Draft:Shapr3D

Shapr3D is commercial parametric solid modeling CAD software, that is focused on the Industrial Design and Manufacturing industries.

Shapr3D runs on the Siemens Parasolid modeling kernel and is available for Windows, macOS, iPadOS and VisionOS.

= History = Shapr3D is developed by a company of the same name. The company developing Shapr3D was founded in 2014 by Istvan Csanady with the goal of making CAD a tool that all can access. The company is based in Budapest, Hungary.


 * In March 2016, the first version of Shapr3D was launched publicly.
 * In 2017 Shapr3D migrated to Siemens Parasolid, away from OpenCASCADE.
 * In 2019, Shapr3D raised $6m from Point9 Capital and Creandum to help fund accelerated development of it's software.
 * In 2020 Shapr3D won an Apple Design award for it's iPad app . Shapr3D also became available on macOS, leveraging Apple's shift to Apple Silicon hardware.
 * In 2021, Shapr3D released 2D Drawings and Shapr3D on Windows including support for Snapdragon CPUs.
 * In 2022, Shapr3D raised a further $14.5M from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and existing investors. . Shapr3D expanded into Visualization by adding PBR rendering.
 * In 2023, Shapr3D announced that it was releasing History-based Parametric Modeling.
 * In 2024, Shapr3D announced the availability of Shapr3D on Apple's Vision Pro hardware.

= Features =

3D Modeling
 * History-based Parametric Modeling or Direct Modeling workflows
 * 2D Sketches and constraints
 * Importing from or exporting to other CAD formats
 * Support for 3DConnexion and Wacom hardware, in addition to Keyboard, Mouse and Apple Pencil.

2D Drawings
 * ISO and ANSI standard compatible drawings

Visualization
 * Adding materials and customizing lighting through a drag and drop interface
 * Exporting to Webview
 * Exporting to AR formats
 * Opening for preview and collaboration on Vision Pro

Other
 * Shapr3D provides a comprehensive library of tutorials to help new users learn the tool.