Geoffro
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August Update + new Poll systems coming in
🕑 Added 2021-08-27 00:24:09 +0000 UTCHello Everyone! (Big update wall of text, grab a snack....)
Welcome to all the new members, there will probably be a bit in this post you are not familiar with but bare with me, we always have a fair bit going on. All the boring stuff I usually put down the bottom so feel free to doze off at any time but there is alot of important information down there about requesting new models and new voting systems so please also read that :)
Firstly a massive apology is needed. I was adding a late entry to the TMNT painting competition poll (it was submitted in time but we just stuffed up basically and didn't have it in there, sorry James ) and in doing so it wiped the current vote count. Yes I know, frustrating to say the least. I am sorry. We will need everyone to re-vote (and of course I won't touch the post again :) ...) and we might run the poll for an extra week to let it catch up again. I address the voting a little below.
Wow August.. it's hard to believe. Currently we are in full lockdown here in NSW Australia, school is a no go, so kids are at home, 2 weeks so far and now we're told another 2 weeks lockdown. I feel fortunate that I work where I am locked down anyway, so I can keep things plodding along as normal :) Although I live remotely there has been a couple of 'local' cases so i'm pretty much bound here anyway for the forseeable next few months, not that I go anywhere anyway lol...
All the models pictured can be found in this months downloads on the member site.
NEW MEMBERS and even old ones, it is super important you are joined up to the member depot site, this is where the files are! if you have not signed up there, just click the link below, sign up with the email address you use here for patreon, and i'll activate the account. https://www.hex3dpatreon.com
There is still quite a few models in there from July also so get them before they are gone. Sometimes i'll leave the last months models up for a while - and as we grow substantially so does the number of people that might log in later to download them and we've found that keeping up the last couple weeks of each month lets people catch up on things they might have missed. September will see this months downloads section cleaned out and we're starting fresh so as I said, get whats in there before it gets moved to the Full access section (which you will be upgraded to at the start of your third month)
Good news for the winner of the competition however, the Mars 3 pro's are shipping and the one I pre-ordered will be here in time, so first prize is now officially upgraded to a Mars 3 Pro.
There is of course more models coming up this month. Usually I start earlier and finish earlier in the month, whereas this month im starting later and finishing later, i.e I will be releasing models and tutorials all the way through until the very last day of the month rather than the usual of slowing down in the last few days.
COMPETITIONS:
I need as many people as possible to please, log into the member depot and vote on the TMNT painting and kids drawing competition.
The Voting can be found right there next to "This Months downloads" There is samples and links to individual entries. Please check these out, there is some incredible work here.
Coming up:
We are very close to the 5k Goal, and one lucky patron will receive an Elegoo Saturn printer to a random lucky member! It is here in a box ready and waiting... I cannot wait to send this thing out!
Anycubic Official Competition:
We are doing a promotion with Anycubic in the coming weeks which will be public where you can win an Anycubic Vyper, but there will also be prizes for the same competition that are patreon member only rewards. We have printers (yes multiple) Resin, FDM ,and all sorts of goodies to send out. Big thanks to Jay who has organized this promotion and the printer prizes.
USER MEMBERSHIP REWARDS:
We will be sending out very soon rewards for members who reach (and have reached) their 1, 2, 3, 4 and now 5 year anniversary supporting this Patreon (and boy.. there is A LOT! ) But we have some cool things all lined up and happening as big thank you to all those that have been subscribed and helped me grow this thing, especially for such long times. Of course every month a proportion of people leave, but consistently more have stayed each month and over the years really, all thanks to what has grown to be an all round awesome friendly group of members, ie all of you, and people hang around for the long haul (and the models too I hope :) )
New sections will be opening up on the Member depot in September:
Member uploads will be re-enabled, please ensure you read the posting rules that are pinned at the top of that section before uploading models.
Voting Polls for new models and how it will work (Please read)
Since requests always get out of hand no matter how we try and run it (and hey it was easy when we had a few hundred members, but now besides email, messages on here, FB patreon etc, the requests are at a mindblowing proportion, even if I cloned myself 10 times I couldn't get them all done in any respectable time frame :)
But the previous requests that were submitted (which are still there, we just disabled the section to pull the reigns so to speak) will still be used. Now this section had some great request ideas - but some of them were just either plain crazy, impossible to model or some people had submitted many requests each when really, we can only sort of deal with one request per person at the moment.
I will be taking the top 25 requests from that section and creating a new poll which will be open to all members.
It will run for 1 week starting tomorrow. This will start the new process off so we can have it all running fresh by September.
