Recent content by WillAdams

Thanks! I'm good! Looking forward to dropping my Windows machine in my docking station at my desk this weekend and trying it out!

Recently, I tried to walk a customer through how to make a tray for poker chips like to: at: https://community.carbide3d.com/t/trying-to-create-a-slope-profile-whats-the-easiest-way/74255 (it took a while to arrive at an understanding of where the slope was) and ultimately, I worked up a...

Let's start with a walk-through using data --- it's simpler and more approachable, and would underpin doing things from code.

I've come across Dynamo a couple of times --- I guess the big question here is how do you wire it up to drive Alibre?

Yes, I'm in. Just let me know what to try and I'll do my best to wrap my mind around this. I have both Atom 3D and Alibre Design v26 (I work for Carbide 3D). Further EDIT: I was just prompted to update to v27 --- should I? Would that be helpful here? EDIT: I guess so, since that's the version...

I would be _very_ interested in a step-by-step which allows one to use Dynamo to make a file in Alibre --- would this work in Atom3D? Or would you need a version with scripting?

For auto-tracing, you may find it worth installing Carbide Create which has a native facility for this: https://community.carbide3d.com/t/carbide-create-image-tracing/31208 For the licensing specifics see: https://carbide3d.com/blog/carbide-create-v7/

Thanks! I'll have to see what I can puzzle out for the SVG import. Unfortunate about the broken links --- no way to run a script and fix them all?

The link didn't work for me, but searching yielded: https://www.alibre.com/forum/index.php?threads/release-import-svg-dialog.23227/#post-155011 I agree that this should be a native feature, and I too would really like to see a more traditional Bézier curve interface, where there on-curve nodes...

One hardware aspect I'm curious about --- does no one else like/prefer convertibles/tablets? I finally broke down and replaced my Samsung Galaxy Book 12 w/ a Book 3 Pro 360 (because it was becoming untenable to stay on Windows build 1703 since Fall Creators Update cripples styluses) --- in...

To refine what I said above, here's a description of one way such an interface feature might work --- a set of three palettes: - first --- where all numbers/dimensions would appear as objects are created as labeled text fields - second --- a pane where the labeled text fields could be...

The thing that kills me is that a very elegant interface could be made for parameters --- have a palette, every time an object or feature is created or instantiated, display the numbers for them --- one can then either plug in a number, or a formula, or plug in a number and assign a name (for...

There was some discussion about version/feature road map on the Discord --- unfortunately, the feature I want, a block-programming/node editor interface won't appear until v3.

I have tried to learn Alibre in the past, but never got too far: https://community.carbide3d.com/t/design-into-3d-parametric-organizer-in-openscad/17554 I figure if I learn the 3D modeling/sculpting app Plasticity, the skills should transfer over to, and help me learn Alibre --- we'll see.

Thanks for mentioning this! Somehow I missed the open beta, but decided to go ahead and support w/ a license --- hopefully it will help me to learn Alibre. Agree w/ folks on the lack of parametric design --- put in a ticket on it: https://github.com/nkallen/plasticity/issues/145