Part Design

Guidelines for trouble free 3D part design - 2D Sketching Tips
Following these guidelines should help to minimize problems, it will also make later editing easier on the whole. Keep 2D sketches simple - they'll be...
Wed, 6 Mar, 2019 at 11:53 AM
Guidelines for trouble free part design - 3D features & Imports
These guidelines for avoiding trouble complement those covering 2D sketching. As mentioned in the Golden Rules for 2D sketching - it is preferable to use...
Wed, 31 Jan, 2018 at 10:55 AM
How to create curved text
Creating text along a circle or an arc is not a feature that can be created natively in Alibre Design. The recommended process to achieve this is by using M...
Wed, 28 Mar, 2018 at 1:55 PM
Creating Part Configurations
When a new part or sheet metal part workspace is opened the Configurations category will be displayed in the Design Explorer as the first group in the list....
Thu, 31 Jan, 2019 at 1:04 PM
Editing Part Configuration Properties
The Lock Properties of Configurations can be edited in a design to control how Configurations update when changes to an active Configuration are made. H...
Thu, 31 Jan, 2019 at 12:54 PM
Regenerating Design Configurations
When modeling with multiple Configurations it is important to realize that as features are created in an active Configuration that the features for inactive...
Thu, 31 Jan, 2019 at 12:45 PM
Using the Equation Editor with Configurations
Although all Configurations of a design will have a common set of dimensions, the values of those dimensions are parameters whose values can vary from Confi...
Thu, 31 Jan, 2019 at 12:52 PM
How To Create Custom Materials
You may occasionally need to use a type of material that is not included in the set of default material options in your part properties. To create your cus...
Wed, 24 Jun, 2020 at 4:33 PM