Josef Prusa pushed the envelope hard with his Prusa i3 FDM 3D printer and showed the world how good, consistent and easy desktop 3D printing could be. While Cults does not offer a direct way of asking a designer for a custom 3D print, one can still do so through the Community feature of the website. It is also home to an active community of talented 3D modelers and 3D print designers. Cults features a large collection of high quality free as well as paid STL files for download neatly arranged in different categories. Cults3D (Free and Paid)Ĭults is one of the more popular names when it comes to 3D printer STL file marketplaces. Youmagine is a long way out in achieving this loft goal, but its honesty towards it is nonetheless clear to see. Youmagine is on a stated mission to make it as easy to create, edit and share STL files as it is to do the same to text files. Youmagine hosts a boatload (the website itself states it hosts over 15,000) of 3D printable STL projects ranging from hobbyist to professional grade. It would be easy to shrug off Youmagine as another “Thingiverse” but in actuality Youmagine is a great resource in and of itself. Thingiverse does uphold its community guidelines with vigilant strictness, and as such some content such as gun-related models is not hosted at all as per its policies. Nearly all of the files are uploaded by users under open source and fair use licenses. Thingiverse is undisputedly the biggest online repository for free 3D printer files and also boasts one of the largest online maker communities.

If you have followed 3D printing even for a short while, odds are that you have already been to Thingiverse.

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