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What The Major Problem With Alibre Really Is :
Alibre was not designed from the ground up to be a seamless, unified, hybrid modeler and as such does not take advantage of much of what is in the ACIS kernel. This is not unique to Alibre. SolidWorks, Inventor, etc. also suffer from not having well integrated and easy to use surface tools. Additionally, when it comes to dealing with imported non-native geometry, a user needs to be able to work with non-native geometry at the lowest level so it can be edited ..... this means that direct wireframe editing must be allowed in part or assembly mode.
The time is very near where basic solid modeling will be no big deal in any CAD/CAM package. Very soon a CAD/CAM company won't be able to make any money offering just a solid modeler.
Alibre is headed in the wrong direction and has been for sometime now. Rhino integration with Alibre is not the answer. Making Alibre a hybrid modeler is the only way Alibre will survive. Free give aways are a quick fix for a CAD/CAM product that can't handle many real world modeling tasks.
Perhaps when users and CAD/CAM companies start focusing on the needed hybrid tools and a UI that makes doing complex surfacing as easy as basic solid modeling, as well as providing the needed low level direct editing tools for non-native geometry, then much of the current nonsense with free give aways will end as no one will care about yet another solid modeler like Alibre, SolidWorks, Inventor, etc. that can't handle many real world tasks because they have been designed improperly for their inception.
Jon Banquer
Phoenix, Arizona
Alibre was not designed from the ground up to be a seamless, unified, hybrid modeler and as such does not take advantage of much of what is in the ACIS kernel. This is not unique to Alibre. SolidWorks, Inventor, etc. also suffer from not having well integrated and easy to use surface tools. Additionally, when it comes to dealing with imported non-native geometry, a user needs to be able to work with non-native geometry at the lowest level so it can be edited ..... this means that direct wireframe editing must be allowed in part or assembly mode.
The time is very near where basic solid modeling will be no big deal in any CAD/CAM package. Very soon a CAD/CAM company won't be able to make any money offering just a solid modeler.
Alibre is headed in the wrong direction and has been for sometime now. Rhino integration with Alibre is not the answer. Making Alibre a hybrid modeler is the only way Alibre will survive. Free give aways are a quick fix for a CAD/CAM product that can't handle many real world modeling tasks.
Perhaps when users and CAD/CAM companies start focusing on the needed hybrid tools and a UI that makes doing complex surfacing as easy as basic solid modeling, as well as providing the needed low level direct editing tools for non-native geometry, then much of the current nonsense with free give aways will end as no one will care about yet another solid modeler like Alibre, SolidWorks, Inventor, etc. that can't handle many real world tasks because they have been designed improperly for their inception.
Jon Banquer
Phoenix, Arizona