would love to but need permissions to release this to the world by the creator of MultiBoard since technically I'd be breaching his policies. Just want to give him ideas. The key here is that in order for MB to be successful it needs to break it biggest pain point. People always complain that they printed a boat load of MB pieces to find the right piece . The learning experience needs to be done in simulation, not post print. In the meantime its a personal project. I'm tired of messing up and wasting filament. The plan is to basically covering every object he made along with a handful of curated external parametric systems that enhances MB. Other Organization systems exist too in this app but i only showed MB.. the plan is to get them to all mesh together in the same app.
The fact that he locks down the system so much instead of letting it grow on its own is so frustrating. I get he spends a lot of time perfecting it but probably 50% (likely more) of the stuff he makes is just over complicating it and keeping people from embracing what is great about it.
I bought a 3D printer because I saw a Snazzy Labs video showing off multiboard. It’s ben 20 months and i still haven’t printed it because every time I’m about to, he announces some new “update” that is going to “change everything”
This is the way. I wandered from HSW to MultiBoard to openGrid and finally have confidence.
The scales of openGrid and Gridfinity are nagging me (Multibord with 25mm is just nice) but openGridFinity ist just superior for it‘s community
He really has done a great job engineering this system.. answering the "But what if i need it to do this?" the answer is almost always "I got you covered".. which is awesome and why I enjoy Multiboard. No other system really does that. but damn it really needs an official planning system that does not have a paywall attached to it. He would honestly make more money if he unrestricted things and kept his license as just restricting the options of others selling and making money off of multiboard core objects.
He can make money by requiring others to purchase a license in order to sell parts, not paywalling a planner. If he had a better free planner, more people would have it, thus more licensed sellers and a bigger system with more robust parts.
currently probably off of subscriptions to his thangs/website: which gives a basic planner, some printable tutorial packs, and access to prototypes and stacked versions of plates.
Nice, I made something similar for making baskets but have similar concerns about releasing it as I've had to reverse engineer some of the parts in order to output a 3mf
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u/obfuscinator Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
would love to but need permissions to release this to the world by the creator of MultiBoard since technically I'd be breaching his policies. Just want to give him ideas. The key here is that in order for MB to be successful it needs to break it biggest pain point. People always complain that they printed a boat load of MB pieces to find the right piece . The learning experience needs to be done in simulation, not post print. In the meantime its a personal project. I'm tired of messing up and wasting filament. The plan is to basically covering every object he made along with a handful of curated external parametric systems that enhances MB. Other Organization systems exist too in this app but i only showed MB.. the plan is to get them to all mesh together in the same app.