3D CAD Prototype Services

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MNL work alongside you and your product development process. With 50 years of experience in product development, we turn your concept into a tangible prototyped part. We utilise our team’s knowledge and expertise in rapid prototyping to make sure your part is analysed before it’s built so we know it’s built to the very best standard – the Malcolm Nicholls Standard.

Our Production Methods

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CAD Data Services For Prototypes

3D Data Translation:

Basic 3D printing requires STL files and we have a whole host of translation products to help translate virtually all mainstream CAD data formats. For a full list of data types that we can handle click here Data Translation.

Graphics Data:

We have the full Adobe Creative Suite, so pretty much all graphics formats whether pixel or vector are acceptable. Depending upon the graphics type you require, our technology consultants will advise the best format to use.

2D to 3D data conversion:

Our CAD department can convert small sketches or any 2D data into suitable data for 3D printing.

Design work:

We can offer a basic design assistance service. We also have links with many designers and agencies for larger projects.

Examples Of Our Work

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Concept Twisty Taps

Malcolm Nicholls Limited (MNL) produced an eye-catching set of conceptual 3D Printed Vacuum Metalizing taps for their own purpose at a trade show. The taps were designed in-house using SolidWorks. Once...
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Drayton Manor Hotel Carousel

Looking for a large scale model? Coming full circle in the 40th year for Malcolm Nicholls Limited (MNL), one of the company’s recent projects was with the same company with which Malcolm Nicholls...
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Type 45 Destroyer – Defence Exhibition Model

Traditional Model Making at it's finest, here we demonstrate a blend of old and new technologies to create this fantastic Defence Exhibition Model  ... The Type 45 model was commissioned as a...
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Complex Investment Cast “Ball”

We have been producing Ministry Of Defence MOD prototypes for many years, like most Ministry of Defence contracts, confidentiality is a must, here at Malcolm Nicholls we pride ourselves on our discretion and...
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Layered Door Concept Mirror Model

When Invention meets Innovation When First Tier Automotive supplier UT Automotive wanted a concept car door to show off their radically different fuel saving wing mirror system, they...
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Mobil Delvac Truck Display Model

The entire automotive display model was used for exhibition purposes all around the globe. The model cab demonstrated where Mobil’s products are used around a typical truck cab, and...
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Automotive 3D Printed Tyre Mould – Investment Cast

Looking for a 3D Printed Automotive Tyre Mould case study? Malcolm Nicholls was commissioned by a  worldwide tyre manufacturer to aid them in developing a radically different 3D Printed...
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Goalpoker Trophy

Goalpoker Trophy Malcolm Nicholls Limited (MNL) utilised our 3D Printing technologies and low volume manufacturing to produce 40 trophies Malcolm Nicholls Limited's (MNL) challenge was to produce a Goal poker Trophy. MNL were supplied with a 2D sketch and...
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Copaxone Advert

Malcolm Nicholls Limited (MNL) were approached by a London Model Making company on behalf of a creative advertising agency to produce models for a forthcoming campaign. The agency wanted to produce five...
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BA Cuppa Advert

MNL's brief was to produce an SLA model that would be used in photography for a BA Advert. In collaboration with Mimesis Models, a company in London who specialise in models for commercials and Adverts, MNL...
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Our Expertise

Concept models, block models, architectural models, POS, trophies, scale models, photographic models, exhibition models, models for television, large fabricated models and wind tunnel models etc.

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