Part 3D printing meets music class and part 3D printing meets art class, Olaf Diegel’s 3D printed guitar collection is, without a doubt, amazing. Showing your target audience something 3D printing can achieve that will excite or inspire them is the best use of your marketing and product development dollars. Tom and Tracy Hazzard invite you to check back on their original episode to see the inspiring 3D printed guitar designs and hear how your business can use 3D printing to attract the … [Read more...]
Estimating the Power of 3D Printing with Ron Hollis
Through the years, 3D printing has been growing and moving into CAD. Along with its evolution comes its power to allow almost anyone to make their ideas come true through 3D printing machines. Here to entice us with the power of these tools is Ron Hollis, president and CEO at MFG and former president and CEO at Quickparts. Tom and Tracy discuss with Ron his counterintuitive concept on how people buying printers and printer parts from their company eventually grow their business. He … [Read more...]
Has the 3D Print Bubble Burst? Pinshape Proclaims its Demise
We have something rather unusual to bring to you today. We have some sad news. This is a seismic event in the 3D Printing industry. We have some really sad news about Pinshape. Pinshape is dying. March 31, their service is being terminated. They have decided they are not going to continue and they are proclaiming their demise. Listen to the podcast here: Has the 3D Print Bubble Burst? Pinshape Proclaims its Demise “To our Pinshape community: Sadly, today, we are … [Read more...]
3D Design Theft or Fair Use?
Is it 3D design theft, or is it fair use? A timely issue in the 3D printing world that has just been happening that regards the potential theft of someone's designs. In this particular case, a Thingiverse designer found one of her designs being sold on eBay by a company called Just 3D Print in actual printed product, not the design file. In fact, what she found was this company had taken over 2,000 files from Thingiverse and put them up as individual items for sale on eBay that they … [Read more...]
Challenges of the 3D Print Market
Right now, we have this bigger foreboding question over our business about the current challenges of the 3D print market, which we thought we’d address. Maybe it will be similar for other people contemplating what to do in the 3D printing world. And in fact, we’ve been hearing from some listeners who are trying to create a business around selling 3D print designs, so we know there are other people with the same business. Listen to the podcast here: Challenges of the 3D Print Market: Needing … [Read more...]
Pricing 3D Print Designs – Accounting for Design
Accounting for Design -Pricing 3D Print Designs Originally published on the Pinshape Blog September 2015. Supporting the growth of the 3D printing community by offering open share 3D print designs is much needed in an industry where content is king. But pricing 3D print designs for free may not be best for you as a designer or the 3D printing market as a whole. Counter-intuitive as it may seem, market pricing designs will grow you as a 3D Print Designer and create a demanding marketplace for … [Read more...]