I agree that it isn’t clear enough. For a relatively new person to printing I had been rating the model at first. Nothing on the Handy App (where it seems to be pushing people to) specifies it.
You may not be aware that the rating system isn’t the same as rating food.
3 or less must only be attributed to profiles that through the fault of the profile, the print failed. Such ratings should provide the actual failure and it is highly recommended that photos are uploaded showing the issues.
If the print came off the bed during printing this is as likely the build plate needing a clean as it is the profile and the user should be sure that the fault doesn’t lie with something they needed to rectify.
The objective is to help the profile creator refine or be made aware of situations they had not previously experienced.
A rating of 5 is to say the profile worked fine and printed without issue on your chosen printer. It is not an above and beyond rating.
A rating of 4 says it worked mostly well but some small thing didn’t go exactly to plan. Maybe the support material was difficult to remove or it left a mark in a visible area of the model, that is a four.
A profile with an average of 4 or higher is rewarding with points based on the number of downloads.
If you are rating people as you would on the quality of service or for food and using 3 as the average (what service you should get) and 5 as extreme above and beyond, then all you have done is to guarantee the work that did what you hope it would to is not rewarded for the efforts you enjoyed.
If you printed 10 things and each one printed as you expected, with one having a minor quality issue on a visible part that you know could have been fixed in the profile. That is nine 5-stars and one 4-star.
Much of this is explained in the ratings panel.
Not bothering to rate someone for their effort also has ramifications. Until a profile has at least one rating that brings an average of 4 or higher, no points are provided to that profile designer.
The efforts of the designers of models or the designers of profiles have worth they give for free, the bargain should be that the benefiting party does their part and accurately and fairly rate the work based on the system in use.
It is clear that you believe you were being considered when rating, I use the same logic as you in most rating systems. This rating system isn’t that. Plus, you pay for the food, the delivery, the service you rate.
Here, you get the thing for free, it is different.
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I have never seen a ratings panel. Where is it?
I rate things in the Handy app and it says that 3 is average.
My opinion is that if it prints correctly it’s average, because that’s what is supposed to happen. (not very good) Being new to 3d printing I would also say that if the print fails, I have a change to make or figure out what went wrong, I don’t rate it a 1 star
I’ll try and wrap my head around giving someone the highest possible rating for the print simply working.
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The caption “Average” is wrong and I am working have the caption changed.
This is NOT your fault, it is a caption issue.
If you see the choices when you select one, two or three stars, it shows a selection of error reporting buttons. These then prompt you to provide information on what went wrong. It also asks you to provide photos of the failure.
If three is truly average, that wouldn’t also mean there was a fault that required reporting.
Too many people think if something goes wrong it is the fault of the print profile or the model when most issues are related to the build plate requiring a decent clean.
I can only speak for my processes, when I create profiles for my models and those of others, I often print the same print multiple times to provide the user, who likely has less experience than I do, a great first experience.
This takes time, effort, energy and lots of filament. I believe most others do the same.
Many new users are not as enlightened as you. Many will give it a low rating. I can only guess that after a few further failed prints, they realised the problem must be at their end. I doubt they rectify the erroneous prior ratings.
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you are able to rate the profile you are printing on the bambu studio app on PC. In the bottom center of the screen of DEVICE window, you should be given the option to RATE
I usually go into the MakerWorld site to rate profiles from my PC. The interface through Studio is difficult to use and isn’t very user friendly.
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Ok, so I spent over an hour trying to figure out how to rate a print and have gotten nowhere. Now are there some changes that have occurred where the above answers do not work anymore because they surely don’t work for me. I would like to be able to rate prints and I have liked them and commented and even posted an image of my finished print but still can’t figure out how to rate one. I use LAN ONLY mode but use Bambu Slicer if that matters. And I typically never use Bambu Handy unless I have to when setting up a new printer.
Thanks!
It’s very likely that due to that, there’s no “proof” of you printing the profile and there’s no ability to rate.
To see what you can rate, go to makerworld(dot)com/en/@[your_username]/rating - that should show the list of all profiles you have available for rating and ones you have rated. If there’s nothing there, then there’s nothing to rate unfortunately.
Yep, I already looked in there and it’s empty. So that must be the reason. I will have to figure out another way to get boosts to give to other makers then. Any ideas on how to do that?
Thanks!
Wow, this is not confusing AT ALL. (Sarcasm) New X1C user here. Glad I had the same question and found this thread.
What’s more confusing is that there’s even a “Comment & Rating” item ON the model page itself, and we can leave a comment that way, but there is no way to actually “rate” from there even though the heading says “… & Rating”. This should be removed or the caption tweaked or something so it doesn’t get confused with the “proper” way to rate through the user profile.
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im guessing it does not have to be printed on a bambu lab printer just has to be sliced in bambu studio?
can i also rate a print profile without printing it derecly like i put it on my computer and than on a sd card ? becouse i cant find it
No.
Rating a print profile relies on rather non-optimally designed process, where a print must go through “cloud”.