When you reach 10 you have to delete one to create a new one.
This does not effect me as I will be staying on the pro/business version BUT, to make this clear if the hobby guys have finished with a project then export it to an STL file say for printing OR SAVE IT, out of Shapr3D on iCloud or so then they delete that design the that frees up number of designs??
If that is the case then you need to promote it as that would solve this issue and I cannot see anybody complaint then.
Also another point if you draw on ONE page many parts, using folders etc. Designing say an entire engine and or house, then is that one file considered one project, if so then once again that needs to be made clear and then once again nobody could complain.
Apologies if I am not correct or complicating things but I am just trying to see if there is possible misunderstandings that if cleared up could help Shapr3D and the users.
We all want to expand and grow this great product, the more users the better.
All the time we can see that more and more features are being added, so I think there are exciting times ahead.
Hi, if I already have an free educational license, hos much will I have to pay when I have finishen my studies?
Yes, correct.
Correct.
Well that being the case you guys at Shapr3D need to promote these points as then I cannot see how these guys can moan. Do a promotional video or something explaining this and then it will be great.
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You can export a Shapr file and get it back as an editable project? Not a (for some reason lores) STL, but the actual file that I can import back into Shapr and make changes to later?
No. You can only export STL files, so your editing options after reimporting are limited. But you can also create multiple folders in a single design and hide them etc.
Ugh. These limitations are just confusing. Can the hobby version just be that same as pro but with a non-commercial license?
No, unfortunately we can’t do that.
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So the ability to save the native .shapr file is only available at the Pro/Business level? The free and hobby levels only get STL?
Include all features (including drawing etc) of Pro/Business in Hobby and limit designs to 10. That will be a win-win for user and Shapr3D.
My free educational subscription is equal to a PRO license which means it may be transferred to a business license to same cost as a PRO before 8/3-2021?
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I hope so too, otherwise someone would be really unhappy.
Just to clarify an earlier comment, Fusion 360 for Personal Use only allows 10 active designs at a time. Any beyond that are off-loaded to an online archive. To work on an archived design, an active design has to be archived. If Shapr3D Hobbyist would allow exporting excess designs like that, it would be closer to the Fusion Personal Use license.
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Right. And it’s free. And they offer exporting into many different formats (.f3d, .f3z, .fbx, .iam, .ipt, .obj, .skp, .smt, .step, .stl, .stp) and importing (*.123dx, *.dxfs, *.f3d, *.f3z, *.fbx, *.ige, *.iges, *.igs, *.obj, *.ste, *.step, *.stl, *.stp) in this tier.
Here, we would be paying $150/yr for an arbitrarily limited .stl export, reinforcing the hostile attitude towards users “we are not to be trusted with our own creation and must pay Shapr for life in order to utilize them.”
No answer??
Educational licenses are Business licenses. If you’ve had a Pro EDU license previously, it has become a Business EDU license on Monday
But how much do i have to pay later when my studies are over?
“Right. And it’s free. And they offer exporting into many different formats (.f3d, .f3z, .fbx, .iam, .ipt, .obj, .skp, .smt, .step, .stl, .stp) and importing (*.123dx, *.dxfs, *.f3d, *.f3z, *.fbx, *.ige, *.iges, *.igs, *.obj, *.ste, *.step, *.stl, .stp) in this tier”
f3d, .f3z, .fbx, .iam, .ipt, and .smt are all autodesk proprietary formats for Fusion360 and autodesk inventor. 123dx is also an autodesk format. Shapr3d has 1 native format to deal with so this comparison is unfair. It also shows how autodesk would prefer to keep you in their software ecosystem and not jump ship to others.
.stp and .step are the same file format, same with .ige, .igs, and .iges. You can interchange the file extensions yourself and test it out.
Number of formats does not necessarily equal increased value.
Also Fusion 360 builds upon years of development of Autodesk Inventor, Mechanical Desktop, and Autocad so Fusion 360’s ability to give away exporting all those formats for free has been subsidized by at least 2 decades of companies large and small paying thousands of dollars per license of those software packages.
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Alright sure, remove all the formats that benefit Autodesk.
How about just one. The most common model format, .obj. That would allow you to at least have an option of not paying Shapr in perpetuity to do anything with the work you’ve created.
They are forcing vendor lock in here. Hostility towards users for no reason other than money.