Touch and stylus is a more natural and often faster way to use a CAD system than a keyboard and a mouse. Although Shapr3D is now available on Windows tablets and PCs, and macOS and iPadOS, certainly one of our most popular features is our revolutionary touch-and-stylus user interface. You are asking this question to the CEO of the fastest growing CAD company that started as an iPad-only application. How do you imagine designers will interact with CAD UIs in the future? Once we have that, these tools should rapidly gain popularity. We are still waiting for the first proper VR and/or AR platform that isn’t just a gimmick or a content consumption device, but a proper workhorse. I believe AR and VR will gain a significant market share, not just for sketching but for CAD in general – the only question is when. How do you imagine sketch tool environments evolving?

Time stands still for no-one – including design software, so we asked Istvan Csanady, CEO Shapr3D, for their opinions on the direction of CAD, ranging from initial concepting workflows, the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and even how we keep it up to date

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