Not sure what to make of the hoorah over the 3D Benchy.
Apparently derivatives are no longer legal or that they were always illegal but not enforced??
never have been
correct.
Who in their right mind is still printing Benchies in 2025???
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Printing a Benchy doesn’t seem to be the issue, the derivatives are which will be a sore spot for many has this iconic model is deeply ingrained into 3d printing culture.
It’s kinda like Big Fruit telling the internet they can’t use a Banana for scale any longer.
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right, it’s become somewhat ubiquitous in the way calling cotton bandages a bandaid or cotton tissues a kleenex did, which tends to make these things hard to enforce
Me for one.
It is a quick and dirty test of my printers calibration if I have been working on the toolhead. That is what the Benchy’s original purpose was.
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I like the Benchy because of this 
If you print fast than the Benchy is still the model to go.
Does not eat much filament and exposes most of the flaws we can encounter…
The screenshot is for 0.2mm layers with a 0.4mm nozzle…
Print time 34 minutes, including warm up and all.
Actual time for the model around 28 minutes.
Some of the test models seem somewhat like pointless overkill. A Prime example is the ones that have ridiculous overhang tests. I’m going to enable supports rather than risk a print.
I bust off a good benchy after disassembling then reassembling my toolhead where I changed a hotend, I’m good to go.
Apparently the new thing is a bench named Boaty, although I would have gone with a tree named Branchy.
Let’s pray that day never comes. Big Fruit aren’t the type of people you want to piss off. Their Assassanana enforcers are no joke.
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LOL… you happen to be one of those, right?!? 
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I read an article yesterday that the new owner of the benchy model is not the one reporting remixes and has no intention of doing so. It even seems like they might change the license to allow remixes although they don’t literally say that:
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