Shapeways Announces Porcelain Material

Today, Shapeways made a major announcement regarding available materials for use in 3D printing: the company will soon be making porcelain available. The new material will initially be made available to select designers in the near future, and will be rolled out to all Shapeways users by early 2015. While the porcelain itself will not be printed, the company's SLS machines will 3D print molds to cast objects in porcelain. Check out more details about this new material announcement: http://3dprint.com/25077/shapeways-porcelain/


Below are some examples of products created with Shapeways new porcelain material:
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They don't appear to make it easy to learn more about the material.

It would have been nice if you'd link to their post on the subject too:

http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archiv...-offering.html

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Originally Posted by JRDM

They don't appear to make it easy to learn more about the material.

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We'll release design guidelines and other information for the pilot participants. Learn more of Shapeways 3D printed Porcelain and join in the pilot here: https://www.shapeways.com/materials/porcelain-ceramics/overview

"The porcelain is not actually being printed; instead, SLS machines will print molds which are then used to cast the items desired" So in other words, NOT 3D Printed porcelain. This is a service that will print a mold then cast it, glaze it and fire it like traditional porcelain.

Until now, a new Porcelain material from Shapeways has only been available to designers who signed up for a “pilot program” like Coretta Singer, but those days are a thing of the past as the company is making the material available to a wider audience as they open up the Porcelain pilot program to their general membership. Shapeways says that when the Porcelain material was first introduced, they kept the pilot closed to allow them to work closely with designers like Singer on fine-tuning the processes involved. You can read the whole story and find links to join the program here: http://3dprint.com/85869/shapeways-e...elain-material