Shapr3D CAD modeling 4+

If your on the edge of deciding weather to give this app a try then let me tip you over the line..there’s just no words in my vocabulary I could possibly use to emphasise just how good this CAD program is..there’s nothing out there that comes even close to rivalling what you can do with this app, say goodbye to PC’s and expensive laptops as you can do everything you could dream of on this app, design 3D drawings to precise specs with ease of use too, allows quick modelling and a huge array of tools to use that you wont find on any other CAD app..there’s none that allows you to destroy scratch all the way through and with a pen or mouse and trackpad, after all is complete you can send the files off as your proffered format ..Stl etc..then you can convert to 2D drawings with one click boom hours of time saved, it then allows you to click and drag every dimension you could think off and change to proffered size, and now you can even annotate the drawing to label all the insides of a component up..it’s breathtaking if your into CAD work, all this is portable you could sit next to the job on a site if you needed and quickly draw it up while your team waits one sit in an office comfy making a real quality job of it..give it a try you wont be disappointed and I recommend just being pro straight off it’s the best and things as good as this costs money to make so well and they update regular with things that’s keep getting better

I have never been able to think in 3D, and my drawing was pretty bad. This app is a revelation. Simple designs can be made in just a few minutes by almost anyone, and 3D printed a short time later as prototype or even real solution. Easy to render good images of your ideas too with the Visualisation tool. Export to other file formats is excellent so you can send to most manufacturing companies from high end to low end. The new history-based parametric modelling looks incredible giving additional flexibility to go back to an earlier part of the design, make a few changes and have that propagate through.

I use it on Mac and iPad with Pencil. The latter is the best (though a larger iPad is helpful due to the number of tools etc). I’m looking forward to the VisionPro version!

Compared to Solidworks or Fusion360 this has a much lower learning curve - with some great video resources out there - highly recommended to spend a couple of hours viewing some of these.

I’d also like to point out the GREAT support. I’ve only had a couple of questions but these have been answered in less than a couple of hours with positive responses. I pay more for this app than any other, though by other standards not a lot. But it’s simply outstanding and getting better every release.

Very easy to get to grips with. I used autocad when I was at college. And find Shapr3D much more user friendly without a doubt. If I did need to use this in a real professional fashion I would perhaps go for it. Their video tutorials are very handy but maybe a little too quick if following step by step on another device whilst drawing on the pro. But right now with only 3 to 5 designs a year for personal cabinet making projects it becomes unaffordable. Shame as I am quite keen
But I guess autodesk is around the 3k mark. So if you compare maybe it’s reasonable for a professional if the capacities are the same?
I tried to do the chair with the free version. But for some reason the Groups button isn’t available in the free version,or am I missing something? Couldn’t find a way to erase the whole sketch and start again either.
So because of the price unfortunately. It’s a 3 from me. I even went and bought an Apple Pencil only to then realise that the free version was quite restricted.