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Satin Black and Satin White 3D Printed Ceramic Cory Doctorow at Shapeways on Flickr.

Satin Black 3D Printed Ceramics at Shapeways on Flickr.

Avocado Green 3D Printed Ceramics at Shapeways on Flickr.

Satin White 3D Printed Ceramics at Shapeways on Flickr.

Eggshell Blue 3D Printed Ceramics at Shapeways on Flickr.

Pastel Yellow 3D Printed Ceramics at Shapeways on Flickr.

Shapeways | blog: 3D Printed Black Glazed Ceramics at Shapeways)

3D Printed Black Glazed Ceramics at Shapeways

Making your designs possible in the widest range of the high quality 3D printed materials is one of our main focuses at Shapeways and today we are super excited to offer Black Glazed Ceramics to our range of material options for the next two months.

Black Glazed Ceramics joins White Ceramics as our second food-safe material it suitable for cups, plates, bowls, sake sets, almost anything.  

The process used to create Black Glazed Ceramics is the same as White Ceramics with the same design rules, level of detail, wall thickness requirements and size restrictions.

We have printed a few models from the Shapeways community so you can see how the finish looks over a variety of surface geometries.

As with White Ceramics the Black Glazed Ceramic glaze likes flat planes, curves and radiuses rather than hard edges and corners and knife blades. 

The max build size is 30x22x17cm (11.8x8.6x6.7 inches). Minimum wall thickness and details remains the same at 3mm and 2mm, respectively. Note, glazing process can add up to 1.5mm of thickness to your item so some finer details may be lost or softened. This is especially true for the nooks and crevices, as well as the bottom portion of cups.

This material will be off by default and mark-up set to zero so if you would like to make it available in your shop you will need to manually update your products.

For trial period will run until Friday the 28th of April and pricing will be calculated at $0.18 per cm² of surface area.

After the trial period we will review the popularity, pricing and design rules.

Share The Love with the Heart Dipping Dish

Making the most of 3D printed Ceramics at Shapeways Glacier Designs has designed the Heart Dipping Dish perfect for breaking bread and sharing the love this valentine’s day. CUTE…

This is a dish for dipping bread in olive oil. Fill the dish with enough olive oil to cover the heart, and then add balsamic vinegar to the heart. The vinegar will sink to the bottom and fill out the heart! You might need to push the vinegar around with a toothpick to fill out the heart really cleanly, but it is easy to do, and continues to look nice even after you start dipping bread.

(via Shapeways | blog: What Color Do You Want YOUR Ceramics Designs to be 3D Printed in at Shapeways :Updated)

(via Shapeways | blog: What Color Do You Want YOUR Ceramics Designs to be 3D Printed in at Shapeways)

Going wild with 3D printed ceramics. Cupo 3 by jeff, now on Shapeways

Shapeways | 3D Printed Glazed Ceramics)

Shapeways | blog: 3D Printed Glazed Ceramics Are Back

After a brief hiatus while we refined the fabrication process, we are now bringing 3D Printed Glazed Ceramics back to Shapeways. The previous trial was so popular we had to pause production while we organised more infrastructure to handle the massive volume of designs submitted by the Shapeways community every day.

Shapeways 3D Printed Ceramics starts to roll in with the Coral candle by Virtox