Marketplace

The Marketplace serves as a hub for users to publish and share HoloBit research files—this includes Holo files and various block files—all available for the community. Other users may download, favorite, or, if permitted, Reuse these resources for their modeling and research projects.

Tip

The Marketplace offers a variety of user-contributed resources. You can browse them to jumpstart or enrich your own modeling and experiments.

Key Concepts

Understanding these core concepts is key to effectively using HoloBit Marketplace:

1. Published Works are Snapshots
   • Any file published to Marketplace is essentially a snapshot copy. It's independent of the creator's original file in their workspace. Edits, removals, or unpublishing one file do not automatically affect the other.
2. Usage Modes: Download vs. Reuse
   • Depending on the creator's settings, you may be allowed to download or reuse a file (for blocks).
     • Download: You obtain a fully independent copy in your own workspace, free to modify or build upon.
     • Reuse: Currently only supported for block files. You can use the block in your models without altering its internals or re-creating it.

Warning: Prohibited Re-publishing

Works downloaded from the Marketplace are for personal or internal use only. Republishing downloaded content, either directly or with minor modifications, is strictly prohibited and may result in account penalties.

Interface Overview

Key elements of the Marketplace interface:

1. Global Search
2. Content Filters & Sorting
3. Return to Workspace
4. Publish File
5. Hot Tags and Filters
6. File Display Area

Basic Operations

View and Use Files

The file display area shows all the files published by users in a card view. By clicking on a card, you can view the details of the file, as illustrated below (for model files).

1. File Information

2. Comment

2.1 Post a Comment: Share your feedback or questions.

3. Left Sidebar Toggle: Expands or collapses the sidebar.

4. File Operations & Statistics

• Views
• Likes
• Comments
• Favorites
  • Favorite files can be accessed under the Favorite tab on your Marketplace profile. Simply go to Personal center > Profile > Favorite to find them.

    

  • For block files, favorited files also appear in Marketplace subscription under the Block tab in the left navigation sidebar in the modeling interface and can be directly used for modeling.

    

• Downloads

Login Requirement

You must be logged in to download, favorite, like, comment, follow authors, or publish/unpublish files. Logged-out visitors can only browse publicly available content.

5. Referral
   • If you are logged in, clicking Referral generates a special referral link you can share.

     

6. Download (or Reuse)
   • For Holo files: saving the file to a target folder in your workspace.
   • For Block files: saving the block to your workspace Library or referencing it (if the author allowed referencing).

     

   • Reuse means you can use the block in your model but cannot modify or fork it.

Notes on Downloading Files

• Downloading files requires you
  • to be logged into your account;
  • have sufficient quota (e.g., for component limits) if applicable.
• For paid items, successful payment is required.
• Downloading files will consume your account's storage capacity. Adding files to your favorites will not.

7. Model Info (e.g., total components, last update date)
8. File Content Preview: The root canvas or main content of an open-source file is displayed in an embedded window.
   • For Holo files, you may even run or test the scenario if it's open source.
   • For block files, they are not directly runnable, but an example model (provided during publishing) might be available for demonstration.

   

Publish Files

As the third method of file publishing, you can simply click the "Publish" button in the top-right corner of Marketplace. For more information, please refer to the Files and Library chapter.

Personal Profile

Access Profiles

• Access creators' profile

  Click on the avatar displayed on any published file card to access the creator's personal profile.

  

• Access your profile

  • If you click the avatar on a file card for an item you published, it will often lead to your own profile.

  • Alternatively, you can also access your Marketplace profile from the Marketplace option in your personal center.

    

View Profiles

On a creator's profile page, you can typically:

1. View Their Files
   • Published Tab: See all files publicly shared by the author.
   • Favorites Tab: See files the author has favorited from other creators.

2. Follow the Creator

Click the "Follow" button (usually near their avatar) to subscribe to their updates.

3. View Following/Followers

Click on the counts for "Following" or "Followers" to see lists of those users.

Update Files

• To update a file, first access your personal profile as previously described, then right-click on the target file. A menu will appear.

  

• Select the Update option to open the settings window.

  

• Complete the settings, just like when publishing a file. Then, click the Next Step button in the lower right corner.

Tip

For additional methods of updating files beyond those mentioned above, please refer to the Files and Library chapter.

Off shelf (Unpublish)

• Go to your personal profile, right-click the file and a dropdown menu will appear.

• Select Off Shelf from the menu and confirm your action.

  

• After Off shelf, the file will not be deleted. Instead, it will display an Off shelfed mark in the upper right corner, as shown above.

• Once a file has been Off shelfed from Marketplace, it can no longer be updated.

On shelf (Republish)

When the file is in the Off-shelfed state, you can choose On shelf to republish it from the right-click menu.

Delete Files

When the file is in the Off shelfed state, you can choose the Delete option from the right-click menu to permanently remove your files from Marketplace.