Recent content by Joe Gwinn

I run Alibre under Parallels on the Mac, and this works perfectly so far. One does need to provide enough physical memory to handle the fact that two full-figured operating systems are present. One also needs a standard three-button with scroll wheel mouse. I think that Parallels supports...

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I too am running Alibre Expert on a iMac under MacOS 10.15.7 (Catalina) using Parallels Pro 16.1.1. So far, it has worked perfectly. Two things were needed for this to be workable. First, a real 3-button mouse is needed. The Apple mice do not work. I use a LogitechM-UAE96 (three buttons...

It may be useful to use Photoshop as an intermediate step: "Turn Photos into Line Drawings with a Difference", Adobe. https://creativecloud.adobe.com/discover/article/turn-photos-into-line-drawings-with-a-difference

Ahh.

Interesting. One item struck me: The Constraint Engine from Siemens is 2D. How can a 2D Constraint Engine work in Alibre, which is 3D?

Why does Alibre even have undefined small, medium, large font sizes? It's cleaner to specify font height in printers' points, as most word processors do.

When I upgraded from Atom3D to Design, I had to completely uninstall Atom3D and then clean install Design, or I kept getting an odd mixture of the two.

The lightly shaded entry box is not nearly as obvious as one might hope. I eventually figured it out, but it would have been far more efficient is the tutorial had been explicit about this - It would have cost one sentence.

It's exactly this kind of necessary detail that is absent from much of the training materials.

I've been through this learning Alibre. The training materials are very confusing for new users precisely because they talk about things that are not there. Saying that the trial has the full features of the product, Atom3D in this case, is true but irrelevant. The training materials also...

In the original image, those are Moire Fringes. This implies that there are two very similar halftone dot patterns overlaid, and those patterns are beating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern

I'm not sure it works that way in the case of Scribd. And I'm not so sure that they want to get themselves in 10,000 actions at once. I'd try the letter.

A lawyer letter may be more effective.

After the noise dies down, GM might wish to consider making license checking a whole lot more fault tolerant.