Shapeways site update of October 7th 2010

Hi All,

Today we have had another site-update. The changes applied today may be less noticeable for you but are a major improvement to our developers.
We had no site update release in the last 2 weeks because of the major work that has been done. We have made a lot of changes in underlying architecture of the site and that cost more time to prepare and test.
A lot of code has been rewritten without any functionality or layout changes for perspective to the user, but these rewrites will make future development a lot easier.
Because of the major changes, also the update today took a bit longer as usual. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Additional to the architectural rewrites, the following features are introduced:

Register for newsletter on signup page
Users are be able to immediately sign up for our newsletter on the sign up page for a Shapeways account.

Expand search box onclick
Clicking the search field for the google site search makes the search field larger.

Also we applied fixes for the following issues:[list type=disc]
[*] Deleting the last category for a product on the product details page was not possible for users
[*] The 3D viewer was not working for hidden files on the product details page.
[*] When you had a quote in the title, description or tag on the model upload form, the quote was doubled when you looked at the model details page.
[*] Shop logo's are too wide for right column
[/list]

Kind regards, Arno

I'm suddenly having a problem uploading models, with shapeways ignoring my selected scale and always using meters. Anyone else having this issue? Something to do with the update?

I have the same problem, everything is uploaded in meters... so my designs are refused because they measure 32 m...

yes I have this issue too. I had to scale my model down super tiny in autocad and then export it. I was doing everything right, and as usualy designing in mm, exporting the stl, and uploding the stl to shapeways using the mm button.

as a temporary fix i scaled my object down 1000 times in autocad and then it worked with shapeways, but its definitely a problem on shapeways's side

Thanks for the responses, guys, I was wondering if I'd lost my mind or something, because I was SURE I wasn't doing anything different.

Thanks for all the feedback and sorry for the inconvenience. We are working on a fix.

- Robert

Barry,

My part is saved in inches, the problem is that when I select "inches," it's getting upsized. I keep getting the message that my model is too large: "The size is 144.00 x 118.75 x 177.95 cm / 56.69 x 46.75 x 70.06 inch."

So the model is supposed to be 1.77 inches tall, but it's coming out to 1.77 meters tall even though I'm selecting inches on the upload screen. It worked yesterday for my last successful upload, and the only difference between that version and the one I'm trying to upload now is a minor variation on the pose.

I have the same problem. My model is saved in "Blender units", that translates to mm when I export to STL in Shapeways. It has worked like that untils this afternoon, when even if I click on mm, they seems to upload in meters.

EDIT : I've tried again just now, and it seems to work

Glad mm is working, still not working for me with inches =/

I'll try mm in a bit.


EDIT: mm still doesn't work for me, I have to use full meters

Same problem here. :cry: Glad I looked at the forums before freaking out..

Yesterday it seemed to work once, I could update one of my models.

Today I've tried to update another (in mm) and I have got the same error (it went in meters).

Just uploaded a new dice model ... here are the issues i encountered:
https://www.shapeways.com/model/163259/smooth_d6_dice.html?gi d=sg28396

1. total price doesn't show up - only material price (i.e: without the markup).
2. the full color sandstone isnt on the drop down list ("not available in")

Thanks, Barry, seems to be working now.

model's price isnt changing on shop page thou i lowered it from $38 to $33

https://www.shapeways.com/model/102905/coasters___iphone_apps .html?gid=ug28396

Thank you !

Any idea why this model is stuck on displaying the stainless steel price first and not the default - WSF?
https://www.shapeways.com/model/153777/spherical_helix_dice.h tml?gid=sg28396

Because it's listed as jewelry.