After owning Alibre for three years and never using it even once (too comfortable with my old CAD program, I suppose), I actually created my first drawing today! It's a very simply part to adapt a Shopvac hose to a standard built-in vacuum pipe.
Circle - new plane - smaller circle (to give me a bit of taper) - loft - extrude.
Next step is to 3D print it, so File - Export - Stl, etc.
I used the default parameters for the STL export. The export takes a VERY long time methinks, 15 minutes or more, which seems NUTS.
Crazier still, the resulting file is 6 GB in size.
It occurs to me that the default Alibre settings are probably not optimal. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Circle - new plane - smaller circle (to give me a bit of taper) - loft - extrude.
Next step is to 3D print it, so File - Export - Stl, etc.
I used the default parameters for the STL export. The export takes a VERY long time methinks, 15 minutes or more, which seems NUTS.
Crazier still, the resulting file is 6 GB in size.
It occurs to me that the default Alibre settings are probably not optimal. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.