3DExport

One of the oldest 3D model marketplaces, at 3dexport.com, open since 2004: game and film assets, textures and a large 3D printing catalogue, sold by their designers and some given away free. Its models, its listings and anyone’s public collections are anyone’s to read; their files go only to a signed-in user, and a paid model’s only once it’s theirs.

At a glance
Sign-in	Your own 3DExport sign-in, per user, for the files and your own collections
Thingport Grab	Recommended — it sends your sign-in as you visit 3dexport.com, and marks the paid models you haven’t bought
FlareSolverr	Not used
Imports	Free models and the ones you bought; your own collections and anyone’s public ones, synced too; 3D print categories mapped from its own

How it works

3DExport has no API of its own, so Thingport reads its pages, as it does for Toymakr3D.

Models. Paste a model link (https://3dexport.com/3d-model-<name>-<number>, in any of its languages) in Thingport, or import it from the model page with Grab. Only the number counts: the site sends any other name to the model’s own.
Formats. 3DExport packs each of a model’s formats into a zip of its own, and a CG model often comes in a dozen, scenes and textures among them. Thingport downloads the ones a slicer or LightBurn opens — STL, 3MF, STEP (.step or .stp) and LightBurn projects (.lbrn, .lbrn2) — first. Its OBJ or GLB, and any download whose format the page doesn’t say, come only when those brought no model file: when none is offered, or their zips held none. A model with none of them has nothing to import.
Free models. Signed in, a free model’s page lists each format’s download, which is what Thingport fetches. No cart or checkout is involved.
Paid models. Buy them on 3DExport first; once a model is yours, Thingport imports it, and never buys anything. Grab marks a paid model you haven’t bought on its page. A bought model’s download hasn’t been tried against a real purchase yet: it’s expected to show the same downloads a free one does.
Collections. 3DExport keeps bookmarks as collections. Your Default Collection, always private, is at https://3dexport.com/mybookmarks/default. Any other collection, yours or anyone’s, is at https://3dexport.com/bookmarks/3d-collection-<number>: a public one, as its Bookmarks page lists them, needs no sign-in, and a private one shows only to its owner, so Thingport reads it with your sign-in. Import one, or sync it so new models come in as they’re added. A sync takes paid models in too, as the pages don’t say which you bought: one you haven’t bought is refused and counts as failed, and later checks don’t try it again. Once you’ve bought it, Retry it under Needs attention in the import queue.
Browse tab. With your sign-in, the sync dialog lists your own collections.
Categories. A 3D print model’s category is the path its breadcrumb names (characters/animals), mapped to Thingport’s own. A CG model’s comes from 3DExport’s other catalogue, which isn’t mapped, so its category is left to you or the AI suggestion.
Licences. A free model is under 3DExport’s Royalty Free licence: use it in your own work, commercial too, but never pass the files on. A bought one is under its Basic licence, the one it’s sold with: the model’s page doesn’t say if you paid for the Extended one. Either may carry its author’s “No AI Training”.
Trending. The dashboard’s panel shows its best-selling 3D print models.

Per-user (Configuration → Providers → 3DExport). 3DExport keeps you signed in with two cookies, nm_userid and nm_hash, which last ten years. Signing out of 3dexport.com, in any browser, ends them and Thingport’s copy with them; sign in again with Grab, or paste the new ones.

Easiest: Thingport Grab

With Thingport Grab allowed on 3DExport, opening 3dexport.com while you’re signed in connects your account, and sends your sign-in on whenever it changes there.

Manual: copy it from your browser

Sign in at 3dexport.com.
Open DevTools (F12, or Cmd+Option+I on macOS).
Go to the Network tab, reload the page and click any request to 3dexport.com.
Copy its Cookie request header, which holds nm_userid and nm_hash.
Right-click 3DExport in Configuration → Providers, choose Connect and paste it.

Compare with other providers

Provider	Sign-in	Thingport Grab	FlareSolverr	Collections	Likes	Sync	Print profiles
3DExportThis page	Yours, for the files	Recommended	Not needed	Bookmark collections	No	Yes	No
MakerWorld	Your cookie	Recommended	Optional	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Printables	None	Optional¹	Recommended	Yes	Yes¹	Yes	No
Thingiverse	Admin’s App Token	Optional	Recommended	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
MyMiniFactory	Admin’s API key, yours for paid	Optional	Recommended	Yes	No	Yes	No
Snapmaker Space	Yours, for a day	Recommended²	Not needed	Bookmarks	Yes	Yes	Yes
MakerOnline	Yours, for likes only	Required	Not needed	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Creality Cloud	Yours, for a week	Recommended	Not needed	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
NexPrint	Yours	Recommended	Not needed	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Thangs	Yours, renewed for a year	Recommended	Optional	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Cults3D	Your API key + browser sign-in	Recommended³	Not needed	Printlists	Yes	Yes	No
eufyMake	Yours, for likes only	Recommended	Not needed	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pinshape	Yours, for the files	Recommended	Not needed	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
OwlCAD	None	Recommended⁴	Not needed	No	No	No	No
Toymakr3D	Yours, for the files	Recommended	Not needed	No	Yes⁵	Yes	No
Makerables	Yours, for saved projects only	Recommended	Not needed	Saved	No	Yes	No
CGTrader	Yours, for the files	Recommended⁶	Recommended	Wishlist	Yes⁶	Yes	No
GrabCAD	Yours, for the files	Recommended	Not needed	No	Yes	Yes	No
Meshy	Yours; Pro for community models	Recommended	Not needed	Yes	No	Yes	No
PIXUP	Yours, for the files	Recommended	Not needed	Collections, wishlists	Yes	Yes	No
Fab365	Yours, for the files	Recommended	Not needed	No	Yes⁷	Yes	No
QIDI Maker	Yours, for your collections and likes	Recommended	Not needed	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
VoxelShare	Yours, for your collections and likes	Recommended	Not needed	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Your private Printables collections and your likes are read by Grab, while you’re on Printables.
Snapmaker’s sign-in lasts a day and only Grab renews it; without Grab you paste a new one every day.
Cults3D’s files need your browser’s Cloudflare clearance, and Thingport on the same IP address as that browser.
A gallery item that is a CAD project, rather than a library part, has no stored mesh: OwlCAD’s editor builds its file, so Thingport Grab exports it on owlcad.com.
Toymakr3D hands a model’s files to signed-in users only, the free ones included, and shows your likes to you alone.
CGTrader shows your likes and wishlist to you alone, and its downloads sit behind AWS’s bot check, which Thingport passes with Grab’s token from your browser or FlareSolverr’s own.
Fab365 hands a model’s files to signed-in members only, the free ones included, and shows your favourites to you alone.

Known problems

Open bug reports about 3DExport in Thingport, on GitHub.

No known problems with 3DExport.

Report a problem with 3DExport

Notes from users

Tips, workarounds and news about 3DExport from people who use it. Something broken in Thingport? See Known problems.