Changelog

• New: The Revolve tool now automatically combines or cuts geometry as you work. A badge appears during the operation, allowing you to choose whether your revolved shape joins bodies, subtracts material, intersects shapes, or becomes a new body.
• Improved: Now you can apply decals to more complex shapes with a new option to manually switch cylindrical projection on or off, ensuring the graphic aligns correctly with the surface geometry.
• Improved: Now you can turn on or turn off the visibility of hidden edges when using the Wireframe and Section View modes.

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Display Modes

• New: X-Ray mode is now available in the Display Modes menu, allowing you to see internal geometry while keeping the overall shape of your design visible. Use the Opacity slider to adjust transparency so you can inspect internal parts without losing the context of the outer model.

Decals update in Visualization

• New: Now you can allow decals to flow across multiple connected surfaces using the “Face Chaining” option. When enabled, your graphics will wrap seamlessly over adjacent faces rather than being restricted to a single surface.
• Improved: Decals are now supported in PBR and USD exports, ensuring labels and logos are preserved when sharing models via Published Versions.
• Fixed: Decals are now accurately clipped by the Section View plane, preventing graphics from lingering in the modeling space when their surfaces are hidden.

Construction Tools

• Improved: Construction Plane and Construction Axis moved from the Add menu to a dedicated Construct menu for better visibility. The Adaptive User Interface now also suggests multiple construction options based on your selection, making construction tools easier to find.
• Improved: Aligning Construction Planes and Axes is now more precise, with notable points highlighted in purple during selection to provide more predictable snapping and alignment.

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• New: Now you can add Decals in Visualization. Import .png or .jpeg images to place and position standalone graphics—like logos and labels—directly on your model’s surfaces.
• Improved: Selections are now always rendered on top of your geometry, including when previewing steps in your history. You can also directly select sketches displayed on top of models, making it easier to work with overlapping designs. 
• Improved: Saved Views now capture more details when using Section View. In addition to the plane position, your views now capture the on/off states for 2D Section View and Section Only modes, making it easier to return to your exact sectioning setup. 

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• Improved: Wireframe display mode now includes silhouettes, giving edges and outlines a clearer definition across all geometry. Silhouettes are also rendered around the solid faces created by Section View, making it easier to see exactly where different bodies meet.
• Improved (iPadOS): AR mode now supports snapping and placing models on vertical surfaces, in addition to horizontal ones.

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• Improved: Now you can import .png and .jpeg images as custom materials in Visualization, applying them to your models like any native material finish.
• Improved: Performance is now optimized when working with repetitive bodies created via Move, Rotate, Translate, and Pattern. This also applies to importing large assemblies from professional CAD formats, significantly reducing memory usage.

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• New: Now you can use the Section Only mode within Section View to hide all model geometry and focus exclusively on the cross-section.
• Improved: Toggle 2D view (formerly Ortho View) to display the cross-section and background silhouettes, with a new "Normal to Section" option for instant realignment.
• Improved: The Wrap & Emboss tool now includes a gizmo for rotating your design and adjusting emboss depth directly in the modeling space.

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• New: Now you can display edges in the Visualized shader option from the Display Modes menu, or by using the Show Edges command in Visualization.
• New: Visualization now includes painted ash, cork, oak, and matte car paint materials.
• New: The loading screen now shows helpful Shapr3D information, including tips, modeling techniques, or shortcuts.
• New: Access the latest release notes directly from the Dashboard by going to Releases in the Learn section.

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• New: Add embossed details to your designs with the Wrap & Emboss tool by wrapping sketches around cylindrical and conical surfaces.
• New: Now you can toggle Ortho View in Section View to automatically display the cross-section and visible edges behind it, while hiding sketches, images, and hidden geometry.
• New: Saved Views now preserve your section view settings. When you save a view while in Section mode, returning to that view restores both the camera angle and section state.
• New: Capture screenshots faster with the new Screenshot tool button in your workspace.
• New: Advanced import preferences can now be enabled for faster processing of STEP, IGES, CATIA Part, SolidWorks Part, and Solid Edge Part files. Choose between Speed, Quality, and Custom modes. Speed can import large files up to 70% quicker.
• Improved: The Project tool now features a refreshed icon for better clarity.

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• Improved: Now you can choose from resolution presets when using the Screenshot tool, with options for actual window size, double resolution, Full HD, and 4K or 8K quality.

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• New: Bring your own textured materials into Visualization by importing .glb files. Imported materials are added to your material library and apply to your models like native materials.
• New: Now you can snap and apply constraints to the world axes during sketching, even when sketching off the default world planes.
• Improved: Now you can import multiple Shapr3D projects at once from the Import Projects dialog, making it faster to bring in parts and reuse existing designs.

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• Improved: Now you can adjust Scale, Orientation, and Twist directly from the Sweep card in the History sidebar, allowing you to create complex sweep geometry directly within a single operation.

