I don’t think you understand what you’re saying, at all. Kind of like that AI fan boy that got triggered by me in another comment. AI is lazy and pathetic. Learn to use the programs that help you design. Simple as that. 3D printing also requires you to understand how to fix things and troubleshoot. If you didn’t want to learn then you should have just paid someone to print stuff for you because then you’re not flooding makerworld with AI slop.
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This. Actually, the thread author knows exactly what he needs to do. By early 2025, he’ll have released one successful model after another - thousands of downloads. Many of them are simple in design, but well-thought-out and serve a purpose. One success after another - something many people dream of.
…and then along came AI and hundreds of models, many with zero downloads. That’s actually why the title of this thread is wrong: It’s not about fixing a single 3D model, but rather he needs to reflect on why he was so successful in the first place and how the AI really hurt his reputation.
I mean, he has 1,000 followers and not a single one wants to download his stuff now, which means he’s been working past his fans for a year. Personally, I don’t care much about the number of followers, but as I said, even the fans don’t want to download it.
It’s kind of tragic, especially when someone is so creative that they can paint their own figures - so there’s definitely lots of potential!
OP, just to give you one more tip: If you really want to reach people who paint sculptures and stuff themselves, then your printer settings need to be right, and yours are way off. No variable line height - just the standard 0.2 layer hight profile. That way, you are not targeting anyone who paints their own stuff. And a beginner’s mistake for detailed sculptures: grid infill
I was actually planning to post a video, but I think you should really start with the basics, like infill, and there’s a good guide for that. 
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you match the point. Thank you.
Maybe the AI (yeah you can call it slop.. ) was a leak on my fantasy..
Maybe is better if I’ll be back to design my own model (I’m already doing that for something for the gaming contest)
For the other..
Hey guys, I read everything and I appreciate your point of view. Sure, some people were a bit rude, but hey, we’re on the internet.
I get that it’s hard to read everything, but for those who keep telling me to learn 3D sculpting: I already said I know how to use Fusion and I design what I need, but I definitely can’t make a dragon in Fusion, and it’s not even the best tool for that.
About the infuser skeleton, it looks great but it’s very toxic — I even mentioned that in the description.
And about the contest, you’re right: I reread the rules and maybe I stretched them a bit. More than a mug holder, I thought it was anything related to mugs.
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There’s thousands of tutorials out there to design things with various programs that are mostly free to use.
Like this video for example using blender which you can use and learn and will be great for doing stuff like dragons especially.
Now is AI useless? No, I’m sure there’s uses that aren’t using stolen work in a database like if you use it to hone your own work feeding it your work as a database to work off of, fine, but the fact that image generators have scraped and stolen so much work, imagine the creators on makerworld having someone do that with their work that they worked hard to design and some dude just comes in and creates a prompt that uses his work and others in a database and they never consented to it. It’s why some have options to buy licenses to sell their work or buy the file etc. It’s just not worth it imo and as an artist it ■■■■■■ me off for a bunch of different very valid reasons and why the creative world frowns upon it explicitly. Anything I’ve wanted to do i take the time to learn and do it, that’s what life is about. Gaining skills.
I find it weird to design stuff and know people followed you because of that and then utilizing essentially a lazy cheat and not seeing sooner that people don’t like that and even people that follow you, don’t. That should have screamed in your face quite blatantly that you waded too far from what made people follow you. Get back to your roots of it, design your own stuff. With your creativity and talent. Then watch people download it again.
There’s nothing wrong with AI models, especially if you announce it first. Honesty: best policy. I agree with square3D, post before and after (painting) photos. The likes and downloads will come for those interested in dragons, mostly. I made a Dracula’S Castle and had to search and search for stone walls and bats (the flying kind). If I had tried “Dragons”, maybe your work (which is very nice, AI or not), maybe I would have caught yours in the mix.
This is very true.
I’ve made a couple models because after I tried several others that were highly rated I thought they needed serious improvement. I made one that I think is miles better than the alternatives and after being posted for weeks it only has ONE review. And the person that reviewed it gave me one star. Oh, well.
I just realized that’s the poisoned tea full kit. I’m about to fall off my chair laughing 
Your naivety is touching
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I made a little check
My personal top 5 for AI and not AI model, to check the number of download:
NOT AI: 7k point in 5 model (in fact, are my top 5 model)
AI: 2.7k point in 5 model
In fact, rightnow are the not AI model that carry my profile.
Compare between the best model:
Not AI: 2115 and 32 boost
AI : 712 and 7 boost.
i don’t understand the first model, how does it fit the cups? Is the base flat? the glass looks very small at the bottom too , does this even fit a teacup or a regular mug? Did not look at the other 2.
Die Modelle sind wirklich toll; ich arbeite selbst an einigen und kann es kaum erwarten, sie der Welt zu zeigen.