3D Printed Electronics Enclosures & Housings
3D Printed Electronics Enclosures & Housings
Custom housings built around your electronics — mounting bosses, real threaded inserts, ventilation, and cable pass-throughs — in engineering materials tough enough for production. No off-the-shelf box you have to drill into, and no tooling to justify.
The short version: We produce custom electronics enclosures and housings as real production parts — in ASA, polycarbonate, and glass filled nylon — with integrated mounting bosses, heat-set inserts, ventilation, and cable pass-throughs. Designed to fit your PCB exactly, produced in low-to-mid volume with no tooling and no MOQ, and available outdoor-rated for UV and weather.
The Off-the-Shelf Box Problem
Every hardware team knows the pain: the stock project box never has the cutouts in the right place, never fits the board cleanly, and always leaves someone drilling holes by hand and hot-gluing standoffs. That's fine for a one-off, but it's no way to ship a product. A custom enclosure flips it — the box fits your electronics instead of your electronics fighting the box: ports line up, bosses hold the PCB where it belongs, vents sit where heat actually builds, and the lid actually closes.
Injection molding gives you that fit, but only after thousands of dollars in tooling and months of lead time — a bad trade for the low-to-mid volumes most hardware products ship at, especially while the design is still evolving. Printing gives you the custom fit with none of the tooling, and you can revise the enclosure as your board revs.
Production Enclosure Features We Build In
Mounting Bosses & Inserts
PCB standoffs and bosses sized to your board, with heat-set brass inserts for durable, reusable metal threads.
Cable Pass-Throughs & Glands
Connector cutouts, cable entries, and boss features sized for commercial cable glands — positioned exactly where your ports are.
Ventilation & Cooling
Vent slots and airflow features placed where heat actually builds, and fan mounts for devices that need active cooling.
Snap-Fits & Closures
Snap-fit or screw-down lids, sealing lips, and alignment features — designed with proper clearances so the enclosure closes right every time.
Outdoor & Sealed
Weather-resistant enclosures in ASA for UV and moisture, with gaskets and sealing designs for ingress protection.
Branding & Labels
Logos, labels, and text printed directly into the surface, plus color options in FDM — no secondary labeling step.
Materials for Real Enclosures
| Material | Best for | Why |
|---|---|---|
| ASA | Outdoor & UV-exposed housings | UV and weather resistant without going brittle |
| Polycarbonate | High-heat & high-impact enclosures | Impact strength and heat resistance |
| Glass filled nylon | Rigid, dimensionally stable housings | Stiff and stable for precise fitment |
| PETG / ABS | Cost-effective indoor enclosures | Tough, everyday functional housings |
Material matched to the enclosure's real environment — indoor, outdoor, heat, or impact — during quoting. Datasheets available on request.
We Review Every Enclosure Before We Print It
Enclosures live or die on the details, so every file gets an engineering review before the build: we check wall thickness, snap-fit clearances, boss diameters and hole depth, and whether each feature is accessible for the chosen print orientation. If a boss is too thin, a vent will bridge poorly, or a snap-fit clearance won't hold, we flag it with specific dimensional feedback before the run — not after you've got a box of parts that don't close. That's the difference between a print shop and a manufacturer, and it's how the enclosure works the first time. See our design-for-production approach and tolerances guide for how we design the fits.
Prototype to Production, One Vendor
Validate the enclosure as a functional prototype, confirm the PCB fits and the lid closes, then run production — same geometry, same features, same facility. No switching vendors between prototype and production, no re-tooling, and reorders run from the validated file. It's the same path we run for all end-use production parts, backed by real production capacity when your volume grows.
Get Your Enclosure Quoted
Upload your enclosure CAD (and PCB dimensions if you want us to verify fitment). We'll review the design, recommend the material for the environment, and commit a lead time — as soon as one week depending on complexity and volume.
Request a QuoteFrequently Asked Questions
Chatelet Manufacturing is a US-based contract manufacturer in the Orlando, Florida area, operating 85+ FDM production printers. We produce carbon fiber nylon, glass filled nylon, ASA, polycarbonate, PETG, and TPU parts from prototype through low-volume production, with turnaround as soon as one week depending on part complexity and volume.