Tag Archives: Shapeways
Top 3D Printing Headlines Last Week: Guns Banned, Shapeways Celebrates Milestone, Ford Embraces 3D Printing
A roundup of the top news On 3D Printing brought you from December 18 to December 22.
Tuesday, December 18
Thursday, December 20
Friday, December 21
Last Night to Trim the Christmas Tree with 3D Printed Ornaments
It’s Christmas Eve: the last night to decorate your Christmas tree before the big day. Here are some 3D printed ornaments to add to your holiday cheer.
Above, you’ll see Christmas ornaments by pmoews (available on Thingiverse)
From the designer: Here is a simple Christmas tree ornament consisting of a sphere pierced with 198 holes. It is related to the holed container in Two Spherical Containers, thing:32840. The holes are hypocycloids with 5 cusps and are meant to resemble stars.
Next, we have 3D Printed Christmas Balls by cunicode (available on Shapeways)
And finally, a cool design called Cube Ball Illusion by Ablapo (available on Thingiverse)
The sculpture is showing a cube or a ball depending on the view angle.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
hat tip to 3dprinter.net for finding these designs.
Shapeways Celebrates 2012: Infographic and 1 Million 3D Printed Products
3D printing marketplace Shapeways has published an infographic highlighting its 2012 achievements. Among them:
- 1 million+ 3D printed products
- 8,000 shops
- $500,000 income earned by shop owners
- Community members from over 130 countries
- Opening of a new NYC factory
All of the numbers
3D Prints
- Well over 1,000,000 3D printed products to date
- Over 10,000 uploads per week
Shapeways Shops
- 8000+ Shapeways Shops, who earned $500,000 in income for 2012
- Shop owners earned almost 6 times normal daily sales on Black Friday alone!
Our Community
- 230,000+ Community Members in over 130 countries
People, places and things
- 2 Factories of the Future with 3D Printers capable of each creating up to 1,000 unique products daily
- On our way to 100% local production, with nearly 90% of products sold in the USA made in the USA
- 30+ material options
- 70+ employees
Via Shapeways blog.
Top 3D Printing Headlines Last Week: Lunar Base, Futuristic, Patents
A roundup of the top news On 3D Printing brought you from December 11 to December 16.
Tuesday, December 11
Thursday, December 13
Friday, December 14
- Well… In Late Night News, Now You Can 3D Print Adult Toys at Home
- Life on the Lunar Base: 3D Printing at the Repair Shop
Sunday, December 16
Photo by Ben Sandler via Behance.net.
Video: Inside Shapeways Factory, the Amazon of 3D Printing
In the video below, Andy Greenberg from Forbes interviews Shapeways Evangelist Duann Scott onsite at their New York factory. Scott answers questions ranging from technical to strategic.
Highlights of the interview:
- Shapeways uses Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) to get finer resolution and more flexibility than fused deposition modeling (FDM) can offer.
- Scott does not see home 3D printers as competition; to the contrary, people with 3D printers at home will become better designers, testing their iterative concepts at home and then looking to a marketplace like Shapeways for the final product.
- Shapeways also enables customers to sell their designs and print in a multitude of materials.
- They built their factory in New York to be close to their customers.
See why Duann Scott calls Shapeways the “Amazon of 3D printing” in the video below.
Via Forbes.
