QIDI Maker

QIDI Tech’s model community, at www.qidimaker.com, for its X-Plus, X-Max and Q printers. Most of its models come with print profiles, QIDI Studio projects made by their designers or by anyone else. Its models, their files and anyone’s public collections need nothing; your own collections and likes need your sign-in.

At a glance
Sign-in	None to import; your own sign-in for your collections and likes
Thingport Grab	Recommended — it sends your sign-in as you visit www.qidimaker.com
FlareSolverr	Not used
Imports	Models with their print profiles, with their category and licence; collections and your likes, synced too

How it works

Paste a model link (https://www.qidimaker.com/en/models/detail/<id>) in Thingport, or import it from the model page with Grab. A model is one print:

With print profiles, an import brings one of them: the one the link names with ?profile_id=<id> (the page writes it into its address as you pick one), else the designer’s first. The designer’s or all of them can be picked as for other sites’ print profiles; those left out can be added later. Where the designer made none, the first, someone else’s, stands in for theirs. Each comes in as a plate of its own, named after the model, with the profile’s print time, filament and plates beside it.
Without, it brings the model’s own files from the zip QIDI Maker makes of them. The site writes most of these zips without the index a zip reader needs — its own Download STL/CAD Files gives the same broken file — so Thingport puts the index back first. The files in it are named only by when they were uploaded, so they’re named after the model.

Everything is on QIDI Maker’s public file server, so nothing needs a sign-in. The site’s own Download first counts the download on your account; Thingport doesn’t, so a sync’s imports stay out of your download history there.

A collection’s link (https://www.qidimaker.com/en/collections/detail/<id>) imports or syncs it: anyone’s public one without a sign-in, a private one of yours with it. Your likes are https://www.qidimaker.com/en/my/collections/detail?type=1, which is whoever is signed in: import or sync it from there, or pick QIDI Maker likes in the sync dialog’s Browse tab, which lists your own collections, your Default Collection among them.

QIDI Maker answers a private collection, to anyone but its owner, as it answers one that was deleted. A sync of a collection it can’t read without your sign-in waits for you to connect it, rather than taking the collection for gone.

Its print profiles are QIDI Studio projects; other slicers open them as adapted 3MFs. Thingport Grab’s Download adapted, under a model’s Open in QIDI Studio once you allow Grab there, saves a copy of the picked profile made for yours, without your sign-in.

Per-user (Configuration → Providers → QIDI Maker), only for your own collections and likes. Opening www.qidimaker.com signed in, with Grab allowed there, connects it, and it sends a new one whenever you sign in there again. The sign-in is the site’s token cookie, which lasts 90 days. By hand:

Sign in at www.qidimaker.com.
Open DevTools (F12, or Cmd+Option+I on macOS).
Chrome/Edge: Application tab > Cookies > https://www.qidimaker.com. Firefox: Storage tab > Cookies.
Copy the value of the token cookie: 32 letters and digits.
```
0f1e2d3c4b5a69788796a5b4c3d2e1f0
```
Right-click QIDI Maker in Configuration → Providers, choose Connect and paste it.

The whole Cookie header of a signed-in www.qidimaker.com request works too, and so does the cookie’s row copied from the developer tools’ cookie table.

Compare with other providers

Provider	Sign-in	Thingport Grab	FlareSolverr	Collections	Likes	Sync	Print profiles
QIDI MakerThis page	Yours, for your collections and likes	Recommended	Not needed	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
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
3DExport	Yours, for the files	Recommended	Not needed	Bookmark collections	No	Yes	No
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 QIDI Maker in Thingport, on GitHub.

No known problems with QIDI Maker.

Report a problem with QIDI Maker

Notes from users

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