Version 25

These have been migrated to the next-gen control system.

Almost all tree view controls have been migrated to the next-gen control system. You would see things like the Design Explorer and the File Properties / System Options, among others.

Toolbars have been migrated to the next-gen control system. There is still work to make them fully done which will occur once the migration to vector icons happens.

Exit Sketch Mode has been disabled while in the Hole tool. The proper way to complete the sketch and finalize the Hole is to press OK in the Hole dialog.

Smart Expand has been enabled which intelligently expands the Design Explorer.

Various updates to the equation editor's UI functionality have been made.

A user suggestion indicated the Coaxial constraint image didn't have the same amount of contrast as other icons, making it hard to determine if it was enabled. The icon has been redesigned.

It was unclear that two components of the UI were buttons. The diameter symbols now have a button-like appearance with a tooltip.

Additional sizing options for landscape and portrait have been added to the blank sheet dialog by default.

Users using Dark or Very Dark color schemes had a light yellow location preview box when placing drawing views. This color is now more visible.

These two rectangle types now have a UI similar to the Center-Point rectangle and dimensions can be added in realtime.

Real time dimensions during figure creation used to dimension between the center point and the rectangle extents. Now, the real time dimensions reference the full length and width.

This color scheme had issues and has been removed. It may be reintroduced later.

A more visually appealing color set is used.

If multiple GPUs are present on the system, a dialog will appear at startup suggesting you ensure the high-powered card is used for Alibre products. The dialog can be disabled.

Takes a sketch and wraps it around a part's geometry and simultaneously creates a boss or cut into or out of the part. Ideal for wrapping text around a cylinder.

Takes a sketch and projects it directly onto the geometry of a part and simultaneously creates a boss or cut into or out of the part. It's similar to wrap, but the resulting projection is straight down the sketch plane's normal direction instead of wrapping around a part arbitrarily.

The ability to create columns of data that represent a number multiplied by the quantity in the row and the ability to sum across rows to present a Total has been added.

Import an SVG into a 2D sketch or export a 2D sketch to an SVG.

Export geometry to an OBJ + MTL file combination for use in other visualization software. The fidelity of the tesselated geometry is determined by the part or assembly's visual fidelity settings in File Properties > Display.

Sketch snapping has been added to the Select tool, Dimension tool, and 2D Constraint tools.

V25 is the first version to support side-by-side installation. This is not retroactive. The first time you will be able to use this is when v26 launches, and you can have v25 and v26 installed simultaneously if desired. This will make future betas installable next to your production version so you can more easily participate in betas.

Now properties you may set in File > Properties > Core Properties can be remembered as defaults for new files if the "Set current settings as the default..." checkbox is checked.

The presence of suppressed part instances in selection results in exception during Manual Explode

Updated logic now addresses an issue that could be experienced when dragging objects in an assembly with Make Flexible enabled.

When more than one exploded view is created continuously, the focus does not get moved to the newly created exploded view.

Part/sub-assembly instances in assembly can be rolled-over and selected in DE even after suppressing them.

The hole type icons were chopped off in some resolution / DPI combinations. Selected icon highlighting now also makes it easier to see what option is chosen.

The Column Widths set for a part's equation editor is now remembered within the Alibre session.

Various issues in the Drawing Properties dialog related to Windows Scaling have been fixed.

Some scaling issues were present that cut off some parts of the UI.

An exception could occur if a section view was created using a line and arc as the section geometry.

The thread length might be displayed incorrectly in certain types of section views.

Shaded view's bounding box is not correct when we hide some parts from the view. Also Shaded view bounding box affected by inactive configurations.

Dimensioning Shaded/Draft ISO views of an assembly which contains active and inactive configs throws "QuickDimensionPlugin" error.

Face Color doesn't update correctly in a 2D view when applied to a config that has not been explicitly saved.

Hatching vanishes in detail of broken section view.

Rose exception seen when trying to save a drawing of a Loft view with a dimension on it.

Overriding the value for diameter symbol in Text tab of Dim styles is not retained.

Fix inconsistent 'vertical' spacing between text and dimension line extensions.

Part and Assembly-level color and transparency is now supported.

Precise 3D section view fails for some of the imported STP files in V24.

IGES options were not honored in some cases. They are always honored now if it is possible to do so.

Line caps sometimes causing issues in 2D PDF with built in option.

Import sometimes fails with Heal option checked for Step files.

Not able to resolve BOM's RVR when we re-project a drawing opened from a package file in a particular workflow.

Getting Object Ref error when opening some BOMs from the Windows explorer directly.

Validation not working for certain Custom properties when added to BOM.

Naming a new equation with existing name now prompts the user to choose a different name.

Unable to view the other configs in a Locked GLP file which have multiple configs by double clicking in Explorer.

Renaming the parameters using unsupported characters throws an extra irrelevant message.

Adding, renaming, or removing parameters does not update the Equation column of Global Parameters.

Sometimes when hovering over a face, geometry behind the face would become selectable.

Reference Lines, Circles, and Arcs are now available when sketching inside the Hole tool.

Additional options are now available for some geometry combinations, for example Tangent is now available for a line/ellipse combination.

Version Incrementing of the file is happening when any of the options in File Properties->Units->Dual Dimensions and General are changed and saved. This no longer happens.

In some workflows spline tools might not be selectable due to a UI issue.

A hang could occur when changing an Extrude draft angle in some cases.

Symmetric constraint logic has improved and should no longer produce odd results on specific geometry.

Some splines cannot be edited if end conditions exist and DOF Illustration color is enabled.

Additional logic has been added to make previews for some specific geometry cases more predictable.

Trimming a spline that intersected with a sketch point could throw an exception.

An issue related to case sensitivity and duplicate names has been resolved.

A crash could occur displaying an API_Failed error when the alignment of the flanges are changed after the Miter value is updated.

This node presented an option that could not be used for Alibre Atom3D and so has been removed.

Sheet metal parts used to have a regular part icon in the Dynamic Library UI.

This command was defined as the keyboard shortcut for two commands. It is now defined only for one.

This no longer activates keyboard shortcuts.

Rotation Point of 3D view is incorrect when Alibre Script based tool is active.

The Alibre API was allowing creation of a new sketch when another sketch was already being modified within the design. New logic has been added to detect this.

The API now throws an exception when attempting to save a locked file programmatically via Alibre Script.

Alibre Design will not launch when using the Hong Kong Chinese language resources.

Update API/Addon documentation to include info on how to register 3rd party addon in system registry, impact of side-by-side on Addons/API.