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Never seen that page before. Very Handy. They don't have a similar page for bug tracking do they?

Who DDoS's a small CAD software website?!? Bizarre.

Ah, that makes sense. I was afraid some of you out there were adrenaline junkies living on the edge with undefined sketches.

Huh, interesting. I thought selecting the dimension tool dropped you into "sketch on sheet" anyways, since the deactivate sketch button activates. I typically use "activate sketch in view" when I need to 1) create a section view line, 2) create tangent lines or points that are typically tricky...

What's the reason for not dimensioning while in sketch mode?

Could someone who picked one of the "don't maintain association" options explain why you use it? Because you terrify me.

It works great. Amazing work!

I've been having this issue for years as well. 99% of my drawings are section views of round parts with threads accurately modeled. I suspect the threads might be part of the problem. I get 2 types of errors. The first is like yours. The second is that dimensions don't dissociate, but they...

That looks super handy, I had never seen the reproject design dimensions button before. It seems it doesn't work from section views. Bummer. Not being able to dimension diameters in sketches for revolutions would mean all the dimensions would come in as radii, so maybe not that useful for...

Hey Nate, very handy little script. Very reminiscent of @bolsover 's Data Browser: https://github.com/bolsover/DataBrowserForAlibre https://www.alibre.com/forum/index.php?threads/custom-alibre-file-browser.23165/ Should the column entitled "File Number" more accurately be called "Part...

I recreated the subassembly, and now it's working as intended. I'm not sure what I was missing yesterday, so I guess I'll chalk it up to user error.

hey Stefan @idslk It looks like something changed in v27. It's started to include the weight of sub-assemblies, and as a bonus, it does it incorrectly. I've uninstalled v26 and can't test it again though. Here's what I was using: # Weight Update # Updates custom property 'Weight' (text)...

Top down design without multi-body solids has always been more headache for me than it's worth. So I'd love to see other methods of achieving it.

I can barely figure out half of this stuff if it has documented methods! I'll post an update if I stumble upon a method.

Actually that's perfect, because I'm using template parts and importing spreadsheet values to create the various sizes I need. So can I modify an external cosmetic thread via Alibre Script?

Am I just missing it, or is there no way to create or modify an external thread via scripting? I don't see any mention of threads in the reference manual. This post from the WizoScript days says it wasn't possible back then either. The script examples for creating fasteners doesn't add a...

Looks like I jumped the gun on calling this a success. It doesn't work in Assemblies.

@idslk That did the trick. I also added [:4] to truncate the number a bit. Thanks for the help, that was quick! What other handy bits of code have you been hiding from us? :) Has Alibre made a way to run scripts from a toolbar button rather than having to launch the alibre script window...

Oh, that's perfect. Thanks @idslk! It looks like Alibre stores the mass in kg regardless of your part or assemblies units, so *2.205 gets me to lbs. Everything makes sense except the script. It isn't putting the value into the custom property. Any idea what I'm missing?

Pro v26