The community of people who print
Publish a model with an image and a file, it enters the shared feed, and your profile says which machines and materials you work with.
Co-Makers connects you with other 3D printing makers for joint projects and shared experience. You publish a model from your library, it gets an image and a page of its own, and it enters the shared feed.
100% freeMaker profiles
Show your machines, materials and skills, and see who can do what around you.
A post carries a file and an image
Every post carries a model and an image, not just text. Others see what you made before they ask about it.
A shared feed
What you publish enters a stream everyone sees. Your work does not sit in a drawer nobody opens.
Your own posts in one place
You see your posts separately from the feed and edit them without hunting through it.
Joint projects
Build a team for projects too big for one printer or one garage.
Shared experience
Questions, answers and lessons from people who actually print every day.
Ready to try it?
One account opens the free EduFacturing tools and platforms, and everything runs in the browser.
Why a community rather than another forum
Knowledge about 3D printing is scattered in fragments: one setting in a comment under a video, one photo in a group, one file in a repository with no explanation. When something fails, a person starts assembling the answer out of fifteen sources.
Co-Makers is built around the work rather than around the conversation. A post carries the model and its image, so the other person sees exactly what you made and with what, before the first question is asked.
The conversation then starts from a higher place. Not "how is this done" but "how did you do it", which is the difference between a community and a forum.
What a post actually is
A model with an image and a page at its own address. The image is the first thing seen in the feed, and the file sits with the post rather than in a separate service.
You publish from your own library. The things you already saved while using the platform's tools are the material a post is made of.
Your own posts are listed separately and can be edited at any time. The shared feed is for everyone else; your list is for you.
Where it fits with the rest
Co-Makers is about people and what they make. When the work becomes an order, it moves to Co-Factory, where a quote is requested against a specific file and every job carries its own conversation.
When a model becomes a product, its place is Co-Market, where it has a listing, a price and a download after purchase.
And when orders become routine, PrintERP takes over the orders, the clients, the machines and the arithmetic of cost and recommended price.
Questions people ask
What is Co-Makers?
A community for people who print: you publish a model with an image and a file, it enters a shared feed and gets its own page, and your profile shows your machines and skills.
Do I need to be a professional?
No. Profiles belong to hobbyists and to people who print for a living. The value of the community is precisely that both groups can see each other.
Can I publish my own model?
Yes, you publish from your library, add an image and a file, and the post enters the feed.
How do I find people with particular machines?
Through the profiles. Everyone describes their machines, materials and skills, so that is where a match starts.
What is the difference from Co-Market?
Co-Makers is for sharing and for finding people. Co-Market is the marketplace: there a model has a listing, a price and a download after purchase.
And from Co-Factory?
Co-Factory is for production: you upload a file for a specific job, receive a quote and keep the conversation on it through to delivery.
How do I get access?
Yes, all it takes is a free account, the same one across the platform.