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Unity is a great solution for displaying and rendering 3D content. The GUI system is workable and performs well enough with respect to it being cross platform. There are however some major issues that I've run into up to this point:

• Limited support for "Long Paths" (see #42, #52)
• Access Violations when using FileSystemWatcher components
• High CPU usage while idle (#18)
• CI builds are super heavy weight
• NuGet support is not there and many features like reading (non-zip) archives require some external components

There are also some scenarios where people would love to access DBs on other PCs in the local network (#8 )

Because of those aspects I'm exploring ways to split the library from the main application. There is no concrete plan yet, but this might have to happen sooner rather than later.

Depending on the object, more facings in the image rotation would give a better understanding of the object. Could be user-selectable (radio button for 20, 45, 90 deg.) also by axis (don't care about Z, just uncheck it before import).

I (and many others) have been using the OS file structure to organize our STLs for ages. Being able to view the files in that context or automate some pattern there for tagging would be great.

Having the ability to change the preview of the previews from the yellow/beige colour we have currently. #

• Running imports should be canceled on removal

What I was doing:
Adjusted the UI scaling to 50%, then viewed a model in "Open in 3D View"

Actual Behavior:
The side panel with "Back" appears to be at the standard 100% UI scale and doesn't change when I either up or down the scaling.

Expected Behavior:
That either UI Scaling applies globally or that multiple options are provided to scale different parts of the UI.

As mentioned on Discord and Facebook, Would like ability to print off a list and take to someone externally (such as a customer, etc). Could be just a simple thumbnail catalog with filename or even allow users ability to select what information (tags, description, etc) that is exported.

Nobody has reported any problems with that - but running out of space on a drive can lead to severe problems. Pause or Stop imports if disk space runs super low.

This boils down to lowering redraws dynamically:
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2020/02/07/how-on-demand-rendering-can-improve-mobile-performance/

I would like a feature to clear all tags from a collection/selection. This would really help since the current auto-tagging spams with tags to make the tagging system completely unusable when the collection is large enough.

In the case of very large models, such as dragons or terrain buildings, the model often only exists as a collection of smaller parts

Individual thumbnails of those parts isn’t greatlt helpful in identifying them

It would be very useful if we could choose a pre-rendered image file to upload that the program would then see to use as the default image for display in the gallery.

Clicking on the item could then show the individual item rendered in some manner.

Add an option that allows to change the behavior of the selection.
It should automatically clear itself if no CTRL or SHIFT key was pressed during selection.

• Sometimes lighting of models seems to be off after rotating
• Models imported without rotation, if rotated, end up in strange orientations

I re-added a directory because I thought I hadn't added it.

There were two behaviors:

One, it re-added it. Would think maybe should point out it's already there, but that's not a big deal.

What was weird was when there was two, when I deleted the 'new' one, it nuked the contents of the other one too, but didn't remove that. So now i have an empty folder. Not a big deal mind you, but probably not the way you want it to behave.

Currently the only indication of an import is the hum of the CPU fans and the "Imported X" dialog in the lower left corner. Some indication of over all progress (difficult when traversing an unknown directory structure) or where it is in the structure would be ideal.

Add an About tab/box/pop-up that references back to the webpage (http://stlvault.com/), Facebook, and/or GitHub.

Given the open source nature it may get legs and that would make it easier for folks to find help/latest versions.

This is NOT a complete overhaul of the search system, but a few things can be done easily to improve the current implementation:

• Allow NOT filters with leading - and !
  • Should be stripped for search in Recommendations
  • Clicking on Recommendation should create a "Not"-Tag
• Allow * wildcards
  • Probably no further recommendation support once star is entered in a tag

Support for more complex queries might come further down the line to support OR or LIKE expressions.

You know you want it

Hello,

it would be super useful to have shareable files that other people could use with their STLVault to get the same tags for their models. Maybe for every model export a small txt file with the same name as the model in the model folder so other people can just share these txt files and have the same model tags pop up in someone else's STLVault.

STLVault-20-06-20-22-11-29.zip

On the initial start of the application, if no ApplicationSettings exist, the UI-Scale for the application should be guessed based on the users system settings.

Most likely the relevant information can be determined from the Screen class in Unity.

In my workflow I use multiple computers (and computer types (OSX, Linux, Win10)) to access files for different purposes (creation, editing, printing, etc). It would be nice to have access to a common database/catalogue from any of my computers to be able to add, update the catalogue.

Perhaps just point each local client at the network drive location?

• CTRL as the modifier
• Left&Right arrow to rotate around y-axis (up)
• Up&Down to rotate around x-axis (forward)

What I was doing:
Started Folder Import of my STL directory structure. Realized doing the whole thing at once was going to be a bit chaotic so I hit the red X to cancel it.

Actual Behavior:
The directory was removed from the Import Folders list; but the import continued to happen. I only seemed able to stop it if I closed the program.

Expected Behavior:
The import should halt and import nothing further if the item is x'd out.

The tool should (optionally) pick up and display files stored inside zips.

In the case of very large models, such as dragons or terrain buildings, the model often only exists as a collection of smaller parts

It would be helpful if we could mark that set of smaller parts as being, effectively, to be treated as a single model For purposes of searching and initial display

Based on @mcenal's suggestion in #5

3mf import is not as trivial as other formats. It can include multiple models and stores transformations for those models (i.e. how they are scaled, rotated etc.).

This needs some design work to decide how those multi part models should be picked up:

• single file = single model
• single file = multiple models
• single file = composite model (#57)

When you are selecting a model or groups of models to add a tag and there is a very large list of suggestions (when selecting an entire folder of models with dozens and dozens of tags,) the scroll window bottoms out with the suggestion (for a filled in existing tag to be added) below the screen window and it cannot easily be seen to select.

Left clicking on a model's tag removes the tag with no warning or prompt. This makes accidental removal of the tags very easy.

A prefered behavior would be to right click and select delete while left clicking puts that tag in the search bar.

Options to include:

• "Edit" (already logged as QoL)
• "Show in explorer"

Users should be able to assign their own prefered shortcuts and controls.

I'm trying to import a massive (100+ GB) master folder filled with files, and the scan doesn't seem to progress deep enough into the subfolders to actually find the STL file. If I add subfolders where the STLs are within a level or two below the selected folder, then it'll import them, but adding my master folder does nothing.

If we could have an application setting being saved for the UI of the side collections. I am importing dozens of folders and I want to have a good view into the import folders. I'm not currently using saved searches (yet) or collections. Can I have a setting where those categories are minimized on run of the application?