Alibre Design Suggestions
Welcome to the official Alibre feedback forum. Here you can suggest ideas and vote on existing ones. This helps us to hear what you want so we can implement the features that our users most care about.
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Support for multi core processors
Self explanatory
504 votes -
Easy way to change the plane of a sketch in part mode
Easy moving of a sketch (and associated feature if applicable) to another plane (in part mode). The need to erase and redraw wrong positionned sketches could be avoided allowing some timesaving along the design process.
483 votes -
More types of Assembly Constraints
Distance limits; Angle limits; Gears; Cams etc.
407 votesplanned ·
AdminAlibre Marketing
(Admin, Alibre)
responded
There are a lot of different enhancements discussed on this ticket. Many of them (rotational mechanisms for gears, cams, 2d contact detection – to name a few) will be included in the Motion 2.0 update.
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Cut Feature at Top Level Assembly
Apply extruded cut in assembly that could cut through any or all parts by selection.
292 votes -
290 votes
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Project to Sketch enhancements
Project to Sketch enhancements:
Project silhouettes. Project Sketches to Sketch. Project 3D Sections with option to maintain associativity. Parametrically Project/Offset Figure to Sketch.220 votes -
FIX ALL THE CURRENT BUGS
FIX ALL THE CURRENT BUGS - Both in code and usability/design
218 votesplanned ·
AdminAlibre Marketing
(Admin, Alibre)
responded
This year we have doubled the size of our QA (testing) department. The Alibre Design 2013 release cycle will have an extended stabilization period where we will go after as many bugs as possible.
With that said, it is always possible for things to slip through the cracks. If there is a specific bug that you would like to see fixed, please log a detailed enhancement, contact our support team (support@alibre.com), or email me directly (ryanm@alibre.com)
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211 votes
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Automatic Weld Generator
Incude an automatic weld feature to generate welds. Solidworks has this feature. A lot of equipment is produced from weldments. This would especially be beneficial for accurate FEA stress analysis. Now, I have to physically draw every weld now and assemble it into the model while leaving one to 3 thousandths space between welded parts to accurately model a structure.
201 votes -
Global Equation / Dimension / Parameter Editor
Global parameters support built inside Alibre.
To give possibility to change many parts and assemblies parameters from one editor. Update button to execute changes and refresh the model.
I know there is many ways to achieve this, but spreadsheet connections get messed up with updates.
In my opinion Alibre needs it's own simple editor for global dimensioning / parameters.
187 votes -
Part organisation utility in Design Explorer
Move Parts to/from top level Assembly to Sub-Assembly. Break up Sub-Assembly. Group top level Parts into Sub-Assembly. etc.
182 votes -
Better constraint conflict visibility
Currently in the Explorer, a conflicted set of constraints are shown italicized. This is very hard to see. Would be much better if they were shown RED or BOLD Capitalized.
160 votesplanned ·
AdminAlibre Marketing
(Admin, Alibre)
responded
Planned for Alibre Design 2013
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Automatic gear generator
It would be extremely useful to have a utility whereby simple solid models of spur gears, helical gears or bevel gears can be generated given basic geometric parameters.
151 votes -
Collision detection in Alibre Motion
Alibre motion needs to have a collision detectection feature where a part in motion is arrested wehn it contacts another part. This feature should also be able to take into account a part in motion being acted upon by a return spring and being acted upon or acting upon a camming feature.
146 votesplanned ·
AdminAlibre Marketing
(Admin, Alibre)
responded
Planned for Motion 2.0:
*Motor Limits
*2D Curve Contact Detection (tentative) -
Sketch Bends
The ability to sketch a line on a face of a sheet metal part then add a bend feature to bend the part to a specific angle
133 votesplanned ·
AdminAlibre Marketing
(Admin, Alibre)
responded
Planned for Alibre Design 2013
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Bi-Directional "To Geometry"&"To Next" option
The ability to Extrude, Sweep, Fillet, or Chamfer from one geometry (Solid or Reference Plane etc.) to another - the position of the defining Sketch (in the case of Extrude & Sweep) being at any point .
130 votes -
Usability enhancements before feature enhancements
The usabilty of Alibre in some dialogs is ugly uncomfortable, i.e. context menue or equation editor.
a.) equation editor
- a double click into a line should open the editor to alter a value of the parameter
- a change of the parameter's name should automatically alter all the references of this parameter- after changing a parameters value, the focus should be on the OK-Button in order to close the dialog with another <Return>b.) context menue
the Hotkeys in the context-menue should be made unique, until now (V11.2) they are not.
look at http://www.alibre.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8886&p=50154#p50154104 votes -
Drawing Name same With Part Name
In SolidWorks or other CAD systems, when you open a drawing from a part/sheetmetal document, the name of the drawing is automatically created with the same name of the part. In Alibre, you need to enter a new name in order to save the drawing. It is better to have the same name with the part as in other CAD systems and then there is no need to enter a new name to the drawing.
87 votesplanned ·
AdminAlibre Marketing
(Admin, Alibre)
responded
Planned for Alibre Design 2013
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Text on curved surface
The ability to apply text to a curved surface, such as a tube. Many times the only place to engrave a part number is on a curved surface.
83 votes -
Physical Properties in 2D drawing
It would be nice to have a possibility to get physical properties (mass, volume, area, ...) of a part or assambly in the "Design Property Values" in 2D-drawings.
Furthermore the Design Properties material-information in the "Part-Data"-Tab should be automaticaly set to that from the "material"-Tab, so there is no need to set it twice.
82 votesplanned ·
AdminAlibre Marketing
(Admin, Alibre)
responded
Planned for Alibre Design 2013