I wish program/app offered a lifetime purchase option. I love Shaper3d but can't justify the 20 a month for a hobby. Lifetime free user I'll stay I guess. I love your Shaper3d videos!
I've never heard of Shapr3D. It's nice to see so much competition in the 3d modeling world. 9:02 Push Pull is only for extruding "normal to" a face. Use a window to quickly select only the mitered face then M for move and you can drag it horizontally to change the length. After activating the move command you can tap the right keyboard arrow to constrain it to move in line with the red axis. Type in the distance moved and it will move that exact length. 12:36 Draw an angled construction line for the new angle, another construction line on top to define the overall height and another for the bottom of the joint. Now rotate the face to match the new angle. Use a window to select only the edges needed to adjust the height to the guide lines you already set for both the top surface and the mortise. This is for pivoting at the top to change the angle. Add the height guideline to the bottom if you're pivoting off the bottom. Super fast and easy. 15:53 SketchUp files drag and drop directly into VCarve Pro with many options for importing. Not free compared to Fusion but a fast and efficient workflow from 3d CAD to 2d CAM.
@@BevelishCreations As a wise man named Aaron Dietzen once said, there's more than one way up the mountain. SketchUp is one of the few programs I've seen that has multiple ways to perform the same actions without the whole mess feeling like bloatware. It's just about what's more intuitive for you and your workflow.
THANK YOU! I was hoping someone else pointed out the move tool for the 9:00 mark instead of scaling. I mean, we all learn differently, such as learning the move and push/pull tool before the scale tool, ergo it's the go-to method for resizing something along one axis. Are you active on the SketchUp forums?
I used to go on there, but haven’t for a year or so. I never thought of using the move tool for changing angled surfaces before this. It make sense now since it’s a surface modeler and the faces are treated as different surfaces lol
The iPad/shaper combo is incredible to say the least. It’s seriously unbelievably intuitive. I’ve come from auto desk and sketch up products and prefer shaper. For my hobbyist and woodworking creations.
Thanks for the walkthrough. I just started using Shapr3D after using Sketchup for over a decade and am trying to get familiar with it. I appreciate the video.
This is exactly the kind of content I needed! Thank you. Your Shapr3D videos have been incredibly helpful and your style of teaching is clear and concise.
Man I would love to move around either of these programs half as quick as you do. Thanks so much for the comparison, you are clearly very experienced and knowledgeable!
Unfortunately for me, just too dear at $20 US a month for my woodworking hobby. Would love to have a version thats say $5-10 a month or buy it just the once at a good price. Doesn’t need to have all bells and whistles. Think they are missing a fair few people signing up because of the pricing. Would also be nice to have certain templates pre loaded to select from so one doesn’t have to create everything from scratch. For woodworking there are plenty of boxes one could adjust and reuse for projects. I really hate sketchups way of entering a size and with no easy way of changing it on the fly compared to shapr.
I absolutely love your stuff on Shapr3D. I have used Sketchup but personally did not find it very intuitive. Maybe that is just my age. I really appreciate you doing the video on wood working joints, it was the clincher for me switching to Shapr3D. I have a wood working CNC machine on order to help me accelerate and broaden my wood working offerings. The machine is an Infinity One Elite Journeyman. The Manufacturer has a lot of videos on how to do projects on the equipment and always references the fact that he uses Shapr3D. That is what made me look at your site and then after seeing your extremely helpful demonstrations I was hooked. I have of course subscribed to your channel. Thanks for the great content. Cheers John
Thank you for the detailed comparison. I have been comparing Fusion 360 to SketchUp and this helps me also understand how shaper 3D compares. Free version of fusion 360 seems to offer significantly more features than either of those two. With proper parametric modeling I need to build one miter box and never have to create another one - just instantiate and set new parameters.
Thanks Alex, I think it's a fair comparison. Especially pointing out that one is a solid modeler, vs surface modeler, and thus will just have inherent pros and cons. Good stuff. SU does have a beta of their iPad version out, be curious if you ever try that. Hope you are well!
What a great comparison! Thanks a lot the effort you were putting into this for us! Would be interesting to see your take on both applications now since a lot of enhancements were made. 😊
One thing that I think was missed in this review was the added feature in SketchUp Pro, Layout, for producing 2D documents of ones projects. I'm curious as to what Shapr3D has for producing such documents. I will be checking our their website for that as well. Great review! Lots to consider! thank you!
The type of geometry sketchup uses already kinder disqualifies it when compared to shapr. A lot of “sketchup is easy to learn” goes puff into thin air the moment u need to model details or adjust the geometry. There sketchup really shows that it we made to visualize houses and blocky design and it detailed work. Easy to learn with sketchup means limited toolset and abilities too !!! What it currently has as an advantage is the component and uv texturing tool while sketchup uv unwrapped is also pretty basic
Thanks for the videos on Shapr3D. I build furniture also and tried to learn SketchUp, but my limited computer skills made it very confusing and frustrating. I found your channel when researching Fusion 360 and now I'm seriously considering getting an iPad to use Shapr3D. I subscribed in hopes of more CAD content to learn from.
I know enough about sketchup to get the job done. So I don’t really WANT to learn a new program. However… I use my ipad ALOT. And to be able to design on my ipad is great. It also looks as though I may like shaper3d better. I am definitely going to give it a try.
What an excellent review, well done. I want to create models for 3D printing various parts. What would you recommend? I have some Sketchup experience but found it frustrating in some ways.
Between SketchUp and Shapr3D? I’d recommend 100% Shapr3D because you can export the model in most of the industry-standard formats for manufacturing (CNC, laser, 3D printing)
I'll start with that I pay for Shapr3d and Sketchup and am not paid by either one like this guy in the video. He does have a lot of great videos for shapr3d though, but clearly biased. Sketchup is overwhelming at first but it also wasn't designed for the ipad. The simplicity of Shapr3d is amazing, virtually no learning curve, and it's so easy to sit and design with the pencil. Now I use both for woodworking, as a hobbyist mostly, and often in conjunction when I've done bigger projects like my kitchen. I've spent a decent amount of time on both now and there is a reason you never see actual woodworkers using Shapr3d but instead using Sketchup. THE CUTLIST capability on sketchup, without it shaprd3d doesn't cut it (see what i did there) leaving it as concept drawings! **talking about woodworking here** Until the create that function sketchup will always be the best for woodworking and now they have an app for the ipad (haven't tried it). Shapr3d is best used for 3d printers and/or my Shapeoko CNC router; where high precision really maters, CAM applications. Most casual woodworkers, like myself, just want straight lines, don't need to spin a cabinet around to see if its perfect, and simply don't need that high level of detail that Shapr3d offers nor want to drop 1k on an ipad and ipad pencil (I did though). I just tried the desktop version of Shapr3d and it's a joke next to sketchup, if you have to use a laptop get the free 2017 version of sketchup. All that said, I use the free 2017 version of sketchup and it's great.
