{"id":1986,"date":"2013-03-25T14:33:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/1986-do-you-want-more-flexible-3d-printing-at-shapeways.html"},"modified":"2017-04-17T12:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:48:44","slug":"do-you-want-more-flexible-3d-printing-at-shapeways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/do-you-want-more-flexible-3d-printing-at-shapeways","title":{"rendered":"Do You Want More Flexible 3D Printing at Shapeways?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We found a&nbsp;<a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/1163-We-Found-a-Squishy-New-Material-to-3D-Print-Tell-Us-What-You-Think.html\" target=\"_blank\">squishy 3D printing material<\/a> back in early 2012 that was not quite ready for us to use with our 3D printers so we found another <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/1375-Introducing-3D-Printed-Black-Elasto-Plastic-I-Cant-Believe-Its-Not-Rubber.html\" target=\"_blank\">flexible alternative<\/a> that 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