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APN 201

About the project

Using his own savings APN201 wants to show that you can make art without grants.
As long as you have brain that is producing ideas you can do anything.
This page is a collection of pictures, videos and text. Describing the art work and the process around it.

Info: info@apn201.com

RIP Shapeways

ART? Posted on Tue, September 10, 2024 15:23:41

Shapeways was the 3D printing service I used to order most of my stuff. The website stopped working, so I did some googling. Seems like they are bankrupt.

This is too-bad. It was my go-to 3D shop. I always said it makes no sense to own a printer, because I can order much better quality prints there. I spent thousands on different test projects and prototypes but also on some real jewelry etc. I had couple of dozen designs available in the Shapeways shop and some people even ordered them. Now all of that is gone. If I can find the models somewhere, maybe I should publish them for free in Thingiverse or somewhere.

The gallery link on my homepage points to Shapeways shop. Also that I need to fix now. Below some examples of my designs.



Starship pendant

ART? Posted on Fri, April 08, 2022 23:20:07
Starship 3d printed

After a long pause, I opened my old simple design in Tinkercad and modified it to work as a Starship pendant. Not sure about the printability of the thin strips in X. Intentionally left the mesh artifacts on the wings to make them more interesting. Walls are 1mm thick to allow also steel printing although on more precious metals 0,8 mm would work and would be cheaper.
Available at Shapeways.