About

CT3D is an advanced design, manufacturing, and fabrication company located in New Britain/Hartford, CT. As a for-profit LLC founded in 2022, CT3D is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, Makers, and small businesses bring products from napkin sketch to finished product faster and for less initial investment than traditionally possible. CT3D does this by focusing on design for additive manufacturing (DfAM), 3D printing, 2D laser cutting, and off-the-shelf components, allowing the product to be developed quickly. After the initial development process is completed, the product lives as a digital asset on the entrepreneur's platform (TikTok, Etsy, SquareSpace, etc) until a customer purchases it. Only then is the product fabrication and the order fulfilled. 

The benefit of this is that bringing a product to market traditionally means massive up-front investment in tooling, large initial order numbers, and then warehousing/logistics. All of this before any product is sold. In addition, once the product is manufactured you're locked into that design, even if it turns out to be defective down the road. CT3D's process allows for a smaller up-front investment, and a constantly flexible design that can be tweaked and modified based on customer feedback. The downside with CT3D's process is that the per-unit costs are higher initially, but they decrease as scale increases. CT3D can also perform small scale manufacturing on-site, but then seamlessly transition to mass production if the product takes off by using on-demand manufacturing partners like Slant3D, SendCutSend, and FormLabs.

Due to advances in the areas of additive manufacturing (3D printing), subtractive manufacturing (CNC machine technology), Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Manufacturing/CNC Programming (CAM), and open-source animation & rendering, the only limiting factor is the imagination of the user.

CT3D is dedicated to pushing the envelope of this technology and providing access for hobbyists, entrepreneurs, and startups.