Reply To: Printing one of the Titan Forge Patreon minis with supports already done!

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Titan Forge and Artisan Guild both offer pre-supported files by Youtube’s 3dprintingpro Greg (I forget his surname). They’re very good. But they are not infallible. Pre-supported files mean you can’t scale models or re-orient them (if, for example, you know you have a “bad spot” on your FEP, or if your printer happens to produce layer lines if oriented in a specific direction).

Lots of people find pre-supported files very good. Lots of Patreon creators are now collaborating with others to create pre-supported files. Sharing files (even between “confirmed legitimate” users) is a big no-no. Proving legitimacy would be difficult – recinding access (to shared files) when a user stops supporting a Patreon creator could become problematic.

I get your point, and many other people do, which is why pre-supported files are proving to be very popular. Personally, I like to hack at my models in Blender before printing, and rescale everything up to 32mm (it just makes painting easier!) and with pre-supported versions it would be impossible to do this. Some people are scaling down (to match existing shop-bought minis).

It’s a perfectly understandable question – why don’t users who have done the work supporting files share them? But version control, and user access control, validating the legitimacy of users etc, plus denying the original creators their “premium” upper tier for supply pre-supported models – it sounds like a headache to me!