24-hour design review
Every quote ships with a design-for-manufacturability review from a real molding engineer within a business day. No mystery boxes, no silent rework on our end.
We built the shop we wished we'd had.
Snapfab is an injection-molding shop in San Francisco. We bring production processes into the prototype phase — fast tooling, real materials, finishing under one roof — so engineers can iterate on the part they'll actually ship.
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Injection molding gets pulled in too late.
On every product team we've worked on, the same pattern repeated: molding was the last process to enter the program. CapEx approvals, tooling committees, DFM rounds — by the time a real molded part landed on a bench, design freedom was already spent and the easy fixes were gone.
That's a process problem, not a physics problem. The molding step itself isn't slow. The system around it is.
So we rebuilt the system around it.
Snapfab is what it looks like when an injection-molding shop is engineered like a software product: instant pricing from CAD, 24-hour DFM, in-house tooling, and finishing that ships on the same shop floor as the molding press. One quote, one engineer to talk to, real parts in days instead of months.
The point isn't to replace prototyping. The point is to let teams iterate on the production part — early enough to learn from it.
// What if getting a molded part felt as simple as getting a 3D print did back in 2005? That's the bar. We built the workflow to clear it.
— Snapfab founding team
Mold-flow analysis on every tool
We simulate fill, pack, and warp before we cut steel. It's how we catch gating, knit-line, and shrinkage issues at the CAD stage instead of at first-shot.
CMM & 3D-scan validation
First-article and in-process parts go through CMM and structured-light scanning. You get a measured part, not a "looks right" part.
ISO 9001 certified facility
The whole shop runs under an ISO 9001 quality system — documented process control, traceability, and corrective-action loops on every program.
A small leadership team that has spent the last two decades on production floors, tooling programs, and software platforms — running the shop from every angle so customers only have to talk to one of us.
Rich Stump
Co-founder & Chairman
PJ Forslund
Co-founder & President
Alex Gruebele
Leadership
Chandler Gonzales
Leadership
Edmond Wong
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California
Certification
ISO 9001 quality system
Contact
support@snapfab.com
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(415) 320-1403