Alternatives to Thingiverse?
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Try Youmagine.com
In my opinion/experience, Thingiverse isn't such a great loss. Thingiverse is the FaceBook of 3D printing- uncontrolled publishing of any stupid crap anyone cares to bother posting. There are a LOT of really awful "designs" there, many of which are unprintable using any current printing technology. Your first clue to a possibly (probably?) bad design is a lack of a photo of the printed object. It seems like some people post as much crap as they can on Thingiverse so they can claim that they have published 500 or 1000+ "designs", most of which are identical except for a minor tweak (kids bike license plates with different names, for example).
Prusa has started a design repository curated by human beings to keep out the kind of trash that has overwhelmed Thingiverse.
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@barracuda72 this is what I'm doing (in fact already have done).
I don't run ad blockers as I generally support sites that use ads as an income but I can't even get onto Thingiverse anymore which fails hard with an JS error on the first request...
It's time for the world to move on.
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It seems to work for me, and a commonly known work around to the "Download All" button being broken for months is to use
/zipat the end of a thingiverse URL. That still works.<>RatRig V-Minion Fly Super5Pro RRF<> V-Core 3.1 IDEX k*****r <> RatRig V-Minion SKR 2 Marlin<>
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@bberger
I don't mind supporting thingi as well, but there are so many traps you can fall into by opening your firewall.
Images that run mouseover-scripts or single pixel images with shady content. -
@o_lampe said in Alternatives to Thingiverse?:
@bberger
I don't mind supporting thingi as well, but there are so many traps you can fall into by opening your firewall.
Images that run mouseover-scripts or single pixel images with shady content.Opening the firewall != not using an Ad Blocker
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@oliof said in Alternatives to Thingiverse?:
That still works.
That summarizes well the current state of Thingieverse.
Two alternatives I am using:
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Thanks you all for the responses!
I felt a bit lost these days, not knowing where to find inspiration. And even the worst designs can be an inspiration. -
Thingieverse is a sad place these days. A relic from the time where MakerBot was an integral part of the makers community.
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For what it is/was thingiverse provided a great outlet for printable content. I don't think the hobby would have grown as much as it has without it. Likely something else would have rose up to fill the void eventually, but it was there at the right time when nothing else was. It's current state is sad to see. I don't envy Makerbot/stratasys for having to try and keep it up and running all this time. It's definitely not profitable. Trying to recoup some of the investment with ads is understandable in a way.
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I've moved all of my stuff (Except for some half-baked things that weren't any good) onto Prusaprinters.org myself. Probably moves some of the crap over, too, honestly.
I've recently become a little more serious about my CAD development, so hopefully better things coming.
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@mrehorstdmd said in Alternatives to Thingiverse?:
first clue to a possibly (probably?) bad design is a lack of a photo of the printed object.
funny, I take a similar approach:
- check whether there is a make and which quality it has. This also gives information about the printer used and whether it's high quality printer
- check documentation, this also gives information about knowledge of the designer. If there is information that the design is based on some former things, it is a sign of quality additionally.
- I prefer things where the source is given, preferably OpenScad. There are still people who think just because they built a simple model, they developed something they have to protect their IP lol.
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@phaedrux I'm not necessarily opposed to ads. Especially on a free platform. But currently they have bigger problems than ads. It's become impossible to use the site all together on Windows 11..
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@bberger works on my win11 box.
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@oliof just curious - is there a W11 setting that I missed? I have no ad blocker, no pihole or any other hw-based ad blockers. No VPN, nothing. Clean W11 install.
Errors out instantly:
Does load in Edge, but complains about me using an ad blocker and doesn't let me download stuff.
I'm a linux guy, just use the W11 machine for gaming and F360 - so I may have missed something obvious?
I still count it as unprofessional that it completely errors out when GTM can't be loaded. I'm not the only one.
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@bberger I'm not disputing your experience and I completely agree with you that it's a total mess and unprofessional. I've not made any changes to the configuration and it works for me in stock Windows11 with stock edge (although Firefox is my daily driver except for Kiri:moto).
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@oliof not arguing at all here. Just trying to find the cause here as obiously some BS on my stock W11 install is blocking scripts...
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@stevediaz Old post resurrected to spam a CCSP course?
Prusa's site is now called printables . I have designs on both it and Thingiverse. Thingiverse has been doing some cleanup recently and parts that were broken before or did not make sense are better now. Both it and printables allow you to download files without an account if desired.
Still more work is needed but its free and open to all.
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Thingieverse looks more responsive these days (vs. a year or two ago).
When I opened my Printables account, it imported my designs from Thingieverse. Does Printables keep importing new designs I add to Thingieverse or do I need to do it manually each time?
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@zapta If you have your Thingiverse account verified you can click on +create and the option to import from Thingiverse will appear outwards the bottom of your choices. Mine was verified so not sure if the option to add it is still available later on. If I wanted to add one I could check the selection and it would move it over for me. Not an automatic option and I would not want it to be.
