Yep it's still full of problems. I, today just had a issue with a sketch showing up gaps, but then right clicking and selecting chain worked fine. So I get that error as well, never had it before though. You tend to find this, doing certain things seems to mess up other stuff.
3 face rad makes a mess of your parts as well. Literally can not modify anything with one of those in the model.

I've sent loads of problems in and reported them. No answers to any of it.

Its a shame, it really is. I started with version 6 or 8, went through 10, 11 and now 12. 11 was literally the worst thing I've ever experienced. They didn't fix anything, the fix was to buy v12.
Don't think any build release has been an official one. All seem to be BETA. Suppose that's how they get away with not caring

If you ever get frustrated with Viacad. That ZW3D 2022 uses this kernal called an overdrive Kernal. 1st time I tried it I was instantly so impressed. It is quite easy to figure out. You can test it for 30 days. Then you can still use it without any saves or imports. But it is really worth checking out. It's about 3,000$ But then you own it. I know I will eventually get that program. I really hope Viacad can fix these problems. I would use Viacad forever if it just worked better. Todd in sales has told me that no one really has any problems with Viacad. That to me is kind of lame.

Todd needs to check his emails to see how many problems I've reported! Not to mention everyone else. Suppose if you don't acknowledge the problems then they don't exist! People on here have been asking for stuff for 5, 10 years plus and they still haven't been fixed!

I've looked at zwcad. Something I may go too, but I think these guys owe it to their customers to provide something that FULLY WORKS! I've opened files from a week ago to mod and all history has gone, it's just a blank solid file. Scrap it and start again. Trouble is if they can't replicate it they don't care. Even when they can they don't but you know.... whatever! Even when you send them files with the problems in they don't care. I'm now bored of sending them problems.

I'll probably move on at some point. They put a post on this forum asking for what features people wanted. What a complete joke that was. I bet the next version will come out with the same buggy problems. It's like having an intermittent problem on a car. No one cares, no one is interested in putting any effort into finding the problems. Same applies here.

If you really wanted to just wait for discounts on the likes of solidworks. It's an investment for sure but it's not got the issues this has. Plus the support is better. I know people who use it.
The amount I've put into the versions of this software, plus reworks of corrupt files and bodging drawings to look right (ie time wasted) I probably could've bought a nx or solidworks license.....

The real question is.... Will OSX13 come out before Shark V12 is anywhere near fixed?

It won't be fixed. Talking from experience, it will stay like it is, the next version will no doubt be the same.

Same here, but I stopped on VC Pro 11 without the powerpack.
v11 has it's own problems.

I don't see much activity here on the forums, guessing people have moved along to other CAD software at this point. I wanted to like & learn PunchCAD, was even looking into full Shark Pro upgrade, but I am not confident enough in the product to spend that much on it.

Maybe one day when the product is clear from bugs and the price is right, I look to upgrade.

I tried beta, half the stuff is missing. Got the last release of v11 and you know its not half bad. Flows better, you can actually see the snap text, nice 2d sketch environment instead of just constraints.
It's all very familiar, but at same time I've got zw3d. So far, blows any of these out the water. It's basically solidworks, assembly constraints, separate drawing files, proper threaded hole features, sketching, did a quick 3d to 2d and its great, sections work great, unlike Shark.

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I think it goes direct from point cloud to nurbs, or at least in a quick try it looked that way. That's included in like the full version, there is standard and lite as well.

Its pretty impressive!

Yep just checked it's called face fit and it goes from point cloud to surface

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