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The 3D printing book that starts with a clip that printed perfectly

37 chapters and 68 printable worksheets on selling printing as a service - what you may print, what a part cannot do, and what to refuse.

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What this guide is

Most guides to 3D printing are about machines and settings. This one is about the things that actually end print services: a file you had no right to print, a part sold with no statement of what it cannot do, a quote built from a slicer estimate, and a client's design you showed on social media. It opens with a pushchair clip that printed flawlessly and deformed in a hot car, because nobody said what it was made of. The print was not the failure - the silence was. It states no material property, no printing parameter, and no law, routing every such question to a data sheet, an attorney, or an engineer - and teaches the verification habit instead. Four rules, two refusal lists, a failure ladder, and the arithmetic showing that material is under two per cent of what a job actually costs you.

What you get out of it

Specifics, not promises.

  • Four rules covering what actually ends print services: rights, materials honesty, quoting from measured cost, and client file confidentiality
  • The four separate rights in a printed object - the file, the design, the mechanism, and the trademark - and why clearing one does not clear the others
  • A materials limitations statement that goes out with every part, including trivial ones, because you never know which trivial part ends up somewhere it matters
  • Anisotropy explained as a business fact: a printed part is weakest across the layers, which makes orientation a structural decision rather than a convenience
  • A failure rate you actually measure, expressed as wasted hours rather than failure counts - because a failure at hour eleven costs eleven hours
  • The full cost arithmetic: material under two per cent of the floor, a nine-hour print consuming twenty minutes of attention, and postage costing more than the plastic
  • 148 AI prompts with their safety constraints written in - and a plain statement of the three things AI must never be asked in this trade

Ideal for

Beginners who can already operate a printer and have never run a service business, and working print services who have never established the rights to a file they printed, never issued a statement of what a part cannot do, and never measured their failure rate.

  • Anyone starting a 3D printing service.
  • Working print services who have never established the rights to a file, never issued a statement of what a part cannot do, or never measured what a failed print costs them.

What's inside

Format

  • Digital download, delivered instantly after payment
  • Formatted for letter paper — read on screen or print it
  • Yours permanently, re-downloadable from your library any time
  • Licensed for use in your own business

By the end you can

A reader finishes with a per-job rights register, an application refusal list, a standing refusal list, measured tolerances by material, a machine cost per hour, a characterised failure rate, a materials limitations statement template, attorney-drafted terms, a file assessment process, a print and failure log, and a thirty-day, ninety-day, and one-year plan.

A complete working system for selling 3D printing as a service - built on four rules covering the right to print, honesty about what a part is made of and cannot do, quoting from measured cost rather than slicer estimates, and the confidentiality of a client's file.

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