Hi!
My name is Mathijs and I’m a student from the “Hogeschool Arnhem en Nijmegen”. I study Industrial Product Design and am starting my second year now. For five months I will join the Shapeways team to learn from their technology as well as create some designs of my own.
At school I learned to design with Solidworks. I know the basics and will come a long way with mechanical shapes. You will see some of my parts in the coming weeks when I’m uploading parts for the 3D Part Database.
In my free time I like to play online games on my xbox, mostly shooters, just to slaughter those noobs! Also I like to relax with my friends and drink a beer or two.Besides making fun I would also like to learn some other 3D software. Of course this is fun as well! But in a different way. I’m thinking of giving blender a try in the coming weeks. If you guys have any tips for me on blender or maybe other software, let me know!
My first task will be to increase and improve the Shapeways 3D Parts Database for you guys. I will add more file extensions to more common file types and add a lot of new designs. I hope this will improve the accessibility of the files and make the database even more useful. Here is a forum post where I tell you some more about the ideas I have and where you can leave your ideas and feedback.
While I’m here I will try to help the Shapeways community the best I can. Of course I have a lot to learn but that’s why I’m here. If you have some tips, comments or any other notes feel free to leave them here or let me know! You can contact me on my Shapeways mail which is mathijs(at)shapeways(dot)com
Cheers,
Mathijs