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I posted this image on another forum in response to a comment denigrating CAD programs for modeling small boats due to the learning curve. I also replied that if the computer modeling is a hobby then, so what? In any case I received a PM reply ask me if I would be interested in doing a similar...

Tire tread Tire tread came up again so I thought that I would post my not to scale, unmeasured, exercise. To make the tread I patterned an extrusion around the tire then trimmed everything to the diameter I wanted...

tire tread for other post- http://www.alibre.com/forums/viewtopic. ... 1856#31856

I gave up on flattening program. I have given up on finding a cheap and easy way to flatten a curved surface using another program and have proceeded with my boat plans concentrating on what Alibre CAN do instead of what it cannot. Here is what I came up with-...

Constant Chord Filet It's not a big deal but I wish that you could specify the chord length of a filet. In this example of a constant radius filet- http://www.alibre.com/forum/files/filet.png - you can see that the ends are narrower than the middle. I...

Filet picture Picture of constant radius filet.

Delete Face, Offset Face, & Move Face Even though I don't use all of Alibre's tools, I can understand what they are for and see that they are useful to other people. This family of tools, Delete, Offset, and Move Face, while being interesting to toy with, have me at a loss...

Anyone familiar with Pilot3D? I am not sure how user friendly Pilot3D is but they talk themselves up up pretty good as a NURBS surface generator with an emphasis on boat design. It can develop flat patterns from curved surfaces. Priced from $70 to $500 or so...

Odd dome I have posted a binary that shows an odd result to an attempt to revolve a sketch into a hemisphere dome. Any help? http://www.alibre.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=26778#26778 Bob

Odd dome Why is this dome not solid?? I have done this with a thin wall boss revolve and with a sketch as shown and both ways I get this odd image instead of a "solid" hemispere dome. It doesn't make an image of a solid unless I increase the...

When you are creating a list of edges to filet or line segments to mirror or whatever, the drop down window shows the first three or so items and the slider remains at the top so you only see those items unless you drag down the slider. I wish that either the slider would stay at the bottom...

Undesired opacity-reflectivity relationship In real life things that have near zero opacity are often the most reflective i.e. water, glass, diamonds. In Alibre, parts lose the ability to reflect as they become less opaque, the opposite of real life. Bob

Logo answer Example of a logo extruded (on right) or extrude cut (on left). Both use the same sketch just a different operation. This is in answer to this question- http://www.alibre.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4740 Bob

Expanded metal I did this from my memory of what expanded metal looked like back in my days with the Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Iron Workers. It is in response to http://www.alibre.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3787 which I missed around...

simple pipe elbow example Answer to question. http://www.alibre.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25497#25497

I'm about to expire- What happens when my license expires? I've never used any of the server hosting services and am a hobbyist. Bob

Hardware Store - common tools and fixings This could be scaled, and there could be several sizes for the welding set-up. Bob

Mobile 3D sketch plane. It would make it so much easier to adjust 3D sketch lines if the sketch plane moved around so that it was always perpendicular to your view point. Bob

My solution using loft boss of 3d wires in assembly. 1) Boolean unite to create a single part that has both the beginning faces and end faces. 2) Orient to plane and create sketches of each of these faces. 3) Draw a 3d spline sketch starting at the center of the beginning of one...

4 holes around a hole. Here is my solution to locating the 4 orbital holes.