I kinda feel the same at times with 3d printing. I can make you rare parts or plastic piece for an appliance from scratch with my hands. I can make you a cosplay suit of armor from scratch out of foam and it'll end up looking like iron man armour. Then a guy does the same thing in a printer and goes to me "I made this on my own" and I stare at him.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I kinda get you, but ultimately the design of the printed materials had to be created by someone. Creation is the key in all of this.

In this comparison, ideally that creator is the person printing the materials. There's a disconnect if someone just downloaded the CAD files and printed it up then claimed 100% ownership of the creation credit.

I don't see anything wrong with someone designing all the pieces in CAD, which is an artform in itself IMO, printing them and proudly wearing them. Its just a different tool. You use hand tools, they used digital tools.

[–] 0laura@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

there's also operating the machine. for some prints I'd argue actually getting the printer to print it is a bigger achievement than creating the design itself.