It should be inexpensive and does not require a workstation to run. Csanády says Shapr3D really got its start when the team switched to the Parasolid engine that is the basis for many CAD programs including Solidworks and Siemens NX.Ĭsanády and his team think there’s a place in the industry for a brand new CAD program that doesn’t carry all the baggage of older software, is lightweight, and easy to use.

He says Shapr3D began as he began exploring the development of a CAD program using Open Cascade, an open-source modeling toolkit, which was famous in its day as CAS.CADE, the geometry engine for Euclid CAD by Matra Datavision. Founder István Csanády says the introduction of the Apple Pencil for the iPad was partly an inspiration for the development of Shapr3D because of the naturalness of the interface. Shapr3D is an upstart company in every sense.

He figures CAD software is long overdue for that shakeup. He says every ten years or so, professional software sees a shakeup in which prices drop dramatically. Shapr3D founder István Csanády believes it’s time for a major shakeup in the CAD industry. The company says it will soon have a version of its 3D CAD tool for the new Apple Macs running on the Arm-based M1 processor. Maybe that October news got a little lost in November when Apple introduced its new M1 processor and Shapr3D was included in the demo apps running on the new machines. In October, the company announced plans to support the iPad Pro for its added input support, which in addition to the Apple Pencil includes mouse, trackpad, and Lidar sensor. The product has been recognized with an Apple Design award and it has also just chalked up 20,000 iPad Pro customers. The development team has been continuously iterating Shapr3D with the regular addition of new features. Shapr3D has the distinction of being a Mac-native direct modeler for CAD that is very fast on an iPad, but what it getting attention is the rapid pace of its development. The company builds a CAD modeler originally introduced for iPads and Apple Pencil and has been optimized for the new Macs with the M1 processor.

Shapr3D is a startup founded in 2015 in Budapest, Hungary.

Shapr3d without apple pencil