I’m biased only because I actually like Shapr3D better. I have also paid for both programs before. I stopped using Sketchup the moment I found Shapr3D. Even when I only used Sketchup, I never used the cutlist extension because it was inconsistent and I always preferred making my own cutting diagrams. Also, Sketchup 2017 is nearly unusable now if you use a Mac, which I do
@@BevelishCreations Oh when I don't need a cutlist or it's a smaller project then I 100% prefer Shapr3d over Sketchup, which is what I started with. I watched a lot of your stuff to learn, you got great stuff btw didn't mean to come off rude. Shapr3d is crazy simple to pickup, I imagine a 10 year old/younger could figure it out. As a hobbyist/weekend warrior with minimal experience (also able to convince your wife its part of the project expense) I would agree that Shapr3d is a better place to start.
Great video! I'm a little late to the party, since I *JUST* heard of Shapr3D. Looks like they've increased their price, though, so it's now the same price (per year) as Sketchup Pro. I wish it were possible to merge parts of these two programs. The modeling looks great on Shapr3D, but I've come to rely too much on extensions like OpenCutList in Sketchup. Incidentally (and someone else may have mentioned this in another comment)... the part where you said it's difficult to resize the piece with the 45° bevel cut in Sketchup.... would actually be really easy: just select the four lines that make up the end of the piece, and then use the Move tool to shorten/lengthen the piece as needed. It'll preserve the angle.
Nice video, Shaper on IPAD looks amazing. With that said, I found your method of drawing a simple box in Sketchup quite awkward. You can draw it as a simple rectangle, use the offset tool to pull the interior edge, then push/pull to extrude a box out of the shape. Takes literally seconds.
Right. I used the same method in Shapr3D just to make a comparison. It’s just a habit coming from car designing to keep everything separate at the beginning
It looks like Shapr3D have simplified their licensing and gotten rid of the Business tier and rolled the features into the Standard tier, making it even more attractive
I’ve made quite a few false starts with Sketchup because people said it was sooo easy to wrap your head around, yet I never found it very intuitive. At all. I can’t remember what steered me to Shapr3d but that program is very easy in comparison, especially using the pen. Right now the free program does it for me since my designing would be sporadic at best and entirely hobby related, but it would be nice to have a bit more that 2 designs going at once, just to keep them saved. It would also be nice to be able to create that technical drawing because one of 5he things I want to design is basically a “room”, except metal instead of wood, so having dimensions for all 5he stud as and whatnot would be handy. And how about a way to design components and save them to categories in a library? I know, a lot of wants for somebody using a free version, but $28/month is a bit steep for a hobbiest doing non-commercial work. Shoot, I’d take a one time purchase option good only for incremental updates. An upgrade fee for major updates, or even a full fee maybe. At least the user has the choice. Subscription based for private use blows great big goats.
Haha yep I remember you! you’re one of the mannnny who have asked for this video. :D hope this was helpful. I tried to keep the focus on just furniture design
Re: SketchUp adjusting length of a piece with a bevel on the end: I found (by accident) that if you double click the grouped object to edit, you can lasso that end with the bevel and then use the MOVE tool to adjust the length.
You do not use the push/pull tool in sketch-up to lengthen/shorten a plane that is not perpendicular to the x, y, z axes (red, green, blue axes) - highlight the perimeter of the non-perpendicular plane and use the tool to move the highlighted perimeter of said plane - everything attached to the perimeter (surface only) will follow. 1D lines make 2D planes, and stacking 2D planes (at the perimeters) makes 3D (hollow) objects. Hence, Sketch-up likes to build its 3D (hollow) objects by stacking/unstacking 2D plane-perimeters, and because 2D planes must have a perimeter you (stack/unstack) your 2D plane-perimeters by highlighting and moving the 2D perimeters. I am guessing here, but the likely reason Sketch-up uses 2D plane-perimeters to make 3D hollow objects is to minimize files sizes (bytes). A hollow 3D cube comprised of six infinitely thin 2D surfaces uses 99.9% less storage capacity and cpu's than a completely dense one.
Great video Alex! If I was designing a mobile wood storage caddy that was made up of multiple geometries of lumber, i.e. 2x4, 1x4, 2x2 & 3/4” plywood, could I assign different colors to the different dimensional lumber pieces during modeling? (I prefer to color my component for easier contrast and more efficient cultist development)
I've been using Shapr3D for a while for modeling stuff for 3D printing. Nothing compares to the ease of use for that. Unfortunately I haven't found the same thing with woodworking. I really want to be able to design something and then create a cut list for the project to take into the workshop. Since the first level paid package doesn't include 2D printouts, and the next level is just too expensive for my hobby needs, I haven't moved forward with my Shapr3D renewal. Sketchup has announced an iPad version is forthcoming. I'm curious to see how comparable that will be to Shapr3D's tablet experience.
For woodworking I’ve used the older free Sketchup 2017 version. I also use the freely available open cut list (OCL) extension and it is fantastic! It allows me to a) determine the lumber I need to buy and b) how I should breakdown the lumber. For my basic woodworking projects it works well and I recommend checking it out. That said, I did not know about shapr3d until watching this video and it looks very nice. I use Fusion 360 for modelling my 3D prints and shapr3d has some similar parametric capabilities. I will be checking it out for sure. Thank you for the very good comparison. Cheers 👍😎🇦🇺
This is what makes all the free cad worth or not, if it cannot do drawings it’s useless besides a 3D model. Drawing software is what makes or breaks these
I’d really love to try out the SketchUp iPad. Just haven’t had time to invest any time into it yet. I do have plans to make a video about it in the future though
Thank you so much for this video! I am looking to make projects and sell the design plans as pdf. Most people who I've seen do this tend to use sketchup or fusion 360. What is your opinion on the pdf export capability of shapr3d in this regard? Would this program be able to export pdfs in a way that would work as a sellable plan or would I need to export portions of it and then put those together through another program? Thanks a bunch!
Shapr and an ipad made all the difference for me actually doing a model. SketchUp just never worked for me. Shapr is rendering in different materials now too which is cool.
