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You wouldn't download a boat (Benchy-pocalypse 2025) (lemm.ee)
submitted 12 hours ago by RacerX@lemm.ee to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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Now that Benchy's are off the market, what are your go to test models? I've seen Cali Cat and the torture toaster as examples.

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[-] elDalvini@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 hours ago

Unpopular opinion: The license makes sense and should have been enforced from the start.

The Benchy is a benchmarking tool, not just visually but there are also various features you can measure and check against the dimensions on the website. But that doesn't work if the model you're printing has been modified.

If it looks like a beachy, it should have been printed from the original model, so it's always comparable. Preventing derivatives means you can be sure of that, even if it came on the included SD card with your printer. Otherwise, manufacturers could include a modified model that makes their printers look better than they are.

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Just because the benchy was designed to be used as a calibration tool doesn't mean people shouldn't be able to do whatever they want with it. If a print a benchy with The Rock's face on it I'm not gonna go to their website and be like "omg it looks different why???" Also the model is a solid 3d model, it isn't presliced, so the only thing a manufacturer could do to make a benchy "look better" on their printer would be to make it visibly different than the original, which... See above.

Like I get what you're saying, standardization is important for tools like this, but if someone wants to calibrate their printer it's not like it's difficult to get the original benchy and run your test. If they were just removing models that are nearly identical but with small tweaks I'd be more likely to agree, but they're removing artwork and gag models that could never be mistaken or passed off as the original.

It'd be like banning children's toys that look like tools because someone might try to build a house with a plastic ruler.

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yeah it also doesn't mean the bench is dead or off the market, only that you have to use their model and cannot modify it.

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Since this licence has not been enforced for the past 7 years by Creative Tools (company that designed the orignal benchy), it's probably safe to assume that it has something to do with NTI Group acquiring the company in march 2024...

[-] astrsk@fedia.io 6 points 9 hours ago

Benchy is gone. We print Chompski now. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4259015

[-] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 12 hours ago

whats happening with benchy?

[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 23 points 12 hours ago

Benchy license apparently prohibits derivative works. hackaday

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

For a benchmarks designed to test printer performance, isn't this a good thing? Allowing derivative works would allow a printer manufacturer to modify a benchy model to best suit their printer's strengths, potentially defeating the purpose.

It would be one thing to try to charge people for benchy, but that's not happening. This sort of seems reasonable? Or am I wrong?

[-] technomad@slrpnk.net 12 points 12 hours ago

Interesting, but why wait until now to start enforcing this. (7 years apparently...)

Seems like all it's going to do is create disdain from the community.

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 12 hours ago

Creative Tools got bought by a large company called NTI Group in march 2024...they're definitely the ones pushing for this sudden licence enforcement

[-] Marvelicious@fedia.io 12 points 10 hours ago

🤣 "Everyone uses this thing... it must be possible to monetize that somehow!"

I'd really like to hear their "underpants gnome" business plan for how that's going to work.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago

I like the idea of an underpants gnome becoming the new benchy

[-] Marvelicious@fedia.io 4 points 7 hours ago

🤣 That would be absolutely PERFECT.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 hours ago

If you are a company in 2025 and you haven't figured out how to make almost everyone completely fucking hate you, you are really lagging behind the times. They are playing catchup.

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I don't think I've ever printed a benchy in the first place. And I knew about its license from the beginning.

[-] rbn@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilIubT7ands

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

I thought it said benchy prolapse at first

this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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