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What are your go-to sites to find free 3D files to print?
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Thangs aggregates other sites, or so I’ve been told.
They originally showed items hosted anywhere and free first, but once people got used to it they changed all the defaults. If you go there now and search, you have to manually set the source or it only shows you results from thangs itself, and pushes paid models and memberships to the top.
I only use it as a last resort now, and it's typically pretty bad.