Cellular lamp-shade printed in glow-in-the-dark PLA.

Cellular lamp-shade printed in glow-in-the-dark PLA.

This was a bit of a v6 stress test but @Sanjay_Mortimer and I thought it would look cool in glow in the dark filament. Turns out we were right!

Design: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:19104

Always love this print. When people see it, and if you do it at a fine enough layer height, you get perfect, incredible overhang results. They’ll ask if it was printed with support and when you tell them no, they’re surprised.

The overhangs are amazing… this was printed on 0.25mm layers and took 7 or so hours. I may try smaller and run it overnight tomorrow…

great job

Is the model for this downloadable somewhere?

Lovely print! I’m looking forward to seeing a v6. I wonder are you really supposed to use a NC licensed thing to “promote” your upcoming product? (I’m really not try to point fingers but am genuinely interested in interpretation of license terms. For example, I realise that many people believe you only really license the design not resulting printed objects.)

Thanks guys! :slight_smile:

Its an interesting point Mark! We originally printed this object as an internal test - but it turned out looking so cool I could not help sharing…

It is an interesting question where that line in the sand is drawn.?

It was a mistake not linking and credited to the original art - but in my defense it was 1am and I was excited. :stuck_out_tongue:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ - I’d say it’s pretty clear. “Commercial advantage or monetary compensation”. Neither of those lines were crossed.

@ThantiK (Sadly) nothing is “clear” until it is tested in court. If you read the 'Defining Noncommercial" study then you will find that it isn’t consistently interpreted and it recommends being conservative in your usage of NC licensed things. If Josh had not mentioned the v6 and instead written “look at the cool thing I printed” then it would be clear. But the fact that he mentioned that it was a stress test, to determine how good a new product was, makes it much less clear. If there is a high chance that someone could read what he wrote and think “wow my j-head/E3Dv5/etc. couldn’t print that well, I should give e3d some of my cash” then someone could attempt to argue that it was commercial use. Of course, fortunately, the intent of the user is considered. Personally, I’m sure that Josh was primarily saying “look at this cool thing” and, just as any of us would, saying what he printed it with and why.

We may or may not be trying to print this in NinjaFlex. Whether we are depends on how successful it is. 1 hour into the print, its looking promising.

I hope the ninjaflex one works. If it does, you guys should visit @So_Make_It again as I’d love to see it.

It’s just finishing up… Looking a little bit rough at the edges - but we have (almost) made it!