Have you ever wished your 3D prints would arrive faster? That you could order on a Tuesday and receive parts the same week? Today we have some very exciting news for you:
Introducing RUSH 2 & 3 Day Production on Shapeways Regular White Strong and Flexible Plastic!
You’ve convinced us to give it a try. You’re all invited to sign up for our Rush Pilot! Anyone can sign up, and we’ll slowly let users over the coming weeks in accordance with our capacity. You’ll be notified via email when you’re in.
Important Details about 2 & 3 Day Rush:
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Rush offering is for unpolished White Strong & Flexible only with a bounding box < 150x150x200mm
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Target Ship Day for North America, Australia, and New Zealand: Leaves our factory in 3 business days for orders made before 2pm CET / 8am EDT. Orders placed after that time will be counted towards the next business day.
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i.e. Order placed on Tuesday 7am EDT, parts are shipped end of day Friday. Order placed on Thursday 4pm EDT, parts are shipped EOD following Wednesday.
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Target Ship Day For All Other Geographies: Leaves our factory in 2 business days for orders made before 2pm CET / 8am EDT. Orders placed after that time will be counted towards the next business day.
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i.e. Order placed on Tuesday 7am EDT, parts are shipped end of day Thursday. Order placed on Thursday 4pm EDT, parts are shipped EOD following Tuesday.
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Rush orders are twice the price of regular WSF (pricing may change in the future)
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You can use the ‘Print it Anyway’ option along with Rush if you choose.
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Beta users will have a rush option added to checkout flow. All rush parts will need to placed in a separate shopping cart in order for the rush option to appear.
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Check the material status page before you order to make sure we have capacity before placing your rush order. This is an experiment, and we physically have a daily-maximum volume capacity for Rush. While we will always do our best to make it happen, we may not always have room to accommodate your order. If you place an order that we won’t be able to deliver on time, customer service will reach out so you can cancel your order and place it again as regular White Strong & Flexible.
- To ensure your order arrives as fast as possible, you still need to select Next-Day-Shipping (or fastest available) in your region.
What do you look forward to making faster with RUSH?
Awesome news,
This will definitely help me speed up my development process for new parts. Looking forward to when you can do this with polished and coloured parts, so my customers can take advantage of it too.
Thanks for continuing to push the envelope,
James Knight
Knight Customs.
We are looking forward to that too, James! Happy this will help your business, and thanks for the words of encouragement 😀
Sorry, I prefer to get the products properly printed rather than in a rush!
I’m curious to learn how Shapeways will achieve rush service, but I doubt if it will involve “careless” or “improperly printed”.
Great to see you are finally offering a rush service.
Thanks, Sam!
You only have so many employees, if the rush customers are pushed in ahead of my regular orders (including metal), does this mean that the delivery times for normal orders will be extended even more? Since I cannot bear the added cost of rush service, I would have much rather seen your normal turnaround time decreased somewhat.
Thanks for your thoughts, Tom. This will not have any affect on your metal prints, that I can assure you :). Its an experiment that could lead the way for shorter lead times across the board. We have to start somewhere to expand & explore offering Rush for other materials :). This will not affect regular lead times, either.
I am not happy that now all the rush orders will be pushed in ahead of my normal delivery orders. Instead of adding staff to handle priority shipping I would much rather see your normal turn around times shortened somewhat.
Definitely a feature I’ve been hoping for.
Really thrilled to see this happening. Leadtimes have really gotten me into some hot water before. Glad to see this option available!
Hope it helps, Justin! Happy it will solve a need for you 😀
Finally!
this service would be even faster if “express” shipping is also available in Europe …