It’d be a shame to see piracy erode the livelihood of craftsmen and women the way some believe it does for musicians and game designers. However it all plays out, it’s sure to be exciting. Imagine if pirated designs could be added to a blacklist and the most popular 3D printers like Makerbots, Printrbots, and Cubes wouldn’t allow you to print them. They might also aim for some sort of digital rights management standard. They might aim for changes to the laws to make this kind of piracy more clearly illegal with stiff penalties. The idea of people being able to download an array of weapon designs could be terrifying or liberating depending on your perspective.Įventually, the old manufacturing industry will wise up, and independent designers will band together to try to thwart physible piracy. People will build up curated collections of designs, pass them back and forth, and you’ll be able to print cheap versions of expensive objects from tools to jewelry, furniture to toys, and even guns. I imagine this situation will lead to the rise of a Napster for 3D printing models along with websites like The Pirate Bay’s physibles section. 3D printing template marketplaces like 3DLT could also get sideswiped by piracy. As of now, physible designs could be interpreted as falling into a gray area between art and media protected by the DMCA, and what can be patented. At least the record companies had the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to fall back on. The way the music industry was unprepared for the mp3 revolution, the manufacturing industry seems similarly behind the curve. If you are an experienced designer, you may not need these templates, but they can be a useful tool for checking against your final files.I believe it. Use the templates to help make sure your files are set up at the correct size, contain proper bleeds, and are in a format that will process without technical glitches.

Templates are a helpful way to get your project started. They provide information and guidelines on product dimensions, folding, bleed and layout so that you can easier create print ready files If you are designing your own artwork, you can download our specially designed templates in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, PDF and JPG format.

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