@@BevelishCreations maybe option for shadow file name on the cabinet etc. to differentiate which file and design we currently working on…idk how to explain this 🤣🤣so you don’t need to press it everytime to know which one…just read at the shadow name 🤣
Hi Alex, great stuff. The thing that bothers me most about any of these apps is that one spends the time to learn and become efficient with the app only to find out they have raised the price or changed the terms of use. I really like SPR3D but don’t use it enough to justify the price at this point anyway. I have been a CAD operator since the mid 80’s so I guess I’ll just keep using the free work version till I retire 😀👍
It can’t do cutlist the way the Cutlist Optimizer do it for Sketchup. But even when I used Sketchup, I preferred doing my own cutlist instead. Yeah I’ve seen people do interior design with this, but probably not as well as Sketchup. Sketchup was made for that kind of stuff.
Good Morning, I love your Videos, keep up the great work.. Where did you get the screen picture on your computer (the first one shown In the first 20 seconds) ? Please let me know, it’s awesome.
Hey sorry I missed your original question. I found the little guy on Reddit, but they didn’t have the resolution for my monitor, so I found a separate background, and put the little guy on the background to get the resolution I wanted.
@@BevelishCreations Thank you for letting me know. I would be willing to purchase a copy of it. I work off a 13" M1 MacBook Pro connect to a LG 5K Ultra. Please let me know how much it would cost and where I can send you money via PayPal if your willing. I really appreciate it, I'm not very good at tech things but I love the look of your Screen..
What about the drawings? If i create furniture design and want to make it I always make a drawing to print it out. I am not bringing my mac to the workshop full of dust and as I understand Sketchup will give you this feature for 299 where Shapr 3D asks 500. This is the only complaint I have with this software, everything else is superb, have made few designs already and super happy. But lets be honest 2D feature for extra 300 a year is way too expensive. For 600 you can get F360 with CAM, Rendering, simulation, drawings etc. Anyway, good owerview 👍🏽😊 thanks for sharing.
Yeah I wasn’t sure how many woodworkers would find the 2D drawing feature beneficial so I briefly touched on it. I agree, it’s pretty expensive for one feature
Edmundas, we heard your feedback and we've just made 2D drawings available in the lower tier as well. Actually, there's only 1 tier now , which costs the same as the old Standard tier but contains all the functionality of the higher tier. How does that sound?
I still have Sketchup Make 2017 but recently, they cut access to the 3D warehouse. And the web version is dreadful by comparison ... I’m definitely going to try out Shapr3D!
@@BevelishCreations I don’t know, I’ve just been getting a blank window for the past year or so! My workaround used to be to open the warehouse in a browser and download a Make 2017 file of whatever I wanted to important. But even that doesn’t work anymore, with the download menu only showing me files for Make 2018 or newer, not 2017.
Thanks for your great video. I'm really debating which of the two tools I should use and purchase beforehand. I was actually more inclined to buy Sketchup Pro for €319 per year (which is not a small amount), but your video opened my eyes more. Shapr 3D for $299 per year seems to be more efficient for my needs. However, and that's the big question... I'm not just interested in furniture/wood design, but rather furniture in the direction of industrial design, i.e. designing wood and metal pipes with leather or fabric. However, what I haven't come across with Shapr 3D is a model (with instructions for the tools) to design the Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer, for example. Can't you create a design like this and make it available as a video here on RUclips as well as in the Shapr 3D learning videos? There is a video like this from Sketchup on RUclips, but in time lapse without an explanation of how... If such a design is easily possible with Shapr 3D and the video shows how - I would immediately choose Shapr 3D. However, I'm still missing this and so I'm unsure whether it would be possible to design with it. Thanks so much.
Even if going free to play, I find more convenient shap3r. I can sketch on muy ipad and take it to my work area, and the free features are plenty powerful for woodworking aplication.
Nice video, very informative. If I designed a ski rack in Shapr3D and then wanted to show it rendered with actual skis. Would I have to create the skis as well, or does Shapr3D have a sort of Library I can download incidentals from? Or even basic environments I can place my designed parts/products to display them in a more realistic way?
Hey thanks. There are models of skis online you can download and insert into Shapr3D. They don’t have their own library. You can also insert images of basic environments into the render. But in my honest opinion, Cadmio is a better program for rendering
@@BevelishCreations Thanks for the prompt reply. I would then import the part into Cadmio for the rendering part. I am leaning towards the business membership with Shapr3D as I want to be able to sell the 2D Drawings of the parts I create as well.
Just model everything inside Shapr3D, and export the file into Cadmio for rendering. You can try shapr3D’s rendering first. Maybe you’ll like how it looks. Plus, you can use AR in Shapr3D to put the model and the skis into your actual environment
I've tried Shapr3d for almost 5 months. I'm still finding that some tools just take extra time and finish the work slower than Sketchup. I've to learn more about the Shapr3d tools work.
Sketchup is a poly modeler that to some extend offers some parametric adjustment - shapr is a full cad modeler that blows sketchup modeling out of the water when it comes to adjusting the design. Interesting that you find sketchup faster - sketchup is a much more labor intensive tool actually
Hola buen video, vengo de usar varios años autodesk maya lo usaba para hacer cosas basicas de diseños de muebles y fachadas de local comercial con render ....mi pregunta es si yo estoy en autodesk maya que me puede beneficiar este programa Sharp 3d? ( puede mejorar los tiempos de modelado?)... lo que me gusta del maya es que se puede hacer multiples cambios en la malla poligonal... y ajustar las medidas despues.....eso creo que no es tan sencillo en Sharp 3d o estoy equivocado?
Love the videos! I have a question about downloadable 3d files. I know SketchUp has available files for laying out your woodshop, with scale models of real tools. Im probably going with Shapr3D for furniture design but wondered if I can use it to layout my future shop upgrades.
@@BevelishCreations I've looked around on various sites and have found a few models. Any suggestions for good download sites? The ones I looked into were a little random as to their offerings.
HI from Spain. Thanks for this comparation. I was just wondering, are you working for a manufacturing furniture's company? Can I ask you for the brand? KR.
Sketchup used to be great back when you could use extensions and off the desktop even with the free versions, before Trimble turned it into a cashgrab. I'll keep rockin 2017 for as long as I can
Hi Alex, me again (GreyDesignwoodworking) Certainly feels like Shap3r3D is the design software of choice for modelling. I have 20 years experience in AutoCAD so you'd have thought i would just design my projects in that... Shap3r looks to me as though it would be easier and quicker. As for sketchup; I found that programme infuriating, having to make components and the if there was a change in dimensions having to redraw it. Anyway, as always. You ar great at what you do. I have nearly caught up with your back catalogue of content 🙂
Thank you! Hope you check out my latest Shapr3D tutorial. Both Sketchup and Shapr3D have their ups and downs for sure. But if you have any CAD background, Shapr3D will be easier to pick up
Does the Shapr3D free version give any printing capability? I like its format a lot for a stylus MS tablet but I don't want to take my tablet into my shop.
