audiodan

I publish on MakerWorld and got tired of guessing which models would get downloads, likes, and Boosts.

So I pulled public listing data. This edition covers 308,711 listings out of about 2.44 million discovered. I’m still going, and I'm crunching about 100k more listings a day.

A few of the clearer ones:

1. Attention is extremely concentrated. The top 1% of stored listings (3,088 of 308,711) account for about 42% of all downloads. The bottom half accounts for about 3%. So, you need to stand out!

2. This one is probably obvious, but a print profile is the most boring finding and maybe the most useful: listings with at least one profile tend to get about 5.1× as many likes per day as simi

I’m currently using a Bambu X2D with AMS and I’m seriously considering switching to a Snapmaker U1. I really like the four-toolhead approach and the advantages of not having to purge filament for multi-colour/material prints.

My main hesitation is filament storage and humidity.

With the AMS, I can leave my active rolls loaded in a relatively dry environment and just print from them whenever I want. I’d ideally like to do the same with the U1 rather than constantly moving filament in and out of dryers or dry boxes.

For U1 owners, how are you handling this?

• Are you feeding directly from a SUNLU S4, SpacePi, PolyDryer/SnapDryer, etc.?
• Do you run PTFE tubes directly from the dryer to the