<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Powered Car, airplanes and boat models]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/11035/powered-car-airplanes-and-boat-models/ Thu, 07 May 2015 20:35:58 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Powered Car, airplanes and boat models]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/95145/#p95145 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.

]]> Thu, 07 May 2015 20:35:58 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/95145/#p95145 <![CDATA[Re: Powered Car, airplanes and boat models]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/95135/#p95135 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.

]]> Thu, 07 May 2015 19:30:52 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/95135/#p95135 <![CDATA[Re: Powered Car, airplanes and boat models]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/95133/#p95133 There are STL finder sites wink. Just google it.

]]> Thu, 07 May 2015 19:20:47 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/95133/#p95133 <![CDATA[Re: Powered Car, airplanes and boat models]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/95132/#p95132 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.

]]> Thu, 07 May 2015 19:12:01 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/95132/#p95132 <![CDATA[Powered Car, airplanes and boat models]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/95129/#p95129 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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