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This looks like it's come a long way from the demo a few months ago with the visual diffs of objects. Good job on getting this far! I might have to bring in a few of my projects just to play with it.

Thanks! I've found it useful so far, for my own printable projects. Defn play around with it, and let me know what you think. Any feedback is helpful, both good or bad. Always looking to make it more useful and friendlier to use. wil@cubehero.com

Interesting, I wonder how this compares to what Ezra's working on.

He mentioned a git-based community site for 3D models that incorporated visual diffs at RailsConf 2012: http://confreaks.com/videos/911-railsconf2012-what-a-long-st...

At which point in the talk does he mention it? I did talk to him on the phone a while back. So unless he met others doing the same thing, or he's doing the same thing, I guess he was talking about Cubehero.

It's about 38 minutes into the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alko6wQo8mk#t=38m

Ahh, I guess he's working on his own version of git-based hosting with visual diff

For an interresting approach to 3d model diffing, please check this site - http://3drepo.org/ (not affiliated with it, but found it while doing some research on my own)

Cool, I hadn't heard of these guys, but I'll defn check it out and read the papers.

I am going to host my projects here instead of Thingiverse.

Sweet. I'll get those features you asked for soon!

Someone should also come up with 3d printable objects marketplace service too..with payment option etc built in

Hrm, I can see where the confusion is. Actually, on the sidebar of each project, you can see that the projects are creative commons.

The "All right reserved" is for Cubehero itself, not the projects hosted on it. I actually took the lead from Github, as they also have "all rights reserved" at the bottom of their website as well, even though they don't lay claim to the projects hosted on their site (AFAIK).

It wouldn't make sense for me to own what you upload. I want to provide something useful to people, not to Own All The Things.

What would make it more clear when you're looking at the project? Bigger license badge?

Well, I looked and I didn't see anything at all about license. Do you only see the badge for already uploaded projects? Why would I look at existing projects for licensing terms?

It seems like anything like this should try to educate users about appropriate open-source licenses, and make license selection a highly-visible step in the upload process. It would be a shame if a community like this were plagued by the kinds of issues that eg. game mod communities suffer from due to unclear licensing status.

And they definitely need to make a clear statement about what rights the site gets and what rights the uploader retains.

"And they definitely need to make a clear statement about what rights the site gets and what rights the uploader retains."

Hi there, where would you like to read about this information? Perhaps a "About Licensing" page in the foot? Or simply bigger license badge on the sidebar of each project?

I think I'd like to see a Terms of Service link. GitHub's does a pretty good job of clearly explaining the situation.

Also, I don't think using or encouraging the use of a CC-Noncommercial license is a good idea, since it would prevent you or anyone else from offering 3d printing as a paid service to those who can't afford their own 3d printer.

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