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Good STL/3D model archival software? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've collected quite a number of STL files for 3D printing, and realized I need some better way to catalogue them, because the default Windows explorer is starting to become burdensome. I'm looking for something that:

Shows a 3D preview I can rotate around to see the model
Allows me to sort into folders
Allows tagging with keywords for later searching
Snappy search

Maybe Windows already does this and I'm just not seeing it, but I feel like my collection is at the point where I need something dedicated, similar to a photo cataloguing tool (e.g. Google Photos) or a reference manager (e.g. Zotero/Mendeley).

Any good FOSS tool that does something like this? Or a generic "better file explorer"?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure if this van_dam might work for you. I found it randomly searching through my Unraid server's App store and it seems to be built around 3D printing files. As a note, I haven't worked with this one personally yet since I haven't had the time to get Postgres and Redis set up, but I have this pinned to come back to it. Could be worth a look!