I decided to switch to Printables last night. Then this video comes out, coincidentally. So I feel very much that the tipping point has been reached. Stratasys chose to let Thingiverse die. It's not worth it to them to exploit it. If they had a heart, they'd sell it to someone who could breathe new life into it, instead of letting it fade into oblivion. It's not respectful to people who have poured millions of hours of their time into loading it with amazing content.
I tend to hoard my designs and never share them. I've been tossing around the idea of sharing with the community and trying to get more involved with other printers and modelers. I think I may use this as a kicking off point and start uploading to Printables and maybe join in their current contest. Thanks for the useful and informative video!
Any chance you could give a answer to question do printables have migrate? Upload date matches original. Or semi migrate? Upload date shows todays date. Transfers? Upload dates matched after ownership in new users name.
My 2 gripes for thingiverse is the interface and the file download. I could pretty much stay there for hours just scrolling and admiring ppl’s designs. I tried cults but having so many with prices doesn’t make scrolling through as fun. Gotta try printables. Thank you!
@Russell White pihole :) setup a raspberry pi with pihole on your network, and you don't see many adds. combined with ublock origin browser plugin, you don't see hardly any ads...anywhere.
@@FowlerAskew cause real migrates are scarce. Semi migrates are common, But you loose your upload date. And oldest upload date owned is key. Transfers made thingiverse king, not sure why theyre unable to resume business yet.
Nobody ever showed any proof of a migrate at printables. I think that says it all. Printables does not have migrates. The claims printables has migrates were faulse. My opinion based on everybodys no proof.
Thanks to you, I've started using Onshape modelling random things that I need around the house, mostly inspired by the wardrobe clip video. And the recent contest they held on Printables inspired me to model out something that I've been wanting to make for quite a while, and upload it to the site. I wouldn't have the courage of uploading something I made if it weren't for your help. Much thanks! The clean layout, the Prusa points, and everthing else makes it quite a good place to start for newbies like me.
The contests are real cool too, with weekly flash ones that grant prusameters or filament, and monthly ones that give printers, definitely the biggest attraction for me to the site
@@TommiHonkonen not won any yet, only a runner up but nonetheless its still a fun thing to do in your spare time, provides ideas when you can run out of inspiration on what to make next
It cracks me up just how brutal Prusa is being here. Not only did they outdo Thingiverse ten-fold, but they also made it super easy for Thingiverse users to swap over. Really kickin' it while it's down 😂
Hell yeah, they are. I've moved all my content to Printables. I have loved Thingiverse but they've been throwing us under the bus for so long...it's past time to support a new community.
They have no migrate !!! Do you know what a migrate is? A 10 year old thingiverse thing migrated today to printables would have a upload date of 10 years ago not today because thats a migrate. Dont delete originals with old upload date.
I think if anyone who knew what a migrate is had done one id have been well informed. The site aint giving a straight answer. The site host and all here hundred thousand subs and not a single migrate rubbed in my face. That says it all. Does this channel have any cred? I dont know but the lack of a shed of proof for such a critical valuble operation is not to be taken lightly. The ownerships can be lost if migrate is not done correctly so peoples works value money jobs businesses are riding on doing it right. Where is the channel host on this. Does he know what a migrate is? It does not apear so and more scary is so many newbs might think it worked.
Search function on thingiverse has been the biggest let down for me personally. Having to use other sites to search for thingiverse models is just so backwards. I'll try out printables, thanks for the tip!
@@Hammersmash3dFace 3dmdb yeggi stlfinder net searched before uploading any design. Also before selling any print. Designing it yourself is not enough because it may be invented and licensed already. Pay royalties. Farms should be charging for license checks as royalties on some designs apply. Farms should never sell things without paying royalties they should be able easy show they checked, charge you for checking and who the royalties got paid to. Its easy to check if the owner is being paid. Support comunity.
@@WillofNewZealand If a farm churns out lots of a part and sells them in their own shop, they should pay royalties and of course. If a farm prints an order of a customer, they are not being paid for the part, they are being paid for the time, energy and material it takes to slice and print the part. If the customer wants to sell the part commercially, it is on the customer to pay royalties, not the farm. And unless you literally have a patent on something, you have no right to any royalties from a part someone else designed on their own.
@@AlexusMaximusDE a farm selling a print does require to pay royalties on a licensed print. any pirate farms should be closed down. You cant sell a licensed print that includes farms. Its piracy and a crime. Design it yourself is not proof its original. It may be invented and licensed. It supprises me you didnt know this no wonder royalties aint being paid. I feel sad for artists when public keep finding ways not to pay royalties. Pirate farms need shut down to let honest comunity get paid. Pirate farms are scum and the law should take more down. Ive been shut down in the past for piracy so know this. Get it right people farms should not sell a pirate print its a crime.
@@AlexusMaximusDE it was the farm that made and SOLD part to customer so 100% farm is selling a print to customer so yes for sure farm pays royalty. Name any farms that dont pay so law can be applied.
Since buying a mini Printables has been my go to. You can tailor your search by machine, material, time etc. when I download a file I know it’s going to print and print correctly.
Printables is missing one feature I care about: OpenSCAD based customiser. Sure, I have OpenSCAD installed locally, no problem. People downloading my models might not though. And I don't want to provide tech support on that.
Now I use Printables and it is really much more user-friendly and those prusameters really make me want to be active on that platform as well as contests!
Very smart move rebranding from a specific brand to a generic thus more welcoming name. I've heard Prusa slicer is good, but i've never bothered to look at it simply because of the name and me not owning a Prusa. The cynic in me thinks that while Printables looks good, it wont smell of roses forever. No adverts, competitions, etc. Smells of a platform trying to gain mass adoption. And we all know what happens then. Owners see how much money they can get by running ads now they have so many users, cycle continues blah blah.
The best times of Thingiverse are over. Development, even simply taking care of it, stopped. Printables is a platform I started to like and appreciate more and more lately.
