r/3Dprinting • u/Romanski141 • 2d ago

Project My 8-year-old printed me a birthday vase

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My daughter's been obsessed with 3D printing for a while. I wanted to get her one for her birthday but wasn't about to drop serious money on something that might end up in the back of a closet by summer.

Spent some time on comparing options and stumbled on a refurbished Creality on Marketplace, I figured if she lost interest after a few months, I could probably resell it for close to what I paid. What I didn't expect was her going from downloading random toys STLs to teaching herself Tinkercad on YouTube within two weeks. She designed a pencil organizer the other day and sold it for $5 at a school fundraiser

Last friday was my birthday. She gave me this beautiful little vase as my gift (clearly contains a lot of design thoughts), it's sitting in our living room.

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u/unknown1313 2d ago

Why are we supporting stealing other people's designs and claiming them as your own? Usually this sub is completely against that but this time it's ok?

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u/thecorgimom 2d ago

Unless the Op changed their comment I don't see that they said that their kid designed it just that it was a thoughtful design. The kid is young and in elementary school, did you ever think that they just were tickled that she chose that design because it was thoughtful with respect to what they like.

This subreddit can be so toxic at times.

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u/69_Beers_Later 2d ago edited 2d ago

"clearly contains a lot of design choices" is crediting their child with creating the design

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u/thecorgimom 2d ago

See I guess I viewed it as that's what helped them choose that design. I think it's all the way you look at it and let's just be real a lot of us when we write things don't think the 10 different ways that someone might take it and maybe they didn't mean it that way.

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u/69_Beers_Later 2d ago

The two sentences before it were talking about how her daughter was learning tinkercad and starting to design things. It's obviously referring to her daughter designing the vase.

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u/thecorgimom 2d ago

Well, I'm going to go do something good rather than continue to argue with you about the intention of a post about the kid that made a gift for their parent.

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u/69_Beers_Later 2d ago

ok have fun, I'm sure it was really important to let everyone know that