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I had a few years (about 30) in the PCB assembly business; initially with through hole and wave soldering and later with surface mount technology. In general, when getting data from our customers, we asked for PCB data in Gerber format together with any necessary profile and drill data. Some...

@kyleborot Hi, I did a little testing in AlibreScript in an effort to find out what might be possible there.. The following was just a test script to find out if is possible to open a Sheet Metal Part using AlibreScript: import fnmatch import os from os.path import expanduser Win = Windows()...

Measurements are stored in the Alibre file. Unfortunately Alibre Script does not work with Sheet metal parts even though there is a AlibreScript.API.Face,getArea() method in Alibre Script. Oddly, there is no GetArea() method in the corresponding AlibreX API. What do you actually need to do?

@Ex Machina Excellent video - pleased to note you have been using my gear generator!! David

+1 for that!

I've just added .rar and .exe to the GitHub release. The .rar and .zip just compressed versions of the .exe hopefully one of these will evade the windows defences! David

@Ken226, @albie0803, @DavidJ I'd like to offer a solution to the 'virus' issue but I don't think there is much I can do other than perhaps making a very small change to the code and recompiling in the hope it doesn't create a new checksum that defender or other AV solution thinks is a virus. I...

Another update.. V2.1 now available with Rack and Pinion feature + bug fixes.

Updated to Version 2.1.0.0 Added new rack and Pinion feature Documentation source code is now bundled with Add-on code Bug fix to generation of helical gears

As it happens, I'm working on an update to my utilities package to include a tool to generate rack and pinion gears. The utilities already has a tool to generate external spur/helical gears so the update just needs to generate the appropriate rack. As usual, a template file can be of great...

Save some time... Download my gear generator - it's part of the Utilities for Alibre Add-on. https://www.alibre.com/forum/index.php?resources/utilities-for-alibre.125/ I understand your pain with the equation editor! David

Interesting problem and one I considered when working on a 'Data Browser' (see Utilities for Alibre). I wanted a way of giving all my files consistent part numbers but did not want to go through all the files numbering individually. There is some more information on the part numbering feature...

I know this has been discussed before but personally, I'd much rather Alibre did not use dimensionality. My guess is that internally, Alibre uses Double, Integer and Boolean values with maybe the odd Floating point number for special occasions. I am quite able to convert from degrees to...

Not a lot new in this release but I have added a link to the documentation in the Help | About menu and from the Alibre Add-on manager. Bug fix - One more issue fixed in the generation of Gleason standard bevel gears.

Well - I really jumped in too early with V1.7 !! Just found and fixed a bug that would prevent Gleason standard bevel gears having pinion > 24 teeth from building correctly. Fixed in V1.8 Sorry all.

Gleason standard bevel gears having pinion with > 24 teeth would not build correctly.

Just updated to Version 1.7 - See resources for more information.

The prior release did not take the K Factor into consideration when generating Gleason style bevel gears having pinion tooth counts between 13 and 24 teeth. A fix for that issue is now in place. Published circular thickness factor (K) figures have been subject to regression analysis and modelled...

Thank you for the data - BIG help. I've been going through the information you provided and have made some progress towards improving the Gleason solution. Generating the radius at the tooth root has proven particularly challenging - getting a closed sketch that can be used to generate the...

Thanks for heads-up. TBH I'm not sure what the problem is yet but I have a couple of ideas. Do you have any data on dimensions of Gleason bevel gears - I've really been working from a single source of information and could do with more hard facts. If you have any data on Gleason addendum...