I will commence work at the end of the weeks poll on the top model. Long story short - you vote for 1 week, I make that model in the next week, and we repeat. I mean it could take me way less than that to make it, it might take me a day it might take 5... who knows, all depends on the model.
I figure a week is safe, the idea is when that polled model is finished and released I put a new poll up and we go again. This way we can get through no less than 4 Polls per month for requests which should make some people happy I hope.
So while we will start it slow to catch up on the older requests.. it will speed up to a fair pace.
You wanted more Requests done? you got it!!
NEW SYSTEM STARTING SEPTEMBER - THIS IS HOW IT WORKS!:
The polls are generated from user requests and are broken down into 4 per month, all trailing eachother. A new system i've come up with but after much deliberation I think this is the best way I can get more requests out and more often.
The polls will be run on the Member Depot along with everything else (It's just easier for me and us all to have it in one place along side the requests as you can imagine) This is probably the best system I can forsee to keep up with (a week per requested model is fine with me)
(1) Start of Week 1: New Poll Goes up
End of Week 1: Top poll option starts getting designed.
(2) Start of Week 2: Model from Week 1 Poll is released. New Poll is posted.
End of Week 2: Top poll option starts getting designed.
(3) Start of Week 3: Model from Week 2 Poll is released. New Poll is posted.
End of Week 3: Top poll option starts getting designed.
(4) Start of Week 4: Model from Week 3 Poll is released. New Poll is posted.
End of Week 4: Top poll option starts getting designed.
This last model (4) will be released when the cycle repeats itself at the start (1) of the following month. Making sense now? :) and over and over it repeats.
This is of course on top of whatever other models I make for that month, but at least this way I know at least 4 models I make in that month is what people wanted and not what I hope they wanted haha.
USER REQUESTS THAT GENERATE THE POLLS
AFTER this initial 1 week poll tomorrow, The request sections WILL open back up again when we start this new system at the Start of September.
THE NEW MODEL Request Section will start again (as many of the old requests are from old/expired subscribers and I'd rather do what the current members want)
To stop the issue of multiple requests, this section will have posting approval on, so basically if you post multiple requests they just won't get approved) so this way we can keep it at 1 request per member. If your request makes it to a poll and does not win, this doesn't mean its out for the count!! No... if it was really close it will automatically be included in the next poll that week. If something gets zero votes then it might be a while until it gets a shot at a poll again (unless you can drum up support for it of course :)
Requests to EXISTING models section will be backup:
This section was disabled because instead of posting requested to have modifications made to models we already had, people used it to request new models.. so like the above, post approval will be turned on for this section this time around. This section is specifically where you can request modifications or changes to existing models that have been released, on this patron (not models from other places...) Do you need something cut into pieces? need a larger piece for a larger printer? whatever- this is the section in where you ask for this. This will go live again on the first of September along with the other new stuff.
So that is it for a large update, I don't post them often but things are changing, The new poll system will see at least a few posts a month on patreon itself rather than the monthly updates just to keep the people who are not in the Facebook group in the loop. I will also try to make an effort to be more visible on Discord, personally it's just another distraction from work (and making the models you guys want!) but I promise I will pop in more in the future. It is pretty buggy, even as admin it kicks me out a lot for no reason too.
Anyway thank you for reading this giant text wall if you did. I cannot believe we are nearly at 5000 patrons (and 5 years!) what a wild ride. I am forever grateful to you guys and gals, thank you for being part of this ever growing family!
Regards, and as always , May the force be with you, and your printer.
Geoff.
Comments
william nye
Can you look up past stl files.
Geoffro / Hex3D
Ie “new members and even old ones) and there is the first link in the post below that
Geoffro / Hex3D
Yes, the part pertaining to signing up to the member site using the sane email address as you use here
S.V Kaushik
May be I missed, could you please Point it out ?
Geoffro / Hex3D
The instructions are in the post above?
S.V Kaushik
How can I download the files ? I joined recently
Erik Erba
Hello, I already sent you message. I got Phrozen Transform fast, XL Peopoly, 2 Anycubic M3 Max and 1 Anycubic mono X. Not counting my fdm Vivedino printers. (I'm not bragging I'm just explaining the situation, that I can handle 2 full size helmets in 20 hours plus extra, and I'm printing nonstop.) Download limits are relevant because who wants to download 5gb file at speed 1mb/s ? I certainly don't. I couldn't find the support email, so I sent you a PM directly. Enjoy your rest of the weekend and happy 3D printing ! Regards, Erik PS: This is absolutely in no way complaining or trying to cause trouble.