But that’s the thing right? The video is about which software to use for beginners. A solid modeler will always be more advantageous for modeling solids
Hi, do you think the new iPad air 5th generation is powerful enough to run shapr3d smoothly? and I also wanted to know if you design exclusively on the Ipad thank you.
Yes it should be fine. I know people who use the iPad Air for this. I do 90% of my designs on the iPad. I only switch to the desktop if I have to make plans
Hi. The pencil you use doesn’t look like an Apple pencil …. what is it, I am looking for an affordable pencil that works with Shapr. Thanks for you’re reply.
Is there any plugin or workaround to be able to edit multiple objects at the same time? The feature to edit a component and all of it's copies is what I like most from Sketchup.
I don’t think other electronic pencils are fully supported. For functions like splines, it needs to be able to feel the pressure. Not all electronic pencils have that pressure sensing function
What pencil are you using? I have serious issues keeping my apple brand pencil linked when I’m using shaper3d. Once I use my fingers to zoom or move my piece my pencil doesn’t work to draw anymore. Do you think thats an apple issue or shaper issue?
Hi I’m not sure which “flexometer” tool you mean. But I’m assuming you’re talking about the tool that make guide lines and then you draw along the guide lines? If that’s the case, that’s a difference between Sketchup and Shapr3D. Sketchup works more like sketching, where you use a tool (a ruler, a protractor, etc) to create guides, and then draw using a pencil. If you need to make a change to the skrtch, you’ll need to erase the sketch mark and start again. Shapr3D takes more of a traditional CAD approach where the sketches are updatable. So you make a random sketch line first, and then set dimensions to the sketch directly
How did you manage to use Shapr3d for 6 month in the free version??? You can't export anything. Not for 3D prints, so surely not for export to CAM either?? Any plans to do a 2024 update of this??? SketchUp now has an iPad version, so pls compare that to the HB parametric beta. And throw OnShape intot he mix too. They at least have a useable free version for hobbyiest....
I wish program/app offered a lifetime purchase option. I love Shaper3d but can't justify the 20 a month for a hobby. Lifetime free user I'll stay I guess.
I love your Shaper3d videos!
I've never heard of Shapr3D. It's nice to see so much competition in the 3d modeling world.
9:02 Push Pull is only for extruding "normal to" a face. Use a window to quickly select only the mitered face then M for move and you can drag it horizontally to change the length. After activating the move command you can tap the right keyboard arrow to constrain it to move in line with the red axis. Type in the distance moved and it will move that exact length.
12:36 Draw an angled construction line for the new angle, another construction line on top to define the overall height and another for the bottom of the joint. Now rotate the face to match the new angle. Use a window to select only the edges needed to adjust the height to the guide lines you already set for both the top surface and the mortise. This is for pivoting at the top to change the angle. Add the height guideline to the bottom if you're pivoting off the bottom. Super fast and easy.
15:53 SketchUp files drag and drop directly into VCarve Pro with many options for importing. Not free compared to Fusion but a fast and efficient workflow from 3d CAD to 2d CAM.
Thanks for letting me know! I didn’t know about these tricks :D
@@BevelishCreations As a wise man named Aaron Dietzen once said, there's more than one way up the mountain. SketchUp is one of the few programs I've seen that has multiple ways to perform the same actions without the whole mess feeling like bloatware. It's just about what's more intuitive for you and your workflow.
And that’s what I was trying to get across for people who haven’t used either
THANK YOU! I was hoping someone else pointed out the move tool for the 9:00 mark instead of scaling. I mean, we all learn differently, such as learning the move and push/pull tool before the scale tool, ergo it's the go-to method for resizing something along one axis. Are you active on the SketchUp forums?
I used to go on there, but haven’t for a year or so. I never thought of using the move tool for changing angled surfaces before this. It make sense now since it’s a surface modeler and the faces are treated as different surfaces lol
刚开始入门CAD 行业（自学） 从小就喜欢建筑类 设计 木工 等等（却无奈学了E.E.和MBA）现在自己有时间和精力了 也算得偿所愿 看到您的视频 也看了您的设计以及网站 和您的审美也算是对上了 很庆幸。希望您能够推出更精美的作品和视频 谢谢
Thanks for letting us know it was sponsored. Nothing worse that a disguised advertisement. Much appreciated.
The iPad/shaper combo is incredible to say the least. It’s seriously unbelievably intuitive. I’ve come from auto desk and sketch up products and prefer shaper. For my hobbyist and woodworking creations.
Thanks for the walkthrough. I just started using Shapr3D after using Sketchup for over a decade and am trying to get familiar with it. I appreciate the video.
Cool hope you like it. Both are great programs, just depends on which workflow you prefer
This is exactly the kind of content I needed! Thank you. Your Shapr3D videos have been incredibly helpful and your style of teaching is clear and concise.
Thank you! 😊
Man I would love to move around either of these programs half as quick as you do. Thanks so much for the comparison, you are clearly very experienced and knowledgeable!
Thank you :) I certainly didn’t do things the most efficient way in either programs, but just wanted to highlight the main differences
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19:46 Final thoughts
I found your comparison between the two products very educational and beneficial and helping me decide which one to go with in the near future
Thank you :)
Happy new year, great to see some new content from you
Happy new year!
This video helped me switch form Sketchup. Shapr3d give there software for free to students and educators here in the uk. Great business model
i've been ssing around on a friends soft soft for years, finally bought it. I found your videos and instantly subscribed and have been
Thank you!
Unfortunately for me, just too dear at $20 US a month for my woodworking hobby. Would love to have a version thats say $5-10 a month or buy it just the once at a good price. Doesn’t need to have all bells and whistles. Think they are missing a fair few people signing up because of the pricing. Would also be nice to have certain templates pre loaded to select from so one doesn’t have to create everything from scratch. For woodworking there are plenty of boxes one could adjust and reuse for projects. I really hate sketchups way of entering a size and with no easy way of changing it on the fly compared to shapr.
Why dont you try freecad ?