What's funny is that a few days ago when I was scrolling through Printables, I saw all of your prints pop up. I just thought to myself, looks like Michael is swapping over!
Currently, I do not have a printer, but before I get one, I decided that watching your videos is the best way to learn what I need to know and this is yet another helpful video on things that I should be aware of. Thank you
I was in your position 3 years ago when I finally bought my first 3d-printer - a Prusa MK3+. Best purchase I made in a while! Prior to that I printed at my local public library which had 3D-printers for patrons to use - you sign up for 2 hour printing time slots.
Moved to Pintables too a couple of weeks ago. I published a full mod with a lot of parts for an overhaul of my Anycubic Chiron. After few days it was still not showing on the research engine. A lot of people complain their work not showing on their profile or when you try to research them, but were displayed fine for them in their "my designs" page.
I never understood why Thingiverse took away the ability to download the entire model in a zip format, but now you have to grab it piece by piece. Jeez, give people a choice.
if you change /files to /zip in the url it will let you download them all as a zip. It's so dumb that it isnt just a clickable option and this info might be too late for anyone who doesnt know yet, because I, and I think everyone else is done with thingiverse.
@@Markle. lucky cults3d has a working migrate but be warned newbs the date of invention is only matched to original by manual email request. Thats right its not fully automatic. There are no other working sites ive tested that actually complete a true migrate. Most sites you loose your date of invention and now you aint the first to have invented it just a newb fool and maybe a pirate just to really make your day.
to cheap out in server power. It takes less oomph to not have to zip the files, but it's kinda silly because it would obviously be smarter to cache the zips on every change rather than zip every time
Thanks for the heads up. Just singed up at printableS. Found out that the S on the end is very important unless you want to be redirected to fusion pro.🤣😂🤣
Printables has one large draw back, it limits the number of collections you can have! My account has been limited to 17 and my wife's account to 10 for some reason.
@@AlexanderSmith600 The more interests we have the more collections we have. Here are my collections: Drones, Wood Shop, For the house, Gardening, Motors/Generators, Ender 3 Upgrades, Armory, Legos, 3D Printer parts, Bee keeping, M3DPCNC, Organization, PC accessories, Filament Makers, and Models. Question is why dont you have 17 collections :)
I know it wasn't mentioned, but I wanted to encourage people who might be enticed by cults3d to look up "Cults 3d is denying me my profit and blatantly ignoring the issue. Please do not use their services.". It's a reddit thread where a user is not only ripped off, but then gets doxxed and insulted by the company, and the companies ceo themselves acts outrageously unprofessionally. At every turn they dig themselves deeper, and I just want people to know so a company that scummy doesn't end up becoming the de facto standard with all the ad space they pay for.
I've been on thingiverse for a long time, was not fond of them rebranding as a makerbot product and then removing the file zipper and always being so damn slow. the comment open replies button is often broken. The data breach was unfortunate and exposed my account. I've been a huge fan of Prusa products for years as well and am happy to see them making this.
Does Printables have any sort of "Customizer" option? I realize that these *.scad files can easily be customized offline, and, that the Thingiverse version often doesn't work very well. But, when it does work, it can be convenient.
Printables does not have a customizer but there is another solution. The RUclipsr [Make With Tech] has installed the OpenSCAD software on AWS and has created his own front-end customizer software that will search for .scad files on Thingiverse. You can then render the file using his system like Thingiverse used to do when it worked. You can find out more by looking at the RUclips video on Make With Tech area titled [Customize 3d Printing Models with your Browser] on March 18, 2022. I would start at 4:58 to get to the section that talks about this system.
Adding an OpenSCAD back end for customization is a requested feature, but I haven't gotten any feedback if Prusa is considering it or not. What I've done is installed OpenSCAD on my computer and use that. I just don't automatically get updates to my downloaded .scad files when the original author updates their master.
I can't believe how GOOD this Printables site is. I already earned several badges and have 120 points towards rewards. Thanks a million mate!!!! Sorry thingivrese I'm gone........
I Switched to prusa some time ago and I am really happy. Just with sharing my printed models and some Designs I already got a free spool of asa from prusa.
I've been on Printables for about 5 weeks. I've got up to 185 meters of filament, and then stalled there for a few weeks. You need 380 to get a free spool. Printables has perhaps 1/4 of the users as Thingiverse. I uploaded things that I had already had on Thingiverse for months. After the first 10 uploads, you don't get any more points toward your free filament, but if you can get 50 or more downloads (per model), you can potentially get more points down the line. You can increase your creator level by uploading more than 10 models, but that isn't worth anything. Uploading makes will get you points, at least for the first 10, but I'm not really sure why. It's harder to find things to make on Printables, as there aren't as many models as there are on Thingi. Maybe if they didn't stop rewarding uploaders after the first 10 models. . . ?
The aspect to earn some points for submissions makes me thinking to go there. I uploaded almost 10 years at thingiverse and watch it digging its own grave. I don't want to get rich by submitting my designs and prefer the opensource way, but it frustrated me to see that most people are looking for something to get free and download without any respect for the creator who has developed the part for hours or days and made many test prints. So I always ask if it hurts in the fingers to click the like button before downloading something for free? Does it hurt to give a little feedback by clicking a little heart icon?
I switched because of this video, thanks for posting. Thingverse has not kept up for me in the past year, I had no idea which site to choose. I use Thingverse a lot for researching what has been done in ojects I'm looking to print. I use both Prusa and Cura to slice.
But did you recieve a migrate? Or a semi migrate? Not a single person has reported a migrate yet. You? Does the old upload date at thingiverse match your thing at printables? Or does the upload date say todays date? The day you upload it is ment to be re set by printables back to original thingiverse upload date. Does printables have a migrate or not? Do you have the page link of your thingiverse thing to show as proof to us? Along with that also post the link to your thing at printables showing it has a matched upload date. Thanks. Please respond either way thanks.
