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For education
CAD for 3D printing, for the whole class
Students describe a part to the AI or shape it with hand tools, every size in millimetres, on a Chromebook, a laptop or a phone, and download an STL or G-code sliced for the school's printer. The teacher pays for the seats ($3 a seat a month, or $30 a seat a year) and shares one join link; each seat gets 25 credits a month and every download included.How it works
From application to the first lesson
One person applies, pays and manages; students only need a free account with any e-mail address.2
Share the join link
Put the link on the board, in your class page or in a message, or paste the students' e-mail addresses to invite them. Each student presses Join and gets a seat while one is free.3
Students design, you follow
Every seat gets 25 credits a month and every download included. On your class page you see each student's credits, how many models they made and when they last worked, and you add or remove seats any time.Education at a glance
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Price | $3 a seat a month, or $30 a seat a year (2 months free), taxes included |
| Seats | 2 to 300 without talking to us, the leader's included; more on request |
| Each seat | 25 credits a month for the AI on the student's own account, every STL, 3MF and G-code download included, the online slicer up to 60 files a day |
| Hand tools | Holes, cuts, added shapes, extrude, text, rounded corners, shell, measure: free, every size typed in millimetres |
| Devices | Any browser: school Chromebooks, Windows and Mac computers, iPads, phones. Nothing to install |
| Printers | G-code sliced in the browser with the OrcaSlicer profile of 380+ printer models |
| Who can get it | Schools, universities, libraries and makerspaces: each class is checked and approved before it pays, usually within a day |
| Who pays | Only the leader: one invoice, card or the school's card. Students never see a payment page |
| Privacy | Each student's models stay private to them unless they publish them; the leader sees counts, not the designs |
Parts a class designs in one period
Each is a sentence a student types; the AI designs it with real dimensions, the student checks the numbers and changes one by hand.“A phone stand for a 75 mm wide phone, 65 degree angle, a 12 mm slot for the charging cable, 3 mm walls”
Open this prompt in the editor“A pencil holder 80 mm across and 100 mm tall with my name engraved on the front, 2 mm walls”
Open this prompt in the editor“An enclosure for an Arduino Uno (68.6 × 53.4 mm) with a USB-B and a barrel jack opening, snap-on lid, 2 mm walls”
Open this prompt in the editor“A bracket to hold a 25 mm broom handle to a wall, two M4 screw holes 40 mm apart”
Open this prompt in the editorWhy classes use SpeakCAD
Most school 3D printers print keychains and downloaded models, because designing a part that fits something takes a CAD course nobody has time for. SpeakCAD closes that gap. A student writes what the part is for and its measurements, the AI designs it with real dimensions, and the student checks and changes it: tap a face, type a size. The same tab slices it for the printer in the room.
- No install, any device. It runs in the browser, so the school's Chromebooks and iPads work as well as the lab's computers. Students can carry on at home on a phone.
- Functional parts, real numbers. Every hole, wall and gap is a number the student can read and type, which is what an engineering or technology lesson is about.
- Printing in the same place. STL, 3MF, or G-code sliced with the OrcaSlicer profile of the school's printer, so nobody installs a slicer on a locked-down laptop.
- One person pays. The teacher, the department or the school pays for the seats. Students never see a payment page.
What it costs
| Monthly | Yearly | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per seat | $3 a month | $30 a year (2 months free) |
| Credits per seat | 25 credits a month | 25 credits a month |
| Downloads (STL, 3MF, G-code) | included | included |
| Seats | 2 to 300, the leader's included | 2 to 300, the leader's included |
Taxes included. A class of 25 seats paid yearly: $750 a year for the class, $2.50 a student a month. 25 credits a month is about 6 new parts designed by the AI (4 credits each, the first 3 small changes of a part free), or many more changes: a small change spends 2 credits, a size or a number 1 credit. Shaping by hand with the hand tools spends nothing.
What the teacher sees
The class page lists every student with their credit balance, how many models they made and when they last worked on one, so you know who is stuck before the print queue does. You can invite by e-mail, make a new join link if the old one leaked out of the class, remove a student, and add or remove seats; Stripe prorates the difference. The designs themselves stay private to each student until they publish them.
Who it is for
Technology, design and engineering teachers in middle and high schools, university courses and labs that need fixtures and enclosures, school and public library makerspaces, FabLabs and robotics clubs. A company workshop or design office can use the same seats: write to us.
Price for your class
Apply first: we check the school and answer by e-mail, usually within a day; then you pay. The leader's seat is one of them. Taxes included; the invoice carries your school's name, address and tax number.Yearly2 months free
$30/seat/yr25 seats: $750 a year- 25 credits a month per seat, on each member's own account
- STL, 3MF and sliced G-code downloads included
- Online slicer for your own STL and 3MF files, up to 60 a day
- One invoice for the class, paid and managed by the leader
- Add or remove seats any time, members join with a link
Monthly
$3/seat/mo25 seats: $75 a month- 25 credits a month per seat, on each member's own account
- STL, 3MF and sliced G-code downloads included
- Online slicer for your own STL and 3MF files, up to 60 a day
- One invoice for the class, paid and managed by the leader
- Add or remove seats any time, members join with a link
Questions
$3 a seat a month, or $30 a seat a year (2 months free), taxes included. Only the teacher or the school pays; students sign up with a free account and join the class with a link. A class of 25 seats paid yearly: $750 a year for the class, $2.50 a student a month.
Teachers, lecturers, lab and makerspace managers, librarians and club leaders at a school, a university, a library or a makerspace. You apply with the school, its website and your role; we check it and answer by e-mail, usually within a day, and only then can the class pay for seats. A personal e-mail address is fine if the school's website or a staff page shows you belong to it.
25 credits a month is about 6 new parts designed by the AI (4 credits each, the first 3 small changes of a part free), or many more changes: a small change spends 2 credits, a size or a number 1 credit. Shaping by hand with the hand tools spends nothing. Credits land on the student's own account on the first day of every billing month; unused ones stay.
No. Any e-mail address works, and a student who already has a SpeakCAD account joins with it. The teacher can also invite students by e-mail: each invitation holds a seat until it is accepted.
Yes, any time from the class page. Stripe charges an added seat for the rest of the period and credits a removed one on the next invoice. A seat freed by a student who leaves can be taken by another one; its credits for that month were already given, so the new student gets theirs the next month.
Checkout asks for the school's name, address and tax number and Stripe issues the invoice and the receipt for every payment, ready for accounting. For a purchase order, a quote or more than 300 seats, write to us in the chat on speakcad.com: we answer within a day.
They keep their account, their models and the credits already on it; downloads are no longer included and they can keep designing by hand or take a plan of their own. The teacher frees the seat from the class page, or the student leaves from their plan page.
Tinkercad is a great first contact with 3D shapes, especially for young children, and it stays free. SpeakCAD is for the next step: a part with real dimensions that fits something, designed by describing it to the AI or with hand tools where every size is typed in millimetres, on a Chromebook or a phone, then sliced for the school's printer in the same browser tab. Many classes use both.
Education, by who you are
For teachersLesson-sized projects, the join link and what you see on the class page.For high schoolsFunctional parts in a class period, on the school's Chromebooks.For universities and labsFixtures, enclosures and prototypes with real tolerances for engineering courses and labs.For makerspaces and librariesSeats for staff and volunteers who help visitors print a part that fits.For studentsHow to get a seat from your teacher, and what you can do without one.