I've been using Shapeways for my 3d printing, because the models I'm creating for 3d jewelry can't be done on most standard printers. Shapeways uses powder laser sintering (SLS), which can handle more complex, shapes without supports or additional structures that need to be cut off later. Some of the shapes I'm having printed would be impossible to add supports to and then clean later. I also like to offer some of them in metal and other materials. I'd like to get a home printer like this for the more simple shapes though. I think it's great to have for quickly creating certain items

I'm modeling with 3dsmax for all my objects, which has it's own STL checker and export. I dont' like using OBJ for 3dprinting. I found the scale almost always gets messed up.

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