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Guidelines

What belongs on the board, how licensing works, and how to read a solution's print settings.

Dashing Prints works because people post real problems and other people spend real effort solving them for free. A few rules keep that worthwhile:

  • Post real requests. A bounty should describe an actual problem or idea you want a 3D-printed design for. It shouldn't be a request for someone else's copyrighted design, or a joke or test post.
  • Say who designed it. Every solution is marked as your own design, a remix of someone else's, or someone else's design that you are passing on. All three are welcome, but only the first two count toward your profile. Do not upload a paid model you purchased, or a file scraped from another maker's paywalled listing.
  • Be specific and honest. Describe dimensions, tolerances, and what a solution does and doesn't solve. Overstating what a print can do wastes the next person's filament.
  • No harassment, hate speech, or spam. Titles, descriptions, tags, and images should stay on-topic for the request being solved.
  • Report problems, don't retaliate. If a post violates these guidelines, email us (see About → Contact) rather than editing or upvoting it into place.

We may remove content or restrict accounts that violate these guidelines. See our Terms of Service for the full policy.

Open-Source STL Guidelines

Every model file shared through Dashing Prints is meant to be freely printable, remixable, and shareable. That's the entire premise of the board. When you publish a solution:

  • Your own design. Choose “I designed it”. If the same model is already on Printables, MakerWorld or Thingiverse, add the link to your page there, so anyone can see it is yours. You choose the licence and keep the copyright.
  • A remix. Choose “I changed someone else's design”, link the original and name its creator. Respect the terms of its licence: most Creative Commons licences require attribution, some prohibit commercial reuse, and share-alike licences require your version to carry the same licence.
  • Someone else's design. You may pass on a model you did not make only if it is published under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, or its creator has agreed to it being posted here. Choose “Someone else designed it”, link the page it comes from, name the creator and pick the licence that page states. It is shown as their work, and it does not count toward your Solutions, Likes, Downloads or badges. Designs under non-commercial or no-derivatives licences cannot be shared here, because this site carries advertising and offers every model for remixing.
  • Mislabelled designs. Anyone can report a solution that is someone else's design. A moderator may relabel it as shared, with the original credited, or remove it if its licence does not allow it to be here. Marking someone else's design as your own can lead to removal and, if it is repeated, to losing your account.
  • Accepted formats are STL, 3MF, STEP, and OBJ. Upload the format your slicer actually needs: STEP or OBJ if the geometry matters for someone editing it further, STL or 3MF if it's print-ready as-is.
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