Lots of good stuff on Thingiverse but as a neubie I hit some issues that made me question my sanity ... until I found an answer by chance. I was downloading and printing stl files and everything was going great - learning and dealing with minor issues which is a normal learning curve. Then I tried to print an Altoids Watercolor Pallette insert. It would print but not what was shown in the 3D rendering in Cura - it was just a flat bottom layer with one layer walls to make a very fragile structure and no trays.. So there I was thinking - was the downloaded file corrupted or incomplete or was I a dummie missing something. I started thinking about what was missing - structured walls - so I went into Cura and went through every menu until I stumbled upon Print Settings > Strength > Infill Density > increased to 40 Infill Pattern - set to Cubic Shell Thickness set to .08mm then Support - turned ON Support type - Normal Placement - Everywhere then I Sliced it and Printed - Viola - it printed perfectly just like the 3D model in Cura In my opinion the comment section in the Thingiverse description should have mentioned this. but who am I to complain ....
I'm not switching to Printables... They folded on models which were legal, because of Honda's lawyer threats. They've approached a lot of problems wrong-headedly....which turned me into a Creality/Thangs fan. lol
Nice video, thank you. But what about Thangs? It is also 3D-native storage and sharing platform, but also for collaboration. And have nice feature for model versioning
Now if they could just stop people from downloading your models and selling prints online that would be nice. It's the reason I took most of my models off of Thingiverse years ago and haven't uploaded since.
Im still using Thingerverse for the moment but im only just hanging in there because they have some files that Pintables don't have yet, but yes i am mainly using Pintables, the only thing that i have found is that the files are defaulting to Prusa Slicer, but even Prusa seems to have a reasnoble slicer which i have found easy to use as apposed to Cura. Just my 2 cents worth..
switch to thangs because you can use what's on both thingiverse and printables, and if you want to upload your files on something easier, it don't matter, it will appear on thangs
I think we all need to make an effort to prompt people to upload to printables when they share a model link to something they've just added to thingiverse. Some people dont follow whats been going on and have no idea that thingiverse is one day just going to vanish - the sooner it does the better really.
Hi. Since this is the most happening situation in the global 3d print comunity im flying by. Posting. Migrates. Semi migrates. Transfers. To direct people to the sites that have such services we require to know which services the sites offer. I vet 3d print sites over many years, and often re vet apon request. Must be my hobby. I know which site have migrates proven. I have become a self stated 3d print license king. Not cause i use every type but positions held. And experiense of having done, semi migrates, migrates, transfers. So that means including i sold the ownership of the thing into another persons user name with new uploads date matched back to original. Ive made a few vids on it but my point is i also could direct people to printables if someone could say if they have semi migrate, or migrate? Transfers of course we would all love to hear if they do it. Or not fine either way just what do they have. Its just hard to promote a mystery. Do you know? Have you tried it yet? Im just waiting for someone to try it first. Printables could be great. Answers so far are thin. No ive not asked the site. Users are gonna have proof of service having migrated and upload dates matched. Its all about finding out what to say they have. Getting some proof. Usually proof is two links showing a 10 year old thingiverse thing. And a after migrate version at printables uploaded and migrated today that shows a UPLOAD DATE of 10 years ago. So just the two page links are required for all the comunity to see the evidence. We can see printables version uploaded today has had its upload date set back to the true real correct original invention upload date. Semi migrate the dates dont match, a manual email to activate a date match then Making it into a migrate. Dates matched. Hope you understand. Promote likely yes apon knowing what they have. Hay if you want to tell me details also tell me commision rates on sales there. Or what you like. Thank you. ???
Not that I have a lot of models on the Tverse, but I will be moving them all to Printables after seeing how easy it is. Maybe this will get me motivated to upload more models in the future as seems like a better process to add models on Printables.
Printables really is a better platform. I just published my first design on it. The process is simple and I can’t wait for my first spool of filament earned
I did the same 3 weeks ago. Printable is more user friendly and Thingiverse isn't improving or even solving problems since years. The Download All button was downloading the very first version of the files. Even if you update the files later.
Anyone else having issues with Printables not importing models from Thingiverse? I just get an endless loop of "verifying accounts creation" that goes nowhere.
I definitely agree with you. It's an easy switch and Printables is so much more user friendly. Plus, Prusa Meters! Get free filament or merch from uploading your stuff. I'm holding out for a Prusa Hoodie.
Currently on Firefox (both Android and pc) I can't even log into Thingiverse. I logged in on Chrome, opened all of my saved collections in tabs in Firefox and saved them all as bookmarks. Gonna go through and download everything for a personal file repository.
I normally use thingiverse when I need something to print. The thing I find annoying though is the lack of the zip file instead of downloading each individual file. It makes me wonder if they are actually trying to discourge downloading files. Then my pet peeve is there is no check to make sure the stl file is made correctly. Especially if you spent the time downloading a file and modifying it only to find out that it won't print. I appreciate the accessibility of these models, but I also want to actually be able to modify and to print it for my own use. I may have to checkout printables and see if it is better to use. I have tried other sites, but was not that impressed with the content on their site.
Just the fact that page browsing on TG is not url based (meaning that if you refresh or lose the tab for any reason, you have to scroll each page to get to the one you were on, assuming you remember it...), is enough to make me hate the site...
That's weird because I just downloaded from thingiverse today and I still get the zip file. However I wish there was an option to choose what type of download you want. Just because sometimes I just want to download the file and not all of the extra stuff that I may or may not need that just takes up space
I'd have been interested to hear you also discuss Thangs and Cults3d for their prod and cons. I believe Cults has been blacklisted in some spaces for some bad behavior with paying creators. But thangs looks really promising to me, it does need some work on the GUI, particularly around account holder collections and follows. Plus I think community engagement there is low.
