Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

nathanmark — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 03:53:18 -0500

You can use MyMiniFactory, which has been in existence since 2013. That is a sustainably developed site, starting with carefully selecting and testing the 3D layout choice before opening up to cooperation with even more 3D developers, enabling them to show their ideas openly.

The availability of prints is varied and reasonably priced (approximately 60,000). Except for Thingiverse, MyMiniFactory asserts that each file must transfer a software inspection and be displayed by society before it has published, reducing printing mistakes. Here are some more alternatives.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

Dark Alchemist — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 15:16:41 -0400

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chriske
Erased all my (almost 60)files from the Thingiverse servers a few days ago. I've had it with cookie cutters, fidget spinners, phone stands, political rubbish, and most of all parts that can't be printed at all...:(
What I'm looking for is a site hosting more serious technical projects.
But I'm afraid I will not find such a site. Proliferation has already struck hard the 3D-community.

Just like with everything else when the masses has something they invariably ruin it. I know I have never printed anything put parts I design as I don't need more useless junk like bric-a-brac and knick-knacks either. Don't get me wrong there are some seriously nice art work up there that if the right person gets it then does finishing work on it will look amazing but that was never why I had a 3d printer to start with but it has been my biggest gripe about 3d printers and which way it was headed.

What is up on thingiverse doesn't hurt me and it may be a something that someone needs for whatever reason so I live with it. As to you taking down your stuff that seems over the top in a response to seeing spinners, etc... on the site since the items you had up there you just removed from others in the community who may have had a future need for them. Your response was a _!_ to the entire community which is NOT what a reprap is about as we are supposed to help each other. Let the others do what they want as I consider that just static/noise and, as I said, it doesn't hinder me in what I do so why would I remove my designs so I could possibly hurt someone and add to the noise that is fidget spinners, phone stands, etc... since all of my part designs would then be gone. Let there be more like you and that is precisely all that there will be on any site.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

chriske — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 04:51:53 -0400

Erased all my (almost 60)files from the Thingiverse servers a few days ago. I've had it with cookie cutters, fidget spinners, phone stands, political rubbish, and most of all parts that can't be printed at all...:(
What I'm looking for is a site hosting more serious technical projects.
But I'm afraid I will not find such a site. Proliferation has already struck hard the 3D-community.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

Dark Alchemist — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:55:08 -0400

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Cults
There is also Cults. https://cults3d.com

It’s one of the main 3D printing design platform. It’s available in English, Spanish & French. You can download qualitative 3D models that are optimized for 3D printers (personal or professional). Designers can share their designs for free or they can sell their them in order to fund a little bit their hobbies. Makers can also share their prints’ pics and communicate with designers. If you don’t find the 3D model you are looking for, you can ask the team to get an STL on demand. At last, there is an interesting promotions parts, that allows makers to get coupon codes to buy online cheaper 3D printers, filaments, scanners, etc.
If you don’t know already this platform, just take a tour and let me know what you think about it!

Another two year old resurrection. The thing is I have no problems with necromancers if what they are posting adds, and fits, to the conversation of the thread as yours did. Why people get so bent out of shape about that is beyond me.

I will have to check out cults3d.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

Cults — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:38:12 -0400

There is also Cults. https://cults3d.com

It’s one of the main 3D printing design platform. It’s available in English, Spanish & French. You can download qualitative 3D models that are optimized for 3D printers (personal or professional). Designers can share their designs for free or they can sell their them in order to fund a little bit their hobbies. Makers can also share their prints’ pics and communicate with designers. If you don’t find the 3D model you are looking for, you can ask the team to get an STL on demand. At last, there is an interesting promotions parts, that allows makers to get coupon codes to buy online cheaper 3D printers, filaments, scanners, etc.
If you don’t know already this platform, just take a tour and let me know what you think about it!

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

Dark Alchemist — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:37:53 -0400

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bartek91

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vreihen

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thetazzbot
you just dug up a 2 year old thread.

congrats!

If it walks like a spambot, talks like a spambot, and smells like a spambot trying to build up credibility with a simple re-phrase of the subject line on a 2-year-old post.....

SURE, 01010101001001

@thetazzbot

thanks

LOL

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

bartek91 — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:18:31 -0400

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vreihen

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thetazzbot
you just dug up a 2 year old thread.

congrats!

