Its official: 3DW is full of junk??
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Lets put it this way:
Compared to the general quality of the work available for free in the old atLast SU forum, a very large proportion of the stuff on the 3DW is junk and difficult to wade through. Sort of like wading through s___ up to your waist and rising...
The old forum had tons of really good useful work, and not much crap. No one posted mountains of fasteners or other poorly converted Autocad symbols and called it good...
Free doesn't need to mean poorly organized, difficult to search or poor quality. Its great the SU is free and it provides a great place to share your creations, but it would be nice if someone was chasing around trying to properly categorize some of the dross.
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@kmead said:
...The old forum had tons of really good useful work, and not much crap. No one posted mountains of fasteners or other poorly converted Autocad symbols and called it good...
You mean the old pro forums before the switch to groups shudders? i know what you mean, heck, the only reason why i post there was to make some announcements and such.
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If you would like to voice your opinion via on online survey, the 3D Warehouse has a User Happiness survey linked from the front page.: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/
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I personally think that the 3DW site is exactly what Google wants it to be. And yes - there is a higher percentage of junk there, as would be expected for a free software. While there are some nice collections, including those from manufacturers - it is not a professional site. I don't fault any users for the quality of what they post. I think it is great that they feel good about modeling something and sharing it, but I don't expect much from the masses that post there.
Take it for what it has become, and if you find something usefull in the time you search - good for you.
The couple of things I would like to see improved are:
1- No files should be posted without an adequate thumbnail (please - no more "ants in a blizzard" views)
2- 71,000 files name "Untitled" and counting (what - you don't like your work enough to name the file?)
3- A way for persons to filter what they see. For example, I would love to be able to block my searches from seeing content by any modeler I identify and add to an "exclude" list.Bytor
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#3 would be very cool except that folks wantingto shove the stuff you or me might find distasteful would create numerous user names to post under and we'd still see their stuff.
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Hey, what is going on with the 3Dwarehouse last weeks?
When entering search strings I seem to get a lot of those low poly Google Earth models of buildings all around.And for some strange reason they all get 5 star ratings so they always pop up.
Who would rate these buildings 5 stars and who actually can use these models in their own scenes? Does google rate those themselves? -
sk.lion - What name do you share your models under on the 3DW?
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true, all my models are in the warehouse and if i heard someone commenting something i gonna get them all down from there because i ve made big investments in them!!!!!!!!
I don t say that there aren t people malintentioned,but those can be removed and i expect from your team scott to take care of them when we ll send to you the reports.Anyway thx for this place!I met here lot of guys wich are mine friends now...Cheers!
and...
Happy sketching!elisei
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for example is a guy now in the warehouse who want to play with lot of us his nickname is lee take it down pls
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@ely862me said:
for example is a guy now in the warehouse who want to play with lot of us his nickname is lee take it down pls
I don't understand what you're trying to say here, please clarify.
Also, SCF has no control over 3D Warehouse content control.
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@ely862me said:
for example is a guy now in the warehouse who want to play with lot of us his nickname is lee take it down pls
You have the ability to report a policy violation directly from the 3D Warehouse. Just look for the "report a policy violation" link when looking at someone's work, and it will be reviewed.
I looked up people with the title "lee" and only found that he has a model saying that someone is using his work.. ??
Please clarify and I'll see if I can help.
Cheers,
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The warehouse does have a lot of junk, but it also has a lot of great stuff. You just have to wade through the trash to get to quality. I think many people have stopped using it because they don't want to associate themselves with the trash. That keeps the average level of quality down.
I put a lot of my stuff up and I hope it is useful to someone somewhere, but I seldom get any feedback.
There's another whole dynamic which I found out about. People (kids) are using the 3DW as a social networking site. Communicating by posting ratings and reviews of models and posting models which are just messages.
As it is, it adds very little value to SU, but if Google policed it properly, it would be a big selling point for SU. It would take a lot of effort though. I'd think Google could write some kind of a 'bot which would do it. I thought Google could do anything.
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@schreiberbike said:
The warehouse does have a lot of junk, but it also has a lot of great stuff. You just have to wade through the trash to get to quality.
So it is not very different from the Internet in general... Or a typical used books store.
Anssi -
Personally I still think 3D warehouse is a cool place to look for models (besides the GE stuff).
For instance, I recently found this 3D horse over there, which I think is not a bad model:
....Which leads me to following idea:
Shouldn't we have a thread with 'bien-trouvés' of 3D warehouse? It could be a thread in the component section...
People could post models they found on the 3D warehouse and which were really useful to them.
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Without control there is no quality. I take all my stuff from Form Fonts. When I couldnt find for what I was looking for there I went to Warehouse . My experience was that it took me more time searching and cleaning the model for use than if I had made it myself.
But I agree with kwistenbiebel, I found some good horses over there. -
I guess Formfonts is a good place as well but I always try to find something for free off course before jumping to the comercial ones
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It's unofficial: most of the people complaining about 3DW being full of junk don't share their models there.
And there's the main problem.
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Just because soem people dont upload their models it doesnt negate the fact that their is a lot of rubbish.
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@johnsenior1973 said:
It's unofficial: most of the people complaining about 3DW being full of junk don't share their models there.
And there's the main problem.
Well, kwistenbviebel shared a couple of nice stuff there for sure!
True that I mainly keep things there with which I only helped people out (but also, lately I have only been making help models and tuts - now just realizing that I hardly use SU for realmodeling)
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Unfortunately, most of the work I do can't be shared until its in production. My employer is starting to upload our collections of models though so you can see much of my (and others) work.
In June I can likely upload some of my latest products after their Neocon introduction.
In the past I did put stuff on the old forum but have never done so with the warehouse.
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