🏭Cups since 2014. Company registered 2015.
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⚙️Printing parts since ~2018
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✓Engineer double-checks after you pay
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💰Priced in Rands, no forex
3PV MANUFACTURING PLATFORM
Volume parts from our floor in Paarden Eiland
Volume Parts,
Made in South Africa
Repeat orders, jigs, fixtures and replacement parts printed on our own floor in Paarden Eiland. We quote from your files, an engineer reviews every job, and we tell you honestly what our floor can take on.
Engineer-Checked Quotes
Software drafts the price from your files; an engineer reviews the job after you pay
No Minimum Orders
One prototype or a repeat production run — quoted from the same file, in Rands
Confidential by Default
We sign NDAs. Quote files stay on our Cape Town systems.
ORGANISATIONS WE'VE WORKED WITH:
DSI
FNB
Inseta
Jack Lemkus
City of Cape Town
TIA
DASHBOARD PREVIEW
Illustrative — sample data
Active Jobs
47
↗+12% this week
Printer Utilization
87%
Quotes
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Engineer-checked
Orders (sample view)
PO-2024-1847Printing
67%
PO-2024-1846QC Review
95%
PO-2024-1845Shipping
Ready for collection
STL · OBJ · STEPPriced in RandsEngineer-checked
INVITE-ONLY BETA
Talk to us about volume work
Repeat orders, jigs, fixtures and replacement parts — priced from our costing engine, made on our floor in Paarden Eiland. No waitlist counter; request a quote when you are ready.
Questions Our Customers Actually Ask
Pricing, lead times, materials, guarantees — and how Red Cup Village became 3PV.
Yes — this is bread-and-butter work for us. Bring the broken part to our floor in Paarden Eiland, or send clear photos with measurements. We reverse-engineer it, model it in CAD, and print a replacement. Garage-door cogs, shower-door tracks and wheelie-bin hinges all started life this way.
STL, OBJ, STEP and 3MF files — straight out of SOLIDWORKS, Fusion 360, PrusaSlicer, or whatever CAD you use. No file? Send photos or bring the broken part in and we'll model it for you.
Our software reads your CAD file, works out material and print time, and drafts a price in Rands. You pay that number, and an engineer reviews the job before anything prints. If the number’s wrong, we fix it — at our cost, not yours.
Your price is computed from your actual file — geometry, material and print time — in Rands. Catalogue prices you see on the site are indicative from-pricing; the binding number always comes from your file. The price you see on your quote is the price on your invoice.
The production and dispatch date is confirmed on your quote from the actual job. Collection from our floor in Paarden Eiland is free.
If we made it wrong, we make it again. Tell us what's off and we put it right — the person who ran your job is on the same floor as the person answering your email.
Production polymers, plainly explained: PLA, PETG, ABS, TPU and SLA resin. Each has honest trade-offs — stiffness, temperature, flexibility, surface finish — and we'll tell you which one actually suits your part before you pay.
All the time. If the original manufacturer stopped making it, we can usually measure what's left of yours and print a replacement. That's how the garage-door cog jobs and shower-track jobs come to us.
Yes. We're at 6-8 Perfecta Road, Paarden Eiland, Cape Town — Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 16:30, Saturdays by appointment. Bring the part; conversations go faster with the thing on the table.
We're part of Red Cup Village. We started making cups in Cape Town in 2014, added 3D printers around 2018, and today we print custom and replacement parts from our floor in Paarden Eiland.