Thread Tool

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And guess what..we didn’t get either.

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Thanks for letting me know. I thought we were still independent, I guess I’ll need to look into our shareholders book. Siemens is a nice company, I’m sure that we’ll get along well with them.

Threads are coming next year. 2026 we are adding many more mechanical related features, like:

  • threads (rendered and geometric threads)
  • holes
  • components, assemblies
  • other additions to the core modeling workflow

Unfortunately due to the accumulation of technical debt over the years, we had to slow down delivering new modeling tools this year, but now we are back on track, and you can expect many more core modeling tool additions next year, and a unified experience across the different modeling tools.

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Pattern Along Path / Follow Curve — Is it supported in Shapr3D?
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I let my subscription lapse for a couple years nows like many have due to this. I keep following the community posts hoping Shapr will make these changes. I hope you understand peoples frustrations and disbelief when you say these things are coming. We’ve been hearing it’s coming for years. Threads have been the most requested feature I’ve seen since I found out about Shapr years ago. Followed closely by components and assemblies. Many feel (IMHO) that this is just more carrot dangling. It feels like a bad relationship with someone you love that keeps telling you that they’ll change and you stick around wanting to believe them. Threads should have been implemented long before the UI change, history based, pretty much anything that’s been done the last three or so years. I really do hope you follow through with your claims on these implementations and not keep stringing customers along. Shapr is an awesome tool, but it could be so much more if you listened to your customer base.

Good Luck in the new year.

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Are you being serious?

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It’s a joke. Istvan should know very well who owns Shapr.

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I assume my “technical debt” you mean that you lost some key personnel and have only recently replaced them?

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No, technical debt is the source code getting so complicated that it requires structural changes before additional features can be developed. It happens in software companies from time to time, slowing down development.

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No, I’m not. I hope I know who owns the company. It’s mostly me, and Siemens is not a shareholder. I was joking.

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Understandable, indeed we slipped with the development of many larger features you are right. At the same time you have to consider that a cad system has tremendous breadth and depth, and there are many many features that other users find equally important. We could have the same discussion about at least 20-30 larger features, all of which are considered to be “basic” by many other users. We have hundreds of thousands of monthly active users, it’s fairly normal to have many feature requests from a large user base. Regardless we should do better with setting expectations and shipping faster - especially with the latter. I’m not happy with our product development velocity, and we’ve done many changes this year to improve it.

Historically Shapr focused on conceptual modeling and right now we are in a transition to cover a larger part of the workflow. Adding parametric modeling was a larger undertaking, and it took us quite some time to finish that work. Now that’s ready and we can focus on adding more core modeling functionality.

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131

Hello,
I am a mechanical designer from China working in the analytical instruments and IVD (In Vitro Diagnostics) field. I am also a loyal Shapr3D user and have been using it continuously for over five years. It is my primary productivity tool.

However, due to the limited functionality of Shapr3D, I often run into obstacles. For example, when I need to perform motion or mechanism simulations, or when I need to create proper engineering drawings (although Shapr3D can generate 2D drawings, its capabilities are still far behind those of mainstream CAD software), I have no choice but to export parts one by one into SolidWorks to continue the workflow. Overall, the experience is quite frustrating.

I visit the community almost every day to see whether there are discussions or announcements about new features. I look forward to every update, hoping to see meaningful improvements, but I am disappointed almost every time. It feels like your team may have misunderstood the direction and priorities of development.

I sincerely hope that your team will prioritize completing the most requested and urgently needed features by users, such as a proper threading tool, assemblies, sheet metal tools, and other fundamental capabilities. These are basic features that are critically important for professional users.

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This is a fairly good example of what I mentioned. There are lots of users, companies, including large enterprises, who are happily using Shapr3D to accelerate their product development.

However, there are also a lot of users who consider basic functionality that we do not have at the moment:

  • CAM
  • multi-phyiscs simulations
  • sheet metal modeling
  • sculpting
  • assemblies
  • PLM
  • etc.

We are catching up in many of these areas, but at the same time we want to build a differentiated product, not a legacy CAD copycat. Because of that, Shapr3D really shines at:

  • usability and accessibility
  • rapid modeling and prototyping
  • rapid visualization
  • VR/AR capabilities
  • sharing and collaboration
  • mobility

And of course we have a lot of work to do to catch up with the core modeling functionality, and we should do a much better job with setting expectations and accelerating product development, shipping more features faster.

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Focus on this please! Maybe the user can bandaid some of the missing items.

Wait I reread it, I thought it said scripting!

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