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Dear Alibre Colleagues Greetings from damp and windy Cymru. Some of you may recall my question some time ago about a pyramid coil for a cowl to keep Herring Gulls from nesting on our chimney. Happily, that idea has been taken up by a blacksmith and will be implemented in steel in due course...

Good Morning from a frosty Wales I am attempting, but not succeeding, in the drawing of a pyramid. However, is is not an Egyption style solid pyramid, but a rectangular coil pyramid. The 'why' may help to explain. We have solar PV on our roof and have recently had the unused chimney capped...

Hi Friends It is some time since I have been working with Atom due to rather a lot of real world 3D projects. However, I have now come up with a scheme that needs to be drawn before implementation. The problem is that living in Cymru near the coast, Herring Gulls and the like do enjoy nesting...

Hi Folks Back to the drawing boards after something of a Covid break. I now want to draw up the casing for a small monotube steam boiler. That means I will need to be adding flanges to the four side panels (assuming the design goes best that way) with which to screw the bits together. I...

Hi Folks I'm not actually building a pyramid, but moving towards a drawing of the front steps of the badly build 1930s UK house in which I live. The steps have walls down each side and when the builder repaired the steps he also put capping stones on the end pillars (See photo). These are...

Hi Everyone Sorry to be throwing questions all the time but another thing that has foxed me is the area of knurling and similar 'gripable' finishes. I have found the posting from 2015 on knurling and think I will perhaps leave that for another time and project. However the cycle cable...

Hi Friends Having binged on the useful videos produced by Ken and others, my confidence in using Atom has been greatly increased. I was wondering about drawing threads and then stumbled across Fred's video on the topic. So clear and so simple. Anybody can do it. So I did, having a couple of...

Hi Folks This is a question for the Legal Eagles I suspect, but probably has some relevance to many of the folk on this site. I recently (December 2021) bought Alibre Atom 3D and am in the process of trying to learn to use it. I am in the seriously wrinkly home user category and have a...

Hi Folks I have a small problem that ought to be easy to fix but I have not found a way to do it yet. The part is a simple plate into which a number of holes have been 'drilled'. As I have been drawing the next part that goes into the plate I realised that I have forgotten that the plate need...

Hi Folks Having now mastered (probably) the most important bits of the sketch mode functions and the addition and hiding (but not removal) of planes I am attempting to move on to Sweep The file attached is a rather tacky tracing of the lines of a boat. They are all placed on planes spaced at...

I have been tracing a drawing that is a poor quality photocopy. On occasion the pop up references for the line have obscured the drawing and I have thus placed the next point in the line in the wrong place. In my other CAD program one just changes the cursor mode, grabs the point and then...