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• New: Now you can import other Shapr3D projects directly into your workspace without exporting and reimporting them first, letting you reuse existing designs and components more efficiently.
• Improved: Sketch snapping now detects more intersection points between geometry elements. Snap points and annotations appear where edges, sketches, or axes intersect with construction planes that lie on your active sketch plane, even if they don’t directly intersect it.
• Improved: When sketching in orthogonal mode, you can now snap to geometry outside the active sketch plane. These off-plane elements are automatically projected into the sketch plane so you can maintain precise constraints.

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• New: Shaders and Surface Analysis options have been reorganized into a dedicated Display Modes menu for simpler access to Shaded, Visualized, Zebra, and Curvature Map views.
• New: Grid lines and the world axis can now be shown or hidden from the Appearance menu for a cleaner workspace setup.
• Improved: Shaders now include a Wireframe option that displays only body edges without faces, making geometry inspection and edge flow analysis more efficient.

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• Improved: Shapr3D’s import engine has been upgraded to support Parasolid v38.0, enhancing performance for CAD formats such as Siemens NX, Solid Edge, and SolidWorks to deliver faster imports and smoother handling of complex designs.

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• Improved: Move seamlessly between Modeling, Visualization, and Drawings directly in the editor, without returning to the Project Sidebar.
• Update (macOS): Shapr3D now integrates with 3Dconnexion driver version 10.8.10. Update your driver before launching Shapr3D 5.980 to ensure full compatibility.

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• New: The Split Body tool now supports multiple splitting tools in one History step. You can split using several faces or curves simultaneously, with adjacent faces merging into a single profile.
• New: Share individual projects directly with collaborators without adding them to a team. Invited users can edit or request access, and shared projects appear in the Shared with Me section.
• Improved: Drafts now focus on early-stage or shared projects, keeping initial work separate from production Spaces.
• Improved: The Navigation Presets list now includes Alias, CATIA, and NX options for smoother transition from other CAD systems.

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• New: Section View now highlights interferences, helping you identify overlapping bodies during design reviews and avoid errors before manufacturing.
• New: The new Capture with AI button in Visualization lets you apply prompts to generate enhanced images before saving.
• Improved: Project access can now be managed directly in-app, including updating permissions and handling pending requests.
• Update: Publishing Review Links has moved to the Export dialog, accessible from the File menu (Windows/macOS) or More menu (iPadOS).

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• New: You can now search for materials in Visualization by name, type, or finish to quickly locate the right one.
• New: Choose between Shaded and Visualized shader options to control how surfaces are displayed for inspection.
• New: The Curvature Map option lets you analyze surface continuity and Gaussian curvature directly on your model.
• New: Lighting in Visualization Environments can now be adjusted by altitude, giving you more control over shadows and highlights.

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• New: Apply Rattan or colorable Anodized Aluminum in Visualization to preview woven surfaces and match anodized finishes directly to your design colors.
• New: Now you can hover over a material in Visualization to highlight every part of the model using it, helping you instantly identify all parts with that material assignment.

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Sketching performance upgrades:

• Improved: Sketch plane selection is now significantly faster, especially in large sketches with repeated or patterned curves.
• Improved: Overlapping selection popovers now open instantly, even when multiple curves are stacked.
• Improved: Activating temporary sketch planes is up to 19× faster, reducing delays in workflows like section-based sketching.
• Improved: Drawing and snapping on temporary planes is now much more responsive in dense or imported workspaces.
• Improved: Moving large groups of sketches is up to 4× faster.
• Improved: Importing large DWG drawings with thousands of curves is up to 25× faster.
• Improved: Opening workspaces with a large number of sketches is now up to 10× faster, depending on geometry complexity.

Dashboard and storage updates:

• New: Now you can turn storage optimization on or off in Settings for each device, controlling whether inactive projects are automatically removed from your device after 30 days while remaining stored in the cloud.
• Improved: The Conflict Resolution dialog now shows who last edited the design.
• Improved: Now you can open the Share dialog directly from a project’s context menu in the Dashboard by right-clicking or secondary clicking the project.
• Improved: When switching teams in the team switcher, the subscription type is now shown next to each team name.
• Fixed: Opening a project link in your browser and selecting “Open in Shapr3D” no longer shows an access error when another team is active. Shapr3D now switches to the correct team automatically if the project is shared with you.

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• New: Now you can access Project and Review Link sharing from the Export modal for easier access while exporting.
• Improved: The Offset Edge tool now creates offset constraints to keep new offsets linked to their original geometry for predictable edits, with support for variables and expressions.
• Improved: The Offset Edge tool now supports Single and Chain types. Chain replaces the previous Loop type and works with both closed loops and connected edges or sketches.
• Improved: Scrolling through Design History is smoother, making it easier to locate and edit previous steps.

