McMaster Carr also has a HUGE number of mechanical drawings you can download. I use it a lot to get screws when I'm doing digital prototyping and I'm being far too completionist.

@buildersmark

Жыл бұрын

McMaster is awesome for files

@aaronporter2180

Жыл бұрын

Definitely! I learned this a while back from an AVE video and it has been very helpful

@tonyhill8300

Жыл бұрын

mcmaster parts are not accurate especially there gears

@DigitalNeutrinos

Жыл бұрын

I use them almost daily .😀

@Jawst

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!!! If you have the skills you could bang together all the parts required to design a CNC machine in a couple of hours! The gears are very useful... but only if you know how to choose correct matching gears 😆

Yeggi! I've used them for years when I want to search for a particular thing across sites. They've been (and still are) an excellent resource!

I really could not have got started in 3d printing with out you and your videos 5 years ago thanks mate

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

Cheers!

@TheJacklwilliams

Жыл бұрын

Agreed completely! Angus@MakersMuse, TeachingTech, CNCKitchen, ThomasSanlander…… The quality of the content and the guy’s at the center of it, just incredible teachers and not only their designs, but the content, video, lighting, damn all of it… Humbling. An incredible amount of work. THANK YOU ANGUS! Edited to add: Joining your community Angus! Great Idea! Looking forward to being a part of it!

A lot of lighting companies have 3D versions of their lamps and such on their website. I've used that when doing architectural renderings.

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

Neat! Makes sense if they want people to design around their products

@BeefIngot

Жыл бұрын

This is awesome.

Even though not for 3D printing, but I have been looking for search engines of this kind for ages, for a browser-based hyper-dimensional grid-dungeon-crawler game (like Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder, Bloodwych, just without absolute spacial connections between grid fields), in order to get appropriate looking NPCs, monsters, items and so on - and it seems that 3dmdb does give a lot more results than any other website I've come across over the last 12 months. I actually had to pause development for about 5 months now, because I was unable to find ANY suitable 3d models after a while, and at that time I only had like 3 or 4 okay-ish models... barely enough to do the stories I wanted to tell. So, thank you so much for this video, it helped me a lot! :)

3d printing wouldn't be as big as it is today, if there wasn't so many models for free. If you would have to pay for every single model, people wouldn't like that. So..thanks a ton to every modeller. Very appreciated

Just echoing what has been said: McMaster is amazing for an immense amount of hardware. Strongly recommended. Haven't found a model that I couldn't use. Sometimes their modeling technique takes some getting used to but otherwise, very solid

Excellent Video, just what i needed, Thank you for doing all the hard work!

Very cool resourcing, and informative! Thanks Angus.

I've been using Thangs, but it's good to know there are other options. I like having options. Thanks for sharing!

Since this video there have been noteable advancements in learning based representations for meshes and scenes. Meaning we now have text to 3D retrieval and also image to 3D etc. GrabCAD has been very useful for me to put references into Fusion360 and then model parts on top of that. Instead of sitting there with calipers recreating my own models.

Thanks so much like always ! Having more places to search is always GOOD.

Great video! For mechanical parts ServoCity have a STEP library of all their parts, I've printed gears/pulleys for bots before from there. Also, it's amazing how often "thing-I'm-looking-for stl" works as a google search

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

Ah nice! very handy.

@SpatialGuy77

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate! Good one! Cheers, Mick 🇦🇺

Thanks for this one. It's a HUGE time saver.

I didn't know about all of these - thanks for sharing!

Awesome resource video, thank you Angus!!

The things in those search engines are licensed. looking at there sum of the searches to see what's been done is simple enough, knowing how to upload and sell is important. Supporting the community.

This is exactly what I needed. I just got my ender put together and had no idea where to get files to try out.

Hey Angus, this was amazing, even after the 3 main sites. Worth watching the whole video

Awesome video - very helpful- thank you 🙏

Great video as always 👍 Thanks for sharing your expirence with all of us 👍 😀

That is really useful, I use Design Spark Mechanical as its free and I am just a home diy creator mostly designing parts for my son’s broken toys, diy house and car part repairs. It’s a shame dsm doesn’t import fusion or solid models, as that would open up a huge resource for low budget creators. Many thanks, great content.

Thanks Angus. I know this will help me locate more models.

I didn't know about any of these. Thank you now I know what to do once the upgrades come in

Thank you for another helpful and informative video.

