Recent content by IonSteve

Just to clarify--using reference lines is a perfectly normal part of sketching. Use reference lines to your heart's content. My only input is just to be aware that if a reference line projects off into space some distance past your actual part, it can (will?) force the bounding box to...

I had something similar happen. It absolutely drove me nuts. After a great deal of digging, I found that a single construction line (reference line) in a sketch had somehow been given an arbitrarily long dimension. And although it was a construction line and not a sketch line, it still drives...

When I'm problem solving, I will invariably use online help; for me, it's hard to beat keyword searching. With that said, I voted for the "yes, why not" option because--even though I've been using Alibre for a loooong time--there are still things it can do that I didn't know about until it gets...

It's the only way to fly, in my opinion. With a minimal amount of farting around/low learning curve, it makes interacting with your model fast, smooth, intuitive, and, dare I say it, fun. I've had mine for well over 10 years. Spend a few minutes setting the speeds and sensitivities to your...

Good evening/morning, folks; I'm trying a new online engraving service (for control panel labels) and their preferred upload is a DXF. Which is nice, I'm used to exporting DXF's to my laser cutter and router folks, so . . . familiar territory. The engravers use color to distinguish between a...

Yep, the <#> has been useful to me exactly 0 times over the years. If I am in doubt about what's going on, I look at whatever is highlighted, not the <#>.

Soooooooo: An assembly I work with almost every day has decided to hang on loading--not forever, but for about 20 minutes. This assy usually loads in under 30 seconds. It seems to be this assy and no others. If I load any of the constituent sub assy's they all load with no problem. It will go...

In terms of the basic rendering engine, no. There may be things going on under the hood that I can't see, but the output appears the same. What IS improved is the new lighting control panel. If you ever tried to tweak lighting in 9.x or preceding versions, you know how tedious and frustrating it...

1. Remember last action or set default for extrude cut. Specifically, I almost always use “through all” for extrude cuts, and it’s an extra few clicks Every. Single. Time. <you have 2 more - admin> (I had to go collect myself, this is very exciting) 2. Automatically go to part in explorer upon...

David . . . I mean . . . I thought I really wanted to do it in Illustration mode, but then I read your approach and it turns out I'm fine with Stefan's workaround ;) Somewhat more seriously, that would be a good trick if one needed to mix, say, THREE render modes. Which might be cool for...

Stefan--that's a great idea, thank you!

Yep, I can do it in Keyshot and of course that looks great, but for the manual I'm doing that would take me, uhhh, *scratches head* approximately 127 years.

Good afternoon, folks; Super quick question: Is it possible in an assembly to have parts ABC in illustrator mode and parts XYZ in shaded mode? It seems like this should be possible by selecting the individual parts and in turn changing their rendering modes, but when I try this the render mode...

I'm gonna be real honest here . . . I just came really close to licking my computer screen. Want. Want want want want want. Want.

RocketNut: I'm not a company man. I'm just a regular schmuck user. I am what one might call a disinterested third party. I have read and re-read David's original post re the USB dongle option that set you off. At no point does he toe a company line or sing praises. He merely presented the...