Thingyverse is owned by Ultimaker, Printables by Prusa and makerworld belongs to bamboo. I don’t really want to donate my models to a for profit company, so are there any similar community run alternatives where I can upload to? Cheers
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Your only options are all part of for profit ventures. My Mini Factory, Cults, Thangs, etc… etc… etc… The ones subsidized by printer manufacturers are where free models are most likely to be found and are best of the sites.
If you are really concerned you can read their terms of service to be sure what rights you retain. My money is on Prusa having the best terms.
You can host your own with Manyfold @manyfold@3dp.chat
Nice, didn’t know that existed
Oh neat, that’s cool but one benefit I have found from thingiverse’s age and the fact that people would have to actively go delete their models is I have found mods for old 3d printer hardware I’m trying to keep alive that their creators have left the hobby (did it in highschool never owned a printer is what I guessed) that are still useful. If they had self hosted their models they would be gone, and I don’t know a good way to search all various self hosted stuff for models
Prusa being “for profit” isn’t the same as the term implies.
They are very much a socialistic company. Pretty much, their business model is open source.
I think they are the winning choice in the same way that Valve’s Steam wins the game store/manager market.
Prusa has given back as much as they have made.
They used to be. As of the Mk4 and XL they no longer share a lot of their designs, and the source is also closed.
Very sad to see.
There has been a NIH 3D model database,but it has become unreliable already for orange reasons. Besides that there aren’t many options beside manifold or plainly hosting your own site (which is not that hard tbh, but makes it hard for others to find,though)
Many models on Thingiverse and Printables are released under a CC-licence, so it would be possible to use that as a basis for an independent model database or some kind of decentralized fediverse STL databank, however that would work
