Thingiverse is back! New Thingiverse: now with prizes and things.
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- Thingiverse has, ostensibly*, been back for a while. About a year. But: It's really back now. Watch and see why.
If I really have to link you to it - fine. www.thingiverse.com/
* posh way of saying evidently
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Thingiverse has always been my goto, even through the "troubles". Great to see it revived.
Good to see that /zip still works.
Same for me!
Still going to be a while before people realize thingiverse hasn't been the broken mess they remember it as for a long time now. This UI overhaul + spreading awareness helps but it'll be interesting to see how it does against Printables moving forward
Quite interesting, i uploaded the same models to thingiverse and printables, the most downloaded items are different. (Although the overall download numbers are WAY higher on thingiverse) I think the userbases are very different. I still find more stuff i like on thingiverse, guess because its so old and theres a lot of cool stuff already.
About a month ago I tried to log in, couldn't do it. I just forgot about it. Yesterday I tried again and it literally hung on a blank screen after trying to log in with Google. After going back, the log in button just refreshed the page. I'm not sure if I'm living in the same reality as you.
Also I haven't tried the app again but I could *never* log in on that one. Or maybe I did, 4 years ago? Idk. Couldn't log in ever since then. I had to use the browser on my phone for that, and I'm pretty sure I couldn't log in about 30% of the times i tried
Damn even the 3d rendered previews are better. Good job, Thingiverse.
Thanks for making us aware. I used to spend a LOT of time on thingiverse.
Yes afcours we want a openscad tutorial!
You know what i want? I'm good at openSCAD i would say and i hate it.
One thing is that it's very annoying and sometimes impossible to chamfer and bevel things. You end up creating a lot of explicit geometry for that. These features help remove stress risers and make parts that look more engineered and are much more robust, more pleasant to touch, all around better.
When you make complex geometry, openSCAD becomes painfully slow to compute an output STL file. It has been becoming better, but the CSG step is ripe for a massive improvement. I can often make a whole part in FreeCAD doing all the steps by hand while i wait for OpenSCAD to render. It's inexcusably slow. There's no reason to be doing Bignum CSG for the purpose of 3D printing, FP single would be perfectly fine. If i'm feeling too generous, i might not even mind double.
Third is the lack of built-in expressive anchoring and referencing. All objects have dimensions that have different meaning, there is no easy way to build a cylinder with external dimensions no more than a given box. The default anchor point of a cylinder is at the bottom face in the middle, but for the box it's in one of the corners, but there is no box anchored at the middle of the bottom face. There is no expressive way to place objects relative to a particular side of some object. You end up polluting the code with a lot of 1/2 of this value plus 1/2 of that value etc etc making it much more difficult to read and maintain than necessary.
The preview lacks numerical stability, so to make things that don't Z-fight while you edit them, you end up peppering the code with Epsilon, which should be so unnecessary, as the order of operations should be able to provide the correct preview bias automatically. Ideally you would actually be viewing in the geometric CSG representation and wouldn't need a screenspace CSG, but you can't because SCAD has literal world's slowest geometric CSG.
I would also like more expressive possibilities to create smooth and curvy surfaces, lofts and such. OpenSCAD's way often relies on Minkowski operator but it's so so insanely slow and also not expressive enough.
I would almost consider contributing to solving most of these problems if not for the first two which i deem fundamental. On the other hand, i do find text based modelling fundamentally very appealing.
OK so there's CADQuery and CascadeStudio, being BREP they seem promising as in they may be able to fix all of these issues in one shot. There's also a bunch of slightly less or more bad OpenSCAD clones. But i never get around to evaluate them. Maybe someone should do that for me. OpenSCAD is so well known and so much used because it was the first software of its ilk and was there when it was sorely needed, to spin up the very first RepRap machines. But perhaps in the past is where it should stay.
@@SianaGearzwhoa huge comment. How about you spent less time chatting and more time coding? Think you could benefit by upping your game making libraries.
@@kippie80 The debugging capabilities are bad and it's spectacularly slow to compute sufficiently complex objects. So no, you can't save it by libraries.
Thanks for this update. I was just on Thingiverse a couple days ago and I ignored the "coming soon" teaser. I like the changes, though the collections drop down is still incredibly slow to populate. I think the refresh looks nice. Despite its past shortcomings, I still like Thingiverse and I'm glad to see it is getting some love.
