{"id":5127,"date":"2011-05-12T19:39:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T03:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2011-05-20T23:08:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T07:08:52","slug":"a-3d-printing-market-called-shapeways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/a-3d-printing-market-called-shapeways\/","title":{"rendered":"A 3D printing market called Shapeways."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Now sure if this is the first, and if fact I would be surprised if it was, but here is a cool service called Shapeways <\/a>that not only lets you create your own 3D models, but you can buy and sell models as well.\u00a0 This is pretty good. If I’m going to go through the trouble to create a 3d model, I’m going to want to see if other people will want it as well. Whats really impressive here is the number of materials.\u00a0 Clearly I have not been keeping up, did not know a consumer level service could support so many materials. I have to guess they have spend\u00a0 a good deal of their round A money on it. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I posted the materials list and prices at the end of this post.<\/p>\n

CEO Peter Weijmarshausen said last year that the plan was to create a number of these manufacturing hubs in key spots around the county to not only save on shipping but allow better response time and community connection. Sounds good, but its the marketplace that really interests me. I can see this becoming the real popular part of the service.\u00a0 Sure its cool to know you can create your own things, but how many people out there have a copy of 3DStudioMax much less know how to use it to create CAM level quality models?\u00a0 Not many I would guess.\u00a0 Even more so, I used to create CAM level models and I have a hard time imagining I’m going to do this.\u00a0 But this does not matter.\u00a0 All you need is few really good designers to populate the store and your there. Or better, I could take a 3D model download it, tweak a few things and then sent it to print.<\/p>\n

Check out this video below..<\/p>\n