r/makerworld

My wife is an elementary school teacher and prints lots of stuff for a prize box at school. So she downloads stuff from MakerWorld and prints it for the kids. They are apparently super into capybara and she had just printed a couple and I arranged them to be kissing. Then it occurred to me why not print a Kissingbara?

I use Solidworks for work but mainly design mechanical stuff and it would be a challenge and very time consuming for me to model a freeform model like two capybara kissing. So I used AI to make a 2D image, then ran it through Meshy, and loaded up the resulting STL into Bambu Studio and printed it all in a short period of time. The my wife said what about Kicking Capybara?! So next we created some Kung Fu Capybara which is printing as I type this.

So here's my question. Do I share these on MakerWorld for other people like my wife that would find value in these models, or do I just keep them to myself because AI sucks and is only for talentless hacks? What's the rule of thumb here?

Why is it still a thing? shouldn’t we be showing what you will actually end up with first? How I read the rules as long as you have 1 real picture buried in there it’s fine.

I think the post etiquette on makerworld is honestly quite poor. In my opinion there's only 3 things that should be included in the photos of a post.

- a full 360 of the STL I'm going to download

- a full 360 of the item printed (listing machine+filament used)

- and then, ONLY THEN, a 360 of the printed item with any touch ups, paint jobs, ect.

Obviously if it's a functional part seeing it in action via gif helps too.

What I DO NOT think should ever be included is:

-these ai "touch up" photos

-ai "renderings" of what the item "could" look like

- ai fake backdrops

-anything that doesn't show the actual GD model, the STL or printed.

All these things are useless to the process of printing the model and are blatantly dishonest as to what the actual item will or can be. These items are meant to actually be printed and used in the real world, and it's a huge waste of time and resources when the advertising of the item does not match the item itself.

I would go so far as to say any post that does these bottom things should qualify to have their posts taken down.

Note that I'm not saying anything about STLs that are AI generated. I'm specifically talking about images that do not match the actual items being posted.

I was trying to message a creator about his print file and an accessory I printed for it. I typed out a paragraph and hit return, thinking I could start a new paragraph. Instead, it sent the message. That was not good, because I had ended the first paragraph describing the problem without yet mentioning my solution. I tried to start a new message, but Makerworld only allows one message to a creator until the creator responds. I recalled the message, but I still couldn't type a new one. I doubt someone is going to respond to a message that was recalled and therefore can't be read. Any way out of this dilemma? I really want to contact him or her because I want to post my accessory as a model and want to discuss with him how to do it.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2824056-mframe-photo-booth-overhead-image-and-video-rig#profileId-3145534

don't hate me for my description, or photo skills, or ironing skills.

constructive feedback welcomed.

there is no use of AI (as you can tell) in the creation of my models or images.

Or are my and others models bad?