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Lew_Merrick
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Based on what you've seen here, do you have any particular questions or polishing suggestions?
Lew_Merrick
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Hi Max -- A bit more than a year ago I sent you a "Improvements to Constraints" missive. Whereas I could easily repeat that (and add to it), that is not the basis here. The main thing I am certain is that there will be "arguments" (read: "questions") asked no matter how it comes out until we go through a couple of "cycles" of "polishing" things. Are you expecting a different process? I am not. -- Lew
Lew, I'm not sure a blanket statement on the lines of "something will be wrong, I'm not sure what, but I do know it will need fixing" on a preview video showing no UI is a worthwhile comment to make. I'm happy to discuss specifics, but comments for the sake of comments aren't a good use of anyone's time.
In any case, yes we will hopefully have more to show soon - I think we're shifting away from "Alibre makes stuff in secret then releases" to "hey everyone, look what we're thinking - tell us your feedback before we start coding" as you can see with the new constraint dialog thread(s), so hopefully the process will indeed be different.
Lew_Merrick
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Max -- Over my 48 years of Development experience, the first "output" of an effort virtually always hase something that had "escaped consideration" during the initial planning and design process. Whereas I expect that "we" will ultimately create an industry leader when we reach final (and "polished") implementation, I expect that it will take several "iterations" to reach that condition. That is all I meant. -- Lew
Hello Max, keep the goodies coming. There is no question that there will be some changes in some items but I have over 55 years of design experience in several fields and there have been some that went smoothly and some that needed a few "tweeks". In any case, give them a try and see how they fly!
I love the program and continue to put through its paces.
Jim C
I love the program and continue to put through its paces.
Jim C
It is more accurately an "axis / axis" constraint. You can use this constraint on any part, though in many cases it wouldn't make sense outside of gears or similar.
So that being said, you define 2 axes (by picking an axis, or a circular face that we can infer an axis from etc) and then you set the ratio between them, in a _____ : _____ style. So a worm gear would be 1 : 55 for example. We aren't spending a lot of time right now trying to infer the correct rotation direction, so you can easily switch it if it's incorrect with a checkbox.
Harold - see menu H in this thread https://alibreforum.com/forum/index.php?threads/constraint-dialog-proposal.21307/
Lew_Merrick
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What??? You think that clearance is required for moving parts? ;-) Lew
My feature request for the year. Not to lessen the new constraint - that will be awesome! It might incentivize me to model the pocket watch movement I've been pondering for a while.
You might be able to achieve this in some cases with the new limit constraint option, though they are not implemented for gears. Baby steps