I printed some of these ‘Surprise Egg’ models from Cults3D before I got my first Bambu Lab printer. I wanted to print a few more and checked to see if the model was on MakerWorld. I found the models on MW and the account ‘agepbiz’ match the account used on Cults. But none of the print profiles uploaded are from the designer.
This isn’t the first time I have come across a model where all of the print profiles are from accounts other than the designer, and it makes me wonder how this happens.
Links to the same model on both platforms:
The designer provided STL files.
In order to provide profiles, the designer has to have bambu studio, prepare model in bambu studio, print it on bambu printer, take photographic evidence of said print and then upload.
Some don’t have the above and can’t meet requirements making it impossible (or impractical) to provide profiles.
So they gave the stl files to another user who then posted them?
What is interesting here is that all four of the profiles are from 4 different users.
No. When uploading a model to Makerworld you have the option to upload print profile. If not uploading print profile you can upload files such as STLs or non-bambu 3MF files. People then can take those and provide print profiles.
Oh, got it. That makes sense. So I guess if there is no print profile loaded, the only option on the green bar is to DL the stl. Thank you for clearing that up for me!
I recently uploaded a model and I see no reason to provide a print profile.
It’s a lot of hassle, and I don’t know what filament the user has (it’s the sort of part you want to print in PC or PETG) and I don’t know what printer the user has, and I don’t know how brave the user wants to be with print orientation on tall vertical things, and I don’t want to have make 3,000 different profiles to handle all this. I also don’t really see the need to provide even 1 because then I would be receiving 3,000 questions all about the above.
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Was this model the first one you uploaded to MW, or the first one you didin’t include a print profile?
An MW print profile can be used on different filaments and different BL printers (as long as the model fits on the build plate). When a user selects their printer and filament, the model will be sliced based on the user’s choice of printer and filament.
This is actually one of the benefits of a print profile from the designer. The designer is supposed to craft a print profile and test printing and make adjustments until the print profile can reliably print the model without failure. The users are then spared from having to go through the trial and error to find out how to print the model.
In other words, the designer uses their expertise and spends the tiime to find the best settings for printing the model so users don’t have to waste their time and filaments to find out.
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Unless you want a different print orientation for filaments depending on their layer strength.
Which means the model has to use the easiest setting, preventing you from using a better print orientation, fewer supports etc, that would work for people who actually clean the build plate or maintain the printer.
Basically it’s a lot of effort, and would not benefit me as I would be doing a lot of work to get a worse print. For commericial models I can maybe see a reason to make print profiles. However everything I’ve ever done for 3d (most of which is on printables) has been fully free.
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I don’t see it.
Anyway, a print profile is a great thing for users, which in turn is great for you because your model will be appealing to more users.
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I don’t see why this is a benefit to a non-commercial model. My stuff is on printables so I don’t need to manage backups and storage myself, and it lets you do a write up to store documentation. I have one part on makerworld to see how the uploading etc works.
