Surface creation/manupulation feature?

[chet]

Surface creation/manupulation feature?

First of all, I like to say that I love to use Alibre! I would definitely recommend it to my friends in the industry.

In fact, I just demonstrated this software to one of my friends. He is a moldmaker. He has experience using many CAD/CAM softwares. He said the only reason he wouldn't buy this software is the lack of surface creation/manupulation (besides importing surface).

I feel he got a valid reason there... I hope in the near future, Alibre will include surface tools or features also... this will make it perfect!

Alibre rocks!

 

[swertel]

For WHEN Alibre develops their own surface modeling capability (I'm not leaving it to chance for an "if"), I put in a request to include this ACIS license.
http://www.spatial.com/products/3D/mode ... html?LV3=Y

I think this new functionality from ACIS will kick but over Parasolid's surfacing capabilities and therefore Alibre will have a better comparison against the likes of Solid Edge, who I feel has the best surfacing capability of the midrange guys based on their bluesurf/dot functions and less need for hierarchal structure.

 

[HeliDev]

Definately. Funny I was just about to post on this, got beaten to it.
This is feature that I feel would really improve alibre, Hopefully in version 8.5?