Deluxe Interior Emblem Rechroming?

I take an origional and draw it up it CAD.

Then I 3D print it in plastic to see what needs tweeking.

Tweak, print, tweak print. Till I'm happy.


Then there are 3D metal printers online and send the file to them for printing.

The metal printing is laser sintering.

There is a bed of metal particles, where ever the laser hits gets melted together, layer by layer till it is complete.

Then they can polish the part, (J_Anderson had the 318 polished by the 3D printer and it came out ok but they were a bit careless in the process and nicked some corners.)

Or you can polish it or have it polished and/or chromed.

I'm going to take my housing to a chrome shop and see what they can do.

The material is a stainless material, the 3D printer has other materials too like brass. It turns out that SS is hard to tap and on my housing I have 4 holes that needed tapping so I'm thinking brass and then chrome