# Suggestion for the Hobbyist User Problem

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/suggestion-for-the-hobbyist-user-problem/40993>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [June 5, 2026, 8:42am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/suggestion-for-the-hobbyist-user-problem/40993 "2026-06-05T08:42:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Morskul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@Morskul](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Morskul)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 8:42am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/suggestion-for-the-hobbyist-user-problem/40993/1 "2026-06-05T08:42:07Z")

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I love your software. It is by far the most intuitive hard-surface modeling tool I have ever used.

For me, it would be the perfect way to enjoy my hobby occasionally while traveling or on the couch.

At the same time, as a pure hobbyist with an average German income and limited hobby time alongside work and family life, the subscription is simply too expensive for me to justify. Whenever I actually get the chance to use it, I feel your pricing is completely fair. The problem is that I often go for weeks without touching it at all.

I am absolutely willing to pay for your awesome tool, but a monthly subscription is simply the wrong model for someone like me.

And because I’d rather ask than quietly be frustrated, here’s a suggestion that could both earn money from me and probably make quite a few hobby users happy:

**Pay-Per-Project Pro Access**

I would happily pay €10–20 for each project if I knew I could work on it at my own pace, leave it untouched for a few weeks if necessary, and then come back to finish it later.

I would be perfectly fine if such projects came with limitations, such as a restricted number of exports or a limited number of edits, so that it would remain a genuine hobby-user option rather than becoming a loophole for cheap professional use.

In other words, I don’t want to use your software for free. I simply need a payment model that better matches the irregular way I and I think many other hobbyists actually work.

Just my two Cents…

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**Author:** ![jnygaard.dk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e68b1a/32.png) [@jnygaard.dk](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/jnygaard.dk)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/suggestion-for-the-hobbyist-user-problem/40993/2 "2026-06-11T18:54:04Z")

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Hi,

I TOTALLY agree! Shapr needs a (better) way to include hobbyist.

Why not just do like Fusion and OnShape: Free for non-commercial use, as long as your design are made public.

That way Shapr wouldn’t have to “fake a bug”, so we can’t turn off sync to cloud and they can steal out data for AI training. Which is what must be going on at present.

For a while, I was riding the Trail-train. Do the design in free mode and once ready for export, sign up for the 14 days trail. But that became cumbersome, once I started doing more 3D printing here and there…