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• New: Now you can include X, Y, and Z deltas in Measure mode to verify alignment and spacing.
• New: Projects not opened for 30 days are now stored in the cloud. Choose Keep Downloaded or Remove Download to control local storage.
• New: Images in projects now also appear in Visualization.
• New (Windows): The Dashboard shows who last edited designs and the member count for each shared space.
• Improved: Team member counts are now displayed below each team name in the Dashboard.
• Improved: Settings and Log Out have been moved to the team switcher for easier access.

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• New: Now you can share a link to your project with team members from the Share dialog.
• Improved (iPadOS and macOS): The member icon next to each space now changes based on the number of members, helping you quickly identify whether a space is shared or individual.

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• New (iPadOS and macOS): Now you can view the number of members in each shared space directly from the dashboard for better context at a glance.
• New (iPadOS and macOS): The dashboard now shows who last edited each design and when, so teams can quickly see the latest activity.
• New: Members of your team can now open a shared project link in a browser to view project details, download the project as a .shapr file, or open it in Shapr3D.
• New: Now you can share a link to your project with team members directly from the context menu in the dashboard to quickly share designs with your team.
• Improved: The visuals for the “Reveal in Items” command have been updated to make it clearer which element is highlighted in the Items Manager.
• Improved: Measurement now includes a maximum distance option, and measurement annotations display a type icon for clearer identification.

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• New: Use the command “Reveal in Items” to quickly find a selected face, body, or sketch even in a potentially long Items list.
• New: Now you can use the commands, “Show Hidden Items” and “Invert All Items Visibility” to quickly find hidden parts, or switch what’s visible and hidden.
• New: Camera rotation now supports fixed increments, snapping to the nearest orthographic view, and aligning the view normal to a selected face for faster, more precise navigation during modeling and review.
• Improved: Now you can assign variables to Pattern tool inputs such as quantity, distance, and angle for greater flexibility when building parametric relationships that update automatically.
• Improved: Hovering over items in the Items Manager now highlights them in the modeling space, helping you quickly identify parts of your model.
• Improved: The Project Versions dialog now shows who edited each version, with usernames displayed in both the list and detail views.

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• New: Now you can rotate the camera in fixed increments, helping you present your model from consistent angles.
• New: Tessellation settings now include low and high quality options for better control over mesh detail.
• Improved: In the Dashboard, Private is now called Drafts and stays visible only to you, while shared spaces can now be renamed to match team workflows.
• Improved: Projects with Review links now appear on your account page, making it more effortless to view, open, or unpublish shared links from one place.
• Improved: Used materials in Visualization can now be reset to default using swipe to delete, or the context menu.
• Improved: AR view now delivers better performance and visual quality on devices running iOS 18.3 or later.

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• New: Capture screenshots directly to your clipboard with a single key combination for faster sharing and documentation.
• Improved: The Mirror tool now applies symmetry constraints automatically when you mirror sketch curves, keeping mirrored elements linked for faster, consistent edits.
• Improved: Now you can adjust the cut plane in Section View dynamically to inspect internal features and construction details more easily.

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• New: Visualization now includes a Solar Panel material to represent solar surfaces in your model.
• New (Windows): Capture images directly from the modeling space with the Screenshot tool, customizing grid, edges, and on-screen elements.
• Improved: The Mirror tool now automatically applies symmetry constraints when mirroring sketch curves, ensuring consistent behavior and easier edits.

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• Improved: Section View now features clearer colors and fill patterns, helping you distinguish bodies and interpret cross-sections.
• Improved: Tool previews for Mirror, Move/Rotate, and similar tools now clearly show the original and resulting geometry.
• Improved: Expressions now support built-in functions like abs() and min(), giving you more flexibility when defining parametric relationships.

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• New: Now you can customize refractive materials in Visualization using Transmission and IOR (Index of Refraction) sliders to control transparency and how light bends through surfaces.
• Improved: Easily select the exact sketch, edge, or face from a pop-up list when multiple elements overlap.
• Improved: Use Select Through mode to access internal geometry without hiding or adjusting surrounding parts.

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• Improved: Selected items now remain visible through overlapping bodies, making selections more precise and navigation smoother in complex designs.

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• New: Now you can fully define and under define sketches by applying dimensional and geometric constraints, giving you control over which elements stay fixed and which remain adjustable.
• Improved: Sketch visuals now use clearer color cues—fully-defined sketches are green, under-defined sketches are blue, selected sketches are highlighted in orange, and errors are marked in red.
• Improved: Webviewer now offers better access control with email-based sharing replacing password-protected links. You can share your designs publicly, within your team, or with individuals you invite to review and comment.

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• New: Now you can use variables with expressions to create smarter, adaptable models that update automatically, reducing manual work and ensuring consistency across multiple inputs.

