Fab Lab South West

Fab Lab South West is the South West Peninsula’s largest Fab Lab, based at Arts University Plymouth in the heart of Britain’s Ocean City. We connect ideas to impact through open access to advanced manufacturing – from 3D printing (FDM, SLA, SLS) and laser cutting to CNC machining, LiDAR and handheld 3D scanning – so that businesses, students and communities can move from concept to prototype to product, faster and more sustainably.

As part of the global Fab Lab network in 120+ countries, we link the region’s innovators to an international community of makers and researchers. This global-local bridge underpins Plymouth’s role as the UK’s first Fab City, committed to producing what it consumes by 2054.