For wood working it is pretty solid and had a drawing module
Try free cad
Now it's 25
@MikeyDidwrong it was $20 last year
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I absolutely love your stuff on Shapr3D. I have used Sketchup but personally did not find it very intuitive. Maybe that is just my age. I really appreciate you doing the video on wood working joints, it was the clincher for me switching to Shapr3D. I have a wood working CNC machine on order to help me accelerate and broaden my wood working offerings. The machine is an Infinity One Elite Journeyman. The Manufacturer has a lot of videos on how to do projects on the equipment and always references the fact that he uses Shapr3D. That is what made me look at your site and then after seeing your extremely helpful demonstrations I was hooked. I have of course subscribed to your channel. Thanks for the great content. Cheers John
Thanks! I’m using a one finite now as well :)
Thank you for the detailed comparison. I have been comparing Fusion 360 to SketchUp and this helps me also understand how shaper 3D compares. Free version of fusion 360 seems to offer significantly more features than either of those two. With proper parametric modeling I need to build one miter box and never have to create another one - just instantiate and set new parameters.
I also use Fusion 360. There are a lot of features, but most aren’t really useful for me. I mainly use Fusion 360 for CAM now
Thanks Alex, I think it's a fair comparison. Especially pointing out that one is a solid modeler, vs surface modeler, and thus will just have inherent pros and cons. Good stuff. SU does have a beta of their iPad version out, be curious if you ever try that. Hope you are well!
Hey! I haven’t tried out the beta program yet. I’d love to give it a go. Where can I find that?
Just applied :D
What a great comparison! Thanks a lot the effort you were putting into this for us! Would be interesting to see your take on both applications now since a lot of enhancements were made. 😊
One thing that I think was missed in this review was the added feature in SketchUp Pro, Layout, for producing 2D documents of ones projects. I'm curious as to what Shapr3D has for producing such documents. I will be checking our their website for that as well. Great review! Lots to consider! thank you!
The type of geometry sketchup uses already kinder disqualifies it when compared to shapr.
A lot of “sketchup is easy to learn” goes puff into thin air the moment u need to model details or adjust the geometry. There sketchup really shows that it we made to visualize houses and blocky design and it detailed work.
Easy to learn with sketchup means limited toolset and abilities too !!!
What it currently has as an advantage is the component and uv texturing tool while sketchup uv unwrapped is also pretty basic
love shapr, i don't know anything about designing but i was able to get around the app pretty easily
Thanks for the videos on Shapr3D. I build furniture also and tried to learn SketchUp, but my limited computer skills made it very confusing and frustrating. I found your channel when researching Fusion 360 and now I'm seriously considering getting an iPad to use Shapr3D. I subscribed in hopes of more CAD content to learn from.
Thanks!
Love this how you went in details on the two programs, exactly what I’ve been looking for.
Awesome!
Great Video, I'm switching to Shapr3D.
question, what case are you using on this video on your iPad? 😄
Awesome! I don’t use a case. I had a Dbrand skin on it
I see a Bevelish video and I click it. Nuff said
I know enough about sketchup to get the job done. So I don’t really WANT to learn a new program. However… I use my ipad ALOT. And to be able to design on my ipad is great. It also looks as though I may like shaper3d better. I am definitely going to give it a try.
Yeah give it a try 😊
What an excellent review, well done. I want to create models for 3D printing various parts. What would you recommend? I have some Sketchup experience but found it frustrating in some ways.
Between SketchUp and Shapr3D? I’d recommend 100% Shapr3D because you can export the model in most of the industry-standard formats for manufacturing (CNC, laser, 3D printing)
I'll start with that I pay for Shapr3d and Sketchup and am not paid by either one like this guy in the video. He does have a lot of great videos for shapr3d though, but clearly biased.
Sketchup is overwhelming at first but it also wasn't designed for the ipad. The simplicity of Shapr3d is amazing, virtually no learning curve, and it's so easy to sit and design with the pencil.
Now I use both for woodworking, as a hobbyist mostly, and often in conjunction when I've done bigger projects like my kitchen. I've spent a decent amount of time on both now and there is a reason you never see actual woodworkers using Shapr3d but instead using Sketchup. THE CUTLIST capability on sketchup, without it shaprd3d doesn't cut it (see what i did there) leaving it as concept drawings! **talking about woodworking here** Until the create that function sketchup will always be the best for woodworking and now they have an app for the ipad (haven't tried it).
Shapr3d is best used for 3d printers and/or my Shapeoko CNC router; where high precision really maters, CAM applications. Most casual woodworkers, like myself, just want straight lines, don't need to spin a cabinet around to see if its perfect, and simply don't need that high level of detail that Shapr3d offers nor want to drop 1k on an ipad and ipad pencil (I did though). I just tried the desktop version of Shapr3d and it's a joke next to sketchup, if you have to use a laptop get the free 2017 version of sketchup. All that said, I use the free 2017 version of sketchup and it's great.
I’m biased only because I actually like Shapr3D better. I have also paid for both programs before. I stopped using Sketchup the moment I found Shapr3D. Even when I only used Sketchup, I never used the cutlist extension because it was inconsistent and I always preferred making my own cutting diagrams. Also, Sketchup 2017 is nearly unusable now if you use a Mac, which I do
@@BevelishCreations Oh when I don't need a cutlist or it's a smaller project then I 100% prefer Shapr3d over Sketchup, which is what I started with. I watched a lot of your stuff to learn, you got great stuff btw didn't mean to come off rude. Shapr3d is crazy simple to pickup, I imagine a 10 year old/younger could figure it out. As a hobbyist/weekend warrior with minimal experience (also able to convince your wife its part of the project expense) I would agree that Shapr3d is a better place to start.
No you didn’t come off as rude at all. Thanks for checking out my stuff :)
Great video! I'm a little late to the party, since I *JUST* heard of Shapr3D. Looks like they've increased their price, though, so it's now the same price (per year) as Sketchup Pro. I wish it were possible to merge parts of these two programs. The modeling looks great on Shapr3D, but I've come to rely too much on extensions like OpenCutList in Sketchup. Incidentally (and someone else may have mentioned this in another comment)... the part where you said it's difficult to resize the piece with the 45° bevel cut in Sketchup.... would actually be really easy: just select the four lines that make up the end of the piece, and then use the Move tool to shorten/lengthen the piece as needed. It'll preserve the angle.
Yes I realized this after I posted the video. Thank you! :D
Nice video, Shaper on IPAD looks amazing. With that said, I found your method of drawing a simple box in Sketchup quite awkward. You can draw it as a simple rectangle, use the offset tool to pull the interior edge, then push/pull to extrude a box out of the shape. Takes literally seconds.