Hopefully they improve the search feature. There are countless times where I miss something like an "s" at the end of a keyword and it doesn't show up
search is one of those things thats really hard to get working properly. I'll pass that on though
Just use Google and add thingiverse in as one of the search terms. There's a specific site search function too but this is quicker. Works well for no end of sites that don't have a decent search function.
Useless search is the thing that got me off 3D repositeries. Too much junk to sift through. It's a waste of time.
Good news that Thingiverse is being updated.
I also like using OpenSCAD to design parts if the geometry is not too complicated. I like being able to define all my variables at the beginning which makes it very easy to tweak dimensions. I have done a lot of programming over the years which may be why I am comfortable with a script based CAD application.
Still not even nearly perfect, but I hope they keep it up! As nice as printables is, it still needs competition.
I switch between thangs, thingiverse, cults, & printables.
Sometimes one will have a plethora of options for a specific design
yeah you have to use most of them at some point or another
@@NM-wd7kx one can download free models from Thingiverse and Printables without ever creating account. Cults, well, it's a lot of paid models and so is MMF, so... Thangs - can look but not touch - no thangs 🤨
I still occasionally end up on thingiverse via thangs. It's a lot better than it used to be. I'll be curious to see where it goes.
Nice to see them making improvements. I'm really not big on the UI, but I do still have to check thingiverse sometimes if I don't feel like designing something myself and can't find it on printables, so I'm glad to see work being put into it.
Best change: you can see the complete filenames
Glad they fixed the logging out problem. Being constantly logged out, along with the strange UI choice that you had to click an arrow next to "sign up" and go to another page to login, was one of the main friction points that made me just use printables instead.
You have to start somewhere. Glad to see it is getting some attention again.
OpenSCAD tutorial? Yes please.
Notice that the font you're talking about is not "Noto Sans", but its monospaced version "Noto Sans Mono". That's why it looks so s**t…
I'm even wondering if it's by mistake, because the alternatives they list in the code are all proportional fonts.
It’s good that they are making changes. I personally don’t like the font and overall bigger size of everything but do like the layout more. Problem I noticed though is they broke the description html/ markdown. If you try adding even a small image in the description it fills the maximum width and stretches it and the preview before publishing is nowhere near what it looks like. I suspect people with complex descriptions and such this has messed it up a bit.
I've sent this to our frontend devs :)
October 19, 2008, according to another video about the oldest thing on thingiverse. Thing:7 Looks more like a laser cut piece though. Medyk3D did the video. the oldest STL is 36: November 7, 2008
7! that's got to be the lowest.
Missed title opportunity, could have said “New Thingiverse! Now with prizes and things”!
Nope, not missed, it can be made to happen :)
I hope they will finally fix the issue that is preventing me from creating a Thingiverse account lmao
Huh, never heard of that, maybe drop them a message
Have the fixed the images?
Come on, wo needs 20y old Galaxy S3.
I really hope the S3 isn't 20 years old...but I am not entirely sure what you mean
@@LostInTech3D Was only listening and wondered wth one would wanna win an old phone before I saw you probably meant some to me unknown printer.
oh lol gotcha
:) I just sent over thingiverse. The new UI is horrible. Wasting space af and less functionality. Omfg.
First. Also, yes, i would want an open scad tutorial
I'll let you have it 😜
im a little worried about both big 3d print model repositories being owned by competing 3d printer slicer developers
I wonder if its something archive.org should back up. It's a fair point, generally, that a huge site full of 20 years of models needs to be protected from the whims of any company.
SWEET. It'd have been weeks or months before I realized... Unless Thangs sent me there or something. I got so tired of logging back in every new tab/3-5 mins/etc.
Seems quicker going page to page. 30 second download wait sucks !!
Still cant log in with my google account, and access all my saved list and collections. Any info when they fix it, or what to do to get it useable again?
I would contact them, I'm sure they can sort it out
I just tried the customizer three time and it failed. Im glad that they are trying but... still needs work.
huh, weird. I guess report it somewhere...it should be fully working.
The customizer still doesn't work for me.
It always says
"Oh No!
There was a problem communicating with Thingiverse.
It is also possible that you are using Safari, if so click the Safari Fix button then reload this page."
I got that when I was in incognito mode, could be a cookies thing
Just saw it today, now i dont know what platform to upload on!😂
Actually - if you upload on thingiverse first, you can import to printables. Apparently.
