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Enclosures that fit the first time. Designed around your board.

Describe your product or bring your board. Tinkered designs the case around it, measures the fit and prepares the files for your printer or the factory.

Design your case, free
Tinkered’s CAD workspace: the printed case of an ESP32-C3 sensor breakout, a dark base and a white lid with its USB-C opening and the Tinkered wordmark on its side, its fit checked and marked print ready, its base and lid sliced to G-code for a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon, its renders listed beside it and the agent’s cards for the routed board and the case on the right.
Capabilities

Design the case, prove it works and get it made.

  1. An X-ray view of a desk CO2 monitor: its circuit board seen through a clear lid, sitting on the case’s posts, the USB-C at its wall opening and the display behind its window.
    Designs the whole caseEvery port, button, light and screen in its place, from the real board.
  2. A shutter controller’s board in its wall case, half shown as its heat analysis sees it: warmest around its power parts.
    Proves it worksEvery plug and button measured to fit, and the heat worked out with the case closed.
  3. A cutaway of a collar pet tracker’s open bottom shell: its circuit board seated inside, the battery in its bay beneath the board and the chip antenna along the front edge.
    Plans board and case togetherPorts, battery and antenna decided first, then the board shaped to fit.
  4. A case’s base and lid on a textured print bed, the lid half printed under the hotend.
    Ready to makeChecked for your process, sliced for your printer or drafted for the mould.
  • A USB-C plug pushed fully into the back of the monitor’s case, its overmold seated in the recess round the port.
  • The case cut open at its button: the cap’s plunger standing just above the switch on the board.
  • The case cut open at its status light: a clear light pipe running from the lid down to the LED on the board.
  • The case cut open at its screen: the display’s glass sitting behind the window in the sloped lid.

Every fit, measured.

Each plug, button, light and screen is checked against the real board before you print.

  1. 01The plug seats fully
  2. 02The button reaches its switch
  3. 03The light gets out
  4. 04The screen lines up with its window
  5. 05The board drops in and is held
  6. 06Nothing collides

The board fits the case, too.

Tinkered plans the product first, then shapes the board to fit it.

A plan drawing of a collar pet tracker seen from above: the case outline, the board’s outline inside it, the battery bay, the antenna’s clear zone hatched and the two charging contacts.

Made for how you’ll make it.

Print it at home or send it to a factory. Every part is checked for the way it will be made.

A robot rover’s top shell half printed, upside down as it prints: its toolpaths drawn layer by layer from the sliced G-code, outer walls, infill and tree supports under the wheel-well roofs, the rest of the shell a faint outline above.
Sliced for your printerPrint time and filament known before you start
The same shell seen through, as it lies on the print bed, with the surfaces that need support, the two wheel-well ceilings and the edge by the bed, picked out solid.
Overhangs found before it printsHighlighted: the faces that need support
The base of an LED controller’s case built for injection moulding, its faces coloured by their draft: the walls drafted in green, its posts with none in amber, and the small undercuts at its screw ears and USB-C opening in red.
  • Drafted
  • No draft
  • Undercut
Checked for the mouldWalls drafted; posts and undercuts flagged to fix

Made for the printer you already own.

Tinkered slices for 22 printers from these makers.

Or send the same files to a manufacturer
  • Protolabs
  • SendCutSend
  • Xometry
  • Anycubic
  • Bambu Lab
  • Creality
  • Elegoo
  • Flashforge
  • Prusa
  • QIDI
  • Sovol
  • Voron Design

Beyond the case.

Brackets, mounts and mechanisms too. Every model is code you can read and edit.

  • A bent aluminium L bracket with its mounting holes and slots, standing behind its flat pattern drawn as a cut outline with a dashed bend line.
    Aluminium bracket
  • A dark grey 3D-printed L-shaped mount with two triangular gussets and two slotted holes in its foot, holding a black square stepper motor by four socket head screws, the motor’s shaft passing through a teardrop-shaped hole in the face plate.
    Stepper motor mount
  • An engineering drawing of a round cap: its top and front views with their dimensions and a through-hole callout.
    Engineering drawing

Questions, answered.

Does Tinkered design the case around my board?

Yes. The case takes its size, posts and openings from your actual board and every part on it. Each connector gets an opening its plug seats through, each button a cap that reaches its switch, each LED a way out for its light and each display its window. Change the board and the case is rebuilt to match, and fitted again.

How do I know it will fit before I print?

Every case is measured against the board in millimetres: plugs seat, buttons reach their switches, light gets out, the board drops in and is held, and nothing collides. A second AI reviewer then inspects the finished case before it reaches you. Anything that could not be measured is flagged to you, never counted as a pass.

Does it check how hot it gets inside the case?

Yes. For a board that gives off real heat, Tinkered works out how warm the air inside the case gets, the temperature across the board and at each chip whose datasheet gives its limit, and how much the board warms its own sensors. The board is not released for manufacturing until those checks pass.

Can I print it on my own 3D printer?

Yes. Tinkered checks each part for printing, picks the way it lies on the bed and slices it to G-code for your printer and filament, with the print time and grams before you start. It is set up for 22 popular printers from Bambu Lab, Prusa, Creality, Elegoo, Anycubic, Sovol, Voron, Flashforge and Qidi, in PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA, TPU and PA-CF.

Can it design for injection moulding, not just 3D printing?

Yes. It designs for FDM, resin (SLA) and powder (SLS and MJF) printing, and for injection moulding. Each process sets the walls, holes and clearances the case is built with. For moulding, the walls get their draft and the case is checked for draft and undercuts before it goes to a toolmaker.

Which files do I get?

STEP for any CAD tool or manufacturer, STL and 3MF for printing, G-code sliced for your printer, GLB for the web, DXF for laser cutting and sheet metal, and a dimensioned engineering drawing as a PDF.

Can it work from a box I already have, or a board I didn’t design?

Both. Start from an enclosure you already have and Tinkered lays out the board to fit inside it. Bring a board someone else made, from its maker’s Gerbers, drawing or STEP, and the case is measured from those real files, never guessed from a description.

Can I edit the design myself?

Yes. Every model is readable code, kept in your project. Ask for a change in plain words, or open the model and change any dimension yourself. Either way it is rebuilt and measured again.

Can it design more than enclosures?

Yes. Brackets and mounts built around the real motors and parts they hold, sheet-metal parts with their flat patterns, and mechanisms with joints, exported with their robot description files.

What will you design?