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Topic: Powered Car, airplanes and boat models

Hi,
3D modeling and printing is still a very new deal in my country , me and my partners are buying a Leapfrog Creatr Hs
and we are trying to figure some possible business to make with it . I tought about Models and wanted to know if any of you already tried  to print some stuff of this kind . Like wheels , bubles, helix for quadcopters and airplanes, motor and supension parts. What do you guys think ? Do you have any sugestion of printable stuff to make 3D printing a sucefull business ?

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Re: Powered Car, airplanes and boat models

Just keep a keen eye out for STLs on the Webb. The sites like Thingyverse are mostly simple parts and scanned figures that seem to be trinkets. But there are excellent specialised complicated parts, you need to know the tag or get the linked part number.

An example 'true potential' 3d object is 'Quin' the first printable doll. But that comes with a 20 printed limit license. Perhaps you need to invest in 3d solids CADD tool and operator.

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Re: Powered Car, airplanes and boat models

There are STL finder sites wink. Just google it.

Fat kids are harder to kidnap!

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Re: Powered Car, airplanes and boat models

We already consider to invest in a 3D designer , and buying some stl designs in this kind of website . I just want to know if there are already some solid market that we can trust to invest . I'm doing some stl research , thanks for the coments.

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Re: Powered Car, airplanes and boat models

Most of the 3d printed objects I see for sale and made by 3d printer are parts for 3d printers themselves. Things like quadcopter frames are also very popular, because there simply isn't a manufacturing base yet for the kind of parts that people want. If something is popular enough, traditional businesses pick it up and render the 3d printed versions obsolete.

The trick for selling 3d prints, in my mind, is to either stay ahead of the traditional manufacturers by printing designs on the cutting edge or to look for small, individual goods that aren't known well enough to generate the investment necessary to make traditional manufacture feasible.

One business I've seen doing okay is places who set up cameras and take photographs of a person from multiple angles, then use the data to 3d print a little model of that person. Seems popular for gifts.

SD3 w/ RUMBA (8825s), merlin hot end (in pieces). Ender3 w/ silent board for PLA printing. Ender5 w/ silent board, e3d v6, new z lead screw, and glass bed. DiY Kossel w/ smoothieboard (in pieces). Vellman Vertex (in pieces)
Shapeoko2 router in process of being converted to laser engraver (in pieces)
Multicam 5000 series CNC Router w/ 11HP spindle, 5x10' table, and auto tool changer (in pieces)