Setting up a tips link still doesn't work for me. Reached out to them and they say it works and blamed it on browser caching, but I don't see it working across several browsers with cleared caches.
what do you mean by "tips link" ?
@@LostInTech3DThe "Tip Designer" link. Doesn't seem to work at all even after I put in my Paypal "donation username" in Account Settings. Clicking "Tip Designer" button on one of my models, I get the "unfortunately they have not setup their account" message. Tried Ko-fi as well. Same thing.
@@ken830 When i click the "tip designer" button on your profile, it sends me to your kofi page. (assuming that you have the same username on TV that is)
@@jaimevankessel Thanks for confirming that. It doesn't work for me, so I guess there is no way to test my own Tip Designer button unless I create a dummy account. I'll just trust that it's working.
@@ken830 You could just click it in incognito mode.
FINALLY!
OpenSCAD Tutorial please!
Why is mobile so important: SOs send their partner the files to print :D
haha
Yes please for a open scad video
I live in Italy and can't enter the contest because apparently it's a country subject to a U.S. trade embargo. Whaaaaat?
lol what, I'll pass that on
Nah, Italy just has weird rules when it comes to contests. Since it's super hard to adhere to them, we unfortunately just have to exclude them. Same goes for quebec Canada.
@@jaimevankessel I entered many international 3d printing contests on different platforms. I’m really curious about those weird rules… since I already opened a ticket on the site maybe you could explain better over email. Thanks
Do zip downloads work yet?
Yes!
@@LostInTech3D great. Was getting a bit tiring manually appending /zip to the url to work around that.
UI feels not good, but thats because I HATE all mobile designed sites as they usually turn to poop on PC and you see less on screen.
4:49 I saw Conductive TPU as a profile name
Good spot. It's ongoing :)
Don’t like it that you can upload an all file without showing a photo of it printed.
Naise, just hope they haven't completely f**ed up the UI by trying to be "helpful" like Printables (where simple things as basic search is fascinatingly complicated because it tries to predict what you're doing and dynamically morph all the time).
Love the new font. I honestly can’t stand most fonts my eyes just prefer fixed width fonts.
Took a few years
Cleeeetuuuussss!!!
Their last chance to keep alive against printables! Years of ignorance towards the user base have left scars... It might be too late!
They say the logout issue is fixed, but I have trouble logging IN, EVERY time I go to the site.
Cleeetusss 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅
What is this a reference to?
no idea lol
@@LostInTech3D The only thing I can think of is they are bots support Cleetus McFarland the American car channel? 😂
they're not a bot, they left some comment about prusa before lol
Crazy is as crazy does, 1 comment generates traffic and interaction for both my favorite channels
How do I turn the interface back?
I don't think it works like that lol
hate it. and even if it were good, i would still prefer printables.
I am afraid it's gonna be too little too late, while the overhaul is really nice, Printables and MakerWorld replaced Thingiverse for me for quite some time, now I only use Thingiverse as an archive for really old 3d models that are not getting ported to other sites, almost feels like a scavenger going through a wasteland.
Still looks like it was designed by a 12 year old, just like Cura. That font is absolutely horrific.
I'll ask if they can make an option for comic sans just for you 😁
Ive added it to the backlog just for you ❤
Now looks even more like legacy storage for outdated stl's, but who cares since there's better alternative already
Yeggi still reigns supreme.
man, yeggi, I havent used that in a while
Second
🤣🏆
The change in typography makes it feel like the site is designed for kids now. ..I don't mean in the get off my lawn way, I mean literal children. Its a pointless effort. The ONLY thing they needed to do to make Thingiverse a great site is clean up the site so it worked with reasonable speed and continued to scale and didn't crash without any UI changes. Sure add your social media toys if you like..and the mobile, but additions like that don't require silly font updates etc.
I don't like the look of it, the layout and fonts look cheap and nasty.
Still lacks the ability to look at the files you have marked as a "Favorite." It would be a SIMPLE thing to fix. But, unlike silly things like changing the font (which no one on EARTH gives two hoots in hell about), making that change would be a HUGE difference in usability.
still lame even with what little change i saw.
so its printables with terrible navigation
Noted, I'll make a whole episode on "how to click on the thumbnail and get to the model page" for you :)