making Money with 3D Printer?

[G]

Hey,

for example: u hire a 3D printer company to print something fo you.. Practical things with beautiful colors can be printed.

These products then selling on Amazon?, Etsy, Ebay, ..?

has anyone ever done anything in this area?

Thanks & cheers

 

[Dawskie]

real estate...like house blue print into 3d...im not sure.

 

[CreativeDaddy]

What you need to understand is, with 3d printer you dont need to invest on stocks because you create your own stuff.
In that way, you need to get blueprints for stuff you want to sell, put them for sale on ebay or build your own store.
Once you make a sell, you create the product through 3d printer and ship it.

 

[Deleted member 1333509]

You can make money by designing models if you're good a graphic design and there's a big market for it.

 

[G]

What you need to understand is, with 3d printer you dont need to invest on stocks because you create your own stuff.
In that way, you need to get blueprints for stuff you want to sell, put them for sale on ebay or build your own store.
Once you make a sell, you create the product through 3d printer and ship it.

true lol

but i was thinking of hire a 3D service company and not printing myself? i don't know if that would even pay off... but it would be easier. was just a thought

 

[G]

You can make money by designing models if you're good a graphic design and there's a big market for it.

so designing 3d models?



So I cant just search/find (fe on thingiverse.com) 3d product, which I think->hope I can sell a lot, copy the image of it and send it to a 3d service company which they print it for me? it isnt that easy, right?

 

[CreativeDaddy]

true lol

but i was thinking of hire a 3D service company and not printing myself? i don't know if that would even pay off... but it would be easier. was just a thought

Well a 3dprinter its not that expensive.. its an investment.
If you hire a service there are things you cannot control (the time the company needs to create, burocracy, the quality you sell vs the expected, a shit ton of stuff)

The best thing is that you can have full control of the process (creation to final costumer), calculate the creation process and time, the shipping, invoices etc.
Its profitable you manage to find a good resource of traffic and a good product like those fidget spinners, league of legends little character statues, a lot of stuff.

 

[Deleted member 1333509]

type "3d printing model marketplace" into the big g granddaddy and you'll find a load of places where people are creating and selling them.

Also, you can provide automotive companies with the ability to custom create plastic parts that they need. If you get the models designed for all of the most common car parts for the most common cars and then mass contact car repair places, some dealerships, auto parts aftermarket sellers and tell them you can create identical replicas at a fraction of the cost.

Depending on the country, aftermarket plastic car parts can sell for $100 each and upwards sometimes.

Plus, find a craze relating to plastic objects and mass produce them cheap. People did that with 3d printers and fidget spinners and have done it with many other similar things since.

Just think of businesses that want plastic things, any business. Then figure out how to make them. Then sell them cheaper than they pay for them normally.

The opportunities with 3d printing are hugely limited right now though, mainly because of how fingernail pullingly slow they print.

 

[G]

Well a 3dprinter its not that expensive.. its an investment.
If you hire a service there are things you cannot control (the time the company needs to create, burocracy, the quality you sell vs the expected, a shit ton of stuff)

The best thing is that you can have full control of the process (creation to final costumer), calculate the creation process and time, the shipping, invoices etc.
Its profitable you manage to find a good resource of traffic and a good product like those fidget spinners, league of legends little character statues, a lot of stuff.

thanks man. will research a little bit about it. mabye I will try.

thank you

type "3d printing model marketplace" into the big g granddaddy and you'll find a load of places where people are creating and selling them.

Also, you can provide automotive companies with the ability to custom create plastic parts that they need. If you get the models designed for all of the most common car parts for the most common cars and then mass contact car repair places, some dealerships, auto parts aftermarket sellers and tell them you can create identical replicas at a fraction of the cost.

Depending on the country, aftermarket plastic car parts can sell for $100 each and upwards sometimes.

Plus, find a craze relating to plastic objects and mass produce them cheap. People did that with 3d printers and fidget spinners and have done it with many other similar things since.

Just think of businesses that want plastic things, any business. Then figure out how to make them. Then sell them cheaper than they pay for them normally.

The opportunities with 3d printing are hugely limited right now though, mainly because of how fingernail pullingly slow they print.

thanks man! thank u for the tips

but regarding the plastic objects for automative companies or similar: I mean I dont know but I think that in EU it isn't allowed to sell them "replicas" without any (CE?) Certificate.

do u have experience with that?

cheers

 

[Deleted member 1333509]

thanks man. will research a little bit about it. mabye I will try.

thank you





thanks man! thank u for the tips

but regarding the plastic objects for automative companies or similar: I mean I dont know but I think that in EU it isn't allowed to sell them "replicas" without any (CE?) Certificate.

do u have experience with that?

cheers

https://www.google.com/search?q=3d+...0l3j0i22i30.5620j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
A piece of plastic that determines if a seat belt works - probably not. A piece of plastic that is used as a handle to wind down a car window - probably.

 

[G]

https://www.google.com/search?q=3d+...0l3j0i22i30.5620j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
A piece of plastic that determines if a seat belt works - probably not. A piece of plastic that is used as a handle to wind down a car window - probably.

thanks!

 

[perrymason]

A friend of mine was always passionate about 3D printing, now he found some geek communities that are into slot cars and trains, he makes good money designing pieces and scenarios for them.