Right. I used the same method in Shapr3D just to make a comparison. It’s just a habit coming from car designing to keep everything separate at the beginning
Which monitor do you have? That thing is nice
Samsung crg9
It looks like Shapr3D have simplified their licensing and gotten rid of the Business tier and rolled the features into the Standard tier, making it even more attractive
I’ve made quite a few false starts with Sketchup because people said it was sooo easy to wrap your head around, yet I never found it very intuitive. At all. I can’t remember what steered me to Shapr3d but that program is very easy in comparison, especially using the pen. Right now the free program does it for me since my designing would be sporadic at best and entirely hobby related, but it would be nice to have a bit more that 2 designs going at once, just to keep them saved. It would also be nice to be able to create that technical drawing because one of 5he things I want to design is basically a “room”, except metal instead of wood, so having dimensions for all 5he stud as and whatnot would be handy. And how about a way to design components and save them to categories in a library? I know, a lot of wants for somebody using a free version, but $28/month is a bit steep for a hobbiest doing non-commercial work. Shoot, I’d take a one time purchase option good only for incremental updates. An upgrade fee for major updates, or even a full fee maybe. At least the user has the choice. Subscription based for private use blows great big goats.
thanks so much for your sharing of such a powerful tool. Is it possible have Shapr3D design something hairy or fiber-like structures?
How cool is that tablet pen!
Thanks for this great help on the two of these
Thanks for watching
Thank for this video , Did you remember me last time i asked for this video
Haha yep I remember you! you’re one of the mannnny who have asked for this video. :D hope this was helpful. I tried to keep the focus on just furniture design
Re: SketchUp adjusting length of a piece with a bevel on the end: I found (by accident) that if you double click the grouped object to edit, you can lasso that end with the bevel and then use the MOVE tool to adjust the length.
Yeah I learned you can do that after the video was posted as well haha
You got me at 10:00 mark, sketch up is not my option!! 🙏😌
What he says there is actually false
You do not use the push/pull tool in sketch-up to lengthen/shorten a plane that is not perpendicular to the x, y, z axes (red, green, blue axes) - highlight the perimeter of the non-perpendicular plane and use the tool to move the highlighted perimeter of said plane - everything attached to the perimeter (surface only) will follow. 1D lines make 2D planes, and stacking 2D planes (at the perimeters) makes 3D (hollow) objects. Hence, Sketch-up likes to build its 3D (hollow) objects by stacking/unstacking 2D plane-perimeters, and because 2D planes must have a perimeter you (stack/unstack) your 2D plane-perimeters by highlighting and moving the 2D perimeters. I am guessing here, but the likely reason Sketch-up uses 2D plane-perimeters to make 3D hollow objects is to minimize files sizes (bytes). A hollow 3D cube comprised of six infinitely thin 2D surfaces uses 99.9% less storage capacity and cpu's than a completely dense one.
Great video and quite a rare find for a fellow furniture designer maker! Subscribed!
Thank you! I wanted to do something a little different and still provide value for everyone in this community:)
The download size of 1.2GB is a kicker for shapr3D as sketchup has an ipad version now at under 500mb
Great video Alex! If I was designing a mobile wood storage caddy that was made up of multiple geometries of lumber, i.e. 2x4, 1x4, 2x2 & 3/4” plywood, could I assign different colors to the different dimensional lumber pieces during modeling? (I prefer to color my component for easier contrast and more efficient cultist development)
Thanks! Yes you can assign different colors to different parts. It’s what I usually do as well 😀
I've been using Shapr3D for a while for modeling stuff for 3D printing. Nothing compares to the ease of use for that. Unfortunately I haven't found the same thing with woodworking. I really want to be able to design something and then create a cut list for the project to take into the workshop. Since the first level paid package doesn't include 2D printouts, and the next level is just too expensive for my hobby needs, I haven't moved forward with my Shapr3D renewal. Sketchup has announced an iPad version is forthcoming. I'm curious to see how comparable that will be to Shapr3D's tablet experience.
For woodworking I’ve used the older free Sketchup 2017 version. I also use the freely available open cut list (OCL) extension and it is fantastic! It allows me to a) determine the lumber I need to buy and b) how I should breakdown the lumber. For my basic woodworking projects it works well and I recommend checking it out.
That said, I did not know about shapr3d until watching this video and it looks very nice. I use Fusion 360 for modelling my 3D prints and shapr3d has some similar parametric capabilities. I will be checking it out for sure.
Thank you for the very good comparison. Cheers 👍😎🇦🇺
Justin, we hear you! We've just made technical drawings available in the "first level paid package" , called Shapr3D PRO.
@@Shapr3d This is great news and will likely trigger me to resubscribe. I’d stopped modeling for a while and am ready to dig back in.
The one major drawback to Shapr3D is that it has no way to produce dimensioned drawings which are vital for production.
This is what makes all the free cad worth or not, if it cannot do drawings it’s useless besides a 3D model. Drawing software is what makes or breaks these
Thanks for this one Alex, Can you make another one but this time using SketchUp Ipad?
I’d really love to try out the SketchUp iPad. Just haven’t had time to invest any time into it yet. I do have plans to make a video about it in the future though
Yes we'd love to see one and best if you actually did the proper research and be honest
I was being honest. This was honestly how I use Sketchup and my thoughts on it. If you know better ways, then that’s great.
Thank you so much for this video! I am looking to make projects and sell the design plans as pdf. Most people who I've seen do this tend to use sketchup or fusion 360. What is your opinion on the pdf export capability of shapr3d in this regard? Would this program be able to export pdfs in a way that would work as a sellable plan or would I need to export portions of it and then put those together through another program? Thanks a bunch!
Does shapr worth for desktop or only for ipad ? Architectural projects for exc.
Shapr and an ipad made all the difference for me actually doing a model. SketchUp just never worked for me. Shapr is rendering in different materials now too which is cool.
Yes it is!
I love shapr3d…almost everything I want 🤣 sketchup 😮💨😮💨😮💨 and I use autocad in the past…but so many option and guide directly from shapr3d
What options would you like to see from Shapr3D that they don’t have right now?
