1 Topic by Shameless

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Topic: 3D Hubs for Crowd Sourced Printing Services

Hey guys, I came across this site and thought other people might be interested in adding their printer to the locations.

http://www.3dhubs.com/

The idea is that you add your printer and make a "hub", and you can set a price on how much it costs to do a job with you, and how much you charge per cm^3 of filament. Unfortunately it's in euros right now, and people can't actually contact you for jobs until your city unlocks (I just put my email in the hub description though to sneak around that).

You can check the unlocked cities for how it works, you upload an STL then it gives you a bunch of different options on who can print it, in what materials/qualities, etc. It seemed like a cool idea so I thought I'd share.

Happy printing amigos.

2 Reply by n2ri

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Re: 3D Hubs for Crowd Sourced Printing Services

Im on it too but review the hole site and see how they do things like calculating cost of prints for customers they dont allow for things most extrusion printers need like infill and support material or the extra print time for it. can cost ya on some prints. they assume all 3D printers are big industrial powder types. also not real good at replying to Q&A from hubs on such matters. they just want ya to accept jobs fast so they can get their cut fee then since its based in Denmark the only way to transfer funds is paypal from USA due to being on banking block list. hopefully this all gets worked out soon cause its killing biz.

Mitch

Solidoodle 2 with Deluxe kit cover & glass bed with heater. and 2nd board SD2 used not 3rd and alum platform not installed yet still wood. also need cooling fan installed to board. use Repetier Host couple vers. Slic3r also have all free ware STL programs