I actually though of creating a thingiverse clone as thingiverse itself is no hassle to program at all, but makerbot just screws things up for no reason (without even introducing other improvements). I mean the download button stopped working because... yeah, why actually? There was absolutely no obvious change and tbh this bug is fixable by some intern in no time, but it stayed. But my first glance at printables seems that it already is a thingiverse clone which is actively maintained. Prusa is known for keeping customers in mind and Prusa ist also a big name in hte industry so there's a good chance it will grow fast and is meant to stay. Especially the thinigiverse import feature is a pretty big deal as it clearly states that it wants to outdo thingiverse.
I know it's a small thing but amongst all the other problems it always annoyed me that the menu bar defaulted to Sign Up instead of Log in. Printables looks good.
Thingiverse Trick: After you click on the link to download all files, the URL will end in the word "files" change files to "zip" it will download all files in 1 zip file This should make thingiverse a bit more manageable.
I have not been able to find a "search" window on printables. So any help from you guys would be great as I can not find any projects that interest me on printables when using there very limited categories. So point me in the right direction. I have dozens of mechanical toy robot projects on thing-i-verse and would love to switch them over but not if there is no category for them or a way to search for mechanical robot toys.
@@bentarr17 Thank you. Could they have made it any harder to find the only function needed to use the site ? But now that I have found it, I will look things over.
@@randallblake1213 Thanks. It is new to me. Every program I have with the magnifying icon means it makes the image bigger. Never seen it used as a search option. Learn something new every day. Thank you.
Thingiverse search is also abysmal, and while there are more objects on there vs Printables, I expect that won't be the case for much longer. I have already fully switched over - though I'm not much of a 3D modeller as of yet so I don't have any personal models that I need to transfer.
right??? their search function is what kills me the worst. pure garbage. i remember having literal nightmares navigating their search function and typing a model word for word only for models completely irrelevant to pop up. it's insane. im excited to switch to printables and see how it goes.
Interestingly, i'm not seeing in the terms and conditions anything restricting the types of models uploaded. (Noting about adult figures, firearms accessories, or other things that only remain on Thingiverse through the avoidance of certain keywords). But I'm curious about what protection they have from someone creating an account and importing someone else's entire library of creations? (Oh, Never mind. That's why they ask you to add your Printables profile link to your Thingiverse profile.)
My main problem is that I cannot get the stl file from printables only gcode or .3mf files. I use a creality cr 10 and Cura as my slicer and it don´t properly know how to get the models from printables sliced to work for me
I noticed thingiverse slowing down around the time of the ender3 explosion and everyone uploading their photos of the 3D benchy and ender3 filament guides, a feature, I feel thingiverse could do without.
The only issue I've had on Thingiverse (apart from performance) is that sometimes I'll upload a niche design and it gets hundreds of apparent downloads the next day, like it's recording bots as actual interest.
Very informative video. I don't have a 3D, yet my local library does. I created an account on thingiverse, saw two items. I DL them yet the files would not open. Is it because it's on my cell?
atm the moment there is a problem creating an account, Error: Unable to check email. Even though it is a Hotmail email. Not Michael's concern of course. Very annoying.
Yeah you're missing a lot. Number one is that thingiverse is not a secured sight anymore. The new Admins do not update the security scripts that runs the website on a timely manner. They were recently hacked and 32000 user accounts breached. They support advertisements from shady companies that run known spyware programs and porn sites.
I decided to switch to Printables last night. Then this video comes out, coincidentally. So I feel very much that the tipping point has been reached. Stratasys chose to let Thingiverse die. It's not worth it to them to exploit it. If they had a heart, they'd sell it to someone who could breathe new life into it, instead of letting it fade into oblivion. It's not respectful to people who have poured millions of hours of their time into loading it with amazing content.
I tend to hoard my designs and never share them. I've been tossing around the idea of sharing with the community and trying to get more involved with other printers and modelers. I think I may use this as a kicking off point and start uploading to Printables and maybe join in their current contest. Thanks for the useful and informative video!
Switched a while ago, earned two free spools so far, and actually won a contest, printer is on it’s way right now!
Congrats!
@@OutOfNamesToChoose Yeah! Thanks, it's on a plane from Heathrow right now!
@@mobiobione ew london
Already switched. Love the gamification and how they reward adding your prints.
Any chance you could give a answer to question do printables have migrate? Upload date matches original.
Or semi migrate? Upload date shows todays date.
Transfers? Upload dates matched after ownership in new users name.
My 2 gripes for thingiverse is the interface and the file download. I could pretty much stay there for hours just scrolling and admiring ppl’s designs. I tried cults but having so many with prices doesn’t make scrolling through as fun. Gotta try printables. Thank you!
@Russell White pihole :) setup a raspberry pi with pihole on your network, and you don't see many adds. combined with ublock origin browser plugin, you don't see hardly any ads...anywhere.
Thingiverse is definitely not where it should be in terms of user friendly.
I have no idea how it's been around for so long and is still painfully difficult to use
Why can't I find page 2 of my own collections? ;-;
when you click on a page and then press back it just loses your position!!! wtf
@@FowlerAskew cause real migrates are scarce.
Semi migrates are common,
But you loose your upload date.
And oldest upload date owned is key.
Transfers made thingiverse king, not sure why theyre unable to resume business yet.
Nobody ever showed any proof of a migrate at printables.
I think that says it all.
Printables does not have migrates.
The claims printables has migrates were faulse.
My opinion based on everybodys no proof.
Thanks to you, I've started using Onshape modelling random things that I need around the house, mostly inspired by the wardrobe clip video. And the recent contest they held on Printables inspired me to model out something that I've been wanting to make for quite a while, and upload it to the site. I wouldn't have the courage of uploading something I made if it weren't for your help. Much thanks! The clean layout, the Prusa points, and everthing else makes it quite a good place to start for newbies like me.
The contests are real cool too, with weekly flash ones that grant prusameters or filament, and monthly ones that give printers, definitely the biggest attraction for me to the site
how many did you win so far and how much time did you put into it so far?
