Surface Tutorial?

[BradMorris64]

Hi all,

I recently purchased Alibre Design Professional for creating 3D Printable CAD models. I have used Creo at work (CMM Programing) for several years and really enjoy its simplicity. Alibre has a similar feel to me and I have been trying to apply my understanding of Creo to it with general success. But I can't seem to get the surfacing tools in Alibre to work. They are all grayed out no matter what I try. Is there a surfacing tutorial somewhere that will walk me through their functionality step by step?

Thanks much,
Brad J. Morris

 

[idslk]

Maybe the help will take you further...
For which purpose you want to use surface tools?


Regards
Stefan

 

[BradMorris64]

Hi Stefan,

I tried the help menu but it tells me to select the surfacing tab, but when I do, all of the options are grayed out. Even if I have a model created.

I'm not sure what I might use the surfacing tools for yet. I was going to experiment with the various options just to see what it can do.

Thanks,
Brad

Alibre Design™ Professional
Version: V24 64-bit [Build 24043]

 

[idslk]

all of the options are grayed out

The help and the compare sheet says surface tools should be enabled in Professional (here in expert they are available...).
As far as i know there are no further settings necessary to enable them.
It might be an install issue. It looks like a question for the support.

Regards
Stefan

 

[BradMorris64]

Thank you. Maybe the Alibre Atom demo that I was testing before purchasing the Design Pro version is causing a conflict. I'll contact support.

Thanks,
Brad

 

[Ken226]

Thank you. Maybe the Alibre Atom demo that I was testing before purchasing the Design Pro version is causing a conflict. I'll contact support.

Thanks,
Brad

I started with Atom, then upgraded to Design later too. I Had similar issues in that some of the Design Pro features were locked after the upgrade.

Even after a complete un-install of Atom, and a clean install of Alibre Design. I had trouble.

there were some residual Atom files that were skipped by the Atom uninstall, and the Design installation was apparently opening using data from those residual files.


After a call to Alibre support, I was able locate and delete the files then reinstall Design, and it worked fine after that. I seem to remember it being some kinda license file, in a hidden folder.