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• New: Now you can use expressions to define parametric relationships with simple formulas, making it easier to create complex designs with precision.

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• New: Visualization now offers frosted glass and brass material variants, giving you more options to achieve high-quality, realistic finishes in your renders.
• Improved: Gain more control over complex projects with the new option to adjust item visibility in the Items Manager, including Isolate Mode, active tool edits, and selection changes in history.

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• New: Now you can disable Visualization materials on web exports directly from the Share dialog, enabling faster exports and smoother Webviewer loading.
• Improved (iPadOS): The Items Manager on iPad now features a full tree view that expands lists directly instead of opening a new screen, bringing a consistent experience across iPad, Mac, and Windows.
• Improved (Windows): Importing external assemblies is now smoother with a refined workflow, reducing steps and enhancing efficiency.

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• Improved: Reloading your projects is now faster, minimizing delays and keeping you productive.
• Improved: Camera view and settings like Zebra, Isolate, and Section View now reset to default each time you exit and re-enter a project, ensuring a consistent Dashboard preview and keeping you oriented when changes are made on other devices or during collaboration.

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• New: Now you can toggle Construction Sketching in sketch mode, allowing you to use all sketch tools and the Offset tool for construction sketches. This session-based toggle resets automatically when you exit sketch mode to keep your workflow uninterrupted.

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• New: Now you can track and restore previous versions of your projects with Project Versions, ensuring your work is safeguarded and revisions are easy to manage from the Dashboard.
• New: Enhance the quality of your renders with two detailed environments added to Visualization for greater variety and control over lighting and scene settings.
• New: Instantly toggle Camera animations in the View menu to switch between smooth transitions or immediate changes when navigating different views and angles, adapting to your workflow and preferences.
• New: Now you can customize keyboard shortcuts to boost your workflow efficiency.
• Improved: Mode states like Isolate, Section View, and Measure now have clearer visual indicators, allowing you to identify active modes much more quickly.

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• New: Now you can save up to 8 orientation views of your modeling space, making it easier to return to specific perspectives during your design process.
• New: The Extrude tool now supports start and end offsets for better control over extrusion depth.
• Improved: Now you can specify whether the first or last selected sketch entity stays in place when applying constraints, making it easier to control which part of your sketch moves or stays fixed.

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• Improved: Double-clicking or tapping on a History step now preserves subsequent steps, preventing unintentional breakpoints.
• Improved: Imported steps in History now display the file name instead of the default “Import” label.
• Fixed: Images no longer revert to 100% opacity on hover.

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• Improved: The Fillet tool now supports chordal fillets, giving you more control over edge transitions in your projects.
• Improved: Now you can directly constrain sketches to the world axes and origin for enhanced precision.
• Fixed: USDZ exports now retain material quality when imported into Blender, preventing them from appearing washed out.

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• New: Fine-tune your material appearances with the new Roughness property in Visualization. Several materials now also have sharper detail and more defined textures, providing enhanced visual clarity in your models.
• New: Now you can favorite your most-used file formats during export for quick and easy access.
• New: Select and batch export multiple files from the Dashboard in your favorite file formats.
• Improved: Export your projects much more efficiently with the Export tool now remembering your last used export settings.
• Improved: The Extrude tool now supports symmetric extrude.

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• New: Export your projects in multiple formats faster and more efficiently with the new batch export option.
• New: Now you can create angle constraints between a body edge and a sketch.
• Fixed: Circular annotations now stay where you place them, preventing them from jumping to a default location.

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• New: Now you can invite members and collaborate using the new Teamspace in the Dashboard.
• Improved: The History sidebar button now alerts you with an error warning symbol, notifying you of Design History errors even when the sidebar is closed.
• Improved: The adaptive menu now adapts to screen height, only using the ‘More’ menu if all options can’t fit within the window.
• Improved: Now you can turn off geometry and texture compression for GLB exports, enhancing compatibility with other applications.
• Improved: The Trim tool now stays active until you exit sketching or press Escape, allowing you to continue trimming sketches even when clicking or tapping away.

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• New (iPadOS & macOS): Now you can export your projects as GLB files.
• New (Windows): Now you can export your projects as GLB and USDZ files.
  Improved: Now you can manage references directly within the History sidebar, making it easier to work with complex models.
• Improved (iPadOS & macOS): The export dialog user interface now matches other platforms and uses more space to make finding the right file format easier.
• Improved (iPadOS): Now it’s easier to export directly to the Files app and through the iPadOS Share Sheet.
• Fixed (iPadOS): The iPadOS Share Sheet now works properly when exporting files.

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• Improved: The Move/Rotate tool now activates when the selected items contain a sketch and a body, allowing you to perform quick transformation actions.

