Large amount of OpenSCAD contest entries not shown on page

Only 109 of the 133 entries are actually shown on the page.
Sorting by trending, downloads, or new uploads all has the same 109/133

The only example I can find is my own (since they are hard to find) but there are 23 others in this ‘hidden’ state. What’s going on?

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Furthermore, some models present are not even parametric models and do not have the SCAD file

I don’t have the answer, but I have one question of my own :).

Does the customization work when printing from the Handy app?

I have reported all of those.

I am also not happy that two of the entries are identical to those MW already provides in the Parametric Model Maker.

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Not a chance.

It doesn’t even work when using the iPad with the Safari browser.

It registers a click in the counter of the button, but, nothing ever launches.

The customization interface don’t seem to work in Apple’s ecosystems.

In desktop Safari, it tries to launch using a pop-up window. But nowadays most browsers block pop-ups by default.

It doesn’t launch in mobile Safari at all.

There’s also no customization interface in Studio or Handy that I can find.

I’ll say this feature still has some way to go. But it’s a good avenue for MW to gather ideas for future standalone web tools for MakerLab :wink:

I use Chrome on the Mac to use the customisation features. It seems to work fine, there are a couple of issues.

  • It is forgiving (likely a good thing though), if you accidentally enter two commas in a point array between two values or an extra comma at the end, OpenSCAD is smart enough to process it and work out what you likely meant, MW version isn’t. I wonder if this is due to BL running the command line variant of OpenSCAD which may not have the forgiveness.

  • Variable names with an underscore in the parameters section should swap the underscore to a space in the UI, MW version doesn’t. It is a feature that allows presentational names in-place of actual variables. It presents a better experience for the user. We don’t have that on MW.

We are constantly removing ineligible models from the contest page, it may take some time for this action to reflect on the model number. Please report any entries you believe that is irrelevant to the contest theme, thanks!

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What about the actual topic of missing entries though?

My thread got derailed.

This bug has been fixed. You can try again

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