 

[Bob M]

Its really difficult, find someone looking for DIY or POD

 

[Chinadoc]

The fastest growing market in 3D printing at the moment is miniatures for table top games. There are many amazing new artists entering the market creating designs that will blow your mind. Most of them offer merchant licences so that you can print their designs and sell them on eBay or Etsy or in a physical location such as local stores.

There are currently just over a hundred Patreon accounts offering digital miniatures, and the most comprehensive directory is the STLTop website. Designers can be sorted by fantasy, sci fi, cyberpunk, historicals and terrain. At the moment, the vast majority of offerings are in the fantasy genre, while historical is a largely under served niche with only a dozen or so dedicated designers, while cyberpunk has only half that number.

4k resin printers can now be purchased for just a few hundred dollars and you should be able to make that back in the first month, maybe even the first week if you have a good eye for what sells.

28 mm miniatures dominate at the moment, especially pin up styles, but other genres can be just as profitable if you have access to the right audience.

3D printing tech is improving rapidly at the moment. Prusa is set to announce four new machines this year alone, and there are many new developments coming out all of the time. Other markets that are just beginning to adopt this tech and would be good to get in on at the ground level would be slot cars, heat exchangers, large moulds, 1?6 scale collectibles, dolls' houses, RC places, ceramics and watches.

Let me know if you need anymore specific advice.

 

[Chinadoc]

Designing in 3D takes some serious skills and has a very steep learning curve, especially in a program like Blender.
But there is no need when there are already so many amazing designers out there.
Pick one of the new designers for Warhammer 40k for example. You will be surprised at the size of that niche market alone.

Games Workshop has been on a spectacular growth surge for the last decade. Their share price rose by 101.5% in 2019 alone. Their shares more than doubled in 2020, having already increased eightfold in the previous three years. It was the second best-performing company on the FTSE 250 during the 2010s, having recorded a 2,630 per cent return on shareholder value. In percentage terms, only two Nasdaq 100 companies — AMD and Nvidia — did better in the same period. The stock has even outshone US giants like Tesla and Amazon. Shares fell considerably in March 2020, but have since bounced back and continued climbing. The stock is now trading at 46 times earnings, and market capitalization is up to £3.3 billion ($4.2 billion). This is more than the U.K. high street clothing and food giant, Marks & Spencer, Centrica, the owner of British Gas or ITV, the country’s main commercial broadcaster.

The company boasts an overall profit margin of around 30%, which is similar to that of Facebook and amazing compared to other toy companies, such as Hasbro and Mattel who can barely manage 5%. They remain one of the most profitable companies in the UK. Unlike much of the country’s bombed-out retail industry, Games Workshop hailed 2019/2020 as the 'best year in the firm's history,' with sales reaching nearly £300 million, and profits increasing to £90 million, despite the coronavirus pandemic. The share price has risen 1,500% over the past five years, making it the best-performing British listed share over the period. Few retailers can boast three consecutive years of record-breaking growth in the current climate. In fact, in this day and age, 'not going bust' is pretty impressive for something so low tech, especially when the rest of the UK high street has been experiencing an utter bloodbath. Debenhams, Toys R Us, Maplin and Poundworld have all gone into administration, and more retail space has been lost than in any year since 2008.

 

[CyHead]

Tons of examples I could come up with:

1. Local plumbing company or person in your area needs an emergency part, you can print it out for them and they get it in minutes instead of waiting for it delivered halfway across the world.
   
   
2. Set up in rural areas that need things created quickly - think places with heigh levels of construction, like emerging cities with lots of development build (far-out suburbs of major cities) that would pay a premium to have access to construction or medical parts needed for machines.
   
   
3. As a novelty gift for people - printing 3d models of them as a gift. You can make $100+ for these. But I think it requires a sophisticated setup.
   
   
4. People were printing out Google Chromecast holders in the early days of its release and selling it for like $50 a piece. Find an item that has poor wire management and create a holder for it.
   
   
5. Create monogrammed signs for people as a novelty. Find symbols that are popular or in demand, get a 3d model of it and then find a way to imprint a person's name. Like new Star Wars movie - get the movie name logo & put people's name on it and sell it to fans. Or if there's a big game that suddenly does well - find memes from it and print & sell those (e.e.,g "[Your name] is sus" from Among Us or "[Your Name] the cake is a lie" from portal").

 

[Chinadoc]

@CyHead
Your suggestions are all valid if, and this is quite a big if, you have the CAD skills to create these items from scratch on your computer. In most cases this means that you are taking on the role of inventor and designer as well as producer, not to mention all the usual marketing and sales required for such custom items. Just the time taken having to devote yourself to all these different roles is going to seriously cut down on your profits. In addition, there are enough skilled designers out there, that somebody will usually come up with their own iteration of your new product within a short time.

If you want to invest in a printer and start making money straight away, then a much better option is to get a merchant licence from an up and coming miniatures designer, preferably one who limits the number of such licences. This way you can focus on printing, selling and shipping of high quality products, which I can assure you will be more than enough to keep you busy at the beginning.

You will be amazed at the quality of digital sculpting that is available. Take a look at the market leaders such as Archvillain, Titan Forge or Artisan Guild and then find a newcomer that has similar levels of ability. As they become more and more popular, your sales will increase.












If you want to print FDM, choose a terrain designer. If you want to go for resin go for a figure sculptor

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

Printing money?

Who are you, the government?

 

[Deleted member 657006]

Providing car mods for others might get you a income.