McMaster is also really good for mechanical parts. Can either use the parts as part of a design or modify and print

I found I'm spending more time on my own 3D print designs than finding & printing other peoples designs. Though I do love seeing other people's 3D print designs, always looking for new ideas & ways of designing.

The Grabcad homepage had what looked like a dual pinball ramp. 3D pinball playfield parts would be awesome.

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

I've always wanted to try that!

@thingswelike

Жыл бұрын

Did you see this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oYl5ldyQnr3IhNI.html I just wish I had the space for it 😞

Helpfully info thank you

Very helpful - Thanks!

Great information, thank you!

Thank you for this!!

Thangs has been a go to for me for a while now. It's often a lot cheaper & easier to find something there than on Turboquid or some other "proper" 3D model vendor.

super helpful, thanks

Nice, Thanks for this.

thanks Angus, very helpful as usual

Best reference video … thanks!

Hello from Tampa, Florida! Thanks for the video, great information.

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thank you for this.

Another helpful video. I have had good luck with stlfinder as a search. As good as thangs if not quicker.

Good stuff as always.

thats genius! thx for info, sooo goood. useful!

Brilliant thank you

Thanks, great info 👍🏼

huge thanks!

Yesssssss this came in handy to find a bracket for my gazebo that nearly flew away last weekend. The bracket broke when it decided it was over being a gazebo and wanted to be a kite. I had searched thingyverse and it gave me nothing useful but used the 3dmdb and it found the exact part on thingyverse using the same search string.

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

Ah awesome!

Great video thanks

Thanks for this

Thanks Angus. Hopefully the search engines will save me from searching multiple sites. As well gadgets and models for 3d printing. I am now looking for CNC models as I now have a 5 axis Pocket NC CNC as well as a 6040 CNC set up for 4 axis(5 axis when I put together a 5 axis controller)

Thanks!!

G'day Mr Muse, you are a farking legend awesome genius god! Traceparts...mate, it's engineering gold. Can't thank you enough, you got a new subscriber and a 👍. Cheers mate, Mick 🇦🇺

I've found GrabCAD really useful for referencing other objects for use in designing printed parts. e.g. a model of a Hemera extruder and an Ender 5 carriage plate so I can design a custom printed mount.

@arbitrary_username

Жыл бұрын

Exactly the comment I wanted to make. I really like Grabcad

Thanks!

McMaster Carr also has models files available on their website for free. There’s even integration to pull them into Fusion if you use that.

Thank you

Thank you, this was very helpful. I had never heard of 3Dmdb before or Traceparts. Could you do a video on converting STL files into useful files like STEP or others to get it into CAD software so you can make modeling changes? I've tried FreeCAD and others and often have a problem with large STL files being unusable. Either won't open it at all or won't convert it into a solid even if I let the software run for a long time.

Man, all I was aware of was stlfinder. Thanks for this!

I want to see is your review on that X1 Carbon behind you, Love you videos, keep on the good work ;)

G'day again. Wow, you've done a lot of videos. Have you done 3D scanner comparisons? Undecided about purchasing... they seem to be out of my budget, some are WAY outside! Cheers, Mick🇦🇺

This helped me finally find a model of my brothers (unfortunate) favorite car - an AU Falcon.

Noice! TY!!

That’s a great list! It amazes me how poorly some of the larger 3D File sites run or are just bloated with ads (looking at you Cults, MMF, & Thingiverse) I pretty much only use Printables & Patreon now… if only someone would make a 3D File Patreon repository

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

I'm all for supporting creators but yeah, keeping tabs on multiple patreons is a bit challenging! I much prefer buying models as required. Might do a supplementary video to this on how I handle paid models with gumroad etc.

@flamingcow5916

Жыл бұрын

I just don't even bother with Cults, images take waaaaaaay too long to load. It's just not worth the time.

@aminfozdar

Жыл бұрын

Won’t be bloated with ads if you use and adblocker like everyone else

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

@@aminfozdar or you could be like thingiverse and block downloads if you have an adblocker haha

@startide

Жыл бұрын

cults is apparently hosted on a 56K line or something of that sort, it's ridiculous how slow the site is.

This type of high-level resource video truly "empowers my creativity". I've done some original designs, but the vast majority of what I make are tweaks to other designs. I love how a search that shows my design ALSO goes to the original site where I give credit to the original creators! I suck at "starting from a clean slate". I'm much more productive when I can "scratch an itch" based on another work. This is also how I "Learn by Tweaking", where I don't need to know EVERYTHING to be able to do SOMETHING special! The thing is, when I do post my crude from-scratch models, the community dives in and makes them wonderful! I can learn both from what others have created, but also from how others tweak what I created! I wish my time in uni worked more like the 3D printing community.

