Is there any chance of releasing the old version as a ‘Legacy’ version?
A separate, stand alone, version of Shapr3D that could run alongside the current version?
I tried loads of 3D software before choosing Shapr3D and rejected them all because Shapr3D was really simple and I use it as a 3D sketch pad.
I completely rejected Fusion 360 because of the history aspect - which was much more than I needed.
It turns out that Fusion 360 now allows you to turn off the history entirely!
I did figure that I would be able to ignore it in Shapr3D but sadly I haven’t been able to. The workflow has changed considerably, and is no longer the quick, light 3D modeller I was enjoying.
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Hi @Simon66 , I’m sorry to hear that. What is it that you can’t do or find it harder to do in the new version? We’d love to fix it.
There’s nothing I can’t do, I’m re-learning a few things because a lot of things seem to behave differently to the previous version.
I’m not an engineer or pro-designer, I’m a hobby modeller. I design games as a hobby. Pre-history Shapr3D was simple, lightweight and fast.
Working on old files now seems really heavy and slow on my mid-range PC.
I’ve tried exporting them as x_t files and importing them back in as new files. That has helped a bit with the speed.
I used a lot of small sketches to do simple stuff because there were no rulers I could use on objects, so the sketches were just measuring blocks.
For example: I needed to extrude a 1x1mm block every 30mm along a 1mm thick face of an object.
What I used to do was create a 1x1mm sketch then a 30mm x 1mm sketch on top of it, then duplicate it along the whole face.
Select all the bits to extrude, extrude them, then delete the sketch.
If I do that now, all the extrusions get deleted too.
It was a throw-away construction sketch, I didn’t need anymore.
Deleting things I didn’t need, kept things tidy and the file sizes small. Now it’s a massive growing pile of sketches and history steps I don’t need.
I guess I’ll have to export all the components separately and import them into one final file.
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I see, makes sense. With the next release, we are shipping a feature that will let you collapse the history, and get rid of the dependencies. If you can share designs that are slower than they should be, that’s always helpful, we are working on performance improvements. We are aware that in designs that have multi-thousand parts or have very complex faces (like a lot of text) can be slow in some cases, we are working on a fix.
We’ve also set up a webinar focusing on using parametric modeling for conceptual design.
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I used to love Shapr3d because it was a very simple, intuitive program. However, recent updates have taken that away. Sketches everywhere, history panel, dimensions cluttering the screen, can’t delete sketches without deleting the body, parametric modeling. Actually, now it doesn’t matter if I use this or some similarly complicated but free alternative.
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Hi @NPeter , I’m sorry to hear that. You can turn off the visibility of the sketch dimensions under the sketch’s settings. With the new version, if you close the history panel, what is it that you can’t do or have to do differently in your workflow compared to the previous version of Shapr3D that makes it more complicated?