Where do folks prefer to host their 3d models and designs? Do you use one site, or multiple?

I originally started on Thingiverse, but switched to Printables after it launched and that has been my main location for uploading to. I recently decided to copy all my models to Thingiverse and Thangs, in additional to Printables, but I’m not sure its worth the effort to maintain the listings on multiple sites.

I love the Printables site, I think it has the best user experience, but Thingiverse seems to reach a bigger audience. Thangs I find useful for the search, but I’m not sure its worth hosting models there as well.

    • scross01@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      On Github/Gitlab - or a self hosted? Doesn’t seem like to most discoverable way of hosting models, unless you’re also linking to the git repo from one of the model sites. I do use git to version my OpenSCAD models, but just on a private selfhosted gitea instance.

      • 7heo@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Gitolite, but you can use gitea/forgejo too. Or, some hosted instances such as codeberg, etc.

        In addition, I wrote a script to see the diff in the models (I use openscad and freecad, so it’s code, which, in the case of freecad, is in an archive containing XML files - the relevant ones - and other stuff), so I can easily diff two version beyond the binary files differ , and see what’s what. Unfortunately it is highly unfinished, so I won’t share it yet, but it can be very useful.

      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I do that too as it holds all the files for a project. Not just the shell of the device. GitHub could benefit from a tag search so something where you could add a 3D printing tag to your search and only show repos with 3D printing related files (CAD, STL, 3MF…) or manual tags.