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• New: Now you can create unlinked copies of bodies to speed up your conceptual workflow.
• Improved: The Extrude tool now only automatically hides sketches in the Items Manager if all edges in the sketch are used in the extrude command, making it easier to create multiple extrusions from the same sketch.
• Fixed: Now you can modify projection parameters more effortlessly when you use the Project tool in sketch mode for both 2D and 3D views.
• Fixed: Section views in 2D Drawings now retain their annotations after a Drawing update.

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Design History updates:

• New: Now you can merge history steps with just a single click to remove dependencies between bodies and sketches.
• Improved: The Project tool now has a new option to project sketches without retaining a connection to their origin, allowing you to make further edits on projected sketches.
• Improved: The Project tool can now project items into an existing sketch.
• Improved: The copy badge now has the option to create multiple copies.
• Improved: The gizmo center of the Move/Rotate tool now adjusts more effortlessly during consecutive transformations.
• Improved: Sketches snapped to a face center point now create a connection, allowing you to keep your sketches snapped when modifying earlier History steps.
• Improved: Circle center points now snap to holes, giving you more precision in your workflow.
• Improved: The Items Manager no longer displays red text notifications for invalid bodies.
• Fixed (iPadOS only): Constraint badges are now more spread out on the iPad, ensuring they’re not in your way when sketching.

Visualization updates:

• Improved: Your recently chosen material filter now remains selected when switching between different spaces.
• Improved: The “Used Materials” list now only displays the materials for visible bodies, making it easier to work with isolated bodies.

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• New: Give that final exterior or interior finish to your automotive models with new car paint, leather, textile, and plastic materials in Visualization.

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• New: The wait is over: History-Based Parametric Modeling is now out of beta. Take your models to the next level of precision with Design History.
• New: Advanced fillet settings controls now automatically pop up when selecting the Fillet step in History, making it much quicker to adjust fillet settings for corners, continuity, and curvature.
• New: Now you can modify or fix broken projections more effortlessly with the new “Projection” parameter for sketch steps in History.
• Improved: Now you can project the silhouette of non-planar faces into sketches. The projections are also included in History.
• Improved: Easily adjust cylinders and cylindrical holes using the updated gizmo of the Offset Face tool that displays the final radius of selected geometries.

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• New: Achieve that final touch of realism to your luminescent models with the new Emissive Material in Visualization.
• Improved: For users with History-Based Parametric Modeling, each construction geometry now has its own step in History, making it easier to modify the parameters of the different construction axes or plane types.
• Improved: For users with History-Based Parametric Modeling, you can now edit loft profiles, loft guides, and the periodicity of lofts for the Loft step in History.

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• New: Get a tidier display when browsing through selection-based results in History with multiple unrelated steps now collapsed inside a single new “Unrelated” label.

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• New: Instantly export projects in .shapr format directly from the Dashboard with just a simple right-click or long-press.

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• New: Now you can add custom-angled base views for your 2D drawings with the new custom base view option, reducing drawing creation time for multipart designs.
• Improved: Update reference bodies much more quickly in 2D Drawings with the new “Bodies…” option when you add a new base view.

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Apart from a few bug fixes, this release mostly focused on stability improvements. Make sure to update to 5.540 for a smoother experience and stay tuned for bigger changes.

Apart from a few bug fixes, this release mostly focused on stability improvements. Make sure to update to 5.530 for a smoother experience and stay tuned for bigger changes.

• New: Get a tidier workspace with the new options to show or hide logical constraints and locked dimensions based on your selection.
• New: Now you can sort your projects by name and modified date to find them faster.
• New (iPadOS & macOS): Now you can use keyboard shortcuts for better and faster dashboard navigation.
• Improved: Sketch visuals now pop more to help you work with complex sketches more effectively.
• Fixed: Sketch dimensions now stay in their specified place even if you change their values.

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• Improved: Point selection workflow is now more accurate, allowing you to select 3D points with more precision when creating construction geometries or defining translate operations.

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• Improved (iPadOS and macOS): Manage your project names faster by renaming your projects directly from the modeling space.
• Fixed (iPadOS): An issue with some complex designs no longer opening on iPads due to higher memory consumption has been resolved.
• Various bug fixes and improvements.

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• New: Folders are finally out. Now you can create folders to organize your projects effortlessly. Add new folders with just a simple click or tap, and easily move your projects with drag-and-drop. A new sidebar navigation and history also provide you with seamless access to your folders and projects.

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Apart from a few bug fixes, there’s nothing major going on in this release. Just bump up to 5.490 and keep modeling gorgeous stuff.

• Improved: Quickly organize your 2D Drawings with the new option to drag your views with just a single click.
• Improved: The color indicator for Section View now pops more, giving you better visibility when looking at the interior of your models.

