With CustomMaker, the challenge of customizing models by hand now goes from time-consuming and technically oriented to, well, not those things.
No more will the process of adding text and images to a model ‘involve a lot of time and technique.’
They say this groundbreaking tool blends artistic controls from shop owners with freedom for shoppers to personalize a purchase. It’s a scalable, powerful customization platform for 3D printing, and it’s free. If that’s not enough, it’s simple to use and requires no additional skills or software.
Shapeways says the magic is possible via their ShapeJS platform, the engine for CustomMaker that lets designers create the customizable experiences that they want for their customers.
They say the process ensures that artistic control remains with the designer by determining which models are enabled for customization.
CustomMaker means a shopper can now simply select a product which takes advantage of the platform such as a piece of jewelry or a smartphone case, type in text or upload an image and then see – in real-time no less – how their custom version of the product will look.
As of today, CustomMaker is available to all 30,000 shop owners on Shapeways.
It’s also the first time the company has launched a new “pilot feature” to the public, and while the feature is in pilot, Shapeways is calling on designers and shoppers to readily share feedback via the Shapeways forums to ultimately improve the functionality.