Case studies, cost math, and shop-floor lessons from a production 3D printing facility in Price, Utah.
FEATURED · CASE STUDYCase study: 280 engine-kit parts per build for Hutch MountainA component in Hutch Mountain's Honda GX390 conversion kits, redesigned for additive manufacturing and nested 280 to a build plate at Merit3D in Price, Utah.Aug 28, 2026
CASE STUDYCase study: printed texture and Cerakote finish on Cobalt Kinetics AR gripsAug 28, 2026
CASE STUDYCase study: 10,000 Bucket Blocks a day, zero dedicated toolingAug 28, 2026
EDUCATIONThe parts a mold can’t makeAug 28, 2026
EDUCATIONMass customization is mass productionAug 28, 2026
CASE STUDYCase study: 60,000 parts in one dayJul 29, 2026
CASE STUDYCase study: one million parts for Adhesive Technologies, re-shored without a moldJul 29, 2026A component in Hutch Mountain’s Honda GX390 conversion kits, redesigned for additive manufacturing and nested 280 to a build plate at Merit3D in Price, Utah.
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Merit3D prints AR grips for Cobalt Kinetics 32 at a time, honeycomb texture straight from the file, finished in Cerakote. Texture revisions without tooling.
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Backslope Outdoors’ Bucket Block is printed 108 to a plate at Merit3D with surge capacity near 10,000 units a day — and the same machines print other products when demand rests.
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Generative design produces geometry with no draft angles, no parting line, no uniform walls. A look at a printed drone frame that could never leave a mold, and what that freedom means for ordinary parts.
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On a printer, a plate of unique parts costs the same as a plate of identical ones. What a 3D printed wrist cast teaches about serialized, personalized, and variant-heavy production.
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On January 25, 2022 we printed 60,000 side-release buckles for Alaska Guide Creations in under eight hours on the Magna fleet. Here is how a run like that works.
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How a commodity epoxy-tube hanger came back from overseas molds: 1M+ parts at 40,000 per week, design-to-production in two weeks, three design generations mid-run.
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Before Merit3D there was a troop photo, a broken arm, a BMX race I lost, and 18 days on a bus. Blake on where the partnership actually started.
The 1997 Jamboree: 18 Days on a Bus with My Future Business Partner Read More »
HDT, tensile modulus, elongation at break, Shore hardness — what resin datasheet numbers actually mean, with worked examples from materials we run in production.
How to Read a Resin Datasheet: HDT, Elongation, Shore Hardness Read More »
What tolerances can production SLA 3D printing actually hold? Real numbers by part size, what moves them, and how to spec a drawing that won’t inflate your quote.
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