I’ve collected quite a number of STL files for 3D printing, and realized I need some better way to catalogue them, because the default Windows explorer is starting to become burdensome. I’m looking for something that:
- Shows a 3D preview I can rotate around to see the model
- Allows me to sort into folders
- Allows tagging with keywords for later searching
- Snappy search
Maybe Windows already does this and I’m just not seeing it, but I feel like my collection is at the point where I need something dedicated, similar to a photo cataloguing tool (e.g. Google Photos) or a reference manager (e.g. Zotero/Mendeley).
Any good FOSS tool that does something like this? Or a generic “better file explorer”?
Not sure if this van_dam might work for you. I found it randomly searching through my Unraid server’s App store and it seems to be built around 3D printing files. As a note, I haven’t worked with this one personally yet since I haven’t had the time to get Postgres and Redis set up, but I have this pinned to come back to it. Could be worth a look!