Tutorials

Exporting to Shapeways from Maya using COLLADA

December 12, 2008

Pete Zich pointed us to a great way to export to Shapeways from Maya. He took some screenshots and explains…

Creating a mechanical iris diaphragm in two hours

December 10, 2008

John Chan [madox] did a nice writeup of his first experience with Shapeways: designing a mechanical iris diaphragm. John writes:…

Creating Christmas decoration with moving parts

December 1, 2008

A few weeks ago I designed a Christmas decoration: a small angel with some movable parts. The result was awesome…

Creating hollow objects

October 13, 2008

When you create an object with Shapeways, the order price is determined by the actual printed volume (not by the…

Using Maya and Shapeways for 3D printing

October 9, 2008

We have a brand new tutorial live that shows you how to export from Maya to Shapeways using the COLLADA…

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