Alternatives to Thingiverse?
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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.
So I keep files there. -
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.
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Thanks @KenW. I was able to import the model and publish the draft.
For the import, they show a list of all my models on Thingieverse. Would be nice to filter it and see only the ones that are not published yet, since I have a bunch of models, but it worked.
https://www.printables.com/model/640631-ergonomic-solder-spool-holder
