Bill of Materials/Maker Supplies over prominence issue

As per title, I recently noticed a change in page layout for models, and Bill of Materials/Maker Supplies have become overly prominent, taking up a huge amount of space with huge icons.

I get it, as a for profit company, there is a higher priority on profit opportunities, however even on a fairly large monitor, the Bill of Materials section completely pushes out model description completely off-screen, which are arguably more important, and for models which has BOM in multiple categories, this situation becomes even worse.

I think a better compromise would be, for each item to have much smaller icons and each item only taking a single line, so that the BOM can be upfront and center without taking up a huge amount of space. Additionally it would be nice for it to be open by default but collapsible, so that users can quickly begin reading the description.

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On similar issue I seen a number people adding filament, when has nothing to do with model. e.g, models functional model that filament color will make no difference. With this popping up right at top not best user experience.

Completely agree. I refuse to use the BOM now because not only is it huge, they also put it first in the description and all our work comes after. As much as Bambu apparently thinks we only exist to make them money, what should be featured here are the models - not parts to buy from Bambu.

As much as I would like to BOM my filaments and bits, I just list the filaments and MakerSupply parts in the description because they are like Cousin Eddie. Moves in and takes over. I’m not a fan of Cousin Eddie.