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I've tried both approaches - applying a texture to a 3D 'pipe' and modelling a feature on a 2D sketch (radius + straight lines) to produce an elbow. At a distance the texture kind of looks OK but, as expected, the modelled part is much nicer.

Bear in mind this post is over 11 yrs old. I think Ralf did it in Moi3D and kindly sent me a STP file.

This may be the way. It's long-winded but there doesn't seem to be a better alternative until we can 'pattern along path'. And I don't have Moi3D.

Hi, The pink part in the assembly is a representation of a flexible stainless steel bellows and I'm happy with the shape of it. The pipe is extruded along a 3D sketch. I would like to make it look more like the real thing. Ideally I would revolve a single 'bellows' shape at the start of the pipe...

I can't save my model. The message refers to an offending part (ID6215) which is buried in one of the sub-assemblies. I can open ID6215 and save it. I can open the two assemblies that use ID6215 and I can save them too. I can't save the top-level model. Any thoughts?

Does the Alibre version allow you to customise folders in 'Edit - preferences - folders' - that way you can keep a clean install of Keyshot and point it to your legacy resources.

My splash screen is odd - shows 'Alibre Design 22' at the bottom left and 'version 23' at the top right. Any idea how to fix this?

Just for fun I ran the 'old' CofG script on a simple assembly. Unless I am misreading this the 'Y' value in the script is a decimal point out compared with the built-in' Alibre calculation.

I'm afraid the script didn't work for me - here's the output. Not sure what I did wrong, if anything. The script is in the script library and I created the 'no_density' material. Alibre Script build 343305 IronPython 2.7.10.0 Interactive Console For documentation visit...

Any chance Alibre can redesign this 'Save' icon? It's very difficult to tell whether it's 'lit up' or not.

Restarted and created a new model - pattern sketch now working. Must have been the 'unexpected error' causing Alibre to go wonky.

Tried again with a smaller model and went OK. Had to close the previous session with task manager though.

It seems to generate the BIP file OK but the Alibre message bar at the bottom left shows updating face/edge meshes/topology continuously.... I shall have to stop it.

Anybody noticed any issues with saving an assembly as a BIP file - it's taking ages for me. Been for a cup of coffee and it's still running..!

Shortly after I got an 'unexpected error' and had to close Alibre - might be related? I'll try again shortly.

Since upgrading to V23 I can't select a sketch item in order to pattern it. Anybody else see this? 'Feature pattern' works OK but not sketch pattern.

How odd - I'm getting the same splash screen as Albie was 'Alibre Design 22' - but the home screen is all OK and showing v23. I have rebooted but it's still the same.

Ha! - it's a type of mass spectrometer. There's a 'hot' source and an electron multiplier detector inside the 2" tube and the coiled pipes have cold water flowing through to keep the source from getting too hot.

Any thoughts on how best to tackle this? I have a 2" OD tube with an elliptical hole through it. Around the 2" OD tube is a 1/8"OD cooling pipe 'loop' which is brazed to it. The cooling loop has to go round the elliptical hole (preferably at both sides) - seems I have to curve it in two...

Merry Xmas Stefan - and thanks.