News
Keeping you updated with what's changing and how cadyou is developing
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19th September 2009
by Pirate Tom
Yarr... it be talk like a pirate day today. Aye, we have been makin' some tweaks and ahead of a much more social overhaul we be testin' out allowin' comments for downloads. If you be signed in t' the site you will be able t' leave comments and thanks.
Gar, Where can I find a bottle o'rum?
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21st August 2009
by Tom
It's been quiet here for a month, as most spare time has been going into 3dfilter, which has been getting a good amount of buzz on the design blogs and twitter!
However cadyou hasn't been forgotten and we are always tweaking bits. We have a new page just for seamless textures, which looks great and makes them easy to find. You can find it in the top menu drop down, where we have also added links to the latest uploads and popular files in all categories.
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26th June 2009
by Tom
We have a number of advert spots available on the website at really low introduction prices. If you have a product that is related to digital design, cad software, rendering or 3d modelling cadyou is a perfect place to advertise to thousands of design professionals.
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14th June 2009
by Tom
Just a quick thankyou to everyone that has visited, downloaded and shared cadyou with their friends over the last 6 months. We have seen impressive growth and lots of contributions since the site went online last October. If you use twitter and would like to support cadyou for free, why not tweet about us?!
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4th June 2009
by Tom
The search demo has been going great. Since the launch the other week we have added two more free engines.
You can now search for free textures on Stock.xchng and free 3d models on 3dvia bringing the total amount of websites we search in realtime to 15 - try it out now!
- Cadyou
- Google 3D Warehouse
- Form Fonts Exchange
- The 3D Studio
- 3D Xtras
- 3D 02
- 3D Export
- Polantis
- 3dvia
- Cadyou Textures
- Stock.xchng
- The 3D Studio Textures
- Texture Spot
- Texturez
- Dreamstime
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20th May 2009
by Tom
Wow, its been a quiet few months since an update on here. Luckily that's because we have been hard at work coming up with fresh ideas, laying out plans and creating great new services. As part of our mission to help designers we are testing a new search engine which allows you to search 13 websites at once for textures and 3d models (free and commercial). Give it a try here and let us know what you think:
This is just the beginning, with a number of exciting developments coming in the near future!
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16th January 2009
by Tom
Cadyou now supports user profile pictures, go to 'Edit profile' at the top right of each page when you are signed in and upload a portrait for all to see.
For now your portrait is confined to the profile page, but will be rolled out along with more user-centric features like 'top contributors' in the coming weeks. [Update: User profile images are now shown on download pages]
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10th January 2009
by Tom
A belated happy new year to everyone using cadyou! We have been online for just over two months, and as the first update of the year i thought it would be fitting to update on a few changes made since December.
During the last month we have been moving files across to Amazon's storage infrastructure. Why does this matter? It enables us to serve pages faster because they are not bogged down by other people download large 3d models and it also allows us to expand indefinately with hundreds of new free files and unlimited bandwidth.
We have also joined up with getsatisfaction to help manage your ideas, bug reports and complaints. Just click the 'feedback' icon on the left of every page to contact us with your thoughts and ideas, its quick and very helpful! We will seriously consider everything that is suggested.
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19th December 2008
by Tom
Just a quick note to point you in the direction of our newly created Sketchup plugin... simply right click and 'Save file as' the file into your 'sketchup/plugins' folder. An option will then appear in your 'plugins' menu to search cadyou! Fantastic.
Available here: Cadyou Sketchup Plugin
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18th December 2008
by Tom
Nearly another week already! We have just rolled out some tweaks to the site search experience, the quick search in the top right now includes an option to search titles and descriptions which is enabled by default rather than tags (which is still there). Looking at the search logs it is easy to see that people are used to searching this way and you can then filter by tags on the results page..
The results page has had a bit of a visual refresh and the ugly search boxes are now replaced with nice magnifying glass icons! Its the little things that matter eh?
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12th December 2008
by Tom
A couple of small but handy changes made to the site over the last couple of days.
We have added spelling suggestions to the search pages using Yahoo's excellent spelling API, it could and will work better - however for the moment it will correct common spelling mistakes in your searches, for example 'trsnport'.
It is now also possible to share files from cadyou easier by embedding them in other webpages like forums or blogs.. Each file page now has an 'embed' button, simply copy the code and paste it into your website for an easy way to share the freebies!
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8th December 2008
by Tom
After a short and relaxing weekend break there have been some changes made behind the scenes today. We have updated the Community Guidelines to include some guidance on the types of models which we now accept. It is important that cadyou seperates itself from the likes of 3D warehouse and CBEN and we feel that quality over quantity is the way to do this.
Any files which do not meet the guidelines will therefore be rejected with an explination as to why sent to the uploader. Of course this isn't ideal and some users are sure to feel hard done by, but we are confident that the majority of uploads will be gratefully accepted!
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3rd December 2008
by Tom
Just been playing around and have produced a tag cloud for every file on the website, check it out here. Its a quick and easy way to browse all of the popular files. This page may disappear as it is not linked from anywhere yet - beware!
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2nd December 2008
by Tom
It's no secret that cadyou is new, but we are growing quick... Jim over at the Sketchup Tips blog featured the site earlier in the week and the bandwidth has since shot through the roof! If anyone has any ideas to better the site please get in touch, and i will reply quick sharp.
Cheers Jim!
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29th November 2008
by Tom
The site has been online for over a month now and i have just got round to adding a news page.. terrible. At least now i can stop posting cadyou status reports on my personal blog!
I have made a few tweaks to the search code which should return far more relevant results when searching through tags, but does rely on downloads being tagged correctly and thoroughly - something we have been ensuring from day one.
Today we have also uploaded a few new trees, and plan to go on a bit of a vegetation binge over December, as great landscaping can really set 3d models apart.