Stop Wasting Hours Comparing: This Tool Finds the Best 3D Printing & CNC Prices in Seconds

Craftcloud is a 3D printing service that aims to deliver industrial-quality parts at the most competitive prices. Upload your digital file and receive instant price quotes from manufacturers worldwide. You can choose the least expensive from those quotes, or perhaps you need the fastest delivery or a specific location. Craftcloud has a “Best Local Price” feature that delivers the lowest priced offer from manufacturers in your country or region. This feature is designed to help you support local businesses and avoid unexpected import tariffs.

Who are Craftcloud Manufacturing Partners?

Craftcloud’s network of global partners is thoroughly vetted for quality and service. New partners are only accepted onto the platform if they meet rigorous criteria and can deliver quality, price, and service to industrial standards. The partners are identified in the ordering process, so you know exactly where your part comes from. Craftcloud showcases their best manufacturing partners with their “Excellence Badge” to help you find the best partner for your particular project.

But you don’t have to take their word for it. A customer review feature launched in 2024 provides even more information about their partners to help you make the best selection. Every Craftcloud user is invited to rate and review the manufacturer that they selected to receive their part from. There are already over 15,200 customer reviews and experience feedback.

The customer reviews are available once you’ve uploaded your digital file and have been presented with offers. Next to each manufacturing partner’s name, you’ll see a star rating you can click on to read all of the reviews.

Through reviews and offers, you’ll be confident that you’re selecting the best manufacturing partner for your part, but the Craftcloud team acts as your primary point of contact. You don’t need to spend time negotiating with suppliers or tracking orders, and instead can spend your time creating innovative products.

Craftcloud handles every aspect of managing our 3D printing service providers, so all you have to do is upload your model and place the order. Aside from simply finding the best possible price to get your 3D model printed, they are also proud to offer friendly live customer support. For all immediate questions, they’ve added an AI chat that will answer most questions in real time. But if you need to ask something specific to your print, the chat will send your question to their sales team to get back to you.

Craftcloud aims to make the 3D printing service market transparent. It delivers manufacturing quotes from several partners in real time to show you the cheapest and fastest options available – including local offers, but you’re free to select any company you wish. You can always trust you are getting the best price because the price you see on Craftcloud is the same price you’d pay if you purchased directly with their 3D printing manufacturers. Many other marketplaces don’t reveal which company is actually 3D printing your part.

Unlike other 3D printing services, Craftcloud is completely free to use, available in five languages (English, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese), you don’t have to create an account to get quotes or place an order, and customers can pay in several different currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, NOK, JPY, CAD, AUD, CHF, ILS) to avoid extra conversion fees. For European customers, they’ve added NET30 Payments, giving you a little breathing room before payment is due.

Craftcloud says they are committed to making their site easy to navigate and use, so you can find the solution you need for you projects quickly and clearly.

The first step is to upload a file of your 3D model. Craftcloud supports many file formats, including STL, 3MF, OBJ, STEP, and ZIP files. Once your models are uploaded, Craftcloud will calculate in real-time how much each service partner will charge for manufacturing your part in a given material and will show you the best price. If you have special requirements or issues, you also have the ability to add notes as well as other documents to the file after uploading.

Your Digital Library of Parts

Every model you upload can be saved in your account for future use so your company’s digital library of parts can live on Craftcloud and be ordered by anyone on your team. Additionally, they immediately tailor offers to your location to present you with the best shipping options. So your staff in London can order the same part as staff in Austin, but each part can be manufactured locally.

Once your digital file is uploaded, all you have to do is to choose a material, finish, and color. Then the offers are displayed, including the choices for the best price, best local price, and Craftcloud’s recommendation (the best mix of price and delivery time). With over 250+ materials to choose from, you have a large range of options in how your final product looks. You can check out their expanded material guide here.

Select your offer, then add your model to the cart. After adding all your models, click Proceed to Checkout, and you will be prompted to complete your order. Once processed, your models will be produced to your specifications by the manufacturing partner you selected.

If at any point along the way you need assistance or you wish to receive a manual quote, you can always use their AI chat for immediate answers or contact Craftcloud’s helpful customer service for more specific questions. They will answer your questions and help you through the configuration or checkout process.