@@TommiHonkonen not won any yet, only a runner up but nonetheless its still a fun thing to do in your spare time, provides ideas when you can run out of inspiration on what to make next
Even it doesn't win at all it gets eyeballs on your prints
It cracks me up just how brutal Prusa is being here. Not only did they outdo Thingiverse ten-fold, but they also made it super easy for Thingiverse users to swap over. Really kickin' it while it's down 😂
Hell yeah, they are. I've moved all my content to Printables. I have loved Thingiverse but they've been throwing us under the bus for so long...it's past time to support a new community.
They have no migrate !!!
Do you know what a migrate is?
A 10 year old thingiverse thing migrated today to printables would have a upload date of 10 years ago not today because thats a migrate.
Dont delete originals with old upload date.
Migrates, semi migrates and transfers are fasinating and critical to know the difference and why it matters.
I think if anyone who knew what a migrate is had done one id have been well informed.
The site aint giving a straight answer. The site host and all here hundred thousand subs and not a single migrate rubbed in my face.
That says it all.
Does this channel have any cred? I dont know but the lack of a shed of proof for such a critical valuble operation is not to be taken lightly.
The ownerships can be lost if migrate is not done correctly so peoples works value money jobs businesses are riding on doing it right. Where is the channel host on this. Does he know what a migrate is? It does not apear so and more scary is so many newbs might think it worked.
@@WillofNewZealand you sound like the rambling bum by my local 7-Eleven had a child with a Redditor.
Search function on thingiverse has been the biggest let down for me personally. Having to use other sites to search for thingiverse models is just so backwards. I'll try out printables, thanks for the tip!
What sites beside yeggi?
@@Hammersmash3dFace 3dmdb yeggi stlfinder net searched before uploading any design. Also before selling any print. Designing it yourself is not enough because it may be invented and licensed already. Pay royalties. Farms should be charging for license checks as royalties on some designs apply. Farms should never sell things without paying royalties they should be able easy show they checked, charge you for checking and who the royalties got paid to. Its easy to check if the owner is being paid.
Support comunity.
@@WillofNewZealand If a farm churns out lots of a part and sells them in their own shop, they should pay royalties and of course.
If a farm prints an order of a customer, they are not being paid for the part, they are being paid for the time, energy and material it takes to slice and print the part. If the customer wants to sell the part commercially, it is on the customer to pay royalties, not the farm.
And unless you literally have a patent on something, you have no right to any royalties from a part someone else designed on their own.
@@AlexusMaximusDE a farm selling a print does require to pay royalties on a licensed print. any pirate farms should be closed down.
You cant sell a licensed print that includes farms. Its piracy and a crime.
Design it yourself is not proof its original. It may be invented and licensed.
It supprises me you didnt know this no wonder royalties aint being paid.
I feel sad for artists when public keep finding ways not to pay royalties. Pirate farms need shut down to let honest comunity get paid. Pirate farms are scum and the law should take more down.
Ive been shut down in the past for piracy so know this. Get it right people farms should not sell a pirate print its a crime.
@@AlexusMaximusDE it was the farm that made and SOLD part to customer so 100% farm is selling a print to customer so yes for sure farm pays royalty.
Name any farms that dont pay so law can be applied.
Since buying a mini Printables has been my go to. You can tailor your search by machine, material, time etc. when I download a file I know it’s going to print and print correctly.
Printables is missing one feature I care about: OpenSCAD based customiser. Sure, I have OpenSCAD installed locally, no problem. People downloading my models might not though. And I don't want to provide tech support on that.
all other 3d print sites!
Thingiverse has been getting so much worse year after year! I'm so happy Prusa rebranded to printables
Me too
Agreed. I'll definitely try printables soon
Now I use Printables and it is really much more user-friendly and those prusameters really make me want to be active on that platform as well as contests!
Very smart move rebranding from a specific brand to a generic thus more welcoming name. I've heard Prusa slicer is good, but i've never bothered to look at it simply because of the name and me not owning a Prusa.
The cynic in me thinks that while Printables looks good, it wont smell of roses forever. No adverts, competitions, etc. Smells of a platform trying to gain mass adoption. And we all know what happens then. Owners see how much money they can get by running ads now they have so many users, cycle continues blah blah.
The best times of Thingiverse are over. Development, even simply taking care of it, stopped.
Printables is a platform I started to like and appreciate more and more lately.
What's funny is that a few days ago when I was scrolling through Printables, I saw all of your prints pop up. I just thought to myself, looks like Michael is swapping over!
Currently, I do not have a printer, but before I get one, I decided that watching your videos is the best way to learn what I need to know and this is yet another helpful video on things that I should be aware of. Thank you
I was in your position 3 years ago when I finally bought my first 3d-printer - a Prusa MK3+. Best purchase I made in a while! Prior to that I printed at my local public library which had 3D-printers for patrons to use - you sign up for 2 hour printing time slots.
Moved to Pintables too a couple of weeks ago. I published a full mod with a lot of parts for an overhaul of my Anycubic Chiron. After few days it was still not showing on the research engine. A lot of people complain their work not showing on their profile or when you try to research them, but were displayed fine for them in their "my designs" page.
I’ve been doing research on thingaverse. Stumbled upon this video. Thank you for the information
Because SEARCHING WORKS
The most important reason for me to switch there was the better protection of the account with 2FA.
I never understood why Thingiverse took away the ability to download the entire model in a zip format, but now you have to grab it piece by piece. Jeez, give people a choice.
if you change /files to /zip in the url it will let you download them all as a zip. It's so dumb that it isnt just a clickable option and this info might be too late for anyone who doesnt know yet, because I, and I think everyone else is done with thingiverse.
I use a firefox addon that adds a "download zip" button that basically automatically does what the sibling comment said.
@@Markle. lucky cults3d has a working migrate but be warned newbs the date of invention is only matched to original by manual email request. Thats right its not fully automatic. There are no other working sites ive tested that actually complete a true migrate. Most sites you loose your date of invention and now you aint the first to have invented it just a newb fool and maybe a pirate just to really make your day.
to cheap out in server power. It takes less oomph to not have to zip the files, but it's kinda silly because it would obviously be smarter to cache the zips on every change rather than zip every time
Now we just need the same to replace RUclips.
