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I'm only now learning how to make drawings. I've made a simple template with border and boxed areas. I've also added text which should appear on every drawing in the project. When I create a drawing using the template the borders & boxes show up, but the annotations do not. Toggling...

I want to cut a 3mm wide 'groove' that is 1mm deep but with the bottom sloping inward toward the centre. Think of shape of the end of a drill bit. I tried using a profile to do a sweep cut along a path. The problem I run into is that where the radius of a turn in the path is smaller that the...

I noticed this some time ago. I expected that some update would fix it, so where a feature needed a to be highlighted a shade of grey was my choice. Here is a simple test script to demonstrate:

I have a situation where a timing belt follows a serpentine path with toothed pulleys, and also plain rollers on the smooth side of the belts. To calculate the belt length passing over the plain rollers I need to know how far the pitch line is from the smooth side of the belt. For the FHT-1 1...

When editing any sketch, if I selected a circle I got huge random blue jagged shapes convering the screen. Now, with a new graphics card, I'm getting a smaller version of the same problem!! I took a photo and will try to upload.

So far I have done everything I needed by simply using regular lines, arcs, circles etc. Out of curiosity I decided (about an hour ago) to experiment with polylines. So far I can't see that they would be of any benefit to me. However I must assume that they have redeeming qualities that I have...

As of V21 it became possible to 'embed' a C# (or C++, VB etc) routine into a script to provide API access through scripting. There were examples given (in a PDF file I believe) and I experimented a bit. I've forgotten whatever I learned and would like to find that PDF again. Alternatively a...

I generate parts and assemblies completely via scripting. At critical points I save and run the script, and then correct based on the resulting part. For me the scripts are the main thing. However, even though I save regularly, the actual python file on my computer is not actually updated...

Figured it out. problem solved.

I've tried this with default units, and with units set to millimetres, with the same result. Anyone have any ideas? P = Part('MyPart') sk1 = P.AddSketch( 'sk1', P.GetPlane('XY-Plane') ) sk1.AddCircle( 10.0, 10.0, 5.0, False ) # add circle sk1.AddPolygon( 10.0, 10.0, 5.0, 6, False ) #...

I went into System Options mostly out of curiosity. I didn't tweak anything significant (or so I thought), however it has had the effect of increasing the weight of ALL lines in my parts (edges, lines indicating planes, labeling of the planes, etc). I went back into System Options and anything...

Even though I've been using Alibre for a while, I've never made use of the Global Parameters and Equation Editor, so my understanding of how it works might be off base. That said, as I understand it, when creating a part, I can add a circle to a sketch (for example) and select a value for its...

Has anyone have any ideas or plans on how they will use this expanded access to the API? I'd especially like to see a few practical examples. Most of the examples that are presented in the PDF are not applicable to the way I am using scripting. For example, as it stands, all I can do is set a...

I have a project that includes timing belts, each with several pulleys. The pulleys each have a single flange. Along the path of the belt the flanges alternate from side to side. So . . . I want to reorient some pulleys by 180 degrees as I insert them into the assembly (using scripting). Is that...

I haven't found 2d-fillet in the API and suspect that it doesn't exist. 1. Am I right? 2. If so, has anyone written a script to create a 2d fillet?

I have sketches (created via a script) of a timing belt winding in and out around multiple timing pulleys and plain rollers. These can have well over two thousand short line segments. The trapezoidal profiles are only 'cosmetic' but I still want to avoid collisions where the belt lifts from a...

As I recall, 'AddSplineThroughPoints' (which has disappeared along with WizoScript) took the degree of the spline as an argument. Typically that would be 3 which gives the usual cubic spline, but alternatively 2 for a fit using 2nd degree polynomials. (I never tried 1, but it would be...

I'm sure, in the last year or so, I saw a script function to create splines where the the degree was entered, allowing creation of splines of the second order. Now I can't find any reference to anything but 3rd order splines. Can anyone explain or show me where to look?

A couple of questions: From a script can I list all lines (for example) in a sketch, and get information about them? Can I name a line when I add it to a sketch and then refer to it by name to get info?

My script sets values for over a hundred variables that are shared in the creation of several parts. Right now I have everything in one script. I set the values of the variables in a section at the top, then several sections to create the various parts. As I include more parts (and more...