[1] In March 2023, the Cults community had nearly 8.2 million members, including nearly 123,000 designers and 1.2 million 3D models to download for 3D printing, laser cutting or CNC machining.
[1] In 2015, La Poste established a partnership with Cults and 3D Slash to develop impression3d.laposte.fr, a digital manufacturing service, allowing users to have objects printed and shipped to them on demand.
[2] In 2016, Boulanger partners with Cults to develop Happy 3d, an open source platform dedicated to spare parts printing, in an effort to promote sustainable consumption.
[3][4][5][6] The name Cults is an anadrome: Read from right to left, it spells St-Luc, patron saint of artists and sculptors.
Additionally, the first three letters are STL, referring to the common stereolithography file format used by creators.