AnubisGuard
Master Member
How happy was your shapeways experience?
Pretty happy. They got me what I needed exactly the way I designed it, which is about all one can really ask for. The prices are steep, and I wasn't thrilled with the two-to-three-week turnaround, but that's the nature of that sort of on-demand manufacturing. Uploading and ordering the models was painless, aside from some scaling issues with my models that it took a couple of revisions to sort out.
I also had to modify and order a second version of the neck as the first version turned out to have some inaccurate measurements that meant it didn't clip firmly into the bulb socket via the bulb release as I'd intended. Not unexpected, but it drove the price and time up.
Can I ask what you used to build them with in terms of software?
modo 701, though mostly because that's what I happen to have on-hand. I imagine Sketchup, Blender, or any other open-source modeling program that can export .obj or .stl files will work just as well.