Moving parts contest

February 18, 2009

Can you make the best moving part? Something with an axle or flexibility or even gears perhaps? Something akin to thes e cars?

Or something completely different?

The contest for the next month will be our moving parts contest. It will start today and run until the last day of March. To enter into the contest upload a model and add movingpart as a tag. Community votes will decide the winner. The winner will receive $300 in 3D Printing from us. We have a blog post here that shows you some moving parts that have already been made with 3D printing. We also have a mini-tutorial here that shows you how to make some basic moving parts.

We would suggest that you guys design for White, Strong & Flexible since it enables you to have wall thicknesses of 2mm (or less 1mm but only make a small portion of your model this thickness), since the support material for it is a powder it also allows for better clearances and thinner parts. Another reason to use WSF is that it is flexible so you could do things with that also. Good luck!

7 comments

Whystler

February 18, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Is designing the item in SWF required, or just recommended? I have had difficulty with SWF when designing movable parts in the past, where moving pieces are .5mm apart. I would usually choose White Detail, but if the contest requires us to use SWF, then I will design accordingly.

Joris

February 19, 2009 at 9:37 am
Shawn,

It is not required we just thought it would be easier, you can use any material you would like.

Anonymous

February 22, 2009 at 3:21 pm
*Another scam contest?

Every contest has been a joke. The dates change. People that use the correct tag are not included. "Community votes" are not counted.

Shapeways: Spend more time making things fair than criticizing language software ads and talking about Pepsi’s marketing and maybe you’ll still be in business next year.

This website knows their time is limited to make money. There are more and more similar services and soon people will be doing this on their own desktops. Do your homework, don’t fall for “SCAMWAYS.”

T. Shawn Johnson

February 22, 2009 at 6:43 pm
This poor boy … can you imagine how negative his life must be to make a post like this? He doesn’t see how useful Shapeways is. He can’t get beyond his past misplaced frustrations to realize that Shapeways opens a lot of doors for people. I haven’t won a contest yet, but I still keep buying. Shapeways will be here in a year, because the truth of the matter is, people like me will still be buying.

rob parthoens

February 26, 2009 at 8:04 am
I won a contest here, and a few other too. This site and company is not a scam.

To shapeways: Keep up the good work 🙂
cheers
Rob

Jake Drews

March 2, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Saweet! I will definitely be trying to think of something to build for this contest.

KGB

March 31, 2009 at 9:10 pm
So today is the last day to submit? Or was that yesterday 🙂