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Help All Along the Way
Amazing Customer Service Team and tutorials to answer your questions.
Highest Quality Prints
3D Print in 40 high-quality materials,
using the best printers available.
Affordable & Fast
Save on prints and ship them
anywhere in the world.
How it Works
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Design Your Product
- As you create your 3D model, you have access to material guidelines, tutorials and a global community and support team.
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Upload to Shapeways
- Your 3D model goes through automated printability checks and you get instant pricing in 40+ high-quality materials.
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We'll Make it Come to Life
- We 3D print in your selected material, using the latest industrial 3D printers. It takes 10 people to bring your product to life.
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And Deliver Worldwide
- Fast turnaround time and global shipping, so you can hold your product in your hands as soon as possible.
What our Community is Saying
Shapeways has been super with me! I am new to this and they always take the time to answer all my questions... Shapeways and its employees are incredible!
Price was very affordable. You guys have the best submission system and tools... And it most importantly, it looks fantastic!
I didn't realize how much more advanced Shapeways is compared to the other sites - there are a lot of useful tools on the site that helped me through the process.
Shapeways is awesome. The ability to create anything your imagination and capabilities allow is a powerful thing. I'm in love.
Get the Help to Get You Started
Choosing the best material for your products
When picking materials for your model, think about how the material will help to position it as a product. Is it an exclusive piece that you want to only offer in Premium Silver? Or a versatile design that looks great in a range of materials and price points?
Creating Hollow Designs
When you create an object with Shapeways, the order price is primarily determined by the actual printed material volume. An easy way to save some money, sometimes a LOT of money, is by making your object hollow. This short tutorial will explain the basics of hollow objects for 3D Printing with Shapeways.
Design for Cheaper Printing
To best assist you in designing your 3D models, we’ve collected a series of design tips to help you optimize the price of your model, based on the material you are printing in.
Designing for Full Color Printing
Like many of our printer technologies, our full color sandstone printers work by laying down thin layers of powder and selectively binding this powder together to produce solid parts. Unlike our other printer technologies, this printer also uses a set of CMYK printheads to color the part while binding the powder together to produce the colorful solid parts.
