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MIER TECH-WISE provide 3D printing marketplace and community, empowering designers to bring amazing products to life. By giving anyone the ability to quickly and affordably turn ideas from digital designs into real products, We are fundamentally changing how products are made and by whom.
Through MIER TECH-WISE , designers gain access to the best industrial 3D printing technology, capable of manufacturing products with complex designs in a wide range of high-quality materials. 3D printing turns raw materials into original products, from wedding rings to rocketships, model trains to iPhone cases, and prototypes to industrial engineering parts. Our professional engineer share ideas, and get feedback from creative consumers and other designers around the world.
Way Beyond Plastic
From wax to stunning metals, you access your own personal factory of 40+ premium materials |
Fast and Affordable
Instant pricing and quick delivery to your door, whether you order one or one thousand |
Sell, easily, globally
Sell your products, without ever touching production, managing inventory or billing |
How it Works
1 Design Your Product
Use your preferred software to design a 3D model, and iterate your product designs with prototypes
2 Upload to Shapeways
Instant pricing for your design, automatic printability checks, a simple ordering process and support the whole way.
3 We'll Make it Come to Life
10 hands touch every 3D print to bring your products to life, using the latest industrial 3D printers.
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? Using different materials, a single design can become a variety of different products. For example, a model of a ring could become a fun, inexpensive piece of costume jewelry Alumide, or a precious keepsake in Polished Brass. Each deserve unique photos, descriptions, and price points.
Turn drawings into 3D models
Anyone can create 3D printed products using the 2D to 3D image popper, which allows you to turn a drawing or sketch into a 3D model. Learn more through this video tutorial.
Design for Cheaper Printing
Shapeways only charges you for the amount of material you use. There is no penalty for complexity or the bounding box of your model. This makes some products, like spectacles and jewelry, seem surprisingly inexpensive, while it makes other products more expensive. Here are three tricks to optimize your design for the lowest-cost 3D printing.
Designing for Full Color Printing
Like many of our printer technologies, our Full Color Sandstone printers work by laying down thin layers of powder and selectively binding this powder together to produce solid parts. Unlike our other printer technologies, this printer also uses a set of CMYK printheads to color the part while binding the powder together to produce the colorful solid parts.
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3D Printing Material Sample Kits
| Get started making your ideas real with 3D Printing. These Material Sample Kits are the best way to feel a range of 3D Printed materials in your hands and learn the qualities of different finishes. |
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3D Printing Materials
From Full Color to Plastic, Metal, Ceramics, Wax, and more, MIER TECH-WISE covers all your product material needs.
MIER TECH-WISE only offers the highest quality digital manufacturing materials. We use a variety of the latest in 3D printing techniques to ensure you a wide range of quality materials. Each MIER TECH-WISE material offers a unique combination of practical and aesthetic properties. Check out our Material Sample Kits to get a feel for all our materials and our Material Status Page to get the most up to date production lead time status of our materials.
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Strong & Flexible Plastic
Great starter material--easy design rules, feels a bit rough, but available in polished finish. |
Frosted Detail Plastic
UV-cured acrylic plastic that prints fine details and walls. Smooth and translucent. |
Acrylic Plastic
Acrylic based polymer that can print fine details. Smooth and slightly shiny. |
Metallic Plastic
Brittle Nylon Plastic that’s filled with Aluminum dust. Also available polished & smooth. |
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Platinum
Solid Platinum polished to a beautiful smooth sheen |
Gold
Solid hand-polished Gold. |
Sterling Silver
Real Sterling Silver is available in 3 levels of polish from rough “Raw Silver” to pristine “Premium Silver”. |
Precious Plated Metal
Precious metals with a smooth premium finish plated onto polished brass |
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Brass
Gold Plated and Polished Brass have a smooth glossy sheen, while Raw Brass has a rough matte finish. |
Bronze
Bronze has a unique coloring that looks like rose gold with a subtle marble effect. |
Steel
Great for jewelry and durable pieces. The shiny surface is slightly pitted & rough. |
Castable Wax
High-resolution wax for investment casting |
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Full Color Sandstone
Gypsum printable with color textures on the model surface. Feels like matte clay. |
Full Color Plastic
Rough and Grainy Full Color Plastic material printed on a ProJet machine. |
Elasto Plastic
Ultra flexible off-white plastic with a rough texture. |
Ceramics
Food-safe glazed ceramics. Available in glossy and satin finishes, and a variety of colors. |
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