Comment on Etsy cracks down on 3D printed products — new rules exclude many 3D printed items from listings
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 week agoIf you want to sell 3D printed stuff, sell it on an appropriate platform and for fuck’s sake, sell things that you actually have the rights to print and sell.
I’m so relieved that there’s an appropriate platform!
I need some brackets to mount a gadget I ebayed as a spare. The vendor included tapped holes for mounting, but never sold the brackets. About 3 designs out there offer a solid and reliable mounting solution.
Each one a bit that would fit in a 1990 drugstore film cylinder, only 40c to being and us$71 shipping to the V3L, it seems.
There is no library in my area still maintaining a running 3d printer. I have no contacts nerdier than me who have a working printer.
Where is this place that I can get my brackets? I can’t justify a $250 printer just for 4 bracket pieces!
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There are oodles of commercial 3D printing services that will run off whatever you send them for a price. Craftcloud, Shapeways, Xometry, etc.
Or printathing.com, if you’d like to get hooked up with a private(ish) person to do it for you.
Or just ask at any of the innumerable online spaces where people talk about 3D printing (like right here) and someone can probably do it for you, too.
My exception is not to people printing things for others for a specific purpose if asked to. It’s against stealing other people’s work and cynically trying to turn it around for a profit, without putting any effort into it and probably implicitly passing it off as if it were your own work in the process. Likewise, I don’t object to someone designing their own thing and selling their own thing on Etsy. But just to put it into perspective I imagine most people would also rank it as Not Cool to go on Etsy and start trying to sell, say, just printouts random stuff you downloaded from DeviantArt.