Thanks for the heads up. Just singed up at printableS. Found out that the S on the end is very important unless you want to be redirected to fusion pro.🤣😂🤣
Printables has one large draw back, it limits the number of collections you can have! My account has been limited to 17 and my wife's account to 10 for some reason.
post up on Twitter or other method, they have been rather responsive to suggestions.
Why do you need 17 collections 🤣
@@AlexanderSmith600 The more interests we have the more collections we have. Here are my collections: Drones, Wood Shop, For the house, Gardening, Motors/Generators, Ender 3 Upgrades, Armory, Legos, 3D Printer parts, Bee keeping, M3DPCNC, Organization, PC accessories, Filament Makers, and Models. Question is why dont you have 17 collections :)
Sounds like a bug then. Does your wife have more total objects in the collection?
@@jojodroid31 Nope she only has five to 8 in each.
I know it wasn't mentioned, but I wanted to encourage people who might be enticed by cults3d to look up "Cults 3d is denying me my profit and blatantly ignoring the issue. Please do not use their services.". It's a reddit thread where a user is not only ripped off, but then gets doxxed and insulted by the company, and the companies ceo themselves acts outrageously unprofessionally. At every turn they dig themselves deeper, and I just want people to know so a company that scummy doesn't end up becoming the de facto standard with all the ad space they pay for.
Also.... the stark difference in popularity of certain printable categories is concerning.
Man… I just heard the same thing from Maker’s Muse. Must be time. Thanks, man!
I've been on thingiverse for a long time, was not fond of them rebranding as a makerbot product and then removing the file zipper and always being so damn slow. the comment open replies button is often broken. The data breach was unfortunate and exposed my account. I've been a huge fan of Prusa products for years as well and am happy to see them making this.
Does Printables have any sort of "Customizer" option? I realize that these *.scad files can easily be customized offline, and, that the Thingiverse version often doesn't work very well. But, when it does work, it can be convenient.
Printables does not have a customizer but there is another solution. The RUclipsr [Make With Tech] has installed the OpenSCAD software on AWS and has created his own front-end customizer software that will search for .scad files on Thingiverse. You can then render the file using his system like Thingiverse used to do when it worked. You can find out more by looking at the RUclips video on Make With Tech area titled [Customize 3d Printing Models with your Browser] on March 18, 2022. I would start at 4:58 to get to the section that talks about this system.
Thanks! That site looks very good.
Adding an OpenSCAD back end for customization is a requested feature, but I haven't gotten any feedback if Prusa is considering it or not. What I've done is installed OpenSCAD on my computer and use that. I just don't automatically get updates to my downloaded .scad files when the original author updates their master.
I've never gotten the thingiverse customizer to work. I ended up installing software to do it offline.
That forced smile at the end gets me every time.
I can't believe how GOOD this Printables site is. I already earned several badges and have 120 points towards rewards. Thanks a million mate!!!! Sorry thingivrese I'm gone........
I Switched to prusa some time ago and I am really happy. Just with sharing my printed models and some Designs I already got a free spool of asa from prusa.
I've been on Printables for about 5 weeks. I've got up to 185 meters of filament, and then stalled there for a few weeks. You need 380 to get a free spool. Printables has perhaps 1/4 of the users as Thingiverse. I uploaded things that I had already had on Thingiverse for months. After the first 10 uploads, you don't get any more points toward your free filament, but if you can get 50 or more downloads (per model), you can potentially get more points down the line. You can increase your creator level by uploading more than 10 models, but that isn't worth anything.
Uploading makes will get you points, at least for the first 10, but I'm not really sure why. It's harder to find things to make on Printables, as there aren't as many models as there are on Thingi. Maybe if they didn't stop rewarding uploaders after the first 10 models. . . ?
Thanks for this. Was really confused by the lack of instructions on the Printables page.....
Thanks for the heads up.
The aspect to earn some points for submissions makes me thinking to go there. I uploaded almost 10 years at thingiverse and watch it digging its own grave. I don't want to get rich by submitting my designs and prefer the opensource way, but it frustrated me to see that most people are looking for something to get free and download without any respect for the creator who has developed the part for hours or days and made many test prints. So I always ask if it hurts in the fingers to click the like button before downloading something for free? Does it hurt to give a little feedback by clicking a little heart icon?
I switched because of this video, thanks for posting.
Thingverse has not kept up for me in the past year, I had no idea which site to choose.
I use Thingverse a lot for researching what has been done in ojects I'm looking to print.
I use both Prusa and Cura to slice.
But did you recieve a migrate?
Or a semi migrate?
Not a single person has reported a migrate yet. You?
Does the old upload date at thingiverse match your thing at printables?
Or does the upload date say todays date? The day you upload it is ment to be re set by printables back to original thingiverse upload date.
Does printables have a migrate or not? Do you have the page link of your thingiverse thing to show as proof to us? Along with that also post the link to your thing at printables showing it has a matched upload date. Thanks.
Please respond either way thanks.
Thanks for sharing this information; I signed up while watching your video !
I haven't switched yet, but i DID notice that thingiverse FINALLY fixed the DOWNLOAD ALL feature. No more downloading each file seperately.
Lots of good stuff on Thingiverse but as a neubie I hit some issues that made me question my sanity ... until I found an answer by chance. I was downloading and printing stl files and everything was going great - learning and dealing with minor issues which is a normal learning curve. Then I tried to print an Altoids Watercolor Pallette insert. It would print but not what was shown in the 3D rendering in Cura - it was just a flat bottom layer with one layer walls to make a very fragile structure and no trays.. So there I was thinking - was the downloaded file corrupted or incomplete or was I a dummie missing something. I started thinking about what was missing - structured walls - so I went into Cura and went through every menu until I stumbled upon
Print Settings > Strength > Infill Density > increased to 40
Infill Pattern - set to Cubic
Shell Thickness set to .08mm
then Support - turned ON
Support type - Normal
Placement - Everywhere
then I Sliced it and Printed - Viola - it printed perfectly just like the 3D model in Cura
In my opinion the comment section in the Thingiverse description should have mentioned this.
but who am I to complain ....
