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DAZ content and 3D printing

corvus-2290416corvus-2290416 Posts: 0
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I'm researching applications for 3D printing in digital art, and the DAZ/Poser community is an obvious area of interest since it's both well established and very amateur friendly. I played around with this stuff years ago when I was in college so I know the technical basics but I do have some more general questions and would love to get community input:

Any recommendations on what human character family would be most suitable? I am particularly worried about the availability of decent hair as many non-dynamic hairstyles have horrible geometry and I don't think the dynamically 'grown' hair is going to translate very well to a buildable model (though I certainly intend to try at least once :) ). I plan on using Poser and Bryce for scene setup, backed up by Blender and any other necessary/useful free tools for STL preparation.

Related to the above, does DAZ ever run good sales on the older (generation 4 and before) content or is it new/popular stuff only? I want to make sure I get the most bang for my buck before investing in anything.

From reading the EULA and several long forum discussions it sounds like if I have a printer I get the same rights and restrictions as for 2D renders (commercial use, etc.) but I cannot contract with a printing service without a special license that has not yet been made available. Has DAZ made any movement on this front or given any sort of indication on what their long term strategy is?

Sounds like a few folks here have tried this already. Have you sold stuff through sites like Etsy or was it strictly a personal experiment? If so, did you sell it unpainted or painted/finished?

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  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited December 1969

    One cannot make 3D print objects with any of the old or new content until such time as it explicitly says so on the product pages and one would then also need to be purchasing whatever license sold at the time for said purpose.

    This topic has been hashed out in other threads and also asked about to the company and that is a paraphrased conclusion, not legal advice. Contact Daz3d directly if you are seriously interested in printing out 3D objects with any of their files, which by the way, for the most part, were never designed for 3D printing which has a different criteria to that of 2d rendering of images.

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