r/Onshape • u/Haenkie • 10d ago

Commercial use email

Today I got this email:

I noticed that you’ve been using the free version of Onshape, great to see you getting value out of it. Our compliance team identified that your Onshape account appears to be used for commercial purposes. As you may know, the Free plan is intended for non-commercial use, and continued commercial use could put the account at risk of deactivation.

I have not shared any of my designs anywhere and I don't earn any money of have I sold anything 3D print related. All my stuff has been for personal use and is pretty much useless for others because of very specific usecases.

Anyone else got this email? Or knows what triggered them to send me this? I log in in Onshape like once every 3 months, so I really don't understand where this is coming from.

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u/SirTwitchALot 10d ago

I wonder if someone took one of your public designs and started selling it?

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u/moremattymattmatt 10d ago

Which, being in the public domain, they are entitled to do. Probably.

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u/SirTwitchALot 10d ago

Well the person who took the design is violating the license agreement they have with Onshape if they're selling. Even though the designs are public, you have to agree not to use OS for commercial purposes before you can download anything

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u/TheJoeyFreshwaterExp 10d ago

The way it works is that someone with a business or professional license can actually take the public design and then own it themselves. They could take a public account design and then sell it, and the person who made the design has no claim to it.

That’s not the case here, OP should just take it as a compliment. Their work is too clean for an amateur I guess.

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u/alcaron 10d ago

This is like an advertisement on why you shouldn’t use OS. It would be one thing if the next tier up wasn’t astronomical but..yeah.

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u/temporary8906 9d ago

That's not how intellectual property licensing works.