#3DPrinting I wasted roughly 1 hour trying to create this stupid hexagon pattern the "right" way in #Shapr3D
The "right" technique is
make 2 hexagons with appropriate offset
take 2 measurements
use pattern tool to repeat horizontally and vertically.
Except every time i tried with both & more than 2 repetitions it'd complain about some constraint but not tell me which. I clicked literally every point and every side NONE had constraints.
@linux_mclinuxface Thanks. Yeah. I'm not really a fan of that hack because it's difficult to share with others and you can't position it exactly as you want.
Also the bigger problem is there are multiple situations I want to be able to easily repeat patterns where that wouldn't work, and Shapr3D is refusing to do what it's supposed to do and not telling me why. grrrr ;)
as a general statement I love how #Shapr3D works, and i can generally make thins really quickly but its limitations and quirks are maddening. Worse, it's got a LOT of limitations. Many are little things that you'll hit often.
It only supports relative positioning. You can't move an object to a specific coordinate in 3D space
it can't import SVGs (have to convert to DXF first)
you can't measure from the edge of a circle, only the center. 🤦♀️
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