VoxelShare

Flashforge’s model community, at www.voxelshare.com, for its Adventurer and Creator printers, and at www.voxelshare.cn in China. Many of its models come with print profiles for those printers, made in Flash Studio, Flashforge’s own slicer. 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.voxelshare.com or www.voxelshare.cn
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.voxelshare.com/en/models/<id>-<name>) 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 designer’s first, or with Grab, the one picked on the page. The page keeps its pick to itself rather than in its address, so a link names one only as Thingport writes it, with #profileId-<id>. The designer’s or all of them can be picked as for other sites’ print profiles; those left out can be added later. 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, in the folders the designer put them in. Many are kept zipped one by one, which Thingport unpacks.

Every file is a signed link on VoxelShare’s image server, so nothing needs a sign-in. The site’s own Download then reports the download to count it on your account; Thingport doesn’t, so a sync’s imports stay out of your download history there.

Many of VoxelShare’s models are copies of models first published on other sites, such as MakerWorld, Printables or NexPrint. Where it says so, the imported model’s description ends with where that was, linked.

A collection’s link (https://www.voxelshare.com/en/collection/<id>-<name>) imports or syncs it: anyone’s public one without a sign-in, a private one of yours with it. Your likes are https://www.voxelshare.com/en/print_list?recordTab=like, which is whoever is signed in: import or sync it from there, or pick VoxelShare likes in the sync dialog’s Browse tab, which lists your own collections, your My Collection among them.

A sync of a private collection waits for your sign-in rather than reading it without, as VoxelShare may show its details to anyone but not all of its models.

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

Its China site

www.voxelshare.cn works the same, from its own links: a model, a collection or your likes there import and sync from it. It has uploads, a trending list and accounts of its own, so:

Thingport keeps what it reads from there apart from the main site’s, so its links go back to www.voxelshare.cn. A model imported from both sites is two models.
Your likes there are a list of their own, VoxelShare China likes, and the Browse tab lists each signed-in site’s lists.
Its sign-in is one of its own: connect it as below, with China picked at the top of the form, or open www.voxelshare.cn signed in with Grab. Either site’s sign-in connects the VoxelShare tile, and its menu offers the other.
The dashboard’s trending card shows its trending list to someone signed in there and not on the main site.

Per-user (Configuration → Providers → VoxelShare), only for your own collections and likes. Opening www.voxelshare.com signed in, with Grab allowed there, connects it, and it sends a new one whenever the site renews it. The sign-in is the site’s token cookie, which lasts 31 days. By hand:

Sign in at www.voxelshare.com.
Open DevTools (F12, or Cmd+Option+I on macOS).
Chrome/Edge: Application tab > Cookies > https://www.voxelshare.com. Firefox: Storage tab > Cookies.
Copy the value of the token cookie: a long value in three parts separated by dots, starting eyJ.
```
eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxIn0.c2lnbmF0dXJl
```
Right-click VoxelShare in Configuration → Providers, choose Connect and paste it. For the China site, copy it from https://www.voxelshare.cn instead and pick China at the top of the form.

The whole Cookie header of a signed-in www.voxelshare.com request works too, as does the Authorization header of one of its API requests, or the cookie’s row copied from the developer tools’ cookie table. Thingport never uses the refresh_token beside it.

Compare with other providers

Provider	Sign-in	Thingport Grab	FlareSolverr	Collections	Likes	Sync	Print profiles
VoxelShareThis 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
QIDI Maker	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 VoxelShare in Thingport, on GitHub.

No known problems with VoxelShare.

Report a problem with VoxelShare

Notes from users

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