MakerWorld removed my upload of a Dao Sword for not providing a physical image, but the issue with that is that I don’t own a 3D printer, and since I don’t want to pay some service to print out my models, it got my post removed. One thing that seems strange to me is that my other uploads don’t feature a physical print image and MakerWorld seems just fine with that.
Am I crazy or does it seem like MW is becoming a chore to use?
That’s already been beat to death in another discussion. My feeling is that if it can’t be shown to be printable, then it isn’t.
I already answered you on the other thread you posted this complaint to.
The rules are simple and almost universally agreed with by most people.
In order to prove your design is printable and doesn’t turn into a waste of filament for users that try, you must provide a photo of the model you designed that you printed.
If you also provide a printer profile, you must provide a photo of the model you designed and printed using the printer you chose in that printer (or range of compatible printers).
If you don’t currently have any 3D printers of your own or access to someone else’s, then you can’t upload here as you can’t provide photo evidence of a successful print.
If you do have access to a printer, but, not a Bambu Lab one, you can’t upload a print profile for a Bambu Lab printer as you can’t prove you were able to print the model.
Some of your designs require supports to print and the resulting model may have quality issues due to the amount of surface coverage that support will cause. Users should know what quality they will end up with.
Some of your designs are fragile and may not print as well as you hope due to how things actually print.
Your Chinese characters symbols have nothing to connect the parts after being printed and very thin edges that may not print.
Your Zelda chests are very detailed and in many colours, how do the users know what they will look like when printed? Did you hope all those colours would work or were you printing in one colour with the users expecting multiple colours.
The photos tell users what to expect.
Bambu Lab hasn’t become bad because they require designers to prove their designs can be printed. Bambu Lab has become more user friendly as the users should know what to expect.
My Zelda chests are renders of the models, but they are a single color, because I use a chromebook for all my 3D modeling.
A little thing to mention, they’re not Chinese characters, they are runes from the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I made them on OnShape as medallions but removed the medallion part to make SVG files out of them. I can upload the Medallion part if you require me to, but there are no promises I will have time to edit files and upload them due to exams coming up.
That’s the problem, you provide images showing how the models will NOT print.
I will repeat myself, how would people know that?
How do users know your models are printable when given you have no printer, you haven’t proved it to yourself.
Whilst 3D printing has become easier and more reliable p, it isn’t perfect and it can’t make everything printable.
You mean the Chinese characters here aren’t Chinese characters or the Chinese characters here aren’t part of what will be printed despite providing both Chinese and English words meaning the same thing.
If there were photo off what to expect rather than this confusing graphic as it bears no resemblance to the weird angled shapes you added on the other images- we wouldn’t have confusion.
It’s the rules, plain and simple. Makerworld isn’t the place for uploading unprintable ripped game files. Your other models are only still up because they haven’t been reported.
If I’ve learned anything in the last couple days is that asking about why the rules shouldn’t apply to you often doesn’t end how you expect.
MakerWorld doesn’t have resources to look at every model to verify, so they likely mostly act based on reports they get. So it is likely that somebody reported that one model, but nobody reported the other ones. But since you keep on repeatedly advertising that your other models are renders, don’t be surprised if more start getting removed.
You know you guys don’t have to reply to these things that have been beaten into the ground especially if its going to frustrate you.
@Foxy_Fitz_Hamilton It does seem like its becoming a more of a chore for less rewards. But I’ve reached out to Bambu and they directed me to a forum post back in February that states the new rules. They haven’t posted the rules on makerworld proper except the orange text when you upload a new file. I’d be careful telling people that your other models without prints haven’t been taken down yet lol. They will go out and report you.
Those are game models ripped from the game, and aren’t even properly setup for 3d printing. There’s a ton of overhangs and open meshes.
Makerworld is about work that is verified printable. That’s what they’re trying to tailor for, and a lot of people agree on this. They don’t want it to just be a model dump of useless and barely printable models.
Especially, there’s a lot of users that don’t know how to do 3d modeling, or cad They are just printing stuff. Part of Makerworld’s whole deal is that things are setup, verified, printable. It’s so those that just own a printer and a phone can confidently print the things they find on the website.
These models do not belong on this website at all. All you did was rip them from the game, and you didn’t even bother to try and make sure they were printable.
And this is part of another issue of putting stuff up when you don’t own a printer. you have no real experience in what is printable or not, or how it’s going to go. You’re throwing stuff up blind.
These characters are pretty much the same in Chinese and Japanese, so I assume he’s saying they’re Japanese since Zelda is a Japanese game. 
I wasn’t assigning ownership I was referencing the model as I am sure you realised.
Haha, I didn’t mean to target you like that! Was more so throwing quotes in there so it was clear I was referencing the Zelda chest. I took a closer look on the back of your comment.
I’m not trying to dogpile on OP, more so trying to give a more factual statement about why the mesh is at issue beyond just a lack of printed image, and why it matters on this platform. I think with your comment about the textured models, it does mislead some. Although that picture isn’t great, so it’s a muddy misleading at best. I think most people would recognize it’s just a colorless model, but even with that, it’s still got serious printability issues that you can’t ignore.
It’s a weird thing to me, as I’m usually on the other side of things. I work for the game developers, making the meshes, that folks like this rip from games. Content created from ripped models always gets me a little. The developers/publishers often own the rights to those models themselves, so it comes across as a type of theft when I see people rip game models.
Haha, it’s funny with the switch too. The hardware specs mean a lot of optimization has to go on, and so a lot of models in those games aren’t very printer friendly at all. I’m thinking of what I’m working on right now, and it’d be a mess to try and make it 3d printable because of how much of it is smoke and mirrors.
Josh take a look at their profile- they don’t even allow “remixes” of a ripped model haha.
So what it’s okay for you to rip models fox but no one can try to print your models and upload a remix if it needed modification? Way to go!
I never said I don’t allow people to print my models, I only have things set to no remixes because on other 3D modeling sites, I have had people steal my models. Across all the 3D sites I am on, all my models are set to where remixes aren’t allowed, and I still have had people ask me to remix my models when I have it set to no remixes.
“Not allowing remixes” isn’t going to stop people from stealing your models. It’s unfortunate but it is true. It is however ironic that you, yourself “pilfered” these models from someone else.
Pretty much any slicer has the ability to cut models. Cutting up a file in order to print it isn’t considered a remix.
Well, considering “Pulled straight from the game files of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom”, I don’t think you have the rights to be able to tell others what they can or can’t do with the files.
Furthermore though, you’re gate keeping people from actually trying to make the models printable because you’re trying to retain control over models that weren’t yours to begin with. (We could always contact Nintendo’s legal department and see how they feel about all of this. They sure aren’t known for being lawyer happy…)
I mean, on the screenshot you posted the person asked if they could cut it up to make it usable on an Ender 3. Something you haven’t done, and apparently can’t do, because you don’t own a 3d printer and seem to lack the knowledge on how to actually set that up.
So, you’re trying to post non-printable 3d files to a website focused on consumer driven 3d printing, then refuse to let anyone actually fix the models and make them printable. Models you yourself didn’t create, but ripped from a game engine.
It’s like you broke into the iphone factory, took a bunch of parts, and now you’re trying to sell the “iphone” at your local electronics store. When someone stops to ask/say, hey, maybe I could assemble that? Because people want assembled products here… You say no! It’s mine! You’re not allowed to! I don’t want people stealing my work!
Do you plan to buy a printer at some point? Because I have hard time to understand the goal of all this.
And if you do, buy a resine printer otherwise you will have hard time to print your own model.
