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Education · makerspaces and libraries
For the visitor who arrives with a broken part
A broken knob, a missing clip, a bracket that does not exist anywhere online. Staff and volunteers take a photo with a ruler, measure what decides the fit and have a printable part in minutes, sliced for your printers. Seats for the team, $3 a seat a month.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 |
What visitors bring
Measured on the counter, described in a sentence.“A replacement battery cover 58 × 32 mm with a 1.5 mm latch on one short side”
Open this prompt in the editor“A shelf support peg 5 mm diameter, 16 mm long, with a 10 × 12 mm ledge”
Open this prompt in the editor“A knob for a 6 mm round shaft with a set screw hole, 35 mm across”
Open this prompt in the editor“A spacer ring 40 mm outside, 25.4 mm inside, 6 mm thick”
Open this prompt in the editorA help desk for parts
Most visitors do not want to learn CAD; they want the part. With SpeakCAD the staff member or volunteer at the desk does the design with them in a few minutes: photo to part reads a photo of the object on a ruler, a measuring station with a calliper settles the sizes that decide the fit, and the AI or the hand tools do the rest. Visitors who want to learn get a free account and keep shaping by hand.
Seats for the team
Give a seat to each staff member and regular volunteer; the coordinator leads and pays, or the library's card does. Seats move with people: remove one when a volunteer leaves, add one for a new one, and the credits already given stay on their own account.
| Role | Seat |
|---|---|
| Coordinator | Leader: pays, invites, sees activity |
| Staff and volunteers at the desk | One seat each, 25 credits a month |
| Visitors | Their own free account (hand tools), or a plan of their own |
Printing on your machines
Slicing runs in the browser with the OrcaSlicer profile of 380+ printer models, so the desk computer needs no slicer installed. Downloads (STL, 3MF and G-code) are included on every seat.
Questions
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.
$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.
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.
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.
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.
More for education
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 studentsHow to get a seat from your teacher, and what you can do without one.Photo to partA photo of the object next to a ruler, read into a part with its sizes.