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• New (Windows): Manage your project names faster by renaming your projects directly from the modeling space.
• Improved (iPadOS and macOS): The Items Manager sidebar is now adjustable, allowing you to navigate to deeper folder hierarchies and view longer names more effortlessly.
• Improved (iPadOS and macOS): The Screenshot tool menu now uses the same layout as the main menu in the modeling space, giving you a more consistent look and feel while using the tool.
• Improved (Windows): Experience a smoother workflow with the new option to customize the placement of your Undo & Redo buttons. Just access Settings to choose between a Title Bar and a Bottom Bar location.

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• New (Windows): Access frequently used functions more quickly with a new menu bar located at the top of your screen.
• New: Create well-organized 2D Drawings faster with base and projection views.
• New: Projection views in 2D Drawings now align automatically, allowing you to focus more on the finer details of your drawings.
• Improved: Section views in 2D Drawings now align with their parent views to help provide you with an even more consistent look.
• Improved: Showcase the most important features of your project in 2D Drawings with the new option to choose your preferred isometric view when you add a new base view.
• Improved (iPadOS): You told us and we listened: the Undo & Redo buttons are now back in their original location at the bottom corner of your screen.

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• New: Now you can realize your design goals with new wood materials in Visualization such as ash, bamboo, beech, cherry, douglas fir, and painted wood. Achieve even more realistic looks with the addition of colorable cast iron and rubber tire, and visual improvements to diamond plate and oak materials.
• New: Min-max distance, line-line angular, and three-point angular dimensions now also snap in 2D Drawings.
• Improved: Your selected unit with the current grid size now displays in the menu while modeling, giving you quick visibility.

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• New: The new Project Sidebar creates a unified space for you to access 3D Modeling, Visualization and all your 2D Drawings.
• New: Our main menu now includes a new section for modes, including Section view, Isolate, and Measure tools in the 3D Modeling space. These tools are useful within any tool, so we wanted to make them as accessible as possible.
• Improved: Increase your productivity with a refreshed visual user interface, including beautiful new icons, tweaked typography, a shift to rectangular buttons, and larger labels.

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• Alongside various bug fixes and improvements for this release, we’ve been preparing all the exciting enhancements for our much-awaited visual refresh. The refresh is coming this summer so be sure to stay tuned.
• Now you can sign up for the beta version of History-Based Parametric Modeling to try it firsthand before it launches. Open Shapr3D or visit our 2023 Summer Product Tour at shapr3d.com to learn more.

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• Improved: Linear, radial, and angular dimensions in 2D Drawings now snap to help you create better looking and more organized drawings.
• Improved: When working with 2D Drawings, you can now duplicate existing drawings to quickly create customized variants.
• Improved (iPadOS and macOS): When importing SLDASM files, you can now easily load any linked files. Simply navigate to a directory that contains them without needing to link and load each file individually.

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• New: You can now select the XY-YZ-ZX base planes a lot easier when starting a sketch, adding a construction plane, mirroring objects, or performing other operations that support using a planar face.

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• New: Create even more realistic-looking designs that suit your needs with the new manual material orientation in Visualization.
• Improved: 2D Drawings now also has the option to create detail views from a section view.

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• New: Detail views are here. Highlight important parts of your 2D Drawings at a different scale, so you can add dimensions and other annotations more effectively.
• Improved: Now you can change the line width settings from the 2D Drawings property sidebar to optimize highlights or to adjust print quality.
• Improved: It’s now much easier to work with fractionally formatted inches and feet in the numpad.

• Improved: Get more granular control over your 2D Drawings properties. You can now change the projection type independently of the sheet standard and easily change between different decimal separators. We also added more options for scale values, allowing you to choose a scale that best suits your preference.
• Improved: Visualization just got a performance uplift. Now you can enjoy a much smoother and faster rendering of your models.

• New: Choose from a selection of layouts to customize what information is shown in your title block and how it is laid out on your drawing.
• Improved: 2D Drawings preferences have moved into the sidebar, allowing you to easily access and tweak different options.
• Improved: Visualization will automatically select a more natural orientation for materials to help you easily get even more realistic results.
• Improved: Sketch mode now automatically opens when you select sketches from the same plane.
• Improved (Windows only): Now you can see construction lines and images when Section View is enabled.
• Fixed (macOS and Windows only): We eliminated some issues when using the SpaceMouse Camera navigation mode.

• New: Create more realistic models with Material Orientation in Visualization. When enabled, materials like wood and brushed metal will now auto-match their orientation to geometry for even more realistic results.

• New: Shapr3D on Windows now speaks 10 additional languages besides English. Go to Settings to change your preference.
• Improved: Now you can change the text of the title block fields in 2D Drawings.

• New: You can now add images to your 2D Drawings, so you can easily include screenshots of your visualized model, your logo, or anything else that helps communicate your design.
• Improved: We have added new menu controls to make it even easier for you to quickly jump between 3D Modeling, Visualization, 2D Drawings, and the Dashboard.

