Show/Tell: Make interactive 3d printing web apps without any code

Hey all, gonna do a little show n tell here. My company, Mixee Labs, recently released a Blender add-on that enables you to take models and using Blender, set parameters others can tweak via in-browser interactive web app. Others can tweak your model using parameters you set and purchase online. There's a quick video & more info here: https://www.mixeelabs.com/morph

Using Blender's Shape Key feature, you can create objects that morph, deform, and twist. Let others play and tweak your designs, we use Shapeways for production so any material available on Shapeways is game for us! Basically, you set a base shape in Blender, apply a Shape Key, and then make some changes to the mesh. The flow from base shape to changed mesh becomes a slider on Mixee Labs. So for example, you can set a parameter for others to resize a ring but maintaining wall thickness of the ring band. The user drags a slider to select the ring size, see the ring model change in real time, and there's also some rudimentary renders to showcase the model in the different materials.

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Still reading? Awesome!

Here's a quick 3min video explaining the add on and Mixee Labs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vSVT6SCHlk

New to Blender? I made a more in-depth tutorial (10 min long) that shows how to use the plugin and use Blender to resize a ring while maintaining wall thickness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLtwDQ4XMns

Happy to hear feedback and your thoughts on this feature!!

Nancy

PS. No Stony, this is not a ploy to get more people to use Blender... though Blender is awesome!!!