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Agreed. Top down design is a great method, but there are definitely pitfalls, especially in a production environment.

SolidWorks has this capability also. Everyone will have to redefine a sketch plane at some point. What a pain to find out it's not as easily done as competitors, especially since you're likely to discover when you need to do it.

Just got Windows 10 64 bit and find that I can't get Alibre 2012 to open. No errors, no nothing. Tried running in compatibility mode with no success. Any suggestions?

Got to be related to the new licensing scheme.

That's an excellent summary. Thanks. I will also say that some posts in the xpress forum that were removed have caused even more suspicion. I would advise against removing any posts unless they are truly indecent, vulgar or spam. Complaining should be allowed. You have the right to remove...

One thing that will help is that you must register to even look at the forums. That will filter a bunch of people out. My experience is that the more the better. As long as there are a few people willing to spend time to answer posts in a professional and polite manner, then new people will...

Plan on a significant surge once they announce who they are. They will hit 100,000 a week (or more) before Aug. 1 if they announce soon, imo. The real number of people registering will be less than half of the number of email registrations, imo. I'd guess that it will end up being <30,000...

My guess is this is Alibre. My guess is that it will be for the modeler only, no 2D stuff, no sheet-metal, no FEA, nothing like that. I think they are following Ironcad's Inovate philosophy. My guess is they will have at least some exporting (like Step and vrml). My guess is they know they...