Case Study: Tuskegee University’s College of Veterinary Medicine achieves realistic, durable 3D-printed pet bones for veterinary education with Xometry

Tuskegee University’s College of Veterinary Medicine - Customer Case Study

Tuskegee University’s College of Veterinary Medicine faced a shortage of durable, breed-specific bone specimens for teaching and wanted to explore how 3D printing could be integrated into its curriculum on a limited budget. Dr. Deidre Quinn-Gorham partnered with her campus engineering department to scan real bones and metal plates, then turned to Xometry’s on-demand 3D printing service to produce high-resolution metal and plastic models from CAD files.

Xometry printed an aluminum version of a fracture-repair plate and delivered excellent models that helped validate the approach, while the engineering team produced additional plastic scapula samples in different sizes. The result: more durable, reproducible teaching specimens that are less prone to chipping, easy to replace by reprinting, and a new interdisciplinary partnership that led to campus 3D-printer acquisition and expanded opportunities for curriculum integration — all enabled by Xometry.

Tuskegee University’s College of Veterinary Medicine

Deidre Quinn-Gorham

Coordinator of Educational Programs and Instructional Technology