YouMagine

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project3dprint

about 10 years

Hi electronicsfordogs, thanks for the comments and concern. Yes, you are correct that this particular project is a link to an external website. These types of models do require a little more engineering and testing than your typical egg cup holder or figurine hence why we can’t offer everything we design for free. Ultimately we want to make our products notable and available to the 3D printing community (through sites such as Youmagine). As far as the future of 3D printing communities such as Youmagine, I don’t think ‘payed’ models will be the future of them (although I have heard speculations that in time they will, similar to napster and itunes), but as 3D printing continues to push a growing manufacturing revolution I think we will see the use of 3D printing expand in different sectors (such as printing and making your own electronic appliance as opposed to buying one). Not all of these sectors will offer charitable products (free downloads) as it’s just not economically justifiable. If sites such as Youmagine and the community that uses them don’t find value in the products we offer we will happily take our models down from here. Again, I appreciate your comments and keep up the clever designs you are posting.

electronicsfordogs

about 10 years

I'm not sure this is quite what Youmagine is for...? This is a really interesting project, but the Youmagine page is really just a link to another site where you have to pay $5 for the STLs. Is this '3D printer spam' or the future of Youmagine?