Help All Along the Way
Global Customer Service Team and in-depth tutorials to answer your questions
Highest Quality Prints
3D print in 40+ high-quality materials, using the best industrial 3D printers available
Instant & Affordable Pricing
The highest quality at lowest possible price by the world's largest 3D printing marketplace
How it Works
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Design Your Product
- As you create your 3D model, you have access to material guidelines, tutorials and a global community and support team.
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Upload to Shapeways
- Your 3D model goes through automated printability checks and you get instant pricing in 40+ high-quality materials.
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We'll Make it Come to Life
- We 3D print in your selected material, using the latest industrial 3D printers. It takes 10 people to bring your product to life.
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And Deliver Worldwide
- Fast turnaround time and global shipping, so you can hold your product in your hands as soon as possible.
What our community is saying
Best in industry service. Best in industry price. Best in industry quality and choice. No one else is close. it's a simple choice to use Shapeways.
Shapeways has been super with me! I am new to this and they always take the time to answer all my questions... Shapeways and its employees are incredible!
Price was very affordable. You guys have the best submission system and tools... And it most importantly, it looks fantastic!
3D printing technology allows us to capture our fantasies and imaginary forms.
Get the Help to Get You Started
Choosing the best material for your products
When picking materials for your model, think about how the material will help to position it as a product. Is it an exclusive piece that you want to only offer in Premium Silver? Or a versatile design that looks great in a range of materials and price points?
Designing for Full Color Printing
Many Photoshop artists choose to 3D print in Full Color Sandstone, the only material that uses CMYK printheads to create over six million colors. Learn more about designing for Full Color Sandstone.
Create Your Own Custom Case for iPhone
A step-by-step tutorial on how create your own custom case for iPhones with your own message. The tutorial takes you through the process of creating or importing a design, choosing your material, preparing the file for printing, customizing an iPhone case with that design, and 3D printing directly from Photoshop.
Photoshop Creative Cloud Tutorial on 3D Printing
The amazing education team at Adobe created this hands-on tutorial to take you step-by-step through working in Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC) to 3D print your designs. You start by downloading a template file, that you'll learn convert from 2D to 3D and prepare it to 3D print.
