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Oops - that was supposed to be 18 months, give or take. I started using SC in 2006 or 2007 with SC 4 and they are now up to SC16, at least 10 upgrades since original purchase. They also make intermediate upgrades/bug fixes available for download on an on-going basis.

I use SprutCAM and am up to Vesion 16. I believe that the UI has improved quite a bit since I 1st started using it at Version 4, though maybe my braiin is just got used to it over the years and versions. I do think thta it is pretty hard to find a CAM program with more features for the money...

If not already on the list, perhaps Alibre can add it, or maybe explain why re-assigning the sketch plane makes no sense for the way Alibre is written. @Max?

I aslo use a competing brand of CAD software that allows you to click on a face and export that face as a DXF file. Very handy and quick. Perhaps Alibre could consider adding a similar feature.

You also need to save the source file (part or assembly) before re-loading the drawing for the drawing to update correctly. That requirement catches me all too often.

If you are using SprutCAM 5, that is pretty old software - the are currently on SC 16, so maybe the older SC versions don't understand the more recent Alibre file formats.

Hope he's OK, looks like he hasn't been around in a few months.

You might want to cut Ralf some slack here. He seems to be the resident curmudgeon, but his bark is worse than his bite.

Try a Youtube search string like this: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alibre+2010 and substitute the year or version of the product that you are running. Then search through far too many hits because Youtube doesn't seem to allow you to sort by release date. I guess that's so...

I've been happy with the Prusa Mk3 that I bought a couple years ago. That's about US$750 in kit form or US$1k fully assembled.

It's pretty simple in the other CAD - just right click on a drawing view, select the configuration you want from a drop down and the drawing updates all of the dimensions that are common between the 2 configurations. If the views are all children of the parent view they all update. Takes...

Does Alibre ever plan to support configurations in drawings? A different brand of CAD that I use supports that and I've found it useful on occasion. In one case, I have ~20 different configurations for a particular part and it would be a PITA to manage 20 different drawings.

I do appreciate all of the help, but another CAD program that I have access to handles this issue, as well as a few more, much easier than Alibre does so I'm doing the project with that package. @Max and @DavidJ - still interested in seeing usability improvements with Alibre in this area as I...

Thanks - that technique is new to me and should work. If @Max or @DavidJ is reading, please add me to the request for this a built-in feature with a quick way to implement it. Also, the help system could address this better. I've searched v24 help for assistance with several small issues...

That works well enough, but I wanted the diameter dimension to be drawn the way that a radius dimension is drawn, with a single arrow to the outside of the circle and with the dimension preceded with a diameter symbol (Greek letter phi?). I couldn't figure out to do that and am thinking Alibre...

Thanks again Harold for putting that together. Unfortunately it looks like Alibre makes this particular task a bit more onerous than other CAD to which I have access.

Thanks Harold, for making the video - that makes things a lot clearer. One problem I had was that I didn't actually know what the bolt circle diameter was. I know that I can get it by dimensioning from the center of the bolt circle to the center of one of the bolt holes but thought it would be...

That didn't work on this project, possibly because I'm working with an imported STEP file and the bolt hole features are pairs of semicircles. Seems odd that it doesn't seem possible to create reference figures in drawings from scratch.

Thanks Nate - that got me most of the way to what I wanted. Alibre allows the use of Reference Figures in 2D sketching but it looks like that is not possible in Drawings - am I missing something? It's been a while, but I thought that drawings had that capability in a previous version. I'm...

Thanks Harold, but I probably didn't explain my want very well and the above doesn't quite do what I want. I'd like the circular line that corresponds to the bolt circle to be displayed with a dashed line or some other line type that distinguishes it from the standard solid line type. I'm also...