I interviewed Mr Csanady over Skype from his office in Budapest. Along the way, he wants to “democratize 3D modeling,” as 20-30% of paying customers already are hobbyists. But this is not his #1 goal rather, he wants Shapr3D to be a 3D modeling app that does not get in the way of early design, perhaps eventually doing 50-70% of the design. As founder Istvan Csanady told me he wants tablets to replace paper. Shapr3D is taking shape recognition and constraints to 3D. These advanced functions became available first in ArcSite from Arctuition, followed by CatchBook from Siemens PLM - albeit in 2D only.īut now there's a new kid on the block. When we draw something roughly straight, today's 3rd gen apps turn it into a line draw a loop, and it becomes a circle. I call this the 3rd generation of mobilCAD.

Now mobileCAD systems assist us through feature-recognition and automatic constraints. In the last two years we have seen real progress.

The first generation consisted of those that ran on the PalmPilot and Windows CE devices the second generation are the more powerful ones, like ARES Touch and TurboSite, that do more and run on Android and iOS. We've seen a number of CAD programs break out of the mold set by the first and second generations of mobileCAD apps, which largely are viewers with maybe some redlining capabilities.

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