Terms of use
These terms cover this site, everything on it and every file you download from it. They are written to be read rather than clicked past, which is why they are shorter and plainer than most.
These terms cover this site, everything on it and every file you download from it. They are written to be read rather than clicked past, which is why they are shorter and plainer than most.
ModelShelf is run from Norway. You can reach us through the contact page, or at contact@modelshelf.com for anything to do with rights, takedowns or your own data.
By using the site, creating an account or downloading a file, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the site. If you are using it for a company, practice or school, you confirm you are allowed to agree on their behalf, and "you" means that organisation.
01 · What ModelShelf provides
ModelShelf is a library of 2D CAD blocks and hatch patterns, drawn in-house and organised under one naming and layer convention for drafting, modelling and visualisation. Where an entry also carries a 3D or BIM file, that file is covered by these terms in exactly the same way.
Every file is drawn to the dimensions of the real object it represents, and simplified to what is useful at drawing scale: a block carries the geometry that matters in a drawing and leaves out what does not. The files are drawing aids. They are not manufacturer data, not certified product information, not construction documentation, and not a substitute for any of those.
02 · Accuracy
Read this clause before you use anything from here in real work.
Files are drawn to represent real objects at drawing scale and are simplified for that purpose. Dimensions, proportions, geometry, materials and metadata are approximate.
Real products change. They are revised between generations, they differ between markets, configurations and finishes, and as-built conditions differ again. A file represents an object as it was drawn, not as it will ship to you.
Nothing here is checked against, and nothing here claims compliance with, any building code, standard, accessibility requirement or regulation in any country.
BIM objects and their parameters are for coordination, quantity indication and visualisation. They are not a source of truth for procurement, tender documents, structural or fire design, energy calculation, fabrication or construction.
Files are corrected, replaced and withdrawn without notice.
Before you use a file in a project, it is your responsibility to check dimensions, specifications and usage rights against the maker’s current documentation and against whatever standards apply to your project. ModelShelf is not responsible for design decisions, drawings, models, calculations, submissions, tenders, purchases or built work that rely on a file from here.
If you find something wrong, write in. Corrections go out to everyone.
03 · Ownership
The library is ModelShelf’s own work: the drawings and models as drawn here, their geometry, layer structure, naming and metadata, the previews, descriptions and images, the category structure, the database, and the selection and arrangement of the library as a whole. It is protected by copyright and database rights.
These terms transfer nothing to you. You get the licence in clause 06, and nothing beyond it.
04 · Designs, names and trade marks
Many files represent objects designed, made or sold by other people.
ModelShelf does not design those objects and does not claim to. Every product design, trade mark, trade name, model designation and brand identity referred to here stays the property of its owner, and the credit for a design belongs to whoever made it.
Where a maker’s or a product’s name is used, it is used descriptively, to identify what a file represents so that you can find it. That use does not imply affiliation, association, sponsorship, endorsement, partnership, licence or approval by the rights holder. ModelShelf is not affiliated with, endorsed by or authorised by any maker or brand, unless a partnership is stated on the page in question. Where a maker’s logo appears on that maker’s own page, it identifies the page and is used nowhere else on the site.
ModelShelf claims no ownership of any product design or trade mark and grants you no rights in them. If your own work needs permission to depict, reference or specify someone’s product, obtaining that permission is your responsibility.
05 · Notice and takedown
If you hold rights in something represented here, or you are authorised to act for someone who does, write to contact@modelshelf.com
what rights you hold, and the basis for them;
the exact address of the page or file concerned;
your name, organisation and contact details, and confirmation that you hold the rights or are authorised to act;
what you are asking for: removal, a correction, different credit, or a conversation about licensing.
Every complete notice is acknowledged within five working days and dealt with promptly. Where a notice looks well founded the content normally comes down or is restricted while it is reviewed. Taking something down is a good-faith operational step. It is not an admission of infringement, liability or wrongdoing, and it waives no right or defence.
06 · Your licence
While your plan is active and your account is in good standing, ModelShelf grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, worldwide licence to download files and use them in your own work. You may:
use files in drawings, models, presentations, renderings, competition entries and project deliverables, including paid work for clients and employers;
modify, scale, edit, restyle and adapt files for use in that work;
hand a file on inside a deliverable to a client, in the form it was used in;
share a file with a consultant working on the same specific project, as long as they use it only for that project and under these same limits.
An account is personal to one person. If several people at a practice need the library, that needs a multi-seat arrangement agreed in writing.
When a plan ends, work you have already delivered or that is under way stays yours to keep using. Everything else stops: no further downloads, and you may not keep the library, or any part of it, as a standalone collection of files.
07 · Limits
Resell, sublicense, rent, lend, publish, upload, mirror, share publicly or otherwise redistribute files, modified or not, singly or as a collection.
Distribute files as part of a CAD or BIM library, block pack, template set, marketplace listing, plug-in, software product or web service, where the file itself is a material part of what is being offered.
Use files to create, populate, seed or supplement a competing or comparable library, database, catalogue or dataset.
Use files, metadata, images or text as training, fine-tuning, evaluation or grounding data for artificial intelligence, machine learning or generative systems, or make them available to anyone else for that purpose.
