{"id":818,"date":"2011-05-04T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/818-cloud-3d-printing-gaining-3d-steam.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:09:50","slug":"cloud-3d-printing-gaining-3d-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/cloud-3d-printing-gaining-3d-steam","title":{"rendered":"Cloud 3D Printing Gaining 3D Steam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shapeways friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinlane.com\/\">Kin Lane<\/a> has recently been mulling cloud printing and 3D printing, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinlane.com\/2011\/04\/google-sketchup-and-3d-cloud-printing\/\">the intersection of the two technologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lrargerich\/4387183643\/\" title=\"Cloudscape 3D III by lrargerich, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/4387183643_7bfef51388_z2.jpg\" alt=\"Cloudscape 3D III\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Naturally, he&#8217;s looking into the possibilities offered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/api\">Shapeways API<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This has come at a time when we&#8217;re seeing a surge of interest in the API, with users building desktop, mobile and web apps that take advantage of the ability to upload models to Shapeways, where we then handle shop display, printing and order fulfillment. <\/p>\n<p>Interesting questions and discussions are happening in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/forum\/index.php?t=thread&amp;frm_id=100&amp;\">Shapeways API forum<\/a>, and our dev team is following along closely.<\/p>\n<p>If you have API questions, suggestions or ideas, please get in touch&#8211;it is my goal to support your creativity wherever it may lead.<\/p>\n<p><span xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" xmlns:dct=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/\" about=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lrargerich\/4387183643\/\"><a property=\"dct:title\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lrargerich\/4387183643\/\">Cloudscape 3D III<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lrargerich\/\" property=\"cc:attributionName\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\">Luis Argerich<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shapeways friend Kin Lane has recently been mulling cloud printing and 3D printing, and the intersection of the two technologies&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":5227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,478],"tags":[482,486,477],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shapeways","category-community","tag-6-inspiration","tag-10-software","tag-1-whats-hot"],"thumbnail":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cloud 3D Printing Gaining 3D Steam! - Shapeways Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Shapeways friend Kin Lane has recently been mulling cloud printing and 3D printing, and the intersection of the two technologies. 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