When I search on the 3D Warehouse I use the pull down in the upper right corner, under the filter option. It defaults to Relevance but I change it to “likes” and “popularity”. That often reduces the models to better quality.
actually yeah, there used to be a button on the home page showing us ALL the brands that were there. it was quite a useful way to start a query, “first, is the brand here or not?”
@TheGuz if there is an idea box somewhere in the office, this is mine 
btw, I just noticed the thread is in the sketchup section, not the 3d warehouse. I’m moving it.
I was getting frustrated with 3DWH until I gave in and started using the Image Search Tool instead of key words! It opened back up the whole world of models I was no longer getting access to by just using search terms and the options are closer to what I’m looking for!
I’ve always liked the freewheeling and unusual models that are shared in the 3DWH - it’s like a treasure hunt and I often find something that gives me a better idea than the one I was looking for in the first place. I hope the warehouse can stay an open place of sharing and I’m happy that using the image search function made the warehouse feel more like it used to.
Hey barry1! I get your frustration with some of the “dross” you find in 3D Warehouse search results. It’s true that keyword searches for things like “DJ” can be all over the place, largely because model tagging is so subjective and done by so many different people. That noise makes it hard to find useful stuff.
That’s why we’re moving beyond keywords. We’re actively developing new ways to search, like Image Search, and we’ll be bringing back Labs soon featuring Smart Search as an improvement. For an example of how it will work, our normal keyword search for “person who is a dj” yields zero results, but with the new Smart Search Labs experiment, that same search gave me 49 results that are much closer to what you described. While the ultimate usefulness of a model still depends on the creator’s skill, our job is to get you to those potentially useful models faster.
Consider this model from another site:
Is it more or less useful than this one from 3D Warehouse: 3D Warehouse? That’s up to you.
Ultimately, there’s a ton of useful content in 3D Warehouse. We know finding it can be a pain right now, but we’re seriously committed to modernizing our search so you spend less time wading through irrelevant stuff and more time creating.
Let us know if these new search methods are useful in surfacing relevant content and if so we can move on to the next actionable improvement.
Hey @TheGuz yes the image search is a massive help.
The warehouse is great. I was just venting with frustration that day - but it usually gives me what I need.
Glad to hear the search is being improved. 
I’ll check out turbo squid. Thanks for the tip
Hi Aaron, its not that hard to improve searching… just give users more finer grain on face count size and file size filtering…
0 - 10,000 faces is a crazy big first step in filtering as is
0 - 5MB in file size
I am a pretty efficient modeller and if any of my 3DWM are over 100k and 1000 faces I think I have failed… there is no way I can filter other models in the library to the that level finesse.
even better.. allow users to enter the max face count, file size limits..
would surely be a small interface refinement.
Regards
More than that, I would like 2 extra ways of sorting results.
- by file size
- by polygon count
I don’t care about sorting by date of creation or author’s name.
I’d like to sort from the lowest to the highest polygon count.
(ping @TheGuz )
gsharp! ateliernab!
Thank you for raising another actionable improvement. We do have the ability to narrow down polygons and file size by clicking Filters and then choosing a file size and polygon range.
But maybe we’re not quite there yet. We could have a discoverability problem (if you didn’t know it was there) or we could have an execution problem (it works but not in the way you would like).
We had considered some ways to improve it, but I’d rather hear from you. When we work on improvements here, what could we do to make this better?
Cheers!
guz
even if I use the filters, it’s still a mess.
let’s say I need a wassily chair.
47 results.
well instead of relevance or likes, I simply would like to sort them by polygon count. have in first position the simplest of all. then the second, and so on.
or file size.
the filter it good, it allows the warehouse to remove extremes. but you still end up with hundred or thousand of results. if I need a lightweight model, I still end up having to just scroll through them all, looking at their file size.
also, the file size filter is broken. I suspect it is because of the file size reduction files got in 2021.
here I’m asking 10-25Mb files.
5 results, none of them in the correct range.
and the 5 results are not in an interesting order
in pink, sorted from lightest to heaviest.
in orange, sorted from lowest polycount to highest.
Again, that’s way more relevant to me than the creation / modification date or the name of the account who uploaded it…
I want to sort by polygon count then file size. Some simple models have 4K textures which bloat the size, but if I see low poly count I can then make a (somewhat) educated guess about the file.
And then there are toilets and door hardware that have more polygons than whole houses I’ve designed. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
oh yeah, black holes. because polygons are free, so here, have a couple millions in your door handle.
(13.7Mb)
Thank you