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    1. 504 votes
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      • 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.

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        • More types of Assembly Constraints

          Distance limits; Angle limits; Gears; Cams etc.

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            planned  ·  Alibre MarketingAdminAlibre 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.

          • Cut Feature at Top Level Assembly

            Apply extruded cut in assembly that could cut through any or all parts by selection.

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            • 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.

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                • FIX ALL THE CURRENT BUGS

                  FIX ALL THE CURRENT BUGS - Both in code and usability/design

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                    planned  ·  Alibre MarketingAdminAlibre 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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                    • 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.

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                      • 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.

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                        • 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.

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                          • 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.

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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.

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                              • 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 votes
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                                • 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

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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 .

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                                    • 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#p50154

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                                      • 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.

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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.

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                                          • 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.

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