I am a hobbyist, and my job will probably never require me to design and print anything for work.

I do really enjoy the process of conceptualizing, designing, and printing, and have done so for myself and some close acquaintances.

I’ve spent many hours/days learning the tools of the trade and was wondering if there was an opportunity to make some money as a side gig. Has anyone been successful doing this, and how did you go about it?

Here are a couple of my early designs, I plan to upload more once I clean things up a bit.

https://www.thingiverse.com/landon8848/designs

  • dutchkimble@lemy.lolEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I tried, but we have paper based currency notes in my country and PLA notes were a dead giveaway, no shops accepted them sadly

  • radau@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I never bothered with it but I’m sure you could. I just public domain everything I design since it’s a lot of older automotive stuff and I’d rather it be readily available.

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    What you are describing is simply being a design engineer. That’s what I do and I take on side projects once in a while. It’s not worth my time to simply 3D print things for people. The printer is simply a tool used for prototyping.