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Not in any big rush here..... I'll wait until after the first bugfix release. If it were made less of a complete PIA to try the beta I'd do beta testing. But not as it is now.

Hole dimensions often switch from arrows to the double lines, before you get the text to where you want it. However, I just discovered what to do. Just let the arrow dimension text sit wherever it will stay as an arrow. Close the dimensioning, leaving it there. Now, once you are out of...

Hmmmm. Well, I always assumed it was a "feature" of some programs. And it may be. But it does seem to be created in the STEP process. I suppose that I never noticed because I don't open STEP files I made very often, and I DO get all the Solidworks files in as STEP files. Your comment...

Yes, what NLG said. Also what you said....... If there is going to be a tool, like the shapes tool, why bother with it if the use of it is hedged around by so many types of "yeah, well if you use them you cannot do U.V.W.X.Y, or Z anymore". It's actually a waste of development time, because...

That seems to be a feature of the program and not the STEP format. Some programs, such as Solidworks, seem to make all cylindrical shapes with two half cylinders, for example.

Of course, the basic issue is STL file conversion. And the NEED to do it that way in the first place. While Alibre "could DO it", I was never able to get a decent part input to Alibre when starting with an STL file. I regard STL files as being "on the other side of a trap door", it seems to...

I find those to be such a nuisance that I do not use them at all. I think they are nearly worthless, since they seem to be "outside the normal rules".

I do not understand that at all. Most STEP files are not like that. The STL files are faceted etc, and presumably when exported as STEP those "features" are preserved. If that is the only way to get a STEP file out of Fusion or Freecad, it sounds like what I call a "punishment...

I wish I had TIME to do beta testing. I generally have deadlines etc, not always with CAD work, and so I get less time to play with a new version than would be needed. Plus, I have one main computer, and that one is really not available for the purpose. If the beta could be flipped on and...

no crash, no visible instance running, and a computer reboot did not change anything.... it was still read-only. after "aging" overnight, it worked. That does not seem like a ghost running, it seems more like a date/time related issue, although I have no idea how or why.

Just one in use here, no other win 10 machines. This morning, I can open it for editing..... go figure.

Well, just now Alibre decide to LOCK the master BOM file for the project. I already had to rebuild it once..... I REALLY do not want to rebuild it YET AGAIN. If it is any help to you, I had added some parts to it, and moved them from the bottom of the list to their proper area. I was just in...

The current project has run into this much more quickly than I expected from past experience. I have had to redo models, and the latest is that I have to redo the entire 76 line BOM from scratch, re-ordering everything per the item numbers, because the previous one apparently got corrupted...

I have had quite a few bitter complaints about Alibre. Let me take a bit of time to mention a really GOOD FEATURE. In my opinion and experience, one of the very GOOD and USEFUL features of Alibre is the "Fastener constraint". It should be up on the "Wall of Honor" I had an occasion today to...

I surely hope the "distant" is not too distant. This should be done as of 2014.

Yeah, I forgot to mention the issue of correcting one after another. Must have blocked out a bad memory....

I use SyncToy to backup files. I am getting a list of errors from SyncToy, that it "cannot read from source" with the reason as "active". That. to me, means Alibre has not released those files. I've tried closing, opening then closing, for Alibre. I've tried opening the containing model...

Yeah, there is some stuff done. But apparently, and I looked through everything that related to "save", the elephant in the room was ignored. I'd like to be wrong about this, but if I am I cannot find it. I refer, of course, to the problem of saves going odd places. Places you maybe cannot...

It seems perfectly clear to me. It's a matter of extra "monkey motion" that adds no value for the user. Workflow? Not workflow............................."correction flow", or "adjustment flow". IOW, something needs changed, it's not a "planned workflow". Maybe the constraint was not...

Or the proper "Alibre name" for it