Seems like part of the reason it lags, even on newer hardware is that they aren’t taking advantage of the full processor. Even on my M4 Pro MacBook Pro, you can watch the CPU hit 100% and sit while it’s doing something whereas, a true multithreaded application would be using all cores and I’d see ~1200-1300% cpu like you do with things like Handbrake.
As much as I hate the slow downs, to me, the pricing is still the thing that heavily irritates me and has me looking at alternatives. I’m not using Shapr for work. I’m not selling things. I just like making things for around the house and generally tinkering with modeling and 3d printing. That being the case, $40/mo or $300/annually is still quite expensive for someone that’s just wanting to use it as a hobby but they seem to not remotely care about pricing for hobbyists. “We can’t find a pricing structure that works for hobby”. Well.. then I hope WAY more of your customers are using it for business and ok with your prices because, if you can’t fix some of the issues, the hobbyists are still paying, won’t stick around and then you’ll be without a price plan and a job.
The bad thing is though, the alternatives typically don’t run well or at all on an iPad. I’ve REALLY come to like using my iPad Pro with Shapr. Then there’s also things like.. you wanna talk about crap performance.. even on this brand new M4 Pro MacBook Pro, Fusion360 is super slow to start, and just doesn’t feel smooth at all.
Agreed. But it lacks critual features like being able to have more than one file open, linked components (modifying a separate file will update it’s incidence in another file where it’s embedded), proper textured previews with decent lighting. - Like Autodesk Fusion! So we now create rough concepts in Shapr3D then move over to Fusion to do the big boy stuff. The real annoyance is not being able to see logos and other bitmap or png artwork on Rendered models.
And Shapr3D is very expensive, almost as much as the full Adobe CC suite. It needs to decide what it is, else Shapr3D will go the way of the Amiga.
Totally agree with you… The hobby / 3D printing community has been requesting a light version of Shapr where models can be exported with a high resolution. People would be willing to pay for a light version that doesn’t have all the professional features + no support from shapr… Yet they somehow manage to ignore this request.
It is amazing when companies bitch about their software being pirated yet when people even specifically tell them they would pay for it, if their requirements are met, they simply ignore the community.
I couldn‘t agree more! This app has become weird! It used to be a simple well thought out app that worked pretty well. But the latest version have become more and more complex and things that used to work earlier do not work anymore and old problems have not been solved yet. Is there a new team/lead who does not understand what the benefits of the earlier app was?
Sorry, but this is not true. Basically EVERY item has a name. Even if it is not named by you, Shapr does that. And still, even if you name it, you get suggestions that repeat the chosen name like 3 times, making useless suggestions what to select.
This can happen if we select a multiple connected corner (which I think is unrealistic) but here I also get the description I renamed. Of course, this can still be improved, for example, if I select a row, it is highlighted, if it is good, then a check mark at the end of the row.. I think the direction is good, because it is easier than hiding and unhiding the bodies if I want to change it a little..
When selecting sketches, where to define points on a line, one needs to draw another line over it - this is (at least my) problem: It shows you a view with: Line 1, Line 4, etc. To be honest, I’d like to turn this feature off, at least for sketch mode.
