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things, things they like, etc. You can view your profile at any time by clicking
on your username in the “Welcome back” message at the upper-right corner
of the page. You can always edit your profile by clicking on the “Edit” link in
the upper-right corner of your profile page.
Your profile page can be used as your resume as a maker! Be sure to provide
links to your work and information on how to contact you.
Finding Things
Things are the heart and soul of Thingiverse. So, how do you find the things
you're looking for?
At the top of each page of Thingiverse is a Things menu. You can use it to
browse the latest things, see photos of the latest physical copies of things
that other Thingiverse users are making, browse the most popular things,
and more!
Additionally, each thing belongs to one of a handful of categories. You can
browse through the various categories and see the things in them using the
Browse menu at the top of every page on Thingiverse.
Further, users can add
tags
to their things to make them easier to find. You
can browse through all of the tags and their things using the Browse By Tag
option at the bottom of the Browse menu.
Finally, Thingiverse has a search box which lets you type in search terms for
the things that you want to find. You'll get back a list of things that match your
search terms.
Things
Once you've found a thing, go to that thing's page (see
Figure 10-1
). It has
several sections that make it easy to find the information you need.
At the top of the thing page is the
info card
. This section contains clickable
preview images of the thing's files and any photos that the creator has up-
loaded. It also tells you the name of the thing, who created it, when it was
published, what other things the creator derived it from, and any description
that the creator has entered for the thing. This section also has buttons for
sharing this thing on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
