I saw about 10 of my designs on 3D printer stands today.

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I saw about 10 of my designs on 3D printer stands today. Nice to see Ultimaker attributing properly! What can I say about the rest :frowning:

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3DPrintShow London

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I saw the same deal happening at the local Maker Faire, with Emmet’s designs. I feel like Thingiverse should push attribution more.

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@Evam_S I think thingiverse do what the can, even providing the QR code etc. It’s really down to the individual companies. It’s not like I wanted payment or something, just put my name near it. I can see the why people remove their designs from public forums. The post is more about Ultimaker doing the right thing.

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I can’t count the number of companies that use my designs without attribution. I used to send emails. Now I just grumble to myself. Much less effort. :confused:

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I really need to go through all of our demo objects and print tags for them. It’s especially embarrassing to have tags missing because I’m the one who came up with those tags in the first place. Ironic that the 2D-printing is more burdensome than the 3d printing…

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@Whosa_whatsis I haven’t 2D printed anything at home for the past 3 years. Found out my HP printer is out of order last month when I turned it on and changed the ink cartridges. I don’t have much incentive to buy a new one…

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I have heard that MakerBot is going to all stands saying that you must give attribution TO THINGIVERSE AUTHOR’S PAGE. I have many things on Thingiverse, which are also on my github, why cannot they just give attribution to my home page???
And then, I have a question… can you use NC objects in a stand where you are selling a 3d printer?

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If the intention is to show the capabilities of the printer then the print is being used in a commercial way. I think they were actually telling people to remove the models if they had a non-commercial license, but how would you recognise everything on thingiverse.

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To be fair, a lot of what’s on thingiverse (especially since the introduction of customizer) is crap that people wouldn’t print to show off their machines. I’m generally surprised when I don’t recognize a printed item that’s on display as being from thingiverse, but then memorizing which license each object is released under is another matter entirely.

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It is much harder to find what you’re looking for, I’m nowhere near as up-to-date as i used to be. I don’t know how they solve that though.