Join lines into one face

With great difficulty I recreated a sketch I did easily in Adobe Illustrator (see attached), however it is not appearing as a face when I exit sketching mode. It is just a bunch of separate lines. Therefore I can’t extrude it or anything else. I zoomed in super close and made sure all points are connected. How can I join all points so it appears as one face?

Greatly improved sketching capabilities would make Shapr3D a great product.

It’s hard to tell why you can’t extrude your sketch from only image. You can share your project so we can inspect.

But I don’t agree about sketching ability of shapr3D. So I want to show you how easy to reproduce your sketch.

I didn’t use any hotkeys intentionally so you can follow my movements. Otherwise the process would be much quicker.

All of your videos just spin the arrow. I have to download and use a video player to see them. Other’s videos work fine. Consider using a 3rd party video capture please.

What device are you using? I’ve tried to play my videos on all my devices in all kind of browsers everywhere they playing ok.

Windows laptop. Spins in both Firefox and Chrome. yesterday pushing play the timeline would advance but no frame advance and I could download it and it would play fine. Now I can’t download it to play and it just spins. Likely a codec problem.

This one is better?

No. Back to no action on the timeline unless I use the mouse to advance then the action stalls again. If I right click and open in new tab, I can then download it, click on it and play it. What codec are you using in your mov files?

Chances are, you do have a gap somewhere. Do this to troubleshoot and find the gap.

Be nice if there was an “Auto-join” function.

h264. This is the only normal way to keep video quality and stay in 30mb limit.

I can view that one. Thanks.

I can’t view them on a Windows laptop either. Tried two browsers.

This one is ok?
https://videos.tsbl.net/1080.mp4

Or this

Here’s one of many ways to create this body.

Not bad. I just like to be more parametric. So I can easily adjust form later

I totally understand and agree with post adjustment capabilities with parametric. You provide sound examples. I’m not on board yet with the parametric version and I will be once it’s released. I will have to change my workflow once I get on board. So far, I’m used to minimizing sketches and discarding them provided they no longer needed.

Istvan said in the next month will be final release.
I came from other CAD where parametric+variables were for ages so I just can’t do only direct modeling anymore :slight_smile:

In my career I managed engineers that used a variety of CAD programs (Pro-E, Solidworks, Delcam PowerShape, Geomagic, and Freeform to name a few). I was never hands-on other than a one week course in Pro-E for managers back in the day. After I retired I discovered Shapr3D and never looked back. I find direct modeling fast and intuitive and am able to design and 3D print quite efficiently. Although I have an iMac Pro, I prefer doing all my modeling on my iPad Pro. I only use the keyboard for naming bodies and exporting.

An essentially identical story for me as well. Although I do own a copy of SolidWorks, and tried several other programs before discovering Shapr3D. I tried SketchUp, 123D (AutoCAD), Fusion, and some other hokey wanabes. Haven’t touched anything since.

I suspect it has to do with the .mov extension. Can you save as a .mp4?