I’ve been doing prints for probably 10+ years now and have yet to make one of these. Cute as it is I never quite got why that became the defacto standard test.
3DBenchy Sets Sail into the Public Domain
Submitted 2 months ago by Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world to 3dprinting@lemmy.world
https://www.3dbenchy.com/3dbenchy-sets-sail-into-the-public-domain/
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ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 2 months ago
moody@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Because it’s really effective at diagnosing many issues, and it takes about 10 grams of filament to print.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And it’s cute.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
From NTI’s article:
“In January 2025, rumors surfaced that remixes of 3DBenchy were being removed from Printables due to the enforcement of the original license. However, NTI did not initiate this action. Prusa Research, the company behind Printables, later confirmed that a third-party report - not NTI - prompted the enforcement. NTI clarified it had not sought to remove downloads or derivatives of the model and had taken no legal action in this regard.”
riodoro1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuck yes.
jonesy@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Link was down but this release from NTI has similar info: www.nti-group.com/home/information/…/3dbenchy/
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please tell me they struck a deal with Zack
nucleative@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Smart move by the new owner, anything else would have looked out of touch
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I kind of expected this. The company didn’t choose to be dicks about it in the first place, and it’s not like Benchy was even a commercial product to begin with. It was cutesy branding that only had a no-derivatives license because the original author was concerned about preserving its utility as a benchmark. But md5 will already do that particular trick if it’s really necessary.
The new owner gained nothing by keeping the more stringent license, and had more to gain in goodwill by releasing it to the public domain.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That, and the inevitable avalanche of community recreations of the basic shape that followed threatened to doom the original to irrelevance anyway.
Trying to tell 3D printing and CAD nerds you can’t make [object] is a fool’s errand, because enough people with time on their hands will just reverse engineer your [object], possibly improve upon it in the process, and post it everywhere to be given away.
bluewing@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Not being mean spirited, but I suspect NTI’s lawyers looked at it and decided that the benchy wasn’t worth trying to defend in court. That horse had left the barn long ago. And it will buy some good will for at least a little while.