As a woodworker specialising in curved and double curvature work, I use 3d drawings extensively and first saw shapr as a way to simplify the complex drawings needed to manufacture wreathed solid timber hand railing as well as other complex geometry. So it’s not really a serious example for woodworkers. This is a nice vid to help people at home visualise a home project.īut most serious pros would do this in their head or with a 30 second sketch. In other words it works but not in the legacy fashion I describe? Do I need to learn a new way to design? Unfortunately, I cannot explore the software without buying an iPad Pro, which would be useless without Shapr3D, hence the need for greater clarity of the software’s capabilities.Ī fourth question might be this : Is the software capable of being used to design post and beam buildings but needs to be used in a different way to the one I describer. Surely that would render the application useless for any serious work, other than creating a picture.

There can be so many components in a building, the extraction of a BOM needes to be automated.Īre you saying extracting information about the components in a drawing is not possible? LayerName Type Height Width Length Material… and so on. Normally this would be a tab-delimited file which can be opened in Excel, for example. Question 3 : Export of a bill of materials. Does your answer imply that object is a static object, i.e. Question 2 : In one of the Shapr3D videos, a predefined object, a door, is opened and copied into the current drawing. To create a fourth design one must dispose of an earlier one? In other words, what does the work ‘design’ mean in the context of Shapr3D?

Question 1 : I requested clarification of, 'The free version of Shapr3D allows three designs”.ĭoes this mean the free version will only support three data files at any one time? i.e.

I don’t entirely understand your remarks. You can export in STL (and STEP, IGES, XT, OBJ)

Archicad ipad