If it walks like a spambot, talks like a spambot, and smells like a spambot trying to build up credibility with a simple re-phrase of the subject line on a 2-year-old post.....

SURE, 01010101001001

@thetazzbot

thanks

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

Dark Alchemist — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:03:13 -0400

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libre3d
www.Libre3D.com is still moving along nicely.

Adrian Bowyer or the "Inventor of RepRap" is a board member :)

...and?

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

libre3d — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:20:19 -0400

www.Libre3D.com is still moving along nicely.

Adrian Bowyer or the "Inventor of RepRap" is a board member :)

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

vreihen — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:16:56 -0400

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thetazzbot
you just dug up a 2 year old thread.

congrats!

If it walks like a spambot, talks like a spambot, and smells like a spambot trying to build up credibility with a simple re-phrase of the subject line on a 2-year-old post.....

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

thetazzbot — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:22:23 -0400

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bartek91
Yeah, there are a lot of better alternatives of thingiverse.

Just google it,

Bartek

you just dug up a 2 year old thread.

congrats!

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

bartek91 — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:44:06 -0400

Yeah, there are a lot of better alternatives of thingiverse.

Just google it,

Bartek

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

smartfriendz — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 07:03:28 -0500

Thx for the link to parametricparts Normand,

Didn't know about this one. Impressive.

Serge

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

andrewupandabout — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 22:49:14 -0500

Here is a link of the Prusa i3 on 3dhacker. Please let us know how to improve the experience of this BOM.

[www.3dhacker.com]

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

andrewupandabout — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:07:30 -0500

@mattmoses: we can add WTFPL if more people desire. I'm not joking haha. We're interested in being community lead.

@dark alchemist: thanks for the hat tip of "what about 3dhacker" on this forum.

@normandc: should we PM you so 3dhacker can further fill our entry in the "reprap printable part sources" list.

To all, 3dhacker is not a thingiverse alternative really. We're not interested in being a swimming pool for all but a "niche site" for having fun in 3D. If you're into 3dhacker, great, if not, use Thingiverse as it's backed by a corporation and will have tons of whistles to blow on. (Anyone laughing? Thought that was funny lol. It also feels dirty to support them after using their open source gear that got closed. Many may have never felt that or care. I personally do.)

Additionally, 3dhacker will grow as it's user base grows. We want 3dhacker to develop more, be deeply community lead, and recognize help along the way. 3dhacker is free, has many BIG FAT DOWNLOAD buttons, has a commenting system that allows the owner of the page to agree/disagree to show the comment, has a blog for all to use, has a forum for all to use, has all the CC attribution necessary, shows categories easily so any person on Earth doesn't need to "feel helpless" to use the site, we don't advertise, and lastly we desire to help out 3rd world countries because smiles over there are 10 times more amazing! (For those who have created smiles too or enjoy it, here is our lasest help outside the US: [www.youtube.com] )

Enjoy what you enjoy and we would love to get feedback on one thing. Should the site have no "license stuff" and be a place for "only free things" under the WTFPL license? It would be under a similar license without the word "f**K" because future browsers and browser plugins for some cultural groups might block websites with a "vocabulary word" of this nature. (I personally want a site that is totally free because IP is so boring and restrictive. That's my personal opinion though and the community has not asked for it. Just an idea.)

Happy printing and all comments welcome.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

Dark Alchemist — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 23:46:56 -0400

MattMoses Wrote:
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> For anyone interested, recent discussion on
> Hackaday about this:
> [url=http://hackaday.com/2013/10/02/3d-printering-
> the-problem-of-thingiverse/]The problem of
> Thingiverse[/url].

Very nice story and I haven't used Makerbotiverse since the switch over from a cool site to the dung hole it is now.

Thanks for posting about the article.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

MattMoses — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 23:32:54 -0400

For anyone interested, recent discussion on Hackaday about this: The problem of Thingiverse.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

Dark Alchemist — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 20:32:28 -0400

MattMoses Wrote:
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> Thanks for the new license options, Wil.
> Especially Public Domain - that's my favorite one.
> ;)
>
> Actually, my very favorite open source license of
> all time is the
> WTFPL but I don't
> expect you to add that one to cubehero!
That is basically what the Chinese have been doing, lol.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

MattMoses — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 11:30:22 -0400

Thanks for the new license options, Wil. Especially Public Domain - that's my favorite one. ;)

Actually, my very favorite open source license of all time is the WTFPL but I don't expect you to add that one to cubehero!

