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Those look awesome and I did not know they exist. Thank you for sharing! On another note, I would love a version of Blender for the iPad. Shapr3D is, imo, ridi

Those look awesome and I did not know they exist. Thank you for sharing! On another note, I would love a version of Blender for the iPad. Shapr3D is, imo, ridiculously overpriced for what it is. An OSS 3D creation environment with the Apple pencil would be amazing.

anchpop 5y ago
Unfortunately Blender is GPL and so can't be ported to iOS or iPadOS :(
- outworlder 5y ago
  More specifically, because Apple won't allow GPL apps.
  - yellowapple 5y ago
    Only GPLv3 (due to the TiVoization clause), right? Or did they come up with some arbitrary reason to forbid GPLv2?
starky 5y ago
I don't understand what market Shapr3D is trying to target, it would be a great piece of software for doing quick designs for 3D printing when I don't need a full CAD solution, but the pricing is too high for anyone doing that. At the same time the extra cost to Fusion360 for professional work is well worth it for the extra features.
- pdc56 5y ago
  Thanks for this. I just got a surface studio with pen and was looking for something like this but failed to find anything. I did the tutorial and it worked fine, but then when I started fresh I got a bug where I couldn't see any geometry until after I finished the pen operation, rendering it useless. What a shame. I'll try it again one day after they hopefully fix it
  - justinclift 5y ago
    In theory (!) Blender should work decently on a Surface Studio. :)
- monkmartinez 5y ago
  I agree. I use the free version to noodle around, but I don't spend a lot of time on the models for a variety of reasons. I may be too used to the feature tree and rollbacks. Also, I am addicted to equations and variables for parametric designing. They have a cool app and I would pay $5 a month for it to be sure, but I am not going to spend $20 per month for it unless it nearly replaces f360, Solidworks, OpenSCAD, FreeCAD... I don't think it beats any of them right now. TinkerCAD is on the iPad and actually fun to noodle with FYI.

anchpop 5y ago

Unfortunately Blender is GPL and so can't be ported to iOS or iPadOS :(

outworlder 5y ago
More specifically, because Apple won't allow GPL apps.
- yellowapple 5y ago
  Only GPLv3 (due to the TiVoization clause), right? Or did they come up with some arbitrary reason to forbid GPLv2?

starky 5y ago

I don't understand what market Shapr3D is trying to target, it would be a great piece of software for doing quick designs for 3D printing when I don't need a full CAD solution, but the pricing is too high for anyone doing that. At the same time the extra cost to Fusion360 for professional work is well worth it for the extra features.

pdc56 5y ago
Thanks for this. I just got a surface studio with pen and was looking for something like this but failed to find anything. I did the tutorial and it worked fine, but then when I started fresh I got a bug where I couldn't see any geometry until after I finished the pen operation, rendering it useless. What a shame. I'll try it again one day after they hopefully fix it
- justinclift 5y ago
  In theory (!) Blender should work decently on a Surface Studio. :)
monkmartinez 5y ago
I agree. I use the free version to noodle around, but I don't spend a lot of time on the models for a variety of reasons. I may be too used to the feature tree and rollbacks. Also, I am addicted to equations and variables for parametric designing. They have a cool app and I would pay $5 a month for it to be sure, but I am not going to spend $20 per month for it unless it nearly replaces f360, Solidworks, OpenSCAD, FreeCAD... I don't think it beats any of them right now. TinkerCAD is on the iPad and actually fun to noodle with FYI.