I, too, think this material makes a good compromise of properties for the gaming table.
Just a couple weeks ago it went from a material where you had to be the designer AND sign up for their beta program to a material where
any designer could order their own prints in it. That's a good sign -- it's usually the last step before making the material generally available for anyone to order.
The bad part is that Shapeways simultaneously doubled the price of the new materials! This has drawn a
lot of negative feedback and questioning (including from me). While I can understand how the powder might be a different price than
WSF, and the overall printing time might be faster or slower, but I cannot understand how other factors such as handling would happen to be double that of
WSF. I can only hope that better prices from competition -- or maybe just a better scientific study of their underlying prices with this new material -- will result in reductions. Their initial pricing was a complete guess (100% the same as
WSF), which is understandable because they had no data to base it on. Unfortunately this new pricing just seems like a
different complete guess.
I guess I can only say, "we will see."
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