Not for commercial use. The free tier of this source is limited to non-commercial projects; the Evidence below quotes the restriction and the Notes say what a commercial licence costs.
Scan the World
unknownnon-commercialCredit: Unclear: read the Notesverified 37d agoGo to source
MyMiniFactory's collection of 3D-scanned cultural artefacts, made for physical 3D printing. "Freely share" on the landing page is not a game licence, and MyMiniFactory's own Terms of Use limit downloads to "your own non-commercial use" unless the design's owner has agreed otherwise. Treat it as not usable in a commercial game by default. For museum scans you can ship, use Smithsonian Open Access (CC0, quoted).
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The platform terms are non-commercial. MyMiniFactory's Terms of Use allow downloads "solely for your own non-commercial use", unless there is "a prior arrangement or agreement" with MyMiniFactory or the design's owner. A per-object licence could be such an agreement, but no per-object licence was read, so license stays unknown
The Scan the World store lists 12,437 objects, split into free and premium (paid) objects. Free to download is not the same as free to use
Per-object pages load only through the site's scripts and did not render object links on 2026-09-23, even in a browser
Still open (2026-10-04): no per-object licence could be read; the Scan The World user page and a scoped search return no object links or licence fields in a plain fetch. The platform terms moved to /pages/terms-and-conditions (the old /terms-and-conditions URL 404s) with the non-commercial clause unchanged. A per-object licence from the scan's owner is what would settle license
STL/OBJ from a print pipeline are rarely game-ready: wrong scale, solid meshes, no PBR materials
No attribution_string: none could be quoted, and a guessed credit line would be a liability
Review: find a per-object licence from the scan's owner that would override MyMiniFactory's non-commercial download terms.
Evidence
Live MyMiniFactory Terms & Conditions (2026-09-23): "You may print or download portions of the materials from various areas of this website (including through the use of our API) solely for your own non-commercial use - unless there is a prior arrangement or agreement with My Mini Factory Ltd or the owner of the design regarding the commercial use of said items"
Live Scan the World landing (2026-09-23): "an ecosystem for everyone to freely share digital, 3D scanned cultural artefacts for physical 3D printing"
Live MyMiniFactory Terms & Conditions (2026-10-04): unchanged, "solely for your own non-commercial use - unless there is a prior arrangement or agreement with My Mini Factory Ltd or the owner of the design regarding the commercial use of said items"; also "You may not access any content on the website (including, without limitation, 3D print files) for any other reason except your non-commercial, personal use solely as intended through the web interface."
Live Scan the World landing (2026-10-04): unchanged, "an ecosystem for everyone to freely share digital, 3D scanned cultural artefacts for physical 3D printing"
