Different cubic centimeter price
Each of our different materials has a different cubic centimetre price. E.g. White Strong & Flexible is $1.40/cm3 (plus $1.50 handling costs), Stainless Steel is $8.00/cm3 (plus $6.00 for handling), Silver is $20/cm3 (plus $30 for handling), etc.. For full pricing check out our materials page. We suggest that you choose your material based on the properties of each material, you can find more information as well as comparative pictures on our material options page.

Hollow designs
If your design can be made hollow we suggest you do so because then it will be cheaper for you. You could also design your product in such a way as to use as little material as possible, just to be sure to leave an exit hole for the excess material powder--most hollowed items will have excess powder trapped in the hollow surface which we need to clean out, so please leave an exit hole for the trapped powder.

Want to learn how to hollow out your models? Check out the tutorial.

Automatic price calculation
If you upload your own product to Shapeways we will automatically calculate the price for you.

The price is visible on the product detail page. A pink logo is on the bottom left corner of each "orderable" product in the Shapeways gallery. You can click on each of these products in order to see how much they cost. Individual desigers can always choose if the products they upload to Shapeways are visible to others and if others can order their products.

Designers will also always be able to order their own products.