Recent content by jemmej

I'm leaving.... Cue the sad music ;) As of April 12, 2007 I will no longer be with my current employer. Therefore I won't be a regular user of Alibre, though I do have the expanded Express package at home. I know the forum login is separate...

Well put! Jim

Alibre really needs to shape up its P.R. department a little. Postings are late or obvious copy and pastes from previous postings. Clear info on what is to be released (which should have been determined by now) should be out so people can get percolating about it. All special offers and...

Honestly I'm not sure of the pros or cons to either method. At first glance, I'd say keep it its own color as I tend to view it as a manufacturing operation which is where specificly colored toolpaths/features/etc is most commonly seen. At least, that's where I'VE commonly seen it :) Jim

Honestly, I don't think half of us would be as irritated if Alibre hadn't hyped their sheetmetal package (comparisons to SolidEdge or BETTER were used which is quite heady stuff) and the Amada joint development. Improvements were promised a number of times (and delayed) and then the most we've...

Hmmm....the groove should be uniform normal depth, but the walls would not be uniformly perpindicular to the surface normal. I'll have to do some more thinking.... Jim

That's what gets me. I'm certain its extremely, extremely close, but I'm not certain if my process results in a perfectly normal depth at every point from a mathematical point of view though at first blush I would say 'yes it is'. Its a nice technique. I may just use this in the future too...

My turn...I hope I'm doing it the same as you guys!

Success! (I think ;)) Not sure how to post a pic.... Jim

Hmmm...working on this myself. Must have a mental block. I got the block w/o the track, 50% done right? ;) I'd tried the obvious extrude to command but figured it wouldn't handle the normals. I've got an idea but I'll have to think a sec.... Jim

Miles, I think you misunderstood my post (or maybe I wasn't clear). I actually agree with you. After I thought about it, there aren't very many examples I can think of where I would need to color just one particular face as opposed to a feature. However, after rereading this thread I...

I agree it would work, but do you really want to have to offset all the faces that you want? That would increase the complexity of the part, load times, potential part corruption (as well as now being an innaccurate model and causing a lot of headaches for analysis and other simulations)...

Re: Were there 2D enhancements in 9.1? There were a few, but none I would consider a major overhaul (others may disagree). I still say 2D needs the most work. My two penneth. As far as color by feature, most MCAD programs do...

Any neat tricks on the configurationd/2D drawing issues? I've got a Rev C configuration. Anyway at all to get the info into a new drawing without redoing everything? Jim

And here I was aiming for the 500 posts club....sigh. ;) Congrats to all! Jim