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How do you decide what to print and what sites do you use to find free files? Im having a hard time finding 3d prints and the harder part is picking a file i like.

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Makerworld and Makeronline. It's Bambu and Anycubic but they have a lot of files. Stls are stls- they work anywhere.

I'm always looking for boardgames for my kids.

Edit: please explain the downvotes. Using Bambu's bandwidth/server isn't helping them in any way.

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

There are lots of hate on bambu lab cause they are trying to lock the ecosystem on their platform. A few people that are way smarter than me came out, like Jeff Geerling and maker muse, to respond to bambu lab's update of no offline mode, I think. After the hate they backtrack. I don't know if bambulab is still trying but they will get the hate from the maker/tinkerer if they try to prevent them to tinker on their paid printer.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

But using Makerworld without buying their printer or uploading models is hurting Bambu. So downvoters must be Bambu fans.

And Anycubic isn't locked down like Bambu. It supports Orca and you can put Klipper on it.