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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.

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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

In theory (!) Blender should work decently on a Surface Studio. :)

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.

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