Explore Shapr3D

This is your guide to the Shapr3D design user interface. 

Depending on your device, you’ll find the following main areas:

• Top Bar 
• Orientation Cube
• Menu
• Items Manager
• Control Bar (iPadOS only)

Top bar

Note: Depending on your device, some icons might not be available or they might be located in a different area. Check the interface images above for reference.

• Designs - Brings you to the Designs screen, where all your designs are stored. If you need to delete, duplicate, create, or import designs, you can do so from this screen.
• Home - Brings you to the Discover screen, where all your designs are stored and Shapr3D news and videos are linked. 
• / /  Sidebar - Opens the Items manager in the Sidebar. You can see all items — including sketches, 3D bodies, images, reference geometries, and meshes — in the design space, and organize them. If you’ve created 2D drawings, then they are stored in the Items manager, too. 
• Undo - Reverts the previous interaction. If you're using a keyboard, press Command + Z or Ctrl + Z. 
• Redo - Redoes the previous interaction. If you're using a keyboard, press Shift + Command/CTRL + Z. 
• Section view - Hides everything in front of the current grid so you can view a section of your design.
• Snaps / Guides - Opens a popover where you can turn on or off snapping to the grid, sketch guide lines and points, and 3D guide points. You can also show guide points and snapping hints.
• Help - Opens a popover with links to announcements about the latest new features, Manual, keyboard shortcuts, Shapr3D Forums, and tutorial videos. You can also trigger the command search from the popover and track your progress with basic tutorials. 
• Import - Offers you a list of file formats you can import: STEP, X_T, IGES, STL, SHAPR, SLDPRT, SLDASM, 2D DWG,  2D DXF, JPG, and PNG. You can also import images from your Files or Photos app or take a photo and immediately import that into Shapr3D.
• Export - Opens the Export window, where you can save your design in various formats to use with other software, machines, and printers. 
• Sync - Enables Sync, where you can connect designs to your Shapr3D account and sync them across all your devices: Windows PCs and tablets, Macs, and iPads.
•  Share - Has a Share tab where you can create a Webviewer link that you can share with anyone, and an Export tab where you can export your designs
• Units - The place to set your desired unit, lock your grid, and customize specific format settings with inches and degrees. This # icon also displays the current grid resolution of your design space, which changes according to the level of zoom.
  Note: For macOS, you can lock your grid from the View menu in the Mac menu bar.
  
  Units and View menu interface

  Units (iPadOS and Windows)

  View menu (Mac menu bar)

•  Views/Appearance - Opens the Views and Appearance tabs.
  Views - Reset your view or select a predefined one. 

  

  Appearance - Change to an orthographic or perspective view, and make your shapes transparent so you can see and select hidden edges. You can make it possible to rotate your design using two fingers. You can also visualize the surface curvature of your 3D model with horizontal or vertical zebra stripes.

  

  Note: For macOS, options from the Views and Appearance tabs can be found in the View menu from the Mac menu bar.
• Full Screen (Windows)- Enables full screen.
• Command Search (Windows) - Opens the command search.
• More Settings (Windows) - Contains the options for Import, Export, and Settings

Orientation Cube

•  Orientation Cube - Changes the view orientation of your design. 

Menu

Sketch - Opens the sketch and constraint tools. Add - Opens tools for adding planes and importing files. Transform - Opens tools for 3D modeling. Tools - Opens a menu with powerful modeling tools you can use to create and modify bodies. Measurements - Opens the Measurement Mode where you can select items to measure. Visualization - Assign materials or change the color of faces and bodies. 2D Drawings - Opens the 2D Drawings module. You can select bodies in the workspace to include in your technical drawing.

To learn more about each menu item and other modeling basics, visit: Shapr3D modeling.

Sketch

Note: Depending on your device, some icons might not be available or they might be located under the More menu.

