Shapr3D Reviews & Product Details

What do you like best about Shapr3D?

Pick up and get to designing very quickly. The ease of making a shape in most cases is pretty smooth. If you want anything more complex than a basic shape you need to leverage tricks that are not intuitive at first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shapr3D?

Easily the most annoying software I use anymore. Hands down. The older versions were less picky and finicky. I have been using shapr3D for awhile and I think they have recently, within the last couple of updates, hired some product design person who is more of an "idea guy" than a functionality person. One thing I can point to specifically is that I used to be able to just click an edge, face, or double click to select a solid body. Now, that behavior is halfway between being able to click it directly, and having a little popup menu that asks me which shape I want. When they are all called "Body 29 (1)(1)(1)(1)" because I duplicated something 6 times, it gets really hard to keep track of. The Ipad version has taken a SERIOUS hit due to this. I actually stopped using it entirely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Shapr3D?

I'm using Shapr3D to define and grow a physical product business. Shapr3D is hard-core CAD tooling that is wrapped in layers that can be opened by first-time creators and 30 year veterans. What do I like best? It is fun to use and very gratifying to see ideas come to life on screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shapr3D?

Like most CAD products, there is a learning curve. YouTube videos and the community helps. It is also priced aggressively for a non-corporate user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Shapr3D?

The user experience is SO thoughtful. It contextually changes what options are available, and has some sort of memory so if you were just looking at an arc, it will actually be more likely to connect a new line to the path of that arc. The iPad use is fantastic which is how I primarily use it, but using it on my Mac is great too. I use it every few days to design whatever I want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shapr3D?

There are plenty of tutorials up already, but it is a more niche product than OnShape, which is a more niche product than Fusion360, so I feel like the community to seek and give help is a little smaller, but that is a bit outside Shapr's control.

Also, there is the cost. If I didn't have an edu account, I likely would never have even given Shapr a shot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Shapr3D?

The software is great. It's easy to use, feature rich. The software is polished and mostly bug free. Their autosave and syncing features are definitely among the best I have seen. It has great export options and the history based mdoelling is exactly the UX you want out of a tool like this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shapr3D?

Unfortunately Shapr3D have resorted to shady, scummy business practices in an attempt to overcharge and borderline scam customers. Their extremely confusing UI for adding more seats to your subscription leads you to add more than you actually wanted. Then when you try to remove an erroneously added seat, you can't. You must email support. Then when you email support they will claim and gaslight you by saying that you can remove seats by following the documentation. Only the documentation they send you doesn't contain anything about removing seats, because you can't. So they are trying all the usual tricks around playing dumb and time wasting in the hope that you will just give up and keep paying for seats you don't need. It's disgusting and taints an otherwise great product.

If I can add seats to my plan through the website. I should be able to remove seats on the website. If you can't keep ahold of customers without these disgusting business practices, you never deserved the customers in the first place.

Software wise, it can quite easily be overwhelmed performance and optimisation wise. Using the pattern tool to create a grid of hexagons for example, trying to move them around even with a top spec PC is challenging. I get the occaisional crash. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Shapr3D?

Considering the high technical level and precision of Shapr3D the user interface is very well organized and the search function work very well. The app on the iPad is also super responsive and I have never experienced crashed (have only done smaller projects). Export of project is very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shapr3D?

The technical level of this all is very high including a lot of functions. Hence is over all not entirely intuitive to use. I often have to find guides and instructions for what I want to do, and it takes som time to get use to the logic of the set up (e.g. sketches and 'building' mode) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Shapr3D?

Ipad integration is a great option for creating CAD models when sitting at a computer is not an option. Support for the stylus/pencil is pretty intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shapr3D?

Sensitivity of the stylus/pencil is lacking but this may be a hardware issue and not software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Shapr3D?

Comparing with fusion 360 for MacBook it’s very easy to study. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shapr3D?

I wish it has:

1) more instruments

2) upload my textures for rendering

3) cam Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Shapr3D?

User interface is great, especially integrated tutorials. You can start building your product in just few hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shapr3D?

It requires subscription for advanced features, I would prefer one-time payment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Shapr3D?

Super easy to learn. We started uting Shapr3D for a 3D prototyping unit in an architecture school - easy and students could use it quickly, better for 3D printing than the modeling programs they are curretnly using. I was able to teach my 7th grader in about 2-3 hours. Easy to transition from desktop to Ipad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shapr3D?

We find the snapping features sometimes hard to control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Shapr3D?

I really like the connection that the program has made with my iPad. I use it every day, its veru easy to implement and integrate it in my work process. It's very easy to create my ideas from simple sketches. It's easy to create the designs, right with my hand and my Apple Pencil. There's no better interaction than this when it comes to capturing ideas. The customer support is amaznig, there is a huge community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shapr3D?

It is possible that it lacks some basic tools, such as the option to create cones, which is essential for designing models that will be molded later. In the field of textures, I would like to see everything in a more realistic image, although it already looks spectacular right now. Exporting the V's for use in other rendering software is somewhat complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.