What you can do with your files
A plain-language guide to Free, Pro, and Founder usage rights. This page explains the rules in normal words, the binding legal text lives in our Terms of Service §3–4, and nothing here overrides it.
- Make things for yourself, friends, family
- Use in your own home, shop, or classroom
- Sell physical prints or cast items
- Sell or share the STL/3MF files
- No watermark-free downloads (small engraving)
- Everything in Free
- No watermark
- Sell physical prints or cast items you make
- Sell or share the STL/3MF files themselves
- Commercial rights end for new downloads if you cancel
- Everything in Pro, permanently
- One payment, no subscription
- Sell physical prints or cast items, for life
- Sell or share the STL/3MF files themselves
- License is personal, can't be transferred to another account
The one rule that never changes
You can never resell or redistribute the digital files themselves, STL, 3MF, or any other Meshcast-generated file, on any plan, at any time. That includes uploading them, free or paid, to Printables, MakerWorld, Thingiverse, Etsy, Cults3D, or anywhere else. Every plan only ever grants you a right to manufacture, print or cast, with the file, not to pass the file itself along.
What changes between plans is whether you're allowed to sell the physical thing you made from the file, a print, a cast part, a finished product.
Free plan: personal use only
Free downloads are for you, gifts, your own home, a one-off print for a friend. Selling anything made from a free-tier file isn't permitted, whether it's the raw print or something you built around it. Every free STL carries a small "Meshcast" engraving as a result.
Pro plan: sell what you print
While your Pro subscription is active, you can sell physical prints and cast items made with Meshcast files, on Etsy, at a market, wherever. No watermark, no download cap. If you cancel, your commercial license ends for anything you generate after that point, but items you already sold while subscribed stay perfectly legal; there's no retroactive clawback.
Founder plan: the same rights, permanently
Founder is a one-time payment for the same commercial rights as Pro, for the lifetime of the service, tied to your account. It's personal and non-transferable, you can't sell or hand off a Founder seat to someone else. Founder pricing rises $50 every 10 seats; the current tranche is priced at $349, and the next 10 will be $399.
How we verify it
Every downloaded STL carries a small license signature embedded in its 80-byte header (account, plan, date), proof of which license applied at download time. We may ask for clarification if there's a good-faith reason to think commercial work is happening without the matching license.
Quick reference
| Right | Free | Pro | Founder |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal use | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sell physical prints and casts | No | Yes | Yes |
| Sell or share the digital files | Never | Never | Never |
| Watermark-free files | No | Yes | Yes |
| Price | $0 | $20 / month | $349 once |
Questions
Need a license for a team, a classroom, or a use case that doesn't fit neatly above? Email hello.meshcast@gmail.com, happy to work it out. For the full legal terms, see the Terms of Service; for plan details and pricing, see Pricing.