One of my personal projects for 2011 was to design something and print it on Shapeways. This weekend I decided that I had a couple of hours to do that and so as the first step I installed Google Sketchup. Having never done any 3D design before, instead of jumping straight into the program, I decided to watch some of the videos explaining how to use Sketchup. The videos are really easy to follow and from first sitting down to beginning to draw 3D shapes took about 15 minutes (includes the inst...

One of my personal projects for 2011 was to design something and print it on Shapeways. This weekend I decided that I had a couple of hours to do that and so as the first step I installed Google Sketchup. Having never done any 3D design before, instead of jumping straight into the program, I decided to watch some of the videos explaining how to use Sketchup. The videos are really easy to follow and from first sitting down to beginning to draw 3D shapes took about 15 minutes (includes the inst...

Shapeways yesterday announced support for yet another awesome material: ceramics. Ceramics is a particularly cool because it it is food safe and thus unlocks the market for 3D printed dishwares. That includes my admittedly fairly lame chop stick holders, which I have immediately re-ordered in ceramics (also turns out that the first go around I made them too small). Of course, I also expect to see some fantastic sculptures in ceramics, as well as other art and fashion uses of the material. Joa...

Shapeways yesterday announced support for yet another awesome material: ceramics. Ceramics is a particularly cool because it it is food safe and thus unlocks the market for 3D printed dishwares. That includes my admittedly fairly lame chop stick holders, which I have immediately re-ordered in ceramics (also turns out that the first go around I made them too small). Of course, I also expect to see some fantastic sculptures in ceramics, as well as other art and fashion uses of the material. Joa...

When we announced the USV investment in Shapeways a little over a year ago, I pointed out the potential to make New York City a global center for 3D printing. Since then the Shapeways team has done a lot to make that happen. Here are just a few of the highlights. First, the founders relocated themselves and their families from Eindhoven in the Netherlands to New York City. Then they proceeded to assemble an amazing team here that is building incredible stuff and fostering a great community. T...

When we announced the USV investment in Shapeways a little over a year ago, I pointed out the potential to make New York City a global center for 3D printing. Since then the Shapeways team has done a lot to make that happen. Here are just a few of the highlights. First, the founders relocated themselves and their families from Eindhoven in the Netherlands to New York City. Then they proceeded to assemble an amazing team here that is building incredible stuff and fostering a great community. T...

Excited to be announcing our investment in Shapeways and the relocation of the company’s headquarters to NY. You can read more about it on the Shapeways blog and over at the NY Times. The founders Peter, Marleen and Robert are relocating from the Netherlands – welcome to NY!

Excited to be announcing our investment in Shapeways and the relocation of the company’s headquarters to NY. You can read more about it on the Shapeways blog and over at the NY Times. The founders Peter, Marleen and Robert are relocating from the Netherlands – welcome to NY!

So here is a very rare opportunity: a truly exciting manufacturing job in New York City. Shapeways is setting up a 3D printing facility here in a super cool location and needs someone to own that. They will have a completely awesome lineup of machines there that all seem like they have arrived from the future. The challenge of the job is not just to push these 3D “printers” to their performance envelope but also to structure a highly efficient post-printing operation that can deal with thousa...

So here is a very rare opportunity: a truly exciting manufacturing job in New York City. Shapeways is setting up a 3D printing facility here in a super cool location and needs someone to own that. They will have a completely awesome lineup of machines there that all seem like they have arrived from the future. The challenge of the job is not just to push these 3D “printers” to their performance envelope but also to structure a highly efficient post-printing operation that can deal with thousa...