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New 3D Printable Search Engine
PrintableSearch is a new 3d printable search engine to find the top 3D printables from the best model sites. It differs from others by ranking models between sites accurately and it has a modern ad free interface.
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- peterangular 3y agoTried five searches, things like "test," "bed level," etc. All common terms for 3D printing calibration. Was only able to get one search to go through which took >20s. All others timed out with "We encountered an error." Not sure the tech is ready for this to show off and first impressions are everything.
- willcipriano 3y agoToo many users perhaps
- hugegreenbug 3y agoYes, too many users. I wasn't prepared for this influx of users.
- willcipriano 3y agoHappens all the time, consider cloudflare and adding some cache headers, would at least let the homepage load regardless of user count.
- hugegreenbug 3y agoThanks. It's back now.
- opan 3y agoI would rather people not throw cloudflare at everything, it's ruining the web. Especially with those horrible browser checks that never work right and lock you out of sites.
- scrollaway 3y agoThose are not really there by default. They’re there if you increase the threat level.
- DogTweezers 3y ago[flagged]
- miduil 3y agoI thought this was going to be a new https://www.printables.com https://www.printables.com, quite confusing to launch with this name. Seems the trademark application was rejected though https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/018677432 https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/01867743...
- HnUser12 3y agoOff topic: these cookie warnings have made iOSs touch and hold quick view useless. The alert usually takes over full size of the quick view window!
- Rebelgecko 3y agoLooking forward to trying it out but looks like it might be overloaded currently. In the meantime I've been using thangs.com (ironically their UX is better for finding things hosted on other sites than it is for the STLs they host themselves)
- hugegreenbug 3y agoYes, it is overloaded due to this post.
- hugegreenbug 3y agoI managed to get it responsive again.
- npunt 3y agoI never knew I wanted to print my own search engine until now
- extrememacaroni 3y agoYou wouldn't download a search car!
- Izmaki 3y agoOh, in a heartbeat, baby!
- colordrops 3y agoI've seen so many crazy projects that I was wondering for a second if it might be something like that before clicking through.
- yaseer 3y agoI did also interpret the title the same way! I had images of a 3D printed version of Google's original server/storage assembly: http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/0-4-Google.htm http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/...
- chankstein38 3y agoI was half expecting some kind of 3d printable algorithm. Like a physical implementation of a sorting algo or something haha
- samstave 3y agoUH, those are called BOOLEANS my friend. - Bins Of Organized LEGO Easily Addressable N.. OW!! damn kids, where is your garbage collection!!?? Systems
- kraig911 3y agoI just wish I could print a search engine.
- nickpinkston 3y agoYou wouldn't print a car! :-)
- earthling8118 3y agoThe search box doesn't allow for any sort of symbols. I tried entering a '+' but it doesn't allow that.
- hugegreenbug 3y agoit's intentional. I remove them in the search so I wanted to represent what was actually searched
- hugegreenbug 3y agoI need to make that more clear in the about section. Thanks.
- monday_ 3y agoOff topic, but is there a way to import existing mechanical designs like we do it in software with libraries? Something like importing a transmission design into CAD and gluing it to the model with API-like slots. I'm very new to CADs and only have limited experience with FreeCAD, but having to design a latch anew every time you need it seems like a common enough pain point.
- nickpinkston 3y agoWe're actually in process of building this for individual components (bolts, motors, gears, etc.) at: https://beta.govolition.com https://beta.govolition.com where you can search for components, filter by spec, download CAD/specs, and purchase the parts. But also check out: - https://grabcad.com/library/tag/library https://grabcad.com/library/tag/library <-- Lots of multi-part projects in addition to components. - http://traceparts.com/ http://traceparts.com/ <-- Individual component CAD - https://www.3dcontentcentral.com/ https://www.3dcontentcentral.com/ <-- Individual component CAD Generally, you'll want to download .STEP files so they import into FreeCAD, as opposed to native Solidworks Part files, etc.
- adrienthebo 3y agoOnshape allows for versioning parts and assemblies, mate connectors to determine how parts should connect, assemblies and subassemblies to define the relationships between parts and allow for reuse, configurable parts (feature flags etc); it's extremely powerful and pleasant to use. Regrettably it's a closed source SaaS option but all of the open source CAD tools are grossly underpowered in comparison. There's nothing like KiCAD that'll let you get work done quickly effectively - at least in my experience.
- s1mon 3y agoThe kernel (Parasolid) is closed source as well as many of the back end bits of Onshape, but all the code behind the standard features that is written in FeatureScript is under an MIT license (the Onshape Standard Library). https://cad.onshape.com/FsDoc/index.html https://cad.onshape.com/FsDoc/index.html
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- mg 3y agoWhile everybody waits for this site to come back from the HN hug of death, here are some alternatives: https://www.gnod.com/search/3d_objects https://www.gnod.com/search/3d_objects
- nahimn 3y agoClassic HN HOD...
- hugegreenbug 3y agoIt's back now
- hugegreenbug 3y agoIt's back
- unraveller 3y ago3d printables with an s. when you say 3d printable X it means you can print the X.
- geuis 3y agoDon't hijack the back button.
- hugegreenbug 3y agonot intentional. i'll fix that
- taf2 3y agoI'm waiting for the AI that can take my picture and convert it into a 3D model.
- jagged-chisel 3y ago“Search engine for 3D printables”
- ncr100 3y agoDDG results, (helpful?), perhaps we could call them "Established 3D Printable Search Engines": - https://www.yeggi.com/ https://www.yeggi.com/ - https://www.stlrepo.com/ https://www.stlrepo.com/ - https://all3dp.com/printables/ https://all3dp.com/printables/ - https://www.printables.com/ https://www.printables.com/ - https://stlbase.com/ https://stlbase.com/ And a 40 day old blog post about 16 search engines for 3D Printables: https://www.3dsourced.com/rankings/sites-for-stl-files-3d-printer-models-files/ https://www.3dsourced.com/rankings/sites-for-stl-files-3d-pr...
- filoleg 3y agoNot sure about the entirety of the list, but printables.com is not a search engine. It is a repository of models that users have to manually post and upload them to the website. It doesn't search and aggregate from other sources. It has its own internal search engine though. Yeggi (you mentioned it as well) is a proper search engine though, and it indeed sources models from many other repositories (including printables.com).
- mutant 3y agoI'll stick with Yeggi, thnx.