Really happy to see this is finally happening! Now Thingiverse is for everyone in the planet and not just for people with a 3D printer hahahah.
However, and considering that I’m a Thingiverse designer and that I’ve had some problems before, I see somehow limited the access to this feature. I share all my designs for free, but with a non-commercial license. I don’t want to work for free and see how others sell me designs, but for me there has always been an exception, 3D Hubs.
Whenever a friend asked me where they could buy one of my designs, I recommended them to go to 3D Hubs and see their nearest hub. For me, there’s a big difference between someone that actively sells my designs (non-commercial), and someone that gets and order on 3D Hubs to print all the Pokemons from the Kanto region. It’s for this reason that I find the “only CC with commercial use will have this feature” rule a little bit limited. I can think about different scenarios right now:
1. If this rule was created to avoid seeing people getting money from designs that are copyrighted (like my low-poly Pokemon), it doesn’t work. It’s as easy as changing the non-commercial license to a commercial license.
2. If the scenario #1 is true, and the problem is with the designer (and not the Hub), maybe removing the tips option would be enough. If the problem is with the Hub, there’s no solution as you can get any STL file printed in 3D Hubs without considering if it’s copyrighted or not.
3. If this rule is to avoid furious designers from seeing how their non-commercial designs can be “purchased”, maybe the easiest solution would be to have an option on their Thingiverse account to activate the 3D Hubs button, but always keeping the non-commercial license.
I really like where 3D printing is going, but this “commercial use” limitation is worse than eating raising cookies thinking they were chocolate chip cookies.
Yay! I hope this works out for everyone it’d giver people an incentive to use local services and perhaps buy things they wouldn’t otherwise! Great job guys!
So far so good. Things are going well. I’ve already had 2 orders in the last 24 hours and both are printable (lol). First one is ready to ship and the second one is happily printing away.
I have a quick question though.
How do you gauge the number of orders a hub can handle? I only have one “Thingiverse” printer, but I have three physical machines so there’s plenty of capacity.
