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Professional design engineers, University/school students, Hobbyists, Makers
Shapr3D is used by designers, engineers, and manufacturing teams for prototyping, modeling, and streamlining workflows with intuitive tools and multi-platform support.
I have been using FreeCAD and QCAD for my most works and used Solid Edge for some projects then a buddy from reddit suggested me DesignSparks. I had a pretty good experience with it.
In some areas it is really difficult to customise for example. To create customised template of Bill of Materials.
Great Tutorials with well explanation. Good support from the community.
Learning curve is not as easy it will take you time. Several tools are confusing they require too many steps to get them to work.
It is great for school kids and older students who want to submit a drawing for manufacture or just want to get the hang of using CAD software.
Although it can do most of what the other software packages can do, sometimes the path to get there can be a bit different. One thing that I struggled with was mirroring of objects.
Best of SpaceClaim for Free. Stable performance soo far.
I only have one criticism with DesignSpark Mechanical. I have been used to AutoCad instruction books with over a thousand pages.
It has the best integration with its counterparts such as Fusion 360, Rhino and various competitive solutions.
Lack of material textures (carbon, alu, steel). Lack of assembly tools for more complex designs done on the go.
Very easy to use and to learn. Tech support is very responsive and the tutorials are great.
I restore classic cars and constantly have problems with acquiring plastic mouldings which are no longer in production. I thought that this would be the answer using this software with a 3D printer.
The software gives us the opportunity to think in 3D and show immediately what we think would be the perfect mechanism or solution for a given implementation.
Or check assemblies for collisions. Also the price is a little bit steep as it’s not a parametric modeller, and will mostly be used by hobbyists.
It has a YouTube channel in which they publish useful examples to better understand how some parts can be drawn.
With Shapr3D you can literally go from idea to completed design in just a few minutes for 3D modeling. If you are looking for an app for a semi-professional use case - look no further.
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