CGTraderReviews of cgtrader.com

There are a large number of low-cost (or free) files and it's easy to purchase. The tech support is also very good.

Often i buy and always i have quality

CGTrader is a reliable source if you looking for STL files from artists.

Excellent! All files perfect

I love this stock as a buyer, because I can find a lot of free models or models with a good discount. However, as a buyer, I'm upset by a certain chaos in the source files. Different authors have completely different approaches to preparing the product. For example, uploading the product is either a set of various source files, or a single archive. I would like to see some unified system in this. As an author, I also love this platform, but I would really like to see regular improvements and modern tools for authors, since I’m unconditionally giving 1/3 of my income to the platform. 1. I want a licensing tool. Ready-made templates of different licenses, price separation depending on license type. 2. Clear guidelines for product page setup. I want my product to look presentable, and for that the site grid must be designed so that the main image of my product isn’t cropped and looks consistent everywhere. I’d like to have visual separation of screenshot albums that could be custom arranged. For example, 1 album only with renders of the model, that can be flipped through on the search page before visiting the product page. 2nd album with renders of the model inside scenes, so people can see how it looks in use. 3rd album with technical details. Ideally, the album carousel should be looped, because right now you have to scroll back, and the carousel overall is quite outdated. 3. Working with discounts. The platform runs constant sales, but doesn’t let you control which products are discounted. Either all products are discounted, even new ones, or random ones by topic. I’d like authors to have more control over which product and what discount to apply. But in order not to lose the benefit of global sales, there should be a separate option that allows the platform to apply an extra discount for a big sale event. 4. Reward system. Right now there is a reputation system, but it’s outdated. I’d like something new and more relevant with rewards, but in a way that gives a wider variety of benefits. For example, product or author of the week, chosen based on sales + reviews. If an author gets into the top, then with that product they can’t appear in the top again for a few months, so it gives a chance to new products. 5. Review system. Users are very reluctant to leave reviews. That means something in the UX is weak. Probably the review should be more structured — maybe in the form of a questionnaire, where the buyer is given 2–3 options like “Great - Okay - Bad”, and questions like “Rate the model quality”, “Rate the textures”, etc. So the buyer doesn’t have to write the review manually, and for example the review text is generated by AI, and the buyer just agrees with the generated text. The actual text isn’t as important as displaying the ratings in a convenient format, and showing a summary of all reviews. I’d also add motivation for the buyer — if they leave a review, they get a discount coupon from this author in the form of a percentage of the purchased product. For example, if the product costs $15, the buyer gets an auto-applied coupon of 10% from those $15 — that’s $1.50 — for the next purchase from this author, if the product is the same price or higher. Or a general coupon from the platform for a product of the same category, valid for a couple of days and not stackable with other discounts. Yes, the platform had some kind of point system, but it was unclear and didn’t work the way we’d like. 6. Fair commissions. Back to discounts. Yes, my product ends up on the special page, but practically every product does, since many authors have discounts enabled. I, as an author (again, I can’t control which products go on sale), lose 50% on the discount, and still the platform takes the full commission. As a result, from $20 I get only $7. And I’m not even sure the buyer came from the discount page or bought it because of the discount — this product sells perfectly well without discounts too. So on top of the discount, I still pay full commission to the platform. I’d like to see fairer sharing of the discount and more action from the platform in return for me offering 50% off. 7. Pricing system. I really want a tool for price separation — both by license type and by product type. For example, I’m selling a bundle. I want to be able to sell not only the full bundle at one price, but also, for example, sell just the mesh for a separate price (which is great for models meant for 3D printing but not prepared for it, where no textures are needed), or sell individual items from the bundle (e.g. I have 10 models, and the 3 most popular ones I want to sell separately, so the buyer doesn’t have to buy the whole pack), or sell just the low-poly versions if there are high-poly ones as well. That’s not even all. As an author giving 1/3 of my income to the platform, I want to see regular improvements in return. thx!

I'm new to 3D printing and downloadable files. CGTrader has an impressive variety of items available in all price ranges. I feel product descriptions can be vague. So far, I'm having trouble with just one of the files I bought and downloaded. This is, probably, more my problem than file issues. CGTrader is definitely my recommended source for 3D printing.

very friendly Support

I've found this website to be fantastic for finding quality prints. Purchasing ir really quick and easy, highly recommended