Scrape, crawl, bulk-download, harvest, index, archive or systematically extract content from the site, by hand or with scripts, bots, automation or shared credentials.
Get around access controls, authentication, paywalls, rate limits or download limits, including by opening several accounts, sharing credentials or rotating addresses.
Use files in physical or digital products for resale where the file is the main value, such as 3D-printed items, merchandise, posters, prints or stock content.
Use a file as a logo, trade mark or part of a brand identity.
Present a file as an official file from the maker it represents, or use one to suggest that a maker is involved in your project when they are not.
Remove, obscure or alter any notice of ownership.
Technical limits on downloads, requests and account activity may be applied and adjusted at any time to keep the site available and intact, and any account that looks like it is being used in breach of this clause may be investigated, restricted, suspended or closed.
08 · Accounts
You are responsible for the details you register, for keeping your password to yourself, and for everything done under your account. Tell us at contact@modelshelf.com straight away if you think someone else has got into it.
An account that breaches these terms, is used unlawfully, or is used in a way that damages the site or other users may be suspended or closed.
09 · Plans and payment
Browsing and previewing the library is free and needs no account. Downloading takes a plan. Current plans and prices are on the pricing , in the currency shown there, with tax handled as shown at checkout.
Payments are processed by Stripe. ModelShelf never receives or stores your card details.
Plans renew automatically at the end of each billing period, at the price then current for that period, until you cancel.
You can cancel at any time from your account. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, and your access runs until then. Part-periods are not refunded except where the law requires it.
Prices can change. A change applies from your next renewal, and you get reasonable notice by email first, so you can cancel before it takes effect.
A failed payment may suspend access until payment goes through.
10 · Withdrawal and refunds
If you are a consumer in the EU or EEA you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a purchase of digital content.
Because a plan gives you immediate access to files you can download, at checkout you are asked to agree to two things: that delivery starts straight away, before the 14 days are up, and that you understand you lose the right to withdraw once it has. Where you have agreed to that and have downloaded anything behind the paywall, the right to withdraw is gone and the payment is not refundable.
If you have not downloaded anything behind the paywall, you can withdraw within 14 days of paying and get the money back in full. Write to contact@modelshelf.com from your account email. Refunds go back the way the payment came, normally within 14 days.
Beyond that, payments are not refundable, except where consumer law requires it or where we decide to make an exception. None of this affects your statutory rights if the service is genuinely defective.
11 · Availability
There is no guarantee of uninterrupted or error-free operation. Any part of the site may be changed, suspended, limited or discontinued, including individual files, categories, formats and features.
12 · No warranty
So far as the law allows, the site and every file on it are provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind, express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement, quality, compatibility or uninterrupted availability.
In particular, there is no warranty that files are accurate, current, complete or dimensionally correct; that they will work with any given version of any software; that files are free of defects; that the site will meet your requirements; or that using a given file is permissible in your jurisdiction, project or contract.
13 · Liability
So far as the law allows, ModelShelf is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of profit, revenue, contracts, goodwill, business opportunity, anticipated savings, time, or loss or corruption of data, however it arises and whether or not we were warned it might.
That includes loss arising from errors in dimensions, geometry, parameters or metadata, from relying on a file, from rework, redesign, delay, non-compliance, a rejected submission, a tender or procurement error, a construction defect or the cost of putting one right, and from any third-party claim about how you used a file.
Total liability arising out of the site or these terms is limited to the greater of what you paid ModelShelf in the twelve months before the claim arose, or one hundred US dollars.
Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for intent or gross negligence, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. If you are a consumer, nothing here limits your mandatory statutory rights, and the limits above apply only as far as the consumer law that covers you allows.
14 · Your responsibility
How you use a file is your responsibility, including whether it is suitable, accurate and permissible for your project, your jurisdiction and your contract.
So far as the law allows, and except where you are acting as a consumer, you agree to cover ModelShelf against any claim, liability, loss and reasonable cost, including legal fees, arising from your breach of these terms, unlawful use of the site, or use of a file in a way clause 06 does not permit.
15 · Third-party services
The site links to and relies on services run by other people, including hosting, accounts, payment and analytics providers. They are outside our control, and we are not responsible for their content, availability, terms or practices. Your use of them is governed by their own terms. Which providers these are, and what they handle, is set out in the in the privacy policy.
16 · Changes
These terms can be amended. The dates at the top of the page are updated when they are. Anything material is notified by email or on the site, with reasonable notice before it takes effect. Continuing to use the site after that means you accept the new version. If you do not, stop using the site and cancel your plan.
17 · Law and disputes
These terms, and any dispute arising from them or from the site, are governed by Norwegian law, leaving aside its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes go before the Norwegian courts, with Oslo District Court as the agreed venue.
If you are a consumer, that does not take away the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, or your right to bring a case in the courts there. Consumers can also use whatever out-of-court dispute resolution body their own country provides.
18 · General
If any part of these terms turns out to be invalid or unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the smallest extent needed and the rest stands. Not enforcing something once does not mean giving it up. You cannot transfer your rights under these terms; ours can be transferred with the business. These terms and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between us about the site
Contact
General questions go through the contact page.
What this site is and how the files are made is on the about page. What is stored about you is in the privacy policy.