Allow 3rd-party profile designers ability to "Present/Points" in edit

If you are referring to points.

Each download, no matter if attained through a print profile is added to the model (same with prints).

Example:

30 Downloads of model
15 Prints via designer’s own profile
10 prints via 3rd-party profile.

Designer’s points = 30 + (15x2) = 60 points
3rd-parties profile = (10x2) = 20 points

The designer has lost the points gained by the 3rd-party profile, they would have had 80 points total had the 3rd-party profile not have been there.

It is important to distinguish between value-add profiles and points-harvesting profiles.

Value-add

A profile that provides something the designer was unable or unwilling.

For example; support one or more printers the designer didn’t, the A1 mini was a perfect example, prior to the recent change that finally adds them automatically. A fully painted version of a model the designer chose to only provide in a single colour.

Point-harvesting

Any profile that breaks the rules.

One that only changes the colours of the filaments used in an existing profile provided by the designer.

Any profile that claims to be faster when all they did was reduced the infill, wall count or the scale. I had a few that did that on my fidget spinners. With precise tolerances and weights required, making it 88% with 8% infill stopped it functioning!!

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