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Great model with a lot of imagination

Hi Runde, Have you been able to complete your order by now? If you are still having difficulties send me an DM, and I would be happy to help you out!

Hi Ian, Sorry to keep you waiting for a reply! Have been away from my desk a lot today. Yes please feel free to share your idea here and on YouMagine. That is why I created this topic. I would suggest to first upload it to instructables so it is clear that it is your idea. And you can update it later, when necessary

Hi Jonomc, I have send you a DM.

Hi Jonomc, Thank you for your post. A: Yes. I will send you your tracking code in a DM.

You are welcome!

Obviously no. But I have searched your name in our ticket system and that is how I know. I will get back with you shortly about your support order, thank you for your time!

Don't know about the hotel, but I do know Daid will be at the show. For the rest it will be iGo3D. We would like to come but it is at the same time as Maker Faire San Francisco.. I can 3D scan and print myself, but I am not sure how active my clone will be in Erfurt Until bio 3D printing will make a huge leap forward I can only be at one place at the time unfortunately..

Hi Jonomc, Thank you for your post. I will look into why you have not received it and where it is now. My apologies for the inconvenience. I totally understand you want to ventilate your frustration, but sending the same email in ten-fold will not get you a faster reply. Actually, on the contrary because our communication inbox system is based on 'last activity'- parameters. I will look into it and get back with you shortly, thanks again for notifying us about it!

Hi Xeno, That is very good news! Congratulations. I am glad you can now continue life again without hopefully having to worry to much about things. Next week I am going to a festival here in the Netherlands, which should be great fun. Going with a nice group of friends. I don't have any holiday plans yet, cause I am house-hunting. Ian, you should bring your Ultimaker. Perhaps you can find some cheap / free stays and offer your 3D Printing services as compensation

Thanks

Hi All, As you may have read we are co-hosting the Gadget Hacking & Accessories contest currently on Instructables. Within this contest I see a big role for 3D printing and especially for Ultimaker. There is a special prize for the best 3D printed entry, and I want to give participants the chance to get familiar with 3D printing even when they do not have a printer yet themselves. In this topic I want to give those participants the chance to ask for advice on 3D printing so we can share our knowledge and experience with others. Perhaps if anyone is up to it, prototype someone's idea even. It would be great if we as a community can contribute to this contest by lending our helping hand, and obviously submit the best hack imaginable! Good luck everyone!

.. because some of the questions I mentioned in the comment above yours

I don't actually think thingiverse is the place to get exposure, except maybe if you get featured but besides that I think you easily drown in a sea of insignificant designs. There are a lot of quality models, but I think the ratio kinda got unbalanced lately. What I think is interesting is not how to sell models you actually printed, but the digital files. That is also the strength of 3D printing. Making the stuff you want and need. Selling a model you made can be done through the known channels, but how to go about the digital files is new and is more interesting I think. I don't think you can totally prevent it from ending up on a file sharing and hosting platform but if you work from a cloud that is the most controllable environment. Some questions I find interesting: - Are you selling the stl or gcode. Or maybe another file? - Are you selling a number of prints, like for $? you can print it 1 time, but for $? you can print it 10 times. How will you control this? - What about quality control? What if the purchaser is unhappy? - If you can limit the amount of times it is being printed, what when for example the filament gets tangled up? A lot of discusion was around the music industry when SW like kazaa and other file sharing sites got online, and now with iTunes. We are facing a similar movement now. Can we learn from this industry?

I hear ya brotha!

He is not getting as much as exposure as he used to I think but maybe he just spends all his time going on holidays and driving around in one of his new cars

I think in practice most people print at .06 if they want to get high resolution prints. The difference between .06 and .02 is not very easy to spot with the naked eye, while the difference in overal print time is easier noticeable

This is a very interesting discussion and I have seen this topic coming for a few months now. With the technology becoming better and faster, you can see a change in the users from people who are partially interested in 'just the technology' towards a professional user. I think one of the strengths of 3D printing is sharing files / data, because everybody can be its own maker and there is no point for everybody to have to reinvent the wheel every single time. Collaborating should be the keyword, connecting all the single individuals we intend to be sometimes. But that doesn't mean sharing has to be free. With a new group of people moving towards 3D printing, who's profession is designing you can not expect them to share it for free because they are depending on it. And there is no point in keeping them out of the community, in the contrary I think we can all benefit from this new level of professionalism. Not all designs are unique or professional enough to be made available as commercial design I think. So how would you avoid 'this guy' down the street makes his 7th Iphone 4s cover available for purchase and in that order 'pollutes' this library? On the other side, who are 'we' to stop him from trying to make money? What would be the best way to sell a model? Would you sell the STL or a Gcode? In case of the latter you also need a cloud based slicer that generates these codes or the designer should custom make it for everyone. I think the cloud would be the best place to store the models as it would be the most controllable environment. Controllable sounds like the opposite of what the environment is now, but I don't think it necessary is a bad thing. It just means that the designer has some kind of control about what happens with his designs. It can still be made available for everyone, but on the terms of who designed it. Which in a way I think he should be entitled too. I wonder what everyones opinion is on this..

Hi Sebastian, Thank you for your post. I think it is also fair to say you submitted your ticket Friday afternoon and you have just received a reply back. Doesn't change the fact you should have received an update about your Kit sooner. I have just send you a reply to your PM and lets work towards a solution Thank you for your time!

Hi Sebastian, When you read about any units arriving broken/knocked about you probably also read that Ultimaker took great care of its users and we left nobody in the dark. When a printer arrives damaged it is usually due to rough handling, something we can not always prevent. But what is important is how the company you committed too, handles such a situation. There is no official reseller in Cape Town, South Africa. But we can ship it there.

Hi Chris, Could you share your ticket-ID with me? I can notify Marrit about your situation so we can move towards a faster solution and a positive experience for you Perhaps I did not use the correct words, my apologies. I did mean it could absorb blows much better.

*starts hiding* :ph34r:

You have to keep us up to date

You can see a print here But I am sure someone has better pictures? Basically 20 micron doesn't show any layers anymore.

I know!!! Very talented designer named Aaron Thomas.