3D Ignorant Vet Needs Duck Bill Printed

[curious aardvark]

What you most likely need is sls nylon.
It's got the same mix of rigidity and a little flexibility and give as a natural beak would.

There are some fdm materials around that could be used.

Your best bet is to see if you have a makerspace in your area.
That will be full of anoracks (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-3...gateway&sr=8-1) just dying to get involved with this kind of project. They'd probably pay you for the opportunity and bragging rights :-)

Scanning the bottom bill or a bill from another duck - is going to be extremely tricky. Unless you have acces to an mri-scan, but then things start to get that expensive that you start looking up duck a'lorange recipes instead ;-)

The basic duck bill shape should actually be pretty easy to model/design. As tommy says, the point and method of attachment is going to be the biggest issue.

Something like taulmans nylon 645 or ninjatek's armadillo would probably be suitable materials for the beak itself. Depends on what sort of rigidity you need. A dual material print, could work too.

The slightly rougher texture you get with fdm would probaly be more suitable for the inner side of the beak anyway, give a bit more grip.

Should be fairly easy to measure the lower beak with some digital calipers and a fairly chilled duck. Though might make more sense to model it from the uppr beak of a normal duck. Resizing to fit your duck is very simple. But I'm guessing the top and bottom won't be identical.

Where abouts in the world are you based ?