@@BevelishCreations maybe option for shadow file name on the cabinet etc. to differentiate which file and design we currently working on…idk how to explain this 🤣🤣so you don’t need to press it everytime to know which one…just read at the shadow name 🤣
You can name the files in Shapr3D. It’s just not in the front page
Hi Alex, great stuff. The thing that bothers me most about any of these apps is that one spends the time to learn and become efficient with the app only to find out they have raised the price or changed the terms of use. I really like SPR3D but don’t use it enough to justify the price at this point anyway. I have been a CAD operator since the mid 80’s so I guess I’ll just keep using the free work version till I retire 😀👍
Yeah I get what you’re saying haha. The free version is pretty good!
can you do a cut list form this also can it do interior design loved your video
It can’t do cutlist the way the Cutlist Optimizer do it for Sketchup. But even when I used Sketchup, I preferred doing my own cutlist instead. Yeah I’ve seen people do interior design with this, but probably not as well as Sketchup. Sketchup was made for that kind of stuff.
Can you create a cut list in Shapr?
Great video Alex. I just might have to take the plunge. IYHO, would the free version of Shapr3d be worth downloading even with it's limited features?
Yep it’s worth it. I used it for 6 months. It will definitely give you an idea whether it’s worth investing in
@@BevelishCreations Thank You Alex
Hi and thx for your video. Can you give me the name of your ipad pencil, please?
Yo, thanks for the nFo. Thanks for the comparison, it’s useful. Peace.
Thanks! :)
Good Morning, I love your Videos, keep up the great work.. Where did you get the screen picture on your computer (the first one shown In the first 20 seconds) ? Please let me know, it’s awesome.
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Hey sorry I missed your original question. I found the little guy on Reddit, but they didn’t have the resolution for my monitor, so I found a separate background, and put the little guy on the background to get the resolution I wanted.
@@BevelishCreations Thank you for letting me know. I would be willing to purchase a copy of it. I work off a 13" M1 MacBook Pro connect to a LG 5K Ultra. Please let me know how much it would cost and where I can send you money via PayPal if your willing. I really appreciate it, I'm not very good at tech things but I love the look of your Screen..
No need to pay. Send me an email to Bevelish.creations@gmail.com
What about the drawings? If i create furniture design and want to make it I always make a drawing to print it out. I am not bringing my mac to the workshop full of dust and as I understand Sketchup will give you this feature for 299 where Shapr 3D asks 500. This is the only complaint I have with this software, everything else is superb, have made few designs already and super happy. But lets be honest 2D feature for extra 300 a year is way too expensive. For 600 you can get F360 with CAM, Rendering, simulation, drawings etc. Anyway, good owerview 👍🏽😊 thanks for sharing.
Yeah I wasn’t sure how many woodworkers would find the 2D drawing feature beneficial so I briefly touched on it. I agree, it’s pretty expensive for one feature
@@BevelishCreations ❤ still very nice review, thanks for sharing
Edmundas, we heard your feedback and we've just made 2D drawings available in the lower tier as well. Actually, there's only 1 tier now , which costs the same as the old Standard tier but contains all the functionality of the higher tier. How does that sound?
@@Shapr3d that sounds amazing 🥳
I still have Sketchup Make 2017 but recently, they cut access to the 3D warehouse. And the web version is dreadful by comparison ... I’m definitely going to try out Shapr3D!
Oh what? Why would they cut off access to 3D warehouse? 🤬
@@BevelishCreations I don’t know, I’ve just been getting a blank window for the past year or so! My workaround used to be to open the warehouse in a browser and download a Make 2017 file of whatever I wanted to important. But even that doesn’t work anymore, with the download menu only showing me files for Make 2018 or newer, not 2017.
Thanks for your great video. I'm really debating which of the two tools I should use and purchase beforehand. I was actually more inclined to buy Sketchup Pro for €319 per year (which is not a small amount), but your video opened my eyes more. Shapr 3D for $299 per year seems to be more efficient for my needs. However, and that's the big question... I'm not just interested in furniture/wood design, but rather furniture in the direction of industrial design, i.e. designing wood and metal pipes with leather or fabric. However, what I haven't come across with Shapr 3D is a model (with instructions for the tools) to design the Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer, for example. Can't you create a design like this and make it available as a video here on RUclips as well as in the Shapr 3D learning videos? There is a video like this from Sketchup on RUclips, but in time lapse without an explanation of how... If such a design is easily possible with Shapr 3D and the video shows how - I would immediately choose Shapr 3D. However, I'm still missing this and so I'm unsure whether it would be possible to design with it. Thanks so much.
Yeah it can be done in Shapr3D. I can make a video about it. But I don’t know when yet.
Even if going free to play, I find more convenient shap3r. I can sketch on muy ipad and take it to my work area, and the free features are plenty powerful for woodworking aplication.
Yesss I used the free version for a long time before I switched over to the Pro version!
Love your vids, very simple and basic comparisons
Thanks
Shapr3D is great, just way over the budget
im usig sketchup 8 and iˇve made a lot ´´mini´´ 'cities for my friend who is making city models for our school
Cool!
Nice video, very informative. If I designed a ski rack in Shapr3D and then wanted to show it rendered with actual skis. Would I have to create the skis as well, or does Shapr3D have a sort of Library I can download incidentals from? Or even basic environments I can place my designed parts/products to display them in a more realistic way?
Hey thanks. There are models of skis online you can download and insert into Shapr3D. They don’t have their own library. You can also insert images of basic environments into the render. But in my honest opinion, Cadmio is a better program for rendering
@@BevelishCreations Thanks for the prompt reply. I would then import the part into Cadmio for the rendering part. I am leaning towards the business membership with Shapr3D as I want to be able to sell the 2D Drawings of the parts I create as well.
Just model everything inside Shapr3D, and export the file into Cadmio for rendering. You can try shapr3D’s rendering first. Maybe you’ll like how it looks. Plus, you can use AR in Shapr3D to put the model and the skis into your actual environment
I've tried Shapr3d for almost 5 months. I'm still finding that some tools just take extra time and finish the work slower than Sketchup. I've to learn more about the Shapr3d tools work.
Sketchup is perfectly fine if that’s the workflow that is better for you
Sketchup is a poly modeler that to some extend offers some parametric adjustment - shapr is a full cad modeler that blows sketchup modeling out of the water when it comes to adjusting the design. Interesting that you find sketchup faster - sketchup is a much more labor intensive tool actually
Thank you for such a comprehensive and detailed review
Thanks for watching
Hola buen video, vengo de usar varios años autodesk maya lo usaba para hacer cosas basicas de diseños de muebles y fachadas de local comercial con render ....mi pregunta es si yo estoy en autodesk maya que me puede beneficiar este programa Sharp 3d? ( puede mejorar los tiempos de modelado?)... lo que me gusta del maya es que se puede hacer multiples cambios en la malla poligonal... y ajustar las medidas despues.....eso creo que no es tan sencillo en Sharp 3d o estoy equivocado?
