I think there should be separate ratings for the model and the print profile. I find myself often giving good ratings to ridiculous print profiles (that I had to change) just because the model is great (sometimes even the model is mediocre but the idea is fantastic, I usually upvote them anyway and possibly comment).
Edit: The opposite is more unusual but as an example, I have uploaded fairly worthless models (such as a single bolt with nut, not original content) where the whole point of the upload was the print profile: I found that you can print fully working ISO M3 bolts and nuts with a 0.4 nozzle if you tweak the settings. I’d expect that model to get no rating, or whatever, while the print profile could get the intended rating (if any).
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Unfortunately, the ratings don’t tell me anything. I either download a model or I don’t. If I don’t download it, I don’t need it. If I download it, I like the idea of the model. Whether a model is any good doesn’t depend on whether someone can print it, because if the settings are right, the model should be printable. However, it also depends on the conditions under which a print is made, but that is the responsibility of each user.
What should we rate? If a model has 2k downloads but only 200 likes, is it a bad model? The download counter shows how popular a model is. Or are models with few downloads bad models?
The problem is that too little is assessed. No matter what they call it: Stars, likes, download numbers … none of it is good for determining whether a model is printable or a good model.
The only thing that makes any sense to me is a general rating, but that’s enough: good, bad and mediocre. Basically, a counter showing how often users had problems with the model and the corresponding comment is enough. If someone does not leave a comment, their rating should not be counted either. It should be possible to remove ratings that are not objective. This is because only objective ratings, including comments, are suitable for improving a model. If this is not the case, the rating is pretty useless. Exception: 5-star ratings without a comment (this is self-explanatory).
Anyone can have many thoughts about this, but perhaps why the items in the Bambulab Store have no ratings (or I just don’t see them), there is definitely a good reason for this.
Kind regards!
As a start, I think it should be made more clearer to the average user that the rating is for the print profile, not for the model design.
Should the model have a rating? If it’s just a vase or keychain - it seems unnecessary - you either like it or you don’t. If you ask people to rate it, a perfectly good vase might get a low total rating because a lot of people just prefer other styles.
If it’s a filament winder with 30 parts, a rating on how well it works could be useful to other users. But in these cases, maybe browsing the comment section is sufficient (or even better).
Just a few thoughts.
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WHY IS THERE NO EASY WAY TO RATE FLIPPING MODELS???
We’ve all been there, right? A model looks great, it prints flawlessly but functionally it’s a bust. First thing you do is go to rate it and maybe get clarification from the designer so you go to ratings and you tell them about it in stars and comments… hit save and… somewhere across the void like a hundred thousand voices crying out in pain… some poor schmuck looks at his print profile rating and goes WTF?!? That dude says it printed great but the part orientation in the design sucked (malted milk) balls? How is that MT fault?!?
Seriously though, bad design is bad design. If I waste my time and energy on something that looks good but just doesn’t work, shouldn’t there be a way to warn people that maybe they should hold off before they hit print and maybe give the designed a chance to fix it?
Beyond frustrating. Also my iphone charging dock is falling apart, had to reprint one piece 4-5 times because it was oriented incorrectly and after a few more days the watch charger that was the ‘killer feature’ falls off the side because the part was designed so that there is no ‘right’ orientation you can print it in that doesn’t have a major weakness. Totally unrelated to this post, I am sure, Just mentioning it here because I can’t rate the &^%#*&I% model itself. It’s a shame, because it really was a very cool design.
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