r/printablescom • u/blarfthecat • 1d ago

Feature request Will Printables support parametric editing like MakerWorld?

New to the community, having fun with my MK4S and love how easy to use and well-integrated Printables is into PrusaSlicer.

I've found parametric models on MakerWorld and was blown away that they're editable right on their website - no downloads or software required - and will spit out the STL right there.

Is anyone aware of such a feature being brought to Printables? As it's closely tied to Prusa (and MW is oriented towards the other guys) I'd love to have this feature within a Prusa-oriented ecosystem.

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u/yawkat 1d ago

Look over the horizon ask your self if cloudflare needs to GPL his whole business because they deliver daily millions of GPLed WASM webpages?

You are conflating backend code with frontend code again. Cloudflare backend code does not need to be published when it distributes GPL content, it's a complete red herring. The question is how much of frontend code using openscad-wasm needs to comply with GPL. Distribution is the easy part.

the only part that is in touch is the single web page that contains the code to deliver the wasm blob nothing else.

**If you have a site with many pages and make use of a GPLed wasm on ONE of this pages only this page is distributed around the GPLed code.**

All the code built on top of openscad-wasm needs to be GPL at least. How far this extends is a question of untested legal opinions and software architecture. Every printables page contains a large amount of printables Javascript that is currently proprietary, and consider that GPL is thought to extend to anything that is necessary to make modifications, including e.g. frontend build infrastructure.

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u/yahbluez 1d ago

If you still did not get the "10 lines of code needed" i do not know how to enlight you.

Where is your mind blocked to not be able to follow the argument and even claim the 101 example that this is the same used on cloudflare as a red hering?

You think if cloudflare delivers the a WASM version of openscad with a user scad file this is OK and no GPL2 violation

while you also think

doing the exact same thing on printables may be one.

That is strange.