Regarding Thing Tracker Network - I still don't fully understand how it is supposed to work. I am guessing someone, somewhere has to build and maintain the tracker, but I don't know. Given the proliferation of object sharing sites, it seems like the next step would be an "object sharing sharing site" or meta-site or whatever it should be called. But anyway, getting in on the ground level with it might be beneficial.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

Senake — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:01:26 -0400

As per my Compopoly post, how about having an 'Internet of wants' on CubeHero?

People could add their names to 3d printer functionality or designs they would like to see eg.

Everyday needs
1. Print my dinner
a. Printing carbs
wanted by: Jane Scott
Paul Williams
b. Printing veg.
c. Printing meat.
2. Increase my income
a. Selling your designs
3. Reusing my trash
a. Filament extrusion

Everyday wants
1. Make my holidays more enjoyable.

Future dreams (not invented yet)
1. Live on a self sufficient luxury yacht

Senake

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

iamwil — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:57:10 -0400

Matt,

Thanks for the feeback! I just released support for all six CC licenses, and will add support for some of the other licenses as well. Technically, you can add the license files by uploading it, but people seem to like a web interface. So now, you shouldn't have problems with conflicting license types.

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MattMoses
At any rate, I think the main reason Cubehero and other "alternative" sites are having trouble getting users is
1) hardly anyone knows about them
2) they don't offer anything substantially different from thingiverse (unless you are part of the minority that has personal issues with thingiverse)
3) they don't have (anywhere close to) as many users as thingiverse

Right now, the plan to reach users is to keep releasing benefits and tell people about it. I have other ideas about how to reach more people. However, fundamentally, I still haven't found exactly the gamechanger that you guys need over thingiverse. Once I get that, I figured you guys would help spread the word and tell others. So far, my vision is that it's hard to work on hardware projects together, and I'm working towards being able to submit changes and merging them into a project. What do you guys think? Is that something that you need or want?

Besides you, only one other person has mentioned the Thing Tracker Network. Is it really that important to people? If a lot of you keep requesting it (like those of you requesting better search and browsing), it'll get done. But I don't really hear people harping on me about it. People don't ask for it, because it doesn't seem to have any immediate tangible benefit to the end user.

To your other point, perhaps I've not been good about communicating Cubehero's values and intent, so I'll think about that some more. Thanks!

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

NormandC — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:10:03 -0400

I added some info on the wiki list [reprap.org]

New parts repository: Parametric Parts proposes as its name suggests parametric parts. Instead of OpenSCAD they are based on CadQuery, an open source web-based app built on FreeCAD and Open Cascade, a real CAD kernel. So models can be exported to STEP as well as STL.

here's a sample part: [parametricparts.com]

And models are viewed in a 3D viewer, which is cool.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

MattMoses — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 03:20:26 -0400

Hi Wil,

Personally, I've used Public Domain, GPL, and BSD licenses for the designs I've published. It would be nice to have those options, but having only CC Non-commercial is not a deal-breaker for me, mainly because I assume everyone is going to ignore the license anyway. Of course, it complicates things a bit if I upload something to cubehero that I've already uploaded to thingiverse as GPL, BSD, or PD and I can only choose CC Non-commercial...

At any rate, I think the main reason Cubehero and other "alternative" sites are having trouble getting users is
1) hardly anyone knows about them
2) they don't offer anything substantially different from thingiverse (unless you are part of the minority that has personal issues with thingiverse)
3) they don't have (anywhere close to) as many users as thingiverse

As Gary Hodgson puts it on the Thing Tracker site:

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Anyone wishing to build a creation-sharing service has a Catch-22 situation: people won't use the service until it's deemed popular enough, yet it won't become popular without people using it.

What can set Cubehero apart from Thingiverse? I don't think simply "not being Thinigverse" is enough for most designers. You could host content that Thingiverse doesn't want to host. You could court users that Thingiverse doesn't court (people who want to get payed for their files, for example). I don't think either of those options is really in line with what Cubehero is about...

