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When you use "Save as" you can rename each part individually in the list before re-saving the assembly. No need to do this one by one. Or did I misunderstand your workflow?

My fault. I did not look at the 2D again so for some reason it should be vertical sides. Strange... feels wrong.

It was quite noticeable that something was wrong - not the same speed and confident self. In the summer you'll win :) An observation... the "winning" model of the ball was not correct at all. He used some strange modelling and the resulting extrusion was not perpendicular to the tangent of the...

I actually collect calculators and Sinclair are one of the prioritized brands (along with HP, Texas and Casio) :) Here are the crown jewels of the Sinclair machines. Gold plated in the back :)

Whatever surface/edge/point you click when rotating (left+right mouse click) will be used as rotation point. No need to define them beforehand.

Also my first contact with 3D "CAD". Sinclair Spectrum in 1983... A few years later other 3D CAD on Atari ST. Life was easier then :)

I collect stuff like that - old computers, video games and calculators. I had the Casio FX-602P in High School and used that a lot for programming as well. Those day were the best, when different brands did different stuff and nothing was compatible :)

A little bit of hybrid surfacing will fix this. Perfect approach when working with symmetric hulls etc. I have made some changes in the part file. Basically it's converting to a "base surface" and then use that for thickening and mirroring.

I'm a bit curious who runs Alibre on a 256 GB (RAM) Workstation?

If you want the arc in the same sketch as the rectangle you need to trim the corner so only the arc remains.

I have noticed that a lot of newer users have entered this forum latetly and that made me a bit curious. Is that visible in a poll? Will the graph grow chronologically?

Wonder if Alibre LLC has ownership of that patent? :) All "big bad cad boys" seems to forget who was the innovator in this field... " Alibre Issued Patent for 3D Solid Modeling on the Internet Multi-tiered, Distributed Processing Architecture Facilitates CAD Collaboration RICHARDSON, Texas...

No need for that hole. Just make sure the vertical line in the cone is vertical (constrained) and coincident with origin. It it is slightly skewed or not in center different errors can occur when trying to revolve 360'.

Patterns in 2D-sketches are not parametric with the exclusion for the "Shape"-command but that is a bit limited (only a fixed set of shapes) and basically aimed at sheet metal. Setting up a 2D-sketch with parameters and construction lines for patterns could in some cases work but compared to...

In Alibre Design you always (well, more or less always) create one instance and then pattern in 3D, not 2D. In your case, create one square and then pattern i 3D. Then create one circle on top of the first square. Extrude and pattern this instance using the parameter for the pattern count from...

One simple trick could be inserting a cartesian coordinate system as an image. It's easy to scale to preferred size and use as preference instead of planes.

A bit down on this page you can see most of the differences. https://www.alibre.com/alibre-design-feature-comparison/ In a few words... if you need standardized 2D drawings for manufacturing you need Pro or Expert. Atom3D only has the basics.

Until a few years into the 2000s this was actually a part of the Alibre strategy. The current file format is based on STEP and I believe it was called "Open STEP" at the time. No one of the big vendors did jump on the train, because of the reasons you mention, and I hardly believe they ever...

Not really since Alibre Design will work for 30 days without access to the net. If the drop out will be longer than this I guess Alibre will send offline licenses to all users. Bankruptcy is always a problem, not just with software.