Festo and allied electrical also have great cad info. Skf does too:)

Saved this one.

You should have talked about McMaster. You can import parts from their catalog directly in fusion 360.

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

neat! McMaster used to block Aussies from ordering or even browsing the site, but maybe that's changed...

@buildersmark

Жыл бұрын

@@MakersMuse I use their step files for all kinds of fasteners. Hopefully you can as well

GrabCad is great! I 3d printed a gate valve off there! It was a bit of tweaking to make it printable, but far less time than making it from scratch. How did you overlook McMaster Carr?! Lots of parts have the CAD equivalent to download off there!

Before I retired, I used to use the 3DContentCentral site to find models of parts and hardware. The site is run by SolidWorks' parent company, but it is free and models can be downloaded in neutral formats.

I’d be interested in seeing your thoughts on Slicer. I used to be an inventor user back in HS and college, but I’ve recently been using slicer because it’s affordable and easy to use

@SpatialGuy77

Жыл бұрын

Is slicer a cad package? Did you replace Adsk Inventor with it? Cheers, Mick 🇦🇺

Another good one is McMaster Carr. They have a lot of models for things you could use in your projects

Very useful info! Now if you also have some search engines for laser cut files... :)

You are the best Very Good Very Nice

I have not seen such a missed "Ain't nobody got time for that" opportunity in a looooong time :D

I like to use GrabCAD and TraceParts to pull down models of components so I can make accurate mounts while designing parts to print. ;)

This is the kind of content I like. Useful to us. Other type of content like robots, fixes, challenges, are nice but this one is nice and useful. Even what to print this month is good.

Another good resource similar to traceparts is McMaster-Carr

Excellent share - Happy Thanksgiving from a Yank.

Onshape has a lot of public models that can be printed without any modifications. There I found many parts of the stock Creality CR6 SE hotend which were really useful for me and some parts for printing.

You mention that Yeggi shows results from CGTrader which may need a lot of tweaking to print. I doubt that that is the case, since CGTrader has a search option to only show items labeled as 3d printable which I imagine Yeggi would use.

Thanks for this! PrusaSlicer supports importing STEP files now, btw ;)

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah! Very handy

I actually had no idea about MyMiniFactory... already managed to find a lot of good models I'd love to use, both in part and as a whole.

I've been using Yeggi as my go-to 3D search engine for a while. Actually used it earlier today

Grabcad is great for sourcing .step files which are almost entirely missing on traditional 3D printing websites. I wish it would become new standard to share .step file along .stl or .3mf files.

@mil3k

Жыл бұрын

The step file is solid part model, in opposition to STL or 3mf which are surface files. Solid parts are heavier in size because they contain much more information which are used by CAD/CAM/CAE programs.

@jezward7227

Жыл бұрын

@@mil3k I think that's entirely the point. It's far easier to use a STEP file to modify in CAD than an STL. I'm lucky enough to have access to very expensive, high end CAD through my job but the rigmarole required to make an STL useable means I generally opt for remodelling from scratch. Having a STEP would be a massive time-saver.

@mil3k

Жыл бұрын

@@jezward7227 I see a lack of understanding different types and purposes of 3d models. STL was created to describe the surface of model and then transfer it to the printer. STEP was created to allow transfer solid based models between different CAD software. In other words STL for artists STEP for engineers. With modern technology both of these worlds interchange. For example car chassis, if you compare the shape of modern car with a car from 80s or 90s. They are rounder, more aerodynamic, spacious inside. All of that is possible due to surface modelling. But these surfaces were not possible to manufacture in the past except aerospace industry, and cost of tooling was humongous. With the raise of multiaxis CNC machines, rapid prototyping and 3d printing tooling for complicated surfaces can be manufactured for the fraction of old tools.

@jezward7227

Жыл бұрын

@@mil3k I completely understand the difference between the two file types and their intended uses. If all I ever wanted to do was print objects people had shared, then STL would be fine, but 90% of the time I want to make modifications and that's when a STEP would be more useful, for reasons you have described perfectly in both your posts. Your potted history of improvements in CAD/CAM technologies is interesting but tangential.

Hi, thanx for sharing this amazing video. I was wondering if there is a possibility if there is a website where you can drop the link of a model in the website and then download it.

Search isn’t my biggest issue. It’s a central library of prints I like/liked/want to look at later. Favorites or Collections, for example

Also 3DContenCentral is good CAD file source for mechanical parts and electronic components. They have 2.5 million users and supplier contributed models.