After submitting an order, the customer service team will also handle any queries regarding your order, such as shipping, returns, and refunds, relieving you from having to try and find a potentially elusive representative from the manufacturers themselves. At check out, international customers can add information about import issues or customs, to ensure a smooth delivery process.

Craftcloud is, simply put, for everyone. You don’t even have to know anything about 3D printing, although a little knowledge will help in technology and material selection so you can check out their Knowledge Base.

They advertise they’ve brought over 8+ million custom pieces to life for thousands of individuals and companies worldwide, so I’m sure you can trust Craftcloud to produce the parts you need.

Whether you are simply looking to get something printed quickly and affordably or have a more complex, professional project, Craftcloud has you covered. Large, small, simple, or intricate, Craftcloud has a solution for your print, and with competitive prices. In fact, Craftcloud has a 4.6 out of 5 Trustpilot rating with over 2500 reviews.

Due to their a network of reliable 3D printing services, Craftcloud is able to maintain much higher standards for the price than any comparable service. Each partner is a trusted company with which the Craftcloud team works closely to make sure your orders are being delivered on time, with the quality you expect.

With an ever-expanding network of manufacturers, you’re sure to find several who can produce your part your way. But don’t worry, if you don’t find the material or technology you’re looking for, reach out to them and Craftcloud will help. They are committed to working with customers to find unique solutions for their individual needs.

Craftcloud has worked with thousands of businesses to rapidly produce high-quality prototypes efficiently then, often, move on to production-volume part orders, without having to juggle multiple contractors and services. Craftcloud offers everything you need in one place – saving time and money.

Craftcloud currently offers more than 250 materials and more than a dozen technologies with custom options available upon request. The advantage of the Craftcloud platform is that you can select your specific material or check out their extensive material guide to the different materials to make a more informed choice.

Not sure what you need? They not only offer material details and technical specifications, but also a design guide to ensure the part you need is compatible with that material. Below is just a sampling of the available materials.

Plastics

• PLA
• Nylon
• Flexible TPU
• PETG
• Transparent resin
• Polycarbonate
• Carbon-fiber-infused nylon

Metals

• 316L Stainless Steel
• Aluminum
• Gold & Sterling Silver (cast)
• 17-4 PH Stainless Steel
• Titanium
• Brass

New CNC Machining at Craftcloud

Traditional machine shops are one of the biggest adopters of 3D printing technology. They know that 3D printing is often the better technology for certain projects – but it isn’t always the better option. Often, CNC machining your part can be faster or cheaper. That’s why Craftcloud has said that they decided to expand to offer CNC machining with tolerance specification. So many Craftcloud 3D printing partners also offer CNC machining that it seemed like a natural fit for the platform.

Often companies have projects where some parts are ideal for 3D printing and others are better for CNC machining. Now, you can use Craftcloud for all of your part creation needs.

Craftcloud partners with CADmore, the U.S.-based 3D design services company, to bring you a complete design and printing solution that can take your napkin sketch all the way through design and manufacturing to a marketable product.

CADmore sits upstream of prototyping and manufacturing, providing a real-time collaborative process solution for designers, product managers, engineers, and third-party partners to work together. The aim is to help companies simplify and accelerate the design-to-production process by offering a complete solution for on-demand digital manufacturing that includes leveraging their broad network of 3D printing partners.

In addition to creating digital part files from scratch, Craftcloud + CADmore, will also optimize and repair your CAD files, for example, if they’ve been rejected by a print service or have resulted in failed prints. It can also convert 2D drawings into 3D files, which is especially useful for companies that want to upgrade their legacy or spare parts catalogs.

Reverse engineering services include the ability to use photos and measurements (even a ruler sitting next to a part) to recreate the item digitally.

Craftcloud + CADmore boasts response times in minutes, quotes in hours, and models designed in less than a day and two free revisions are included for every project.

Models can then be uploaded to the Craftcloud 3D printing marketplace, where you’ll choose your materials and receive quotes from various 3D printing services.

If you’re worried about uploading your intellectual property, you’ll appreciate Craftcloud + CADmore’s mutual non-disclosure agreement.

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