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I've been prototyping some of my ideas using polymorph thermosetting plastic but would like to try and instantiate them into reality a little more professionally, using the new 'democratisation of manufacturing' technology, 3D printing...to this end, can anyone tell me where I can download 3D design software that is compatible with the shapeways machines that a) won't break the bank and b) won't do anything nasty to my computer..?

thanks

Hanfgeist ]]> Hanfgeist 2011-04-16T12:00:27-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=26140&th=5018#msg_26140
You can look at all the supported software file formats here:
http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/supported-applications
Blender and Truespace are completely free, so maybe you'd like to give that a try first.

Good luck!]]> cobusp 2011-04-16T22:41:06-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=26149&th=5018#msg_26149 cobusp wrote on Sat, 16 April 2011 22:41
Hi there.

You can look at all the supported software file formats here:
http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/supported-applications
Blender and Truespace are completely free, so maybe you'd like to give that a try first.

Good luck!



Thanks for the information, will check out the software
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