I’m getting fed up with the constant upgrades required on my mac. It seems that twice or three times a week I’m having to upgrade Shapr3D on the mac because it’s incompatible with the iPad version. I wouldn’t mind so much if the download only took a minute or two but I’m having to wait 30-40 minutes before I can output this from Mac Shapr3D to an STL for my slicer, before putting it on a card for printing. Totally infuriating.
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Agree forced updates on only major updates.
Other way around try to open on iPad and can’t open the file. If you are offsite you need internet to download the update to open file.
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Hi and Welcome.
Fortunately, there is no update 3 times a week. What does it have to do with the iPad?
What connection do you have? Because 40 minutes of downloading is huge.
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Well, maybe I’m exaggerating on the three times a week, but it’s really often. My internet connection is fine, nothing else takes such a long time to download. But seriously, there are too many updates. What I’ve decided to do is export the STL on my iPad and open it up on my Mac. It’s a solution, but it doesn’t solve the issue that I’m having to upgrade Shapr3D far too often.
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Hi, I only have a pretty normal 50Mbit connection and the Download for the updates rarely exceeds the 5 min mark. Maybe there is something you can optimize with your internet connection. Maybe a weak Wlan signal?
To be honest I’m always excited about the constant updates and features we get. But luckily it’s not a big deal to update shapr3D for me.
I understand the annoyance if you work on different machines and have to update every machine for over half an hour. I work on two Desktops and one iPad. But so far it works seamlessly.
Do you update via App Store or do you download from the website directly?
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If you transfer files between shapr3d on the iPad and Mac you often are forced to update one or the other due to version incompatibility.
Also, I believe there are .1 type releases on these platforms that aren’t posted to the announcements, don’t force an update notice and aren’t automatically updated. And you wouldn’t know unless you get the incompatibility message or if you randomly click on the app on the App Store and see the “update” button on the app page as it shows up to date on both platforms in the “list” of apps.
Anyway, this doesn’t bother me currently but I can see where your workflow would be interrupted if you didn’t have internet and while having incompatible versions. I am using iPad and Mac more frequently so this will continue to be an annoyance.
Shapr3d Cloud is kind for forward thinking and also backwards at the same time.
If its cloud based why does my file need to be constantly upgraded? Is the Cloud in Shapr3d just a built in Dropbox without other cloud benefits?
More than 5 min happens when the new update releases the day of and slows down when everyone download all at once the typical file size for the update is 1.5gigs.
Few days later offsite, open iPad and now requires update.
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