Exit Sketching - Closes the Sketch menu. Line/Arc - Creates a line or arc, depending on the type you select. This button only appears if you are using a pen. If you set the line type to “Automatic” and wiggle your pen while drawing a line, the line automatically becomes an arc. Line - Creates a line. This button only appears if you are using the mouse or trackpad. Arc - Creates a three-point arc. This button only appears if you are using the mouse or trackpad. Spline - Creates a spline. You can start drawing with your pen and create spline points to guide the curves. If you have a mouse or trackpad, you can click to add spline points. Rectangle - Creates a rectangle. You can create the shape using one of three methods: “Center,” “Diagonal,” and “Three Points.” Circle - Creates a circle. You can adjust the size of the circle by specifying the radius.  Ellipse - Creates an ellipse. You can adjust the size of the ellipse by specifying the vertical and horizontal radii.  Polygon - Creates polygons: triangle, pentagon, hexagon, or octagon. You can change the number of sides and adjust the polygon’s size. Offset Edge - Creates a parallel sketch line, curve, or loop of an existing sketch or edge.  Trim - Trims your sketches at intersections. Delete - Deletes the selected sketches or entire bodies.

To learn more about each sketching tool, visit: Sketch menu.

Constraints

To learn more about each constraint setting, visit: Constraint types.

Add

Note: Depending on your device, some icons might not be available or they might be located under a different area.

Close - Closes the Add menu. Construction Axis - Adds construction axes to your workspace to help your modeling process. Construction Plane - Adds construction planes that will help you position your sketches and bodies.  Image - Adds a photo so you can use it as a reference for sketching.  Text - Adds text to the design space as a 2D sketch. File - Offers you a list of file formats you can import: STEP, X_T, IGES, STL, SHAPR, 2D DWG, 2D DXF, SLDPRT, and SLDASM. You can also import images from your Files or Photos app or take a photo and immediately import that into Shapr3D.

To learn more about the Add menu tools, visit: Add menu.

Transform

Close - Closes the Transform menu. Move/Rotate - Moves or rotates your sketches and bodies. Scale - Scales your geometry. Translate - Moves your shapes precisely from one specific point to another. Pattern - Creates linear patterns of your bodies. Rotate Around Axis - Rotates your shapes around an axis. Align - Aligns 3D bodies. Mirror - Mirrors your sketches and bodies.

To learn more about the Transform menu tools, visit: Transform menu.

Tools

Close - Closes the Tools menu. Offset Face - Adds or removes a 3D body's thickness.  Chamfer/Fillet - Blends the selected edges with chamfer or fillets.  Extrude - Creates extruded bodies from planar faces or closed sketches.  Shell - Hollows out or creates bodies with a specified wall thickness.  Loft - Connects the profiles of two or more faces or closed sketches on different planes. Union - Fuses two intersecting bodies.  Subtract - Subtracts the common parts of one or more bodies from another (intersecting) body.  Intersect - Keeps only the common parts of two or more bodies.  Split Body - Cuts apart 3D bodies with construction planes, grid planes, sketch fillings, faces, or images.  Revolve - Creates bodies from closed sketches by revolving them around an axis. You can also set a height to create helical bodies.  Sweep - Creates a body by dragging the profile of a face or closed sketch along spines.  Replace Face - Replaces a face of a body with another face.  Project - Translates your sketches, edges, faces, and bodies to another face, either as sketches or edges.  Offset Edge - Creates a parallel sketch line, curve, or loop of an existing sketch or edge. Visualize - Adds color to faces and bodies.

To learn more about the Tools menu, visit: Tools menu.

Control bar (iPadOS only)

• Settings - Opens Settings.

Items Manager

Note: Depending on your device, some icons might not be available or they might be located on a different area. Check the images above for reference.

• / /  Items - A panel that organizes your bodies, sketches, planes, axes, and images as items. You can rename, search, zoom, and delete your items.
• Pin - Docks the Items manager to the screen. Select Unpin  to undock it.
• Folder - Creates a new folder.
• Sketches - Shows that the item is a sketch.
• Bodies - Shows that the item is a body.
• Planes and Axes - Shows that the item is either a plane or an axis.
• Images - Shows that the item is an image.
• Visibility - You can select this to display or hide the selected items in your design.
• Mesh - Shows that the item is a mesh body. 
• Zoom to - You can zoom into the selected item.
• Rename - You can rename the associated item.
• Delete - You can delete the selected item.
• More - Opens a popover with additional functions such as Zoom to Selection, View, Rename, Delete, and Isolate Item .

To learn more about the Items Manager, visit: Items Manager.