7:52 Thanks, saved me the hassle of looking for that feature. That's exactly what I wanted.
Great video. After seeing this I will migrate across too. Thank you for the info!
Any thoughts on the printables / Honda situation?
Happy to say that in August of 2022 the "Download all files" link has finally started working again.
I'm not switching to Printables... They folded on models which were legal, because of Honda's lawyer threats. They've approached a lot of problems wrong-headedly....which turned me into a Creality/Thangs fan. lol
Great walkthrough
Deleted my Thingiverse account at the data breach!
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Same day I heard about the breach, dropped all content I had on the account.
Oddly, I got a rash of 'followers' after deleting the content...bots?
You're the reason I got into 3d printing fun! Thanks 👍
Nice video, thank you. But what about Thangs? It is also 3D-native storage and sharing platform, but also for collaboration. And have nice feature for model versioning
they fixed it now, when you press download it gives you the folder with said files.
Now if they could just stop people from downloading your models and selling prints online that would be nice. It's the reason I took most of my models off of Thingiverse years ago and haven't uploaded since.
I made the switch the day it was released: don't regret it
Im still using Thingerverse for the moment but im only just hanging in there because they have some files that Pintables don't have yet, but yes i am mainly using Pintables, the only thing that i have found is that the files are defaulting to Prusa Slicer, but even Prusa seems to have a reasnoble slicer which i have found easy to use as apposed to Cura.
Just my 2 cents worth..
ill switch to printables once the files i frequently need are there,
I'm heading over to printable ASAP!!!! :) thanks mate
switch to thangs because you can use what's on both thingiverse and printables, and if you want to upload your files on something easier, it don't matter, it will appear on thangs
this is good to know I never had about, never heard about printables until today
Exactly what I needed.
Sounds really good with people earning points for rewards. It could be really interactive for the uploader and the user who downloads their stuff.
I think we all need to make an effort to prompt people to upload to printables when they share a model link to something they've just added to thingiverse. Some people dont follow whats been going on and have no idea that thingiverse is one day just going to vanish - the sooner it does the better really.
Hi. Since this is the most happening situation in the global 3d print comunity im flying by. Posting.
Migrates.
Semi migrates.
Transfers.
To direct people to the sites that have such services we require to know which services the sites offer.
I vet 3d print sites over many years, and often re vet apon request. Must be my hobby. I know which site have migrates proven. I have become a self stated 3d print license king.
Not cause i use every type but positions held. And experiense of having done, semi migrates, migrates, transfers.
So that means including i sold the ownership of the thing into another persons user name with new uploads date matched back to original.
Ive made a few vids on it but my point is i also could direct people to printables if someone could say if they have semi migrate, or migrate?
Transfers of course we would all love to hear if they do it. Or not fine either way just what do they have.
Its just hard to promote a mystery.
Do you know?
Have you tried it yet?
Im just waiting for someone to try it first. Printables could be great.
Answers so far are thin. No ive not asked the site. Users are gonna have proof of service having migrated and upload dates matched.
Its all about finding out what to say they have.
Getting some proof. Usually proof is two links showing a 10 year old thingiverse thing.
And a after migrate version at printables uploaded and migrated today that shows a UPLOAD DATE of 10 years ago.
So just the two page links are required for all the comunity to see the evidence. We can see printables version uploaded today has had its upload date set back to the true real correct original invention upload date.
Semi migrate the dates dont match, a manual email to activate a date match then Making it into a migrate. Dates matched.
Hope you understand.
Promote likely yes apon knowing what they have.
Hay if you want to tell me details also tell me commision rates on sales there. Or what you like.
Thank you.
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Not that I have a lot of models on the Tverse, but I will be moving them all to Printables after seeing how easy it is. Maybe this will get me motivated to upload more models in the future as seems like a better process to add models on Printables.
Printables really is a better platform. I just published my first design on it. The process is simple and I can’t wait for my first spool of filament earned
I did the same 3 weeks ago. Printable is more user friendly and Thingiverse isn't improving or even solving problems since years.
The Download All button was downloading the very first version of the files. Even if you update the files later.
lucky you.. the Download All button doesnt even work for me at all.
Anyone else having issues with Printables not importing models from Thingiverse? I just get an endless loop of "verifying accounts creation" that goes nowhere.
Yes. And the solution is to disable Adblock while verifying the account. Then it only takes a second.
I definitely agree with you. It's an easy switch and Printables is so much more user friendly.
Plus, Prusa Meters! Get free filament or merch from uploading your stuff. I'm holding out for a Prusa Hoodie.
Currently on Firefox (both Android and pc) I can't even log into Thingiverse. I logged in on Chrome, opened all of my saved collections in tabs in Firefox and saved them all as bookmarks. Gonna go through and download everything for a personal file repository.
0:25 you had a solidoodle too?! Ah the memories.
thingiverse seems to be pretty much abandoned development wise. It's still getting hosted, but I don't trust it to keep functioning long term.
I normally use thingiverse when I need something to print. The thing I find annoying though is the lack of the zip file instead of downloading each individual file. It makes me wonder if they are actually trying to discourge downloading files. Then my pet peeve is there is no check to make sure the stl file is made correctly. Especially if you spent the time downloading a file and modifying it only to find out that it won't print. I appreciate the accessibility of these models, but I also want to actually be able to modify and to print it for my own use.
I may have to checkout printables and see if it is better to use. I have tried other sites, but was not that impressed with the content on their site.
4:40 limit of rewarded uploads, over what timeframe before upload more; 1000 thingiverse files to up load missing out on rewards?