Love the videos! I have a question about downloadable 3d files. I know SketchUp has available files for laying out your woodshop, with scale models of real tools. Im probably going with Shapr3D for furniture design but wondered if I can use it to layout my future shop upgrades.
Yes you can. There are Solidworks files for Shapr3D. Although I don’t think there are as many files available as there are for Sketchup
@@BevelishCreations I've looked around on various sites and have found a few models. Any suggestions for good download sites? The ones I looked into were a little random as to their offerings.
Can you export a parts / cut list for woodworking in blender?
Я пользуюсь для навесов ...очень удобно!!!
Is it possible to design something in shaper3d and export it into a format that would play nice with the free SketchUp 2017 desktop version?
Thank you for this video!!!!!!!
Thanks for watching!
Im from Shapr3d but looking at Sketchup for its "wrap" features which shapr3d doesn't have.
I’m not familiar with that feature. It’s to wrap a surface around a solid?
HI from Spain. Thanks for this comparation. I was just wondering, are you working for a manufacturing furniture's company? Can I ask you for the brand? KR.
Hey! I do not work for anyone. I mainly just do this because I like it and share it with my audience :)
@@BevelishCreations you do it very well. Thanks for your work. Take care.
Sketchup used to be great back when you could use extensions and off the desktop even with the free versions, before Trimble turned it into a cashgrab. I'll keep rockin 2017 for as long as I can
my Sketchup 2017 doesn’t work anymore when I plug my MacBook Pro to an external computer. All the dimensions show up backwards 😂
Hi Alex, me again (GreyDesignwoodworking) Certainly feels like Shap3r3D is the design software of choice for modelling. I have 20 years experience in AutoCAD so you'd have thought i would just design my projects in that... Shap3r looks to me as though it would be easier and quicker. As for sketchup; I found that programme infuriating, having to make components and the if there was a change in dimensions having to redraw it. Anyway, as always. You ar great at what you do. I have nearly caught up with your back catalogue of content 🙂
Thank you! Hope you check out my latest Shapr3D tutorial. Both Sketchup and Shapr3D have their ups and downs for sure. But if you have any CAD background, Shapr3D will be easier to pick up
Does the Shapr3D free version give any printing capability? I like its format a lot for a stylus MS tablet but I don't want to take my tablet into my shop.
A beginner in sketchup trying to make software comparison, of course, would make sketchup seems less practical.
But that’s the thing right? The video is about which software to use for beginners. A solid modeler will always be more advantageous for modeling solids
Hi, why I’m nit able to draw a line..during the training introduction
Would be better if you compare it with Sketchup for iPad
It wasn’t out when I made this video
Awesome video and great explanation!
Thanks dude
@@BevelishCreations dang you still awake? 😂
Haha was chatting with a friend
Hi, do you think the new iPad air 5th generation is powerful enough to run shapr3d smoothly? and I also wanted to know if you design exclusively on the Ipad thank you.
Yes it should be fine. I know people who use the iPad Air for this. I do 90% of my designs on the iPad. I only switch to the desktop if I have to make plans
Hi. The pencil you use doesn’t look like an Apple pencil …. what is it, I am looking for an affordable pencil that works with Shapr. Thanks for you’re reply.
It’s just a second gen Apple Pencil with a wrap on it
Is there any plugin or workaround to be able to edit multiple objects at the same time? The feature to edit a component and all of it's copies is what I like most from Sketchup.
I know they’re working on it, but probably not a priority. I miss that most about sketchup
Is it possible to do everything nessecery to do a cnc project on tablet?
Cad,cam and cnc?
Nope, I’m not sure if any software can do all three
Do you need an Apple Pencil to use this app or will any electronic pencil work
I don’t think other electronic pencils are fully supported. For functions like splines, it needs to be able to feel the pressure. Not all electronic pencils have that pressure sensing function
@@BevelishCreations thank you for your prompt reply I appreciate it
What is the best tablet to run Shapr3D?
I run mine on the 12.9 iPad Pro. I love the larger screen, and can’t imagine using it on a smaller screen. But it’ll run smoothly on an iPad Air too
Just wondering did you know the steps to start using Shapr3d and paint the item with Substance (adobe)?
I don't...I think I saw a tutorial on that but didn't look too much into it
@@BevelishCreations it’s will be great (wink)
What pencil are you using? I have serious issues keeping my apple brand pencil linked when I’m using shaper3d. Once I use my fingers to zoom or move my piece my pencil doesn’t work to draw anymore. Do you think thats an apple issue or shaper issue?
I’m using Apple Pencil without any issues. Might be your pencil’s problem
What tools do You recommend for windows system?
I believe they’re working on a windows version, if it’s not available already
We are indeed available on Windows and Mac!
Hey Alex. Have you tried sketchup for iPad yet?
Not yet! I just found out about it today
I only see sketchup viewer? Is there a dedicated app?
It’s in beta testing right now
@@BevelishCreations thanks!
In the area of 3D graphics social media would only be talking about Shapr3D if there was a more accessible version for amateur users.
This is as accessible as it gets…
Very informative. Thanks!
Can you show dimensions in Shapr?
SKETCHUP all the way!!
what kind of pen is that ?
Apple Pencil
¿How to compensate in Shapr3d the SketchUp flexometer tool ?, I have used that tool to make guide marks to help me in modeling.
Hi I’m not sure which “flexometer” tool you mean. But I’m assuming you’re talking about the tool that make guide lines and then you draw along the guide lines? If that’s the case, that’s a difference between Sketchup and Shapr3D. Sketchup works more like sketching, where you use a tool (a ruler, a protractor, etc) to create guides, and then draw using a pencil. If you need to make a change to the skrtch, you’ll need to erase the sketch mark and start again. Shapr3D takes more of a traditional CAD approach where the sketches are updatable. So you make a random sketch line first, and then set dimensions to the sketch directly
@@BevelishCreations Hi, thanks for your answer. Yes, i was talking about guide lines.
How did you manage to use Shapr3d for 6 month in the free version??? You can't export anything. Not for 3D prints, so surely not for export to CAM either??
Any plans to do a 2024 update of this??? SketchUp now has an iPad version, so pls compare that to the HB parametric beta. And throw OnShape intot he mix too. They at least have a useable free version for hobbyiest....
I used it for designing and building for woodworking. Not for 3D printing or CNC
I wish they didn’t do the subscription model. I don’t know if I’ll buy them because of this. I don’t like the idea of renting their program.
Yeah I agree. But a good thing about this model is that we’ll always have the latest updates, and they update the software a lot