ErikDeBruijn

@ designs: yup, an empty bar is... well... empty. More fun to have cool stuff in there. I mostly uploaded stuff I already had made before. But I should do some new projects again. Good idea on the link opening in a new tab... I've changed that right away. Most bbcode will be cached, so the following is to do a proper check: [ymuser=daid] That's daid's sig. Daid made the image generator, so props to him

New forum functionality! You can now also display a YouMagine design by adding this bbCode: [YouMagineDesign=94] Result: [YouMagineDesign=69] The ID of a design can be found under the 'embed' tab on a design page at YouMagine. You can also use the name of the design from the URL. e.g. for the iphone-wall-mount ( url ), you can use this bbcode: [YouMagineDesign=iphone-wall-mount] Result: [YouMagineDesign=iphone-wall-mount]

If I post it like this, it does work. But there should be no formatting. Try "remove formatting" or use the code view instead of wysiwyg. [youmagineuser=jonnybischof]

[YouMagineUser=erik] You can now add the above signature by using a simple BBCode: [YouMagineUser=erik] Replace "erik" with your YouMagine username, but all in lowercase.

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@JonnyBischof: I can imagine that it's confusing to you. That's because it's confusing The intention was to call that "credit label". The download PDF is in there because we wanted to make it easy to credit designers by printing a label. The label is made with a PDF generator, but none of this really matters to the average user. The intention was to give this a different place in the UI, but this hasn't happened, but we also didn't want to leave out this feature. We need a little icon, perhaps when you hover over the license, to make it clear that it's about honoring the wishes of the creator concerning her/his intellectual property. Also: David made a cool image script to show your design, I put it on the UM servers and it will remain available at that address. You can use the IMG url just by looking at my example below. It can be used on websites or here, as a signature.

@mastory: Good point. Thingiverse has always lacked a proper/search function, even though it's so important. Support for tags is present in YouMagine already, but currently they're not displayed and not yet a part of the search functionality.

The 3D Design tool has the working name "UltiShaper". @CornGolem Indeed it's ambitious. It's aimed more at those who aren't already fluent in a CAD package or who work with OpenSCAD, but don't like its usability (e.g. you don't know what primitive in the preview belongs to the line of code where your cursor is). Seeing what you've selected is easy in the UltiShaper. The name YouMagine indeed winks at YouTube, but the references to the words "You" and "Imagine" are the ones that I really love. I think a 2.0 name is appropriate for what is essentially a website that isn't just about consumption of content, but more about reading and writing, consumption and creation. The design tool could have an offline variant that you could install into Chrome as a Chrome App, for example, and that would be able to sync when you're online again. Shouldn't be really hard, since the CSG calculations are done on the client side. @Valcrow: Thanks for your elaborate reply on collaboration! They're good inspiration and it's good to hear that I'm not the only one thinking along these lines. About the native formats: this remains possible, you can always upload those as well. Even though not everyone will have easy access to the same software, there's a big user base for those existing CAD packages, so we don't want to restrict those formats. @Alex: The idea of a freelance site is cool, but I think this could be part of it. Actually, 3DHubs in the Netherlands is a really cool company that will help you get something 3D printed close to you, even if you don't own a 3D printer! Great example of local production.

Thanks for the feedback, Jonny, Alex and Sander! @JonnyBischof: You're right. Rewriting Solidworks would be silly (and a lot of work).That is not the goal. It takes a lot of time to create all of the functionality, and probably won't run very well in the browser yet. Instead, I want to make use of the fact that you design with a repository of parts made by a community, meant to be incorporated into projects. Also, sharing should really be effortless as saving. In addition, if you compare it to Sketchup, SketchUp isn't based on real solids but is geared towards making models that are visually nice, but they're just a respresentation of surfaces. If there's a hole in a part of the surface, or if there's an inverted face, this will cause problems. @Alex Marakesch: I think some online tools are more focused on sculpting and others on technical because that's easier. Combining those features is not easy, but it can be done. It's not the plan to do something that already exists, better to interface to that tool with YouMagine than to write another one. The plan is to do something that is much easier than OpenSCAD, but just as powerful. Which online editor do you like, and for what reason? What are you interested in making?

Why YouMagine? We're working very hard to create YouMagine for you. This is just the beginning. We believe YouMagine will be the "Ultimate" place to share. By "Ultimate", we don't mean that only Ultimaker users are welcome (you guys are special ), every fellow maker with a passion for making things is welcome! What we mean by "ultimate", is that it will be great because of your involvement and your voice. With YouMagine, we want to accellerate progress in the maker community and inspire people to become makers! Our intention is to create a place that is about sharing, collaboration, creation (rather than just "download and print") and, finally, a place to inspire each other. But what this sharing, collaboration and creation, etc. should look like, depends on your input and ideas! We believe YouMagine should be about You. Together, we can imagine and contribute to something special instead of us launching "yet another Thingiverse clone". Key to this is that YouMagine is made for you, and you have a say in what YouMagine will be like. Inspire with ideas In addition to core functionality such as sharing printable files, we're thinking of functionality such as a place for ideas (or a design challenge you thought of). When an idea or challenge is posted, people can propose solutions and possibly pitch in skills, resources and/or funding) An open commons Also, instead of just printable files, we'd like to enable a commons of building blocks to emerge. That commons should be in native source files and and in an open format, not STL, which is like a binary file. You can't really build on STL files. This is limiting to collaboration and more sophisticated projects! Easy, online creation and editing For this we're interested in adding a really cool online editor (more about this later). To tease you a bit: Think of OpenSCAD, but 'drag and drop', much more graphical, it works online and it's still parametric. And sharing a design is as easy as pressing 'save'. You won't just share the STL, but also the whole structure of your project, allowing someone to press "Edit a copy" of any design. If you make them a collaborator (future option, not implemented yet), they can help provide pictures, design files and improve instructions, the Bill of Materials, etc. Other creation tools can use the YouMagine API (built already!). Collaboration Allowing design entries to have multiple collaborators (and one owner), would be really cool, because it might enable more sophisticated design by a team. Right now we're thinking in the direction of how Google Docs have one owner and multiple collaborators. Anyway, if you're reading this, please provide comments. Also, please sign up at YouMagine and give things a try, and let us know what the "Ultimate" sharing resource should be like to help make the world a better place for every maker! We'd love to learn about your ideas on: [*]sharing ideas in addition to files [*]ability for anyone to create challenges [*]online editing and sharing of source formats [*]design entries with multiple collaborators [*]how to best accommodate makers [*]what could make YouMagine the Ultimate place to share -- On behalf of the entire The Ultimaker Team, Erik de Bruijn