Just the fact that page browsing on TG is not url based (meaning that if you refresh or lose the tab for any reason, you have to scroll each page to get to the one you were on, assuming you remember it...), is enough to make me hate the site...
That's weird because I just downloaded from thingiverse today and I still get the zip file. However I wish there was an option to choose what type of download you want. Just because sometimes I just want to download the file and not all of the extra stuff that I may or may not need that just takes up space
I'd have been interested to hear you also discuss Thangs and Cults3d for their prod and cons. I believe Cults has been blacklisted in some spaces for some bad behavior with paying creators. But thangs looks really promising to me, it does need some work on the GUI, particularly around account holder collections and follows. Plus I think community engagement there is low.
Thangs requires registration to load free models. So does Cults, but I trust that more 😉
I actually though of creating a thingiverse clone as thingiverse itself is no hassle to program at all, but makerbot just screws things up for no reason (without even introducing other improvements). I mean the download button stopped working because... yeah, why actually? There was absolutely no obvious change and tbh this bug is fixable by some intern in no time, but it stayed.
But my first glance at printables seems that it already is a thingiverse clone which is actively maintained. Prusa is known for keeping customers in mind and Prusa ist also a big name in hte industry so there's a good chance it will grow fast and is meant to stay. Especially the thinigiverse import feature is a pretty big deal as it clearly states that it wants to outdo thingiverse.
I know it's a small thing but amongst all the other problems it always annoyed me that the menu bar defaulted to Sign Up instead of Log in. Printables looks good.
I’m glad printables has a thingiverse sync
I made the swap a while back but also i'm concerned about the Creality Cloud as well....
Looks like Tim was getting some tailored ads based on his usage lol 😂
Welcome, I switched a couple months ago. Much better over here 😁👍👍
Thingiverse Trick: After you click on the link to download all files, the URL will end in the word "files" change files to "zip" it will download all files in 1 zip file This should make thingiverse a bit more manageable.
the /zip trick is starting to 404 error moreso now. Thingiverse clearly has it's days numbered if there's no meaningful intervention.
I have not been able to find a "search" window on printables. So any help from you guys would be great as I can not find any projects that interest me on printables when using there very limited categories. So point me in the right direction. I have dozens of mechanical toy robot projects on thing-i-verse and would love to switch them over but not if there is no category for them or a way to search for mechanical robot toys.
Following with interest.. How does one search on printables
There's a small magnifying glass button near the top right of the page
@@bentarr17 Thank you. Could they have made it any harder to find the only function needed to use the site ? But now that I have found it, I will look things over.
@@Robothut well, the magnifying glass icon is “standard in the industry” for search. 😀
@@randallblake1213 Thanks. It is new to me. Every program I have with the magnifying icon means it makes the image bigger. Never seen it used as a search option. Learn something new every day. Thank you.
How about a comparison between platforms in 2022? Thangs vs Myminifactory vs Printable vs etc
Thingiverse search is also abysmal, and while there are more objects on there vs Printables, I expect that won't be the case for much longer. I have already fully switched over - though I'm not much of a 3D modeller as of yet so I don't have any personal models that I need to transfer.
right??? their search function is what kills me the worst. pure garbage. i remember having literal nightmares navigating their search function and typing a model word for word only for models completely irrelevant to pop up. it's insane. im excited to switch to printables and see how it goes.
Looking for someone to print a SUN SHADE for the EGGRIDER V2. How do I go about finding a printer and price?
Interestingly, i'm not seeing in the terms and conditions anything restricting the types of models uploaded. (Noting about adult figures, firearms accessories, or other things that only remain on Thingiverse through the avoidance of certain keywords).
But I'm curious about what protection they have from someone creating an account and importing someone else's entire library of creations? (Oh, Never mind. That's why they ask you to add your Printables profile link to your Thingiverse profile.)
Why does it have to be one or the other?
Thungiverse is not safe anymore. New owners dont update the web scripts and dont care about maintaining server traffic.
My main problem is that I cannot get the stl file from printables only gcode or .3mf files. I use a creality cr 10 and Cura as my slicer and it don´t properly know how to get the models from printables sliced to work for me
I must have brought it back in response to this video and many others, because the zip files are back.
I now mainly use printables and when i cant find what i want i look up on yeggi
RUclips is playing up so please keep repoating your answers until we see it thanks. Get it together youtube.
Is there a way to migrate my collections over?
I just asked the same question in a reply to another post. Should have finished reading before posting.
I noticed thingiverse slowing down around the time of the ender3 explosion and everyone uploading their photos of the 3D benchy and ender3 filament guides, a feature, I feel thingiverse could do without.
The only issue I've had on Thingiverse (apart from performance) is that sometimes I'll upload a niche design and it gets hundreds of apparent downloads the next day, like it's recording bots as actual interest.
I so often found issues with the models on thingiverse.
I am trying to find a 16 tooth gear with screw but it seems it doesnt have it. WTF??? Or is it me?
Have you tried thangs? It also indexes external sights as well as hosting their own.
Welcome to 2020 ! ;)
Very informative video.
I don't have a 3D, yet my local library does. I created an account on thingiverse, saw two items. I DL them yet the files would not open. Is it because it's on my cell?
atm the moment there is a problem creating an account, Error: Unable to check email. Even though it is a Hotmail email. Not Michael's concern of course. Very annoying.
why do you need to switch, just use both!!!.........I'm I missing something ???
Yeah you're missing a lot. Number one is that thingiverse is not a secured sight anymore. The new Admins do not update the security scripts that runs the website on a timely manner. They were recently hacked and 32000 user accounts breached. They support advertisements from shady companies that run known spyware programs and porn sites.
@@GlennsHardWired Thanks for the info!!!
Ok i have to ask you again.
Does upload date match original?
Not a date writen eelsewhere.
The upload date does it match or not?
About being able to get the free merch/filament, are there a limited number of achievements or or they add more over time?