• Improved: Editing larger models has become significantly faster and smoother, ensuring a more seamless workflow.
• Improved: Locate your measurements in a breeze. The measurement panel now allows you to highlight your current and pinned measurements while in Measurement Mode.

• New: Measurement Mode can now make point-to-point measurements, allowing you to define a custom distance or angle measurement by selecting notable points in your model.
• Improved: Measurement Mode now allows you to pin all types of measurements applicable to your modeling workflow
• Improved (Windows only): Explore your workspace items faster with the revamped look of the Items Manager.

• Improved: Measurement Mode got a visual touch up: you can now annotate more dimensions, plus the measurement panel stays visible for more tools. This should make it easier to view your measurements while modeling.
• Improved: Sketch more seamlessly with a couple of enhancements to the sketching controls.
• Improved (macOS and Windows only): We added a new “Zoom to Item” option to the context menu and also made some tweaks for a better experience.
• Improved (Windows only): Explore your workspace items effortlessly with the new and improved look of the Items Manager.

• New (macOS and Windows only): Quickly access tool options and settings with the new context menu.
• Improved: Now you can find the depth of field settings in the Camera tab in Visualization.
• Improved: Pinned measurements now include measurement annotations for angle, parallel distance, and center distance.
• Improved: Get a less cluttered workspace! Locked sketch dimensions now match the visibility of other constraints.
• Fixed (iPadOS and macOS only): Shapr3D no longer opens slowly when the device is offline.

• New: You can now share 2D drawings along with your model directly through Webviewer.
• Improved: Visually highlight your model’s measurements by locking dimensions to your screen using the new pinning feature of Measurement Mode.
• Fixed: System stays stable instead of intermittently crashing when exporting to Webviewer.
• Fixed: Resolved an issue with bodies getting cut off clipping when using the Scale tool.
• Fixed (iPadOS only): We rooted out a few visual artifacts that occurred while using Zebra analysis. 

• New: Embed your Webviewer models on your website with the new HTML code snippet under Share.
• Improved: Get a more realistic textile finish to your models when you export your design to Webviewer.
• Fixed: A sporadic issue with the color set in Visualization not accurately reflecting in the modeling space has been resolved.
• Fixed (Windows only): Setting the camera field of view to 0° under Views & Appearance no longer makes the model disappear intermittently.
• Fixed (Windows only): The SpaceMouse doesn’t sporadically lose connection anymore.

• New (Windows only): You can now import Solidworks assemblies to Shapr3D.
• New (Windows only): You can now import PDF files to use as reference images or sketches.
• Improved: Provide additional security to your designs with the Webviewer’s new password protection functionality.

• New: You can now add size tolerances to your 2D drawings for more precision in manufacturing your product within a dimension range.
• New: Get more variety in Visualization with the new Dark Salon environment.
• Improved: Splines now have a more fluid interaction for better control. Draw, break, and join splines without needing to use pen or pencil pressure taps. New polyline displays help guide the shape of the curve you create when using Control Point Splines. Learn more from our
• Improved: Make basic calculations in the dimension input with the new calculator capability.
• Improved: Use the updated Bright Salon 1 and Bright Salon 2 Visualization environments with more dramatic lighting and heightened reflections. Highlight contours and details of your model.

• New: Visualize your model with a realistic finish making use of the over 20 new fabric and metal materials recently added.
• New: Take precise measurements of your designs with the new Measure mode.
• Improved: You can now find keyboard shortcuts for tools and commands at the side menus.
• Improved: See your model in enhanced detail and contrast with improved Visualization default lighting.
• Improved: Get a more realistic preview of your models in both light and dark modes with improved lighting and shadow areas that highlight geometries better, and show more natural tones and precise body edges and lines.
• Improved: The material scale in Visualization has been expanded to cover a range from 0.25x to 4x.
• Improved: Hull curves are now displayed for control point splines.

• New: Use hotkeys to select sketch pens, constraints, and 3D modeling tools when modeling with a keyboard and mouse/trackpad.
• New (Windows only): Shapr3D now adapts to the system theme and appears in dark mode when enabled on your device.
• Improved (Windows only): Assign Shapr3D tools and commands to the buttons of your 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse, CadMouse, and Keyboard through the 3Dconnexion driver to easily save and recall custom views.

• New: Webviewer is here. Share your designs with anyone via a private link. Viewable in AR on modern devices.
• Improved: Easily move sketch geometries around with tap/click and drag, or use the Move/Rotate tool.
• Improved: Annotation rendering has been optimized to make editing a lot smoother when working on complex sketches with a large number of annotations.
• Improved: Selection outline in Visualization gives you a better context of the selected elements while maintaining the original look of the applied materials.
• Improved: Edit constrained dimension values with quick value input by hovering on the values or pressing Tab on your keyboard.

• New: Create stunning images in Visualization with the new depth of field effect. Put your models into focus with just a single tap (iPad) or right-click (macOS/Windows).

