Meshy

An AI 3D model generator at meshy.ai: it turns a prompt or a picture into a textured model, and its community shares the results as posts — hundreds of thousands of them, the ones fit to print marked so. Posts and collections are anyone’s to read, but Meshy hands a model’s files only to a signed-in account, converted for it and counted against its downloads.

At a glance
Sign-in	Your own Meshy sign-in, for every download. Community models also need a Meshy Pro or Studio plan
Thingport Grab	Recommended — it sends your sign-in as you visit meshy.ai
FlareSolverr	Not used
Imports	Community posts; your own generations; collections and your generations, synced too

How it works

Meshy is a site over an API of its own, which Thingport reads the way its own pages do.

Posts. Paste a post link (https://www.meshy.ai/posts/<name>-<id>, or the older .../3d-models/<name>-<id>) in Thingport, or import it from the post’s page with Grab. The post brings its title, description, tags, creator, categories and every picture in it — the photos of prints people post beside a model too. A post without a title is named after the prompt its model was generated from.
Which files. The model you see on a post’s page isn’t a file you can download: the viewer streams an encrypted format of Meshy’s own. A download is Meshy converting the model for your account, which is what its Download button does, and Thingport asks for the same conversion. It takes the 3MF, which Meshy makes print-ready: 75 mm tall, standing on the plate. Scale it in your slicer as you like. A post with several models brings each as its own plate.
Plans and limits. Each download counts against your Meshy account’s own, as one from the site would. Meshy keeps other people’s community models for its Pro and Studio plans: on a free plan an import of one stops and says so, and Thingport Grab shows Needs Meshy Pro on such a post instead of an import button. A post of your own imports as your generation, which a free plan downloads, except the models Meshy’s AI agent made: Meshy keeps those for paid plans, and Grab shows Needs a paid Meshy plan on them. When you import a collection or your generations, the models your plan can’t download come unticked, with the reason, both in Thingport’s import dialog and in Grab’s panel. Once a month’s downloads are used up, an import stops with that, and a synced list picks up where it left off on a later check.
Your generations. The models you generate are in your workspace. Open one (https://www.meshy.ai/workspace?task=<id>) and import it like a post, or sync the whole workspace from the Browse tab, and what you generate next comes in on the next check. It’s named after the model and carries the prompt it was made from. The examples Meshy puts in every new workspace are its own models, so a sync leaves them out; a link to one still imports. The workspace has no address of its own on the site, so Thingport keeps it as .../workspace?user=<your Meshy id>.
Collections. A collection’s link (https://www.meshy.ai/collections/<id>) imports its posts, or syncs them so new ones follow. Likes are counted but never listed anywhere, so Thingport can’t read them.
Categories. A post says which of Meshy’s categories it’s in, and Thingport maps those onto your own.
Browse tab. With your sign-in, the sync dialog lists your generations and the collections you made.
Trending. The dashboard’s trending panel shows the most popular posts marked printable.

Per-user (Configuration → Providers → Meshy). Meshy signs you in with Supabase, which keeps the session — a 15-minute access token and the refresh token that renews it — in an sb-auth-auth-token cookie, split across sb-auth-auth-token.0, .1, … once it outgrows one. Thingport keeps both and renews the access token itself as it runs out, as the site’s pages do, while your browser renews its own. Each renewal spends the refresh token it used, and the two start from the same one; in testing Meshy let both carry on renewing without signing either out. Should it ever end the sign-in for both, sign in to meshy.ai again: Grab connects Thingport with the new sign-in on that visit. Thingport sends your browser’s device id along too, so Meshy counts it as the browser it came from rather than a new device.

Easiest: Thingport Grab

With Thingport Grab allowed on Meshy, opening meshy.ai 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 meshy.ai.
Open DevTools (F12, or Cmd+Option+I on macOS) and go to the Network tab.
Reload the page, click any request to www.meshy.ai and find its Cookie request header.
Copy the whole header value.
Right-click Meshy in Configuration → Providers, choose Connect and paste it.

Compare with other providers

Provider	Sign-in	Thingport Grab	FlareSolverr	Collections	Likes	Sync	Print profiles
MeshyThis page	Yours; Pro for community models	Recommended	Not needed	Yes	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
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
3DExport	Yours, for the files	Recommended	Not needed	Bookmark collections	No	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 Meshy in Thingport, on GitHub.

No known problems with Meshy.

Report a problem with Meshy

Notes from users

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