A new opportunity for us arose to work on consumer 3D printing again, and it was time for our 3D model organiser Envoy to graduate into a fully fledged product in it’s own right, under a new company: Playable Prints.
The question that Josh of Plastic Alchemy posed was “how do we take a high number of 3D model variations, and automatically create a printable asset from them?”
We released the Kickstarter Digital Fulfilment Store for Atlas in August, and although it had a couple of niggles, it stood up really well. It wasn’t going to cut it for a permanent solution.
Missive is a tool to enable 3D model creators to distribute their creations to their customers. The best model of how the service works is to think of it like a digital postal service.
A desktop 3D model visualiser and organiser, for Windows, Mac and Linux. Instead of spending time pawing through Explorer windows, we thought wouldn’t it be lovely to look at models visually?
When Pamela from Big Croc first asked about making it possible for her customers to configure their own hat visually on her Shopify store, we were a bit surprised this wasn’t a thing that already existed.