Which repository for STLs August 02, 2019 09:04PM |
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Re: Which repository for STLs August 03, 2019 12:40PM |
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the_digital_dentist
I don't know how much experience you have at 3D printing, but after you've printed a bunch of stuff, you develop an understanding for what works and what doesn't, what's printable and what isn't. Then you look at designs on Thingiverse and Youmagine and start to realize how many unprintable designs are there. It's not too hard to spot the junk "designs". The first clue is that there are no photos of the printed part(s). The second clue is that the "designer" has 400 designs posted and 30 or 40 are all minor variations on a single "design" (and none of them printed). That is someone who is more concerned about quantity than quality. He wants the geek-cred of claiming that he has 400 designs posted on Thingiverse.
I occasionally search the on-line repositories when I need to print something for a specific purpose, but rarely find anything acceptable, so most of the time I end up designing my own widgets. I've taken to simply making a blog post and linking the Fusion360 CAD files for my designs. Almost no one follows my blog, and most of my designs are specific to what I'm working on, so almost no one sees or has much use for my stuff, but I'm OK with that. Quality is more important than quantity, and I'd rather not bury my designs under the tons of crap that is posted to the repositories.
The early description of the Prusa repository I saw indicated that it would be curated, meaning that someone is going to be filtering out the garbage before it gets posted. That may make it the repository site to use.
Re: Which repository for STLs August 03, 2019 12:56PM |
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Re: Which repository for STLs August 03, 2019 01:39PM |
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I mentioned that GrabCAD is owned by Stratasys and Thingiverse is indirectly as well, as Stratasys owns Makerbot. So it makes me wonder if they've decided to let it wither in favor of GrabCAD which represents more of their core business.
Re: Which repository for STLs August 05, 2019 04:32AM |
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GrabCAD had an amazing library of stuff, I prefer GrabCAD for when I want to design my own cases but don't want to measure up all my vitamins with calipers. So I download a model of the SG90MG servo and import the STEP into Rhino and can design my machine around the existing parts. Everything is there, the LCD2004, servos, stepper motors, Ramps 1.4 board, etc etc. Something that is missing on Thingiverse for sure.
Re: Which repository for STLs August 05, 2019 11:33AM |
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