Software

use the Solidworks Student Edition to convert to STL and 3D print

March 31, 2010

Former Shapeways intern Mathijs van Beers noticed that you could not save to STL using the Solidworks Student Edition (Solidworks…

Shapeways releases Blender rending files under Creative Commons License

March 19, 2010

We recently made a huge improvements to our renderings. To do this we used Blender. If you want to read…

Designer Spotlight : Nervous System

March 16, 2010

Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg form the Boston based design duo Nervous System. The inspiring creative duo are currently one…

Mesh Medic: automatic 3D printing file repair

March 11, 2010

We usually make incremental continual improvements to Shapeways. Mesh Medic represents something much more revolutionary. Mesh Medic is an automated…

A free STL viewer for your Iphone by Netfabb

February 12, 2010

So lets say you’re on the move and get a tweet from a friend that they’ve just added something to…