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3DLT – New 3D Printing Template Market

Juho Vesanto By On · 3DP Applications, Consumers, Industry news 4 Comments

3DLT is a company offering Pablo Arellano Jr’s take on the 3D printing online market phenomenon. Pablo is a former P&G manager and his company is tied to the Cincinnati based Cintrifuse Startup Accelerator, a collaborative project intended to both give the participating start-ups credibility and relevant connections, whilst also producing a potential surge in the area’s economy.

Arellano Jr has been using iStockphoto, the online stock photo archive, as an inspiration for his business model. The profits for selling digital 3D models are shared between the designer and 3DLT in varying percentages of the created revenue. “Our thought has been to take that same best practice [as iStockphoto] and do it in an industry that’s brand new. It’ll save consumers and commercial designers money,” he stated.

Currently the product portfolio offered by 3DLT is very limited – however Arellano Jr is planning a Kickstarter project, which will inevitably give the company more visibility and thus generate more interest from artists and designers and prompt them to get involved.

But does 3DLT have what it takes to start fighting for fame and glory with the already established 3DP services, such as Shapeways and iMaterialise, which are bound to be used as competitive benchmarks? That’s a question to be answered with time only. However, this year will undoubtedly bring more and more start-up businesses like 3DLT – and new revenue creating models – into the 3DP B-to-C market as well as to the business-centric sector. We’ll keep following – and report on all the highs and the lows — there’s sure to be plenty of both.

Source: WCPO, 3DLT

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  • Pablo Arellano Jr.

    Hello Juho,

    Great article my friend, just to clarify we do not plan to touch product but to provide exceptional templates to the end consumer. In regards to competition, we are working with Shapeways as our printer for templates in order to provide the best quality products in the world. At the end of the day, it’s a blue ocean strategy for us. Cheers Mate! Email me with any more questions – pablo@3dlt.com

    • http://twitter.com/juho_3dpi Juho Vesanto

      Hi Pablo,

      Thanks for the clarification – looking forward to seeing more about your project, the template idea does have great potential.

    • http://twitter.com/RPES12 Rachel Park

      Hi Pablo – Had a message from one of the (very talented) designers that you have ‘represented’ on the template website, stating their work is being displayed without permission. This is a critical issue for many designers and I would kindly ask if you could address it immediately by taking the images down — the 5 jewellery designs by Jessica Rosenkrantz.

      Thanks

      • Pablo Arellano Jr.

        Hello Rachel,

        We have addressed the situation. Please feel free to contact me at your earliest with any future discrepancies. Pablo Arellano Jr. – pablo@3dlt.com – 513.371.9195