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Attention over time

7-day rolling share of analyzed posts/comments mentioning this entity · 90 daily points ending 2026-09-01

Final complete day: 2026-09-01. Attention was 0.2% — this entity appeared in 28 of 17,943 analyzed posts/comments in the seven days ending that day (28 mentions).

Each point is a seven-day rolling window of complete UTC days; a point is comparable only when at least 100 analyzed posts or comments fall inside it. A day with no analyzed records counts as zero; missing coverage is marked and never shown as zero. The series ends at the latest complete analyzed day — it never extends into the current incomplete day. How attention is measured.

Recent mentions

1. 2026-09-01 18:09 UTCComment

   You can search on websites such as these in case any of them have what you need, although the chances are fairly low that they'll have the specific handle for the specific product you have: Printables Thingiverse Makerworld A public library might have a 3D printer, but there is pretty much no chance they'll have a model for this handle. You would have to provide the 3D model for the library to print it.

2. 2026-09-01 17:06 UTCComment

   Thingiverse is pretty good too.

3. 2026-09-01 15:22 UTCComment

   I can't stand makerworld. But thingiverse is kinda terrible, Printables search function has always sucked, and frankly I've never like Printables. Most of what I want to download is only on Makerworld or Odysee. And I feel like since Printables/makerworld launched, every manufacturer has their own file site now. So it's just everything everywhere.

4. 2026-09-01 03:57 UTCPost

   At what point is a design "AI"? - I'm working on a project that I want to post to Thingiverse and I'm a bit stuck on whether or not to mark it used by AI. It doesn't look like there is a partial-AI or assisted-AI option, just all-or-nothing. The file is an OpenScad script to generate model train hopper loads (e.g. coal car, gravel/rock, wood chips, etc). I used ChatGPT to help figure out how to take \[x,y,z\] lists of "humps" and populate them along the length of the rail-car with little piles of squares on a base surface. BUT... I personally designed all the formulas, loops, code, etc. that decides how many little squares, where the humps should be positioned, how tall they should be, how to place the humps to get various realistic appearance by hand. So...I'm slightly puzzled. I don't think its fair to say AI-generated when I spent weeks of time crafting the artistic qualities of how the distribution of the "stuff" is generated (about 2/3 of the code - 200 lines or so) but I also don't feel like it would be correct to entirely hide that a critical portion of it code for translating the hand-crafted arrays of data-points into mathematical model to render (the last 1/3 - 120 lines or so) was AI generated. What do people think? Example of the model output for 3D printing...

5. 2026-09-01 00:00 UTCComment

   I have printed hundreds of these and prefer the weightier ones as they feel better in the hand and are more "clicky" when they come together. 99% infill works really well for this. This guy has the best designs and I've been reliably printing his files since he used to post them on Thingiverse as YAFIC (Yet another fidget infinity cube).