Geoffro / Hex3D
How fast your connection is, is completely irrelevant. Download limits are enabled to reduce server load. If you need to download more than 15 models/files an hour in the month contact the support email and we will talk about it. The download limits are only enabled at the start and end of month to stop the server load getting too high, this isn't because we want to, it is because we have reached the limits of it and are moving to a new one soon (tm) 15 files an hour is actually now 25 per hour, and at 25 files an hour, or 50 files every 2 hours, and the fact as a new member you can download about 100 models.. this means you can download everything available to you in about 4 hours... yet you have the entire month to do so (or the next month and so on) plus anything new you get, plus the models you get access to at the start of your third month. Not everyone has a 2gbit connection unfortunately and the rest of the world needs to sort of catch up to you.
Erik Erba
Geoffro / Hex3D
All the information is in your welcome email my friend!
josh gasca
wolf
Oooohhhhhh?
Geoffro / Hex3D
There is a suggestion section on the depot for fill access members,
wolf
But i want more buckets T.T
isaac scarrow
same
Tiffany E.
I am trying to figure out where to submit my viper mug photos. I haven't found an email anywhere?
Rich
Hey Geoff- Did the notes go out for the winners of the kid's coloring competition. I didn't see any message yet asking for an address. Just wanted to see if I missed an email or message.- Thanks for your time.
Geoffro / Hex3D
yes
Ana Roberts
Is the poll system ever going to happen? We're like midway through the month.
Andy Thompson
Hey Geoff - a Clarence Boddiker to go with Robocop would be top notch - "Can you fly Bobby?"
Geoffro / Hex3D
your user name was ZIPPER
Thewanderingman
Hey Geoffro, what do we do if were signed up for your site but cannot remember our username? I was able to reset my password but your login only accepts the username for sign in, not the email attached to the account.
Antworm
Out of interest have you ever designed any Archer or Assassins Creed stuff? I haven’t gotten to 3 Months yet so I’m unsure on what is available from past designs.
John Komar
Awesome group
Carl Pagni
Love this group
rok3269
Greetings from Florida, USA Geoff, I'm not usually one to join in conversations, but just wanted to say that I am proud to be a member of your Patreon, the models are fantastic and way more than I can readily print, but I am trying!! lol. Anyways, you have helped me to get to learn some basic modelling, not anything creative like what you do, but simple items to help make life easier like simple stands for my collectibles and such. Anyways, again, thank you, you've given the 58 yr old something to keep him busy for a loooong time!!
Kyle Million
September makes month 3 for me yay. Cant wait, now if only the temp outside would drop a bit so I can print.
Helsing3D
I would love to see Hellsing models. I havent really seen any great anime models which is why Im learning so maybe one day I can attempt making them.
Well Armed Ogre
Sounds like a good plan. As you go through the old requests it might be good to group them into the I can do this and BATSHIT crazy This way people know that their idea isn't feasible, just so they don't bother you about why its not in the poll. Might be worth pulling together a losers club once every 6 months, to see of those in the bottom 25 percent have any interest at all. Of course all this means more work, so take it only as free flowing ideas:)
German
Noice! Really nice workon models! maybe with polls we'll see some more diversity, get some like grogu but seems a bit too many...
Geoffro / Hex3D
yes you can do that no problemo
Wizard At Work
So... about the requests. I totally understand that you only want each person to have one request. But what if our request floats around the bottom for a few months and never makes a poll. Then you release something that makes us go, "Oh! That thing is awesome. It would be so cool if he did (for example) a Star Trek mug in the same vein as that Star Wars mug he posted just now. But I already have an X-Files request that's not gaining any traction. Can I ask to have the XF request deleted and have the ST one replace it?
Geoffro / Hex3D
Busy I have to be
Geoffro / Hex3D
I think I typed it out in a bad way, no I don't give myself a day to make the model, I give myself a week - I am always making the model from the last weeks poll, not the current one, so in the week that people are voting on a model, I am working on the one previous to that week. We just need to start a poll to start the system off
wolf
Busy you seem to be
Beholder.Madness
Thanks for doing all this, but I’m questioning your timeline. If you start designing the poll winner at the end of week 1, then release it at the start of week 2, you’re only giving yourself a day to make it. I think it should be week 1’s poll winner gets released at the END of week 2, or am I misunderstanding? Either way, this is all great news.
Kimberly Sears
So many contests. So many printers lol Very exciting! Stay safe; it's crazy out there.
Corey H
Take care of yourself and thanks for putting so much work into requests when in fact, you're not obligated to do them at all. To me, that speaks a lot about your character. Thanks, you just gained another multi-year long term subscriber.
Lantern Lore
Stay safe. And hopefully it will pass soon.
TurtleHatz
Hang in here I know your pain. I live on the Qld / Nsw border and it a nightmare. We have half of the staff where I work can't even cross to come to work.
