Local 3D printing,
by someone near you

Drop in your file or pick a creation from the catalogue. An equipped printer makes the part a few kilometres away, and you get it within days — or you come and collect it.

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Instant quote, no commitment. France and Belgium.

700+ printers ready to make it

760+ creations in the catalogue

7,300+ members on the platform

14.4 t of filament in stock at the printers

What gets made on Dimap

A 3D-printed object almost always starts with something you cannot buy in a shop.

A one-off gift

A figurine of someone, an object engraved with their name, a piece built to measure. You set the dimensions and colours, the printer makes it.

The part you cannot find

A washing-machine knob, a gear, a boot clip. When the manufacturer no longer sells the spare, we reprint it instead of replacing the appliance.

A prototype you can hold

Check a shape, a grip, a footprint — before committing to a mould or a production run.

Short runs

A few dozen identical parts, with no tooling and no minimum order.

Whatever you designed

Got an .stl ready? Send it over, pick the material and colour, and compare the printers available around you.

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From request to part in hand

Describe what you want

Pick a model from the catalogue, upload your own file, or build your object in My Workshop knowing nothing about 3D.
Get the price straight away

The file is sliced on our servers: material used, machine time, delivery. The quote is calculated, not haggled — and you see the price of every printer available around you.
The printer accepts, then you pay

You send your request to the printer you picked. They accept it first; you only pay afterwards, once you know your order has been taken on. If they decline or never answer, you have paid nothing.
They make it, you get it

You talk to them in the messages and follow the order through to the parcel — or to the handover, if they're nearby. They are only paid at the end.

Why it changes everything that it's nearby

Online printing services centralise everything in one factory. Dimap does the opposite: the machine making your part belongs to a maker in your area.

Days, not weeks. Fewer kilometres between the machine and your letterbox.
You can collect it in person. If the printer is nearby, you can pick the part up and skip the shipping cost.
You talk to whoever prints it. A question about a wall thickness, a colour, a reprint: the messages put you straight through to them, not to a call centre.
Nothing is made in advance. We produce to order: no stock, no unsold pile, no container.

Schematic. Printers are offered to you nearest first, and their addresses are never public.

The other side of the platform

A 3D printer sitting idle, or models gathering dust on a hard drive: Dimap gives them a market.

You own a 3D printer

Take orders from your area, let the algorithm set prices from your own rates, print, ship. You stay in control of your materials, your colours and your pace.

Become a printer

You model in 3D

Publish your creations and earn a royalty every time a printer in the network makes one. You never touch a machine.

Publish my models

Make what is ordered, and nothing else

Commerce today produces first and looks for the buyer afterwards. Dimap takes the problem the other way round, and everything else follows from that.

Nothing is made in advance

A part only exists once it is ordered. No batch launched in the hope of selling it, so no unsold stock, so nothing to discount or destroy.

Nothing waits in a warehouse

With no stock there is no shed to heat between the factory and you, and no lorry dropping off boxes that may well leave again.

No mould to make

In plastic injection, every product needs its own tooling: thousands of euros of steel written off over tens of thousands of parts. Here, an object can exist in ten copies.

The distance drops to a few kilometres

The object is made near you, not at the far end of a supply chain. Collect it in person and there is no parcel at all.

We do not claim that printing has no impact: it takes electricity and material. What making to order removes is the surplus — and the surplus is where most of the waste is.

Our mission

The questions that keep coming up

The six most common ones. The rest are on the FAQ page, and the chatbot answers live in the bottom right.

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What exactly is Dimap?

An on-demand 3D printing marketplace. On one side, people who want an object; on the other, owners of 3D printers across France and Belgium. Dimap prices the order, secures the payment and connects the two — the object is made by a printer near the buyer, not in a factory.

I don't know what a 3D file is. Can I still order?

Yes, and that's true of most buyers. You can pick a ready-made creation from the catalogue, or build your object in My Workshop, our built-in studio: 17 generators — keyrings, door signs, pet tags, vases, Gridfinity bins, QR codes, glasses frames… — where you set some text, dimensions and colours, and the file is generated for you. No technical skill needed.

How long until I get my order?

It depends on each printer: their queue, the print time of your part, and how they work. No production lead time is announced automatically — to find out, ask the printer you picked, in the order's messaging. They answer you directly.

The delivery time, on the other hand, is estimated by the carrier at payment. And if the printer is nearby, collecting in person removes that step altogether.

How much does a 3D print cost?

It depends on the amount of material, the machine time and delivery. The quote is calculated automatically from your file sliced on our servers, then shown printer by printer — each has their own rates. It is instant, free and commits you to nothing.

What if the part arrives damaged or isn't right?

The dimensions, material, colour and finish you approved are contractual: if the part you receive departs from them, with photos to show it, the order is refunded. Payment goes through the platform and only reaches the printer once the order is complete — a claim filed within seven days suspends that payment, and after that it remains admissible.

Print quality itself is not guaranteed: an obvious defect that makes the part unusable counts as non-conformity, but for everything else — an imperfect finish, a result that disappoints — support looks at each case and opens a mediation with the printer. Changing your mind about a compliant part gives no right to a refund; there too, support can step in.

Which materials are available?

Dimap does fused filament printing, with nine materials in the catalogue: PLA, LW-PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA, TPU, PA (Nylon), PC and PP — in seventeen colours and three finishes (matte, glossy, fluorescent). Each printer declares the spools they really have in stock, so the combinations offered are the ones they can honour. Resin, powder sintering and metal are not offered.