Case Study: SDHQ Off‑Road achieves 93% faster fixture production and 99% cost savings with Markforged Onyx

SDHQ - Customer Case Study

SDHQ, a developer of custom off‑roading vehicle products, was slowed by welded steel fixtures used to hold parts during welding—fixtures that were costly, time‑consuming to produce and prone to errors such as imperfect bending, corrosion and poor repeatability. To address this, SDHQ adopted Markforged solutions, printing fixtures with Onyx on a Mark Two printer.

Markforged replaced hand‑welded fixtures with strong unibody Onyx fixtures printed on demand, eliminating many sources of error and enabling easy reprints from the cloud. The change cut fixture build time from 156 hours to 12 hours (≈93% time savings) and reduced cost from $800 to $10 (≈99% cost savings), while improving durability, fit and overall part quality.

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Kevin Ketchner

Shop Foreman