What if a single company could perform all the tasks needed to bring your idea from napkin sketch to finished product?
CT3D is that company. We design, prototype, develop, and manufacture your product from napkin sketch all the way to finished product. We run the physical product design in parallel with the manufacturing process design, so you never get to a point where your product looks amazing but is not manufacturable.
CT3D is a New Britain, CT–based product development studio built to take ideas from napkin sketch to market-ready hardware without the usual upfront pain. We combine Design for Additive Manufacturing, Design for Manufacturing, and a fully in-house toolset (CNC, laser, large-format FDM/MSLA, 3D scanning, and finishing) so product design and manufacturing workflows evolve together. That hybrid approach keeps costs low, revisions fast, and inventory on-demand—ideal for startups, Makers, and brands that need flexible, low-volume runs. Recent work includes a patent-pending soap recycling appliance, retrofitting retractable awning hardware, medical device prototyping, and mass-producing custom word tiles for daily word challenge app.
Part of CT3D’s process is the co-development of a manufacturing process for your device. We can produce low volume runs in-house. But if your product gains traction and orders rise, we can seamlessly transition to mass production using on-demand manufacturing partners.
CT3D’s services:
Product ideation, design scope definition, preliminary design consultation, and ongoing design iteration.
Advanced CAD design for new products, reverse engineering through metrology or 3D scanning of existing products, and manufacturing process development. CNC programming (CAM) for process development on your existing CNC machines.
Fabrication of physical prototypes (either CT3D’s design or your own design). CT3D uses a combination of off-the-shelf products, 2D laser cut sheet stock (plastic or metal), 3D printed parts (plastic or metal), and CNC machined components (plastic or metal).
Low-volume manufacturing of physical products: Keep your inventory low by using CT3D’s on-demand manufacturing platform.
Re-shoring of legacy items. Let CT3D help you bring your manufacturing back to the USA!
Large-format 3D printing: Offering one of the few print-as-a-service bureaus in CT that offer large format FDM printing utilizing the Modix BIG60 FDM platform. Parts up to 24” x 24” x 26” (600mm x 600mm x 660mm).
