Nose cones, fin cans, avionics bays and custom components for high power rocketry — modeled in parametric CAD and printed in flight-grade polymers for L1 through L3. Plus the StratoForge Flight Simulator, to know the flight before you fly it.
Standard airframe diameters covered — 38, 54, 75, 98 mm and common LOC, PML and Blue Tube sizes. Non-standard diameters are just a parameter change.
Ogive, conical, elliptical and Von Kármán profiles printed to your airframe OD with an integrated shoulder and tethered eyebolt boss.
Single-piece fin cans with fins, root fillets and motor tube alignment printed as one part — no slotting, no epoxy fillet work, perfect fin alignment.
Sled-and-bulkhead assemblies sized for common altimeters, with standoffs, switch-band cutouts, vent ports and terminal block mounts modeled in.
Precision-fit rings with optional integrated rail button bosses, epoxy relief channels, and lightening cutouts to keep mass down.
Threaded motor retainers, screw-on retention caps, and rail buttons or one-piece rail guides for 1010 and 1515 extrusion.
Bring a sketch, a napkin drawing, or an OpenRocket file. Camera shrouds, payload bays, transitions, boat tails, tower launchers, GSE brackets — anything that can be modeled.
Material choice is driven by where the part sits on the rocket. Anything near the motor mount, or exposed to sustained sun on a Nevada pad, needs a high glass-transition temperature — PLA does not belong there.
| Material | Heat Resistance | Characteristics | Typical Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASA | ~105 °C Tg | UV stable, tough, holds up to desert sun on the pad without yellowing or creeping. | Fin cans, nose cones, exterior structure |
| PA12-CF (carbon fiber nylon) | ~150 °C HDT | Highest stiffness-to-weight, excellent impact and fatigue resistance, dimensionally stable. | Fin cans, centering rings, retainers, high-load parts |
| Polycarbonate | ~145 °C Tg | Very high impact strength and thermal margin; the choice when a part sits close to the motor. | Motor-adjacent rings, retainer bodies, thrust structure |
| PETG | ~80 °C Tg | Tough, ductile, easy to print accurately. Good value for parts away from heat. | Av-bay sleds, bulkheads, payload structure |
| ABS | ~100 °C Tg | Vapor-smoothable and easily solvent-bonded; sands to a paint-ready finish. | Cosmetic parts, transitions, boat tails |
| PLA / PLA+ | ~60 °C Tg | Cheap and dimensionally precise, but softens in a hot car or on a Nevada launch pad. | Prototypes and fit checks only — not flight parts |
Flight parts are printed with high wall counts and dense infill — structural components are not hollow shells with 15% gyroid.
Our own flight simulation software for high power rocketry. Build the vehicle, pick the motor, set the conditions, and know what the flight will do before you drive to the pad. Available in two editions.
Everything needed to design, trim and fly a single-stage rocket with confidence. Built for L1 and L2 flyers who want fast, reliable answers.
Best for single-stage L1 and L2 flights.
Everything in Standard, plus the tools needed for complex vehicles, research flights and L3 certification work — where the margins matter and the paperwork asks questions.
Built for L3, multi-stage, clustered and research flights.
Simulation is a prediction, not a guarantee. Results depend entirely on the accuracy of the mass, geometry and atmospheric data you provide, and no model fully captures a real motor on a real day. Always fly within your certification level, follow NAR and Tripoli safety codes, and defer to the RSO on site.
Most custom jobs turn around in under two weeks. You get the STL and STEP files with the parts — reprint them yourself any time.
Airframe OD, motor size, fin geometry, mass target, and where the part sits on the rocket. An OpenRocket file makes this fast.
Parametric CAD with your dimensions. You get render views and a fit-check drawing to approve before anything prints.
Material and orientation chosen for the load case. Test coupon first on tight-tolerance fits, then the production part.
Parts shipped with the STL and STEP source files. Reprints of an approved design are quoted at a reduced rate.
An FDM part is anisotropic — meaningfully weaker between layers than along them. That single fact drives every design decision here. Fin cans get printed vertically so root loads run along layer lines rather than across them. Bulkheads get printed flat so ejection charge pressure loads the part in compression, not in layer separation.
Thermal margin matters just as much. A motor casing after burnout is genuinely hot, and a rocket sitting on a Nevada pad in July bakes in direct sun at ambient temperatures above 110 °F. A part that tested fine on the bench can soften and deform before ignition. That is why nothing structural ships in PLA.
Every part is designed to be inspectable — no hidden internal geometry you can't verify after a flight.
Tell me the airframe, the motor, and what you need. Attach an OpenRocket or CAD file if you have one and the quote comes back faster.
