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

  • radau@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year 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.

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      I can respect that. If it’s something I’ve designed and made for my own use I make it freely available, but if someone I know comes to me asking, “hey is it possible to build X” then there should at least be a couple of beers in it

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        1 year ago

        Oh yeah definitely commissions are a whole other ball game they should at least pay for the filament needed to R&D it and ideally do something for your time