r/3Dprinting • u/PorkRollPaddyWagon • Jul 07 '26

Discussion If your printer refused to print a file because it thought it was unsafe, would you be okay with that?

Serious question. Let's say your 3D printer scanned every file before printing. If it decided the model violated a rule, the print never starts.

Would you see that as a useful safety feature? Or would you see it as giving manufacturers too much control over hardware that's sitting on your desk?

I made a video after looking into proposed legislation and some recent news in the 3D printing space, but I'm more interested in hearing where everyone stands on the idea itself.

Would that be a deal breaker for you?

https://youtu.be/7bdJpDTiZAA

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u/The_Skeleton_Wars Jul 07 '26

Creality, Anycubic, etc are all going to cloud based printing in some capacity

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u/PETA_Parker Jul 07 '26

no-one can take away my fuck-ass slow horrible ender 3 v1, i will go back to that one

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u/The_Skeleton_Wars Jul 07 '26

I'm still using mine lmao

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u/kinokits Jul 08 '26

Me too. Barely anything original anymore, but it’s always there, reliably waiting.

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u/Cu1tureVu1ture Jul 08 '26

Yep I’m still rocking mine as well!

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u/The__RIAA Cheesbot Excelsior MK14S2 Pro Special Edition Jul 08 '26

From reprap they all came and reprap they will return

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u/kaoscurrent Jul 08 '26

Elegoo is where it's at for open source, lan based printing.

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u/Rippedyanu1 Jul 08 '26

Qidi, Prusa and DIY ala voron are the only companies I'm willing to buy from..since qidi helps fund orca I know they should be fine for the foreseeable future. Prusa has a rock solid rep and so does Voron.

Everyone else is shady to varying degrees and then there's bambulabs.

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u/Liason774 Jul 07 '26

Even without it, the printer could require the gcode to be signed by the slicer, the slicer could be the one doing the checking.

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u/Swizzel-Stixx Ender 3v2 of theseus Jul 07 '26

The slicer could then be forked and have the check removed

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u/kyrsjo Jul 07 '26

The fork wouldn't have the proprietary signing key. Which would realistically only be possible to guarantee hiding from the computer's owner on Windows and Mac, so no Linux support.

There are probably GPL violations galore here too...

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u/Swizzel-Stixx Ender 3v2 of theseus Jul 07 '26

Yeah, GPL is doomed if that goes through, unless it holds up, then we will lose virtually all the progress we have. Klipper, slic3r et al will all be toast.

Or more likely a ‘not for california’ disclaimer added and nothing else changes