About Us

Dark Market Designworks operates out of Vancouver, BC Canada. 

At the end of 2020 it was apparent that creating hobby products for friends and family, would no longer be enough. We have tooled up in order to keep up with the amazing and rapidly growing maker community. 

3D PRINTING

For 3D Printing our process starts in the concept design phase with Fusion 360. We then take those files and run them through the Flashprint slicer to create a set of printing conditions to strike the perfect balance between aesthetics, strength, and time to manufacturer. 

Printing with ABS material is much more challenging than working with PLA, PETG etc. It requires high temperatures for both the extruder and heat bed of the printer, as well as a stable temperature within the enclosure of the printer itself. All of these conditions are required to prevent the ABS parts from warping and cracking throughout a large or long duration print as the temperatures of the plastic change. 

Why bother with ABS in the first place? Because we want our parts to have a high impact resistance, water resistance, and most crucially to have high heat resistance. It would be foolish to think that some of our products wont be subjected to 40C sun exposure, and perhaps even 60C in an enclosed space. Luckily ABS can take the heat and has a working temperature of -10C / 100C.

In order to repeatedly print quality parts, we have invested in and operate multiple Flashforge Guider ll Printers. These printers are ABS production beasts. 

All of our products start with an entirely original design file, and proprietary printing recipe. There is no badging or creative commons production here. That is not to say that if an amazing product was brought to us we wouldn't consider joint production with the appropriate attribution, but for now we are focused in house. 

CNC - Products coming soon! 

We recently acquired a Shapeoko Pro XXL CNC machine. After exploring the strengths and weakness of manufacturing with 3D printers it was apparent we needed to ability to machine larger pieces in less time. This also allows us the flexibility to work with many other materials. In particular there is a series of work coming that are aluminum and acrylic, and naturally wood will also be on the table.