• New: Shapr3D Sync is fully released. Enable Sync to easily access and edit your designs across devices, and to have them automatically backed up via the Shapr3D Cloud.
• New (Windows only): Shapr3D now supports SpaceMouse on Windows.
  • Note that official certification of 3Dconnexion for the Windows version is in progress. Until that’s completed, a few features might be missing and you might need a few additional steps to configure your SpaceMouse.
• Improved (Windows only): Files exported into Shapr3D’s native file format, .shapr, are now associated with the app. To import them into your workspace, double-click on them.

• Improved: The adaptive menu that appears on the side screen when a selection is active is now optimized to let you change between tools without the need to reselect the items.
• Improved: Get better visibility of sketches behind bodies when sketching with non-normal camera angles.
• Improved (iPadOS and macOS only): Export USDZ files for Augmented Reality with material and texture data.
• Improved (iPadOS only): You can now preview your model in Augmented Reality with materials from Visualization.
• New (Windows only): Visualization is now available on Windows. Create life-like models choosing from a huge selection of colors and materials.

• New: Mark any sketch geometry as a construction sketch and use it for guidance without generating closed sketches.
• Improved: A circular pattern layout option has been added to the Pattern tool.
• Improved: You can now do basic calculations in the dimension annotation area when using a keyboard as your modeling input device.
• Improved (Windows only): Exporting designs just got a lot better: it is now possible to customize parameters specific for the export formats and in case of all 3rd party 3D formats, you can now save first-level items as separate files.

• Improved: Try the new non-uniform scaling option: now you can also scale along just an axis or plane using the scale tool

• Improved: As promised, we’ve added more for Patterns: now you can create linear patterns for Sketches.
• Improved (iPadOS and macOS only): Now in Visualization, you can choose to keep the ground plane in a fixed position below your model, allow it to automatically snap to the bottom of the model, or turn it off completely.

• New: The Pattern tool is here! You will see constant additions in upcoming releases, with the first being linear patterns for your 3D bodies.
• Improved: The Align tool now supports multi-body alignment.
• Improved: The Text tool now has a handy preview mode.
• Improved: Constraints get another boost with guide curves. These assist you while handling perpendicular and tangent constraints. On top of that, we’re adding an explicit mid-point constraint to the mix.
• Improved (iPadOS and macOS only): We tweaked image quality in Visualization, giving you slightly more dramatic lights and shadows, and more vivid tones overall.New (macOS only): Navigation presets are now on Mac. Choose your go-to CAD app’s key bindings and keep using them in Shapr3D.
• Fixed (Windows only): Watch out for scheduled maintenance upon starting the app. It’s a one-off thing performed on your design library, taking only a few minutes.

• Improved: Constraints are much more intuitive than before. They are now multi-selectable, you can highlight them based on related geometry, plus you can pick two different constraint visibility options.

• New (iPadOS and macOS only): Visualization receives a number of new materials: Silver, Titanium, White Gold, OSB, Granite, and Asphalt. We also tweaked the majority of the existing materials.
• Improved: Sketch snapping now gives you a much faster and more stable sketching experience.
• Improved (Windows only): With major general stability improvements all over the app, we eradicated most of the frequent crashes.

• New (iPadOS and macOS only): Select one of the 5 new environments and give your models much more versatile and dramatic lighting.
• New (iPadOS and macOS only): Ground plane shadows are now available, adding more realism to your models.
• Improved (iPadOS and macOS only): Tweaked the Visualization UI for an even better navigation experience.
• Improved (iPadOS and macOS only): Lighting setup got bumped up in all existing environments.
• Improved (Windows only): Various bug fixes and minor improvements.

• New: We added coincident constraints to bolster your sketching experience.
• Improved: Using Solidworks 2022? SLDPRT import is now available on all Windows devices.
• New (iPadOS and macOS only): Lights are more customizable than ever! Rotate the angle, adjust the intensity, or just pick a colored backdrop and see how it tints your model.
• Improved (iPadOS and macOS only): We tweaked the Environment sidebar in Visualization.

• New (Windows only): Choose your go-to CAD app’s key bindings and keep using them in Shapr3D.
• Fixed (Windows only): Minor bug fixes and improvements.
• Fixed (iPadOS and macOS only): We fixed a handful of bugs that affected performance.

• New: Highlight the items you need and work on your design free of clutter with Isolate. You can reach it via your items list by selecting the bit(s) you want to work on separately.
• Improved: Working on complex sketch fillings? Now you won’t hit any speed bumps as we’ve drastically improved the load time and the speed of sketch moves.
• Fixed: There’s no update without terminating a few sketching bugs.
• Improved (Windows only): Bid farewell to mysteriously disappearing action items and buttons: now you’ll have a responsive layout to assist you while modeling on a smaller screen.