May 13th——Wireless Mouse: How creative can a mouse get? Are there any mouse designs available for left-handed users? How about a stylish gaming mouse for my son? With numerous requests and limited models, our aim for this contest is to gather a diverse collection of wireless mouse designs tailored to various needs and preferences. Keep in mind that your entries should be compatible with our Wireless Mouse Components Kit 002
May 20th——Fishing Gear: Attention all fishing enthusiasts: Say goodbye to expensive fishing gear by crafting your own! Blend your unique design style with functionality and durability for this contest. If you’re unsure about which filament to use, experiment with our impact-resistant, water and UV-proof Bambu ASA Aero
May 27th——Parametric Model Maker: Are you interested in seeing how your fantastic work could be remixed? This contest gives you that opportunity! There are no themes or limitations—the only goal is to create as much space as possible for users to design their own projects in the Parametric Model Maker using your .scad file. Winners will be selected based on the number and quality of remixed pictures in the comments. Enjoy the fun as an originator and support others in unleashing their creativity at the same time!
We will soon make adjustments regarding our contest rules to align with our recent changes in requirements for MakerWorld models. Additionally, judging criteria for contests might change based on the theme of the specific contest moving forward as we seek to explore different frontiers of 3D printing with our contests with distinct sets of judging criteria.
It’s good you’re exploring new frontiers @MakerWorld but you need to let us know now what are the new judging criteria. Especially since 2 out of the three contests require purchasing new stuff if we don’t have them already. There is just too much uncertainty with all the behind the scene changes
@BambuLab will users be able to use the uploaded OpenSCAD models we might provide on the MW sight or will they be required to download them and install OpenSCAD first?
I hope the idea of winning based on popularity doesn’t start becoming a thing. I might have tried coming up with something for the parametric one. But seeing as it will just be won by whoever gets the most of their friends/followers to submit remix photos, I personally don’t think I will attempt anything.
I still like seeing what people come up with though, so I’m looking forward to them regardless!
A suggestion to keep it somewhat fair for people though. If you truly plan to select winners based on amounts of people posting remix photos. I would encourage you to at the very least take into consideration the age and prior activities of any account submitting remix photos, on top of the quality aspect you mention.
For example: Maybe don’t count any remix photos submitted from accounts that were created after today’s date, or even better, yesterday. As well as accounts that have not at least commented on other models prior to today. This is by no means a solution to exploiters, but it will at least weed out a lot of them.
Thanks for your interest. Before the contest, Parametric Model Maker(Parametric Model Maker) will be integrated into MakerWorld Model page. Then, as long as the model contains OpenSCAD files as raw files, users can jump to the parametric model maker and start customize with the scad files.
Hi, thanks for asking.
For example, for our Parametric Model Maker themed contest, we will allow remixes of older models with .scad files as our contest entry, which is different from our previous rules. This is what we meant by changing our judging criteria based on specific themes of the contest.
I am really not sure about the parametric model maker, and its current implementation. Will it be added directly to the model pages?
Most of my models have already parametric settings, but in Autodesk Fusion as sources are provided. I´ve checked OpenSCAD before and i am still trying to build an opinion on it. For now - not a fan.
The latest released version is already 3 Years old. It does not seem to be a reliable Project to built on. Aside from that it only allows to export STL files and has no support for STEP.
To be more precise. It´s development stagnated and we are talking about 80 commits in 3.5 Years. That’s what a active projects more or less gets in a Month.
It´s fine to be in beta like it is currently, but i think there is way more effort necessary to launch this product.
The parameter interface needs to be directly integrated into the models page.
The builder needs to create more automatically, as splitting models into plates, setting filament types, adding configuration how to print etc etc…
Prints needs to be counted on the base model
The difference for the user should only be, that the version opened in Studio is already customized, everything else need to be the same as before. Without that kind of deep integration, i would consider this feature a nice standalone app. But not worth to be integrated into MakerWorld at all.
Sorry to be frank here, but it currently feels more like a tech demo, than a product. It´s simply far away from launch state - and again, i don`t think that openSCAD is reliable enough as a project to be considered to be integrated.
If BambuLab decides to go that route, they need to invest into openSCAD and force development. As for now, i cannot see that there are any contributions made: OpenSCAD - Open Collective
I disagree… OpenScad hast an active user base and is usable as it is. Website integration allows Thingiverse and Makerworld users to adapt models to their needs without installing any software, it definitely enritches the world of 3d printing. As far as I understand, better integration is worked on.
Well, I do design all my things in OpenSCAD, so I’m a bit biased…
I do however agree that supporting OpenSCAD development would be nice.
In the upcoming release, we will incorporate Parametric Model Maker into our model pages, enabling users to customize models with .scad files (OpenSCAD file format) using the “customize” button. Although OpenSCAD’s latest official release dates back three years, its development has continued, with new features available in development snapshots.
The current solution may not be perfect. However, we deeply believe that making models customizable for users without CAD background is the direction to go. We are open to different parametric modelling solutions (that’s why we call it Parametric Model Maker instead of OpenSCAD previewer). OpenSCAD is our first attempt. Based on our investigation, OpenSCAD is currently the best choice to integrate onto MakerWorld. We will continue to explore other possibilities. We are also open to contributing to OpenSCAD codebase, which depends on the feedback from our users. If you have any suggestions on other solutions, please let us know.
I think there is a difference between usable, and being stale. While there may be an active userbase, you cannot deny that there has been no release for the last 3.5 years. In terms of software this is a century. Without having regular releases and active development, i would not take a business decision based relying that heavily on it.
There is difference if you use a component from it to display models on a website, that could be replaced at any time with something different or integrating the core principles deeply into your ecosystem.
Thingyverse, MakerWold are “currently” not actively “visible” supporting the project and the approach having programmatically generating models is way different from using Blender, Fusion, Plasticity or any other CAD program. Where you are most likely drawing things, instead of writing code.
OpenScad is in it´s current state a low budget project (roughly $4k yearly budget) with an active developer base of 2. So even if you may be biased and you like the project - you cannot deny these facts.
I am not against OpenScad, but the integration for now is subpar into MakerWorld and feels years away from beeing usable. If you want to foster parametric development, the design tools also needs to be usable by “non”-programmers as creators and designers.
The generated outputs seem to be also subpar, i mean - i have no knowledge just checking the examples. But i would not consider the inner part a sphere, more a polygon blob.
I agree OpenSCAD is old and lacks many common and useful functions, but, due to how my brain works and that I suffer with Aphantasia, it is the only CAD system someone with my disability can use.
Every single one of the models I have uploaded, 322 to date, have been created using OpenSCAD.
The benefits of including it here would be the deep integration of parameters.
One of the models I would like to share requires 8 different parameters and is unachievable any other way. That is just a simple project that I have personally used to generate something over a 100 times.
I have a few that would allow the user to decide to include or exclude elements allowing them to create entirely unique models each time they change the parameters.
Even if I would consider adding OpenScad source files, i am reluctant to release new remixes of my own models, as I do not see a need to 10 versions of the same model in different versions on the platform. And would also be annoyed to see this done by others. We already have issues with colored, and plain variants / also with models with different sizes that spam the platform (also related to the recent changes for point calculation).
I would suggest that you allow to enter all models with OpenScad files, not related to the date of creation.
That’s the same i understood, but that would result in duplicates of existing models. So i suggested to allow all existing models that support the OpenScad files to avoid duplicate models and spamming the platform with remixes of existing models.
I would still not allow remixes, but giving everyone the option to update their models. It would serve the same purpose, since more models would be able to be customized.
