That is why I have such doubts about an offering like this. However, the non-geek(and, in many cases, also useful to geeks) solution appears to be one of the 'upload 3d model, receive physical model by fedex' services that will sell you time on 20k+ printing gear a few bucks at a time, in the same way that the online photo printers do for 2d prints. In the case of 3d printing, I definitely don't think that the future is a reprap in every household: DIY/Kit/OSS/etc 3d printers are geek toys, no question.
Even complete technophobes have frequently have a sense of grievance about how much ink cartridges cost, and how often printers break. Photo printing seems to be nearly dead, with people either sending them to facebook and never printing them at all, or uploading them to some print service, which small-scale home inkjets can't touch on price or performance, and $100 laser printers have been a real kick in the teeth for inkjets when it comes to printing text/homework/online bank statements for paper filing/etc/etc.īack when laser printers were quite expensive, and 'online' was not a ubiquitous concept, inkjets were certainly all over the place but the 'razor/blades' model that the vendors all chased seems to have earned them substantial enmity. Maybe the people that I know are unrepresentative(and I'm not just talking about my nerd friends, I include the family members and various other non-techies who end up informing me of their usage habits in the course of extracting tech support) but inkjets seem to have suffered pretty massively in popularity in the last 5-ish years. it shouldn't be terribly difficult for commercial 3d-printer vendors to compete on hardware specs(along with fit-and-finish and easy availability of finished products rather than kits) with the various DIY contraptions, but these 'Cubify' fellows seem determined to undermine what might be promising hardware with usurious consumables pricing and cringe-worthy software. Given economies of scale, mass production, experience, potentially useful patents, etc.
#CUBIFY 3 SOFTWARE#
But at least you get 25 free 'creations' if you buy one! Have they been poaching software guys from HP's consumer printers division or something? Even if you already have an STL object ready to roll, it's their fisher-price-meets-flash-game mutant bastard child of kiddo's first 3d modelling application/device-driver for you. ABS filament should set you back less than $20/lb, not $50/cartridge-of-unspecified-capacity-and-properties.Īnd software? Ha, ha, ha. The thing that makes me nervous about this 'Cubify' business, though the hardware certainly has a more polished look than some of the DIY models, is that it appears to derive its attitude toward software and consumables from the same cesspool that consumer inkjets use.īy the pictures, the 'cartridge' is a smallish reel of polymer filament('proprietary ABS' per the FAQ). (The above is sarcasm but I suspect that it wouldn't exactly be rocket-surgery to implement such a system in the real world.) If a printer attempts to validate a previously validated cartridge key, or reports the consumption of filament with the same Enciphered Consumable Subsection String more than once, your printer will fail Cubify Genuine Advantage.
#CUBIFY 3 LICENSE#
Each cartridge's key is reported to the Consumable License Activation Server upon first installation, and each Enciphered Consumable Subsection String is reported as consumed when it first passes through the optical-verification path. If the optical-verification scanner in the filament feed path encounters a missing section, or a section not signed with the private key corresponding to the public key QR-coded on the filament cartridge, it won't continue printing, now will it?Īnd don't even think about a replay atttack.
#CUBIFY 3 CODE#
Oh, you can refill the cartridge but does your filament have the correct cryptographically-signed-and-timestamped anti-tamper code printed along its entire length?
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