Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: 3D Printing Models...Some Ideas...And A Few thoughts...

Chaosophia opened this issue on Apr 28, 2013 · 29 posts


AmbientShade posted Mon, 29 April 2013 at 8:50 AM

Doesn't DAZ even have something against uploading your scenes to render farms if they contain DAZ models? 

Maybe I'm wrong about that but thought I heard that somewhere a while back. Haven't read the updated EULA tho so not sure.

But uploading the models to a 3D print company's website is still distributing the models, which is against EULA. You'd be sending the model files to someone that doesn't have license to use it. Printing isn't an automatic thing, someone on the other end has to check the model to make sure it's viable for printing and then configure/convert it to work with whatever print system they're using.

So there's one area where 3D printing differs from 2D printing.

And the majority of users don't have their own 3D printers, and those that are available for home use aren't that great on details, so I'm guessing most people that wanted to do that would be sending to a professional print service that have access to higher quality printers.

Keep in mind also, 3D printing averages about $2 per square CM of material, up to $5 or more, so printing even a small figure ( 3 inches or so) can get pricey pretty fast. At this point 3D printing is still only viable for most to prototype a model intended for traditional casting. 

 

~Shane