What would you recommend for resin 3d printers and what would happened if I used a pla print on a resin printer

I might watch this even if I had no interest in 3D printing, just for the sheer charisma of the guy

yeggi is goated

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

it's the OG haha

Hello can you please tell me where can I learn the post processing required to fix the 3d models into printable form?

great Video as always , loosing my mind to find a way to make these amazing GrapCad car models suitable for 3D printing , guess you could help xD

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

Could do a tutorial maybe!

@mnr3d

Жыл бұрын

@@MakersMuse thaaaank you !!!

No STL Finder? I’m surprised that’s what I use the most to go around thingiverses terrible search algorithm

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

Ah yeah! that one works great too.

So which one of the ones you listed would you say is the best/do you use the most?

@MakersMuse

Жыл бұрын

Usually yeggi unless it's mechanical design, then it's grabcad.

i would also add Mc Master-Carr for hardware modelos.

Thanks for these suggestions. very useful for a new guy like me. One of the things I'm most looking for is 3D modeled fastners (screws, bolts, etc...) that I can use in my models, then when I'm ready for assembly, I can just order them from the same place. Any ideas?

@SpatialGuy77

Жыл бұрын

McMaster Carr have every fastener on Earth as CAD Drawings and REAL Products so you can draw them and order them till the cows come home. Cheers, Mick 🇦🇺

@alaingrignon

Жыл бұрын

@@SpatialGuy77 thanks, I’ll check them out. Hope they ship to Canada! 🇨🇦

@SpatialGuy77

Жыл бұрын

@@alaingrignon Surely do Al. BTW, They have an App too, it's quite good. 👍

I think there might be room for a site specializing in mounting solutions and it could offer a description language and search based on shape and relative position of objects or surfaces being connected. Currently it is faster to iterate on your own mounting bracket design than find any inspiration for the type of objects you're trying to connect.

@jakegarrett8109

Жыл бұрын

You mean like McMaster Carr? They have a fastener and mounting search. If you mean something that tells YOU that you need a hook to hang your clothes on, well that just requires some level of intelligence to determine (also relative position is relative, that's almost in no calculations unless you're mounting to a structure and that's not really even position so much as it is mounting dimensions anyways).

@killymxi

Жыл бұрын

@@jakegarrett8109 A coat hanger is something that is easier to find with plain language search, compared to a purely geometric constraints like "a backet to hold two pipes perpendicularly" etc. I haven't seen McMaster Carr. I guess they figured they need to solve the same problem, but their product is different. Even if they have 3d models, adapting them for 3d printing will save me only a part of effort.

@jakegarrett8109

Жыл бұрын

@@killymxi Oh lol, for a second I thought you were referring to the 3d printed coat hangers (coat hangers in the US are a 10 year federal prison sentence, just it by itself is considered a machine pewpew), then I saw you were referring to the coat hook I mentioned. Caught me off-guard for a second, haha! They do sell all sorts of things like pipe mounting solutions (it may be under their janitorial solutions), but you can type things like M3 screw, or bearing (or thrust bearing, or conical bearing, or bushing), or springs and sort by length or diameter or spring constant, or coil gauge or material etc, and they do sell pipe brackets and hanger devices for holding the pipes from either a ceiling or wall. Its fairly plain text, but limit to keywords so you'd say "pipe bracket" (and really perpendicular might be assigning a solution further than the real requirement, because that requirement might be solved with 2 pipe mounts and you orient them how you want). Sounds like you just want to have an AI engineer your solutions, but I don't think AI is quite there yet (I play with AI some, its quite impressive sometimes, but its not going to do complete engineering solutions like that yet).

@killymxi

Жыл бұрын

@@jakegarrett8109 English is not my first language. I think we need a language that can become a base for 3d models classification and search. A significant portion of practical 3d printing projects are some kind of containers or mounting solutions. People solve the same abstract problems in different contexts, but at best they just use their problem domain to describe the model, so there is no way to retain what is common between their models. In somewhat different but related point of view, models are designed to match certain physical interfaces but we don't have a generic enough way to describe those so it could be used by a wide audience and in a variety of ways (including the search).

Cool

nice

What is thr use case of Thangs geometry search? Seems to me if I already have the geometry I don't need to search, lol.

McMaster-Carr is great place to find cad/step files for hardware and random materials. I've printed brackets, levers, bolts, nuts, extrusions that i've downloaded from there, for free.