How do I disable this? Every time I click a line or an edge, I have to select something from this pop-up menu. I don’t keep track of what’s what, and it’s unnecessary to have to do this every time.
This menu appears when you try to select one of several overlapping elements (edge, face, body, etc.).
It can’t be disabled, because otherwise the app wouldn’t know which element you’re trying to select.
To tell you what is overlapping we need to see your project. It’s impossible to say only by one screenshot.
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Try to zoom in before select. Looks like you just clicking on several edges at one because of zoom level.
Here´s a video showing no overlap whatsoever.
I have to zoom in on stuff now just to click on them? Shapr is getting dumber by the update.
I’d say it’s actually getting smarter — it now lets you choose what you want instead of automatically picking something at random.
If you can’t hit the right edge at that zoom level, would you really prefer it just picked one at random?
I´d say you´re wrong. I CAN hit the right edge at that zoom level. I see both. I don´t need a extra menu to click on just to select something I can see with my eyes.
This video shows the stupidity of the function.. As you can clearly see the line is highlighted with the mouse yet the popup menu appear. Ya´ll need glasses.
What I clearly see is that your mouse cursor is between two edges when you click. But I agree — it shouldn’t highlight just one edge in that situation.
screenshot from your video
Can´t be more obvious than this. Look when I move the cursor after clicking, it´s dead center on the actual line.
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This is even worse on the iPad, at lease you get selection popup. On the iPad no hover to preview selection.
New Apple Pencil has Hover Feature why not implement it?
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Explanation is easy, cursor is to close to several edges what is cause this popup appears. Maybe they will tweak this in the future a little bit.
I think they will implement that eventually.
Here are two videos. In the first one, I select the edge the way I normally do — as you can see, no menu pops up.
Mac:
iPad
In the second video, I deliberately click in the wrong spot to “fool” the app.
Mac:
iPad:
So, what can we conclude? It looks like the issue might be more about how we interact with the app rather than the app itself.
Still, that doesn’t change the fact that there’s room for improvement — and I’m sure they’ll address it eventually.
I hope so, started using Shapr less on the iPad. Once you start building something more complex it becomes a burden, these simple demo looks like it could be manageable but in real life projects trying to select something simple and getting a long list of options vs what we did before manually hiding, I prefer the manual way.
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Why not just do it like before — hide the extra elements at first and choose only if necessary?
I agree that the popup menu can be a bit annoying and the selection process definitely needs improvement. But the developers are actively working on the app and regularly making adjustments.
If you have a better idea for how the app should handle selecting overlapping elements, feel free to describe it — the developers might take your suggestion into account.
As for me, I don’t consider the old behavior acceptable, where one of the elements was selected automatically without any control when there were overlaps.
I did, it was expend the settings and toggle the feature on and off.
Doing it like before would be selecting something even if it was a mistake I would know and go hide. Which is the reason why I request toggle feature. I don’t instinctively know ahead of time my selection would be incorrect.
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I wouldn’t really call this an improvement — it’s more like disabling the current behavior.
I see your point.
Unfortunately or fortunately, the app is not standing still, and we also need to change our habits.
Just remember how much outrage there was when the app introduced the history feature, and how it suddenly started to interfere with many people’s work. But for me, if they hadn’t introduced the parametric approach with history, I probably would never have switched to Shapr3D at all.