Here's two ideas:
1) you could be an early adopter for the Thing Tracker Network protocol (just because it's cool)
2) you could make some sort of "promise to the open source community" that you won't "sell out" :) Perhaps this could be done by setting up a non-profit and having some sort of official mission statement along the lines of "Cubehero is a non-profit 3D design library that is free to use and will never be affiliated with a for-profit company."

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

iamwil — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:43:26 -0400

While we're on the topic of licenses, I've never scraped other sites for Cubehero. Obviously, I'm always looking for reasons why someone would or wouldn't host on it. Recently, the issue of licenses came up. Cubehero currently only has one type of license: CC Non-commercial. Would licensing prevent you from hosting on Cubehero? Or is it a secondary concern?

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

MattMoses — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:51:46 -0400

After checking out some of these sites, it seems like a lot of them are simply content scraped from Thingiverse, often without attribution. I remember Defcad was caught doing this a while ago (Thingiverse Scraped!).

Some examples:

Here is Richrap's paste extruder on a site called rascomras.

Here is abauer's Anchor Chain Marker on a site called shapeking.

Looks like we should screen the sites we list and make sure they don't engage in this kind of nonsense.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

MattMoses — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:08:00 -0400

Great! It is nice to get this on the wiki. I made a few edits and additions. Everyone please feel free to add more!!

What are people's thoughts on adding links to repositories with controversial or NSFW content, such as weaponiverse, defcad, dongiverse, makerlove, etc? Would it be worth the trouble to add flags for different types of content? For example, Thingiverse allows weapon accessories and drug paraphenalia, but they (nowadays anyway) usually don't allow functional weapon components and "adult themed" objects.

In the interest of being impartial and complete, we should have links to all known repositories. However, if we have a checklist that shows every visitor exactly where to go to get their bongs and sound suppressors, it might create a negative image that would get blown out of proportion.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

reprapperMC — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:30:25 -0400

http://reprap.org/wiki/Printable_part_sources

I thought it would be nice to get this list on a RepRap.org wiki page where we can start listing and sorting the huge amount of part repositories that have been starting lately. Once the cells are filled in, the categories can be sorted for quickly checking out repositories that fit your needs.

I've only just started with a table of the current list from this thread. Please feel free to start filling in data cells if you've used any of the listed sites.

Also, if anyone has more data categories to add, please do so. I will be adding a list of the categories to explain them more so please add a line there if you add a new category.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

NormandC — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:37:10 -0400

Last nail on the coffin, from the "HOW TO DOWNLOAD ?" link, because, yep, you need instructions to download from that website!

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At registration you will have the possibility to download for free 5 objetcs per month ; you will be able to receive further credits by sending us some feedback and pictures of the objects you have printed.

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

NormandC — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:33:11 -0400

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JesusChrist
How have you not included MyMiniFactory.com in that list? It's easily better than the majority of that list...

And on what do you base this dubious affirmation?

The graphic design is a complete DISASTER. After 30 seconds my eyes started to bleed. We only see one single picture (non zoomable) for an object, the part or set of parts are not shown. Needless to say, no STL viewer. And the third strike: you need to register to get a download link sent to you. Download link? Really?

Oh, and there's no way to leave comments...

That site would be at the very bottom of my list. 8-)

Re: Thingiverse Alternative poll on Reddit

MattMoses — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:58:31 -0400

Updated!

1.  3dburrito
2.  3dhacker
3.  3DLT
4.  3dprintingmodel
5.  Azavy
6.  bld3r
7.  CG Trader
8.  Createthis
9.  Cubehero
10. Cubify
11. Cuboyo
12. FAB Fabbers
13. Fabster
14. Github
15. Githubiverse
16. Google SketchUp 3D Warehouse
17. Grab Cad
18. Grain3d
19. Homeprototypes
20. Layerbylayer
21. MyMiniFactory
22. Pirate Bay Physibles
23. Ponoko
24. RepRap Wiki 
25. Shapeways
26. Tangible Bytes
27. Thing-a-ma-print
28. Thingiverse
29. Turbosquid
30. YouMagine