Glove Box Enclosure for Adi Designs

A glove box enclosure for Adi Designs, built from their 3D model in laser-cut acrylic and XPS foam, with 3D printed glove ports.

Client: Adi Designs
Service: Product Development & Prototyping
What they got: Two glove ports, a viewing window and an open stand
Whose design: Adi Designs' own 3D model
How it was made: Laser cutting, 3D printing and assembly by hand

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What we brought

What we can do
Acrylic, foam and 3D printing in one build
Laser-cut acrylic, blue XPS foam and 3D printed glove ports, all made in our studio and fitted together.
How we look after you
We build from your own 3D model
We worked from Adi Designs' 3D model, laid out the cutting files and built the box by hand.
What you get
A box you can reach into
Two round glove ports face each other across a white interior, with a framed window to see inside.

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The finished piece
Window and glove port, raised on its stand.
Head-on, through the viewing window.
A glove port, from the back corner.
Inside: the two glove ports face each other.
A walk round the finished box.
ProductionLaser-cut acrylic plates, ready for assembly.
Build & assemblyTrimming the window opening by hand.
Pressing the panels square.
Assembled on the workbench.

The build

How we built it

4 steps, from the brief to the finished piece. Pick a step to jump to it.

The brief

Step 1 of 4 · 11/06/2026

Materials: Acrylic and XPS foam
Shape and size: To Adi Designs' 3D model
Quantity: One finished box

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we built a glove box enclosure for Adi Designs from their 3D model. They needed it made and assembled: acrylic panels, XPS foam, glove ports and the hardware to hold it together.

Production

Step 2 of 4 · 18/06/2026

We laser-cut the acrylic panels from cutting files laid out from Adi Designs' model, cut the blue XPS foam to size and 3D printed the round glove port rings.

Six white laser-cut acrylic plates laid flat, with rectangular and round cut-outs and rows of drilled holes for fixings — Laser-cut acrylic plates, ready for assembly.

Build & assembly

Step 3 of 4

We fitted the panels together with the XPS foam, trimmed the window opening by hand and seated the glove ports, checking each face sat square before the box went on its stand.

A team member trimming the edge of the window opening with a chisel, the acrylic and blue foam layers showing at the cut — Trimming the window opening by hand.

A team member at the workbench pressing the panels of the closed box square, a glove port on the face towards him — Pressing the panels square.

The assembled box on the workbench, with its viewing window, a white glove port and the blue foam rim around the open top — Assembled on the workbench.

The final build

Step 4 of 4 · 30/06/2026

Adi Designs got a finished glove box: two round glove ports facing each other, a framed viewing window, white acrylic inside and a blue foam rim, raised on an open stand.

The finished glove box from a front corner: a viewing window framed in blue foam on one face and a white glove port on the other, raised on its stand — Window and glove port, raised on its stand.

How it looks

A walk round the finished box.

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Glove Box Enclosure for Adi Designs

What we brought

Acrylic, foam and 3D printing in one build

We build from your own 3D model

A box you can reach into

Gallery