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Mechanische CAD-Software mit 20 Jahren Entwicklungszeit, die einfach zu erlernen, präzise, erweiterbar und erschwinglich ist.
Ease of use, the fact that I can purchase and not be tied to an annual subscription is ideal for an occasional user.
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Exceptional value for money
Kommentare: As a user of SolidWorks at work, I wanted a system that I could use at home with similar capabilities; SolidWorks did not offer a suitable license for this purpose. I discovered Alibre around 2013 and was surprised to find that it closely matched the performance of SolidWorks at an affordable cost, and even more surprised to find that it ran well on my home computer. I used it for parallel work to my day job, for exporting Alibre models into SolidWorks, and for other work on my own account. When I retired in 2019 and set up a small home business, I added a CAM add-in and used Alibre to model products and generate toolpaths for their production on a small CNC machine in my garage; it has paid for itself many times over.
Vorteile:
Having used SolidWorks at work since 2000, I have found Alibre to be capable of virtually the same performance at home at a small fraction of the cost. - In addition, it runs well on my basic home desktop PC, and it can import SW native files (though without retaining the feature tree). For someone who is comfortable working in SolidWorks, ProE, etc, Alibre is very much the same at lower cost. - The Alibre license is permanent, unlike other CAD systems. You can subscribe to maintenance support, but if you decide to let that lapse your system license is still good - you lose the maintenance but still can continue to use the software. - Alibre's customer service has also been consistently very good, every question receives careful attention and an immediate helpful response.
Nachteile:
This is not really Alibre's fault, but the discontinuation of a CAM add-in called AlibreCAM 2020 (as I understand, this was not actually an Alibre product but made by MecSoft) around 2021 was unfortunate - it was excellent and seamless in Alibre and critical to my work. In order to retain this discontinued product, I have not updated my system to the most recent version of Alibre.
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Alibre 3D CAD. The unknown Gem
Kommentare:
I started with Atom in early 2023 but very soon upgraded to to Alibre Design Expert for all of the extra features. It is a superb piece of software.
I've just taken out 12 months maintenance so I can upgrade and now have Alibre PDM. You only need maintenance if you require the latest features and top level support (which is superb). If not then carry on without maintenance.
There's also a user forum which is great for sharing ideas, tips & tricks etc.
Vorteile:
Ease of use, Efficiency of software, Price, Value for money, Lifetime license.
Nachteile:
Can't think of anything really. I used Inventor for 14 years and there are differences but it's just a case of becoming familiar with the tools.
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Not Even For Free
Kommentare: Spent four hours trying to do a 15 minute OpenSCAD job.
Vorteile:
It's free. The price. Forty characters for "free".
Nachteile:
The UI is slow, heavy, convoluted and "sticky". The draft-based editing is clumsy, limited, and assigns correlations and confinements seemingly at random. Parametric entry is borderline impossible; there are four or five types of lines and whichever one you're defining a shape with is the wrong one. Any promise of defining complicated shapes depends on whether or not you are the giving the sales pitch.
Alibre Design is the best solids program on the market
Kommentare: I was delighted in discovering how easy it was to create special client drawings and layouts. The ability to create a child parts list connected to the assembly drawings that can be manually edited is unmatched and very powerful. The ability to compute weights of assemblies that easily flow into a top assembly is excellent.
Vorteile:
For a solids program with engineering precision, high caliber design, it hits the Sweet Spot of capability, functionality, cost, and ease of use.
Nachteile:
That it only runs on a PC. Most of my day today computing occurs on a MacOS system and it forces me to have a separate windows computer networked with all documents saved to my Mac. It is how I have operated my successful engineering business for nearly 20 years.
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Highly reccomended software
Kommentare: I have been using it professionally for over ten years. I mainly use it to produce drawings for manufacturing for parts that are produced in various ways including sheet metal, CNC machining, 3D printed parts, and custom aluminum extrusions. I also use it extensively for modeling complex assemblies to determine whether parts will fit in a customer's application before they have the parts in hand.
Vorteile:
Alibre Design is a fully capable parametric modeling application and I can complete a product design from idea to model to production ready drawings all in the same program. The learning curve is not steep and the price is quite reasonable. In addition, the developers are responsive to customer feedback and are continuously improving the software.
Nachteile:
It has some idiosyncrasies that can take getting used to, especially with the 2D drawing section. However there have been improvements in this area in the last few years especially.
Long term User
Kommentare: It has enabled entry into world of 3D engineering design
Vorteile:
ease of use and lack of temperamental issues
Nachteile:
Has difficulty handling medium to large sketches
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Alibre Expert Cad
Kommentare: For the price and perpetual licence, It's been great.
Vorteile:
It's well layout with sane defaults, which makes it a breeze to use.
Nachteile:
Lack of Multi Body modelling. Constraints take longer to update on changes.
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Low cost full featured
Kommentare: Love the program. We have 3 floating seats for ppl to use in our orginization.
Vorteile:
Alibre is a full featured cad program that can do assemblies and parametric modeling. We use for iterative simulation and design. The biggest benefit is the cost and model, it’s cheap to get a license to get started.
Nachteile:
It does lack some features 1. It cannot do feature recognition 2. Importing stl models doesn’t work 3. It has a hard time with organic shaped
Freed to Create
Kommentare: I have used Alibre for the design of electronic packaging, modeling electronic parts, and aerodynamic components. I even use it to model my hobby of woodworking projects speeding my building projects from the printed dimensioned parts.
Vorteile:
I love the product. It is friendly to use and interfaces without issue to 3D printers. The modeling capability has brought speed and accuracy to my designs. Documentational prints of the designs are easily created. Find the sheet metal capability useful.
Nachteile:
I really have found nothing I would raise an issue with Alibre. It meets all my needs. Rarely I had to begin over on a design as I could not determine how to get rid of the inability to fix a component in an assembly.
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Alibre Design Software
Vorteile:
The Price is very good, especially comparing it to Solid Woks, Inventor and Pro E. The maintenance contract pricing is also very reasonable.
Nachteile:
The part design library could be better.
Mechanism design
Vorteile:
Mechanism design with ability to drag motion
Nachteile:
sometimes the ability to drag motion fails.
More powerful than free CAD programs, does what I want.
Kommentare: I bought Atom 3d 2 years ago, and got fairly comfortable with it. Did not use it for 2 years and had to start all over (same as all other CAD programs that I have learned and then not used for awhile).
Vorteile:
Ability to edit feature properties, instead of having to ungroup parts to get to the single piece needing modification. Good tutorials.
Nachteile:
Slight changes to how it works in v28 vs v26 (clicking on activate 2d no longer shows a simple 2d surface--I get a cluttered 3d image that is hard to edit on a 2d surface).
A modern 3D CAD solution
Vorteile:
We needed a modern 3D CAD solution for product design. Alibre Design has provided a robust 3D design platform with fully functional 2D CAD to produce drawings for fabrication. The customizable and sharable material and thread libraries have enabled rapid part and equipment design. The ability to move licenses as needed has been very convenient.
Nachteile:
Alibre design is very stable, but the occasional software crash is unavoidable with any large software package. The software also occasionally loses its license, and requires that the key be reentered.
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Highly Recommend Alibre Design Expert!! No better Value out there!!
Kommentare: Excellent! Wonderful! Value and Cost Effectiveness are unmatched in the industry. I would be less productive and less profitable with any other Software. Alibre Design Expert allows me to make 3D Models and 2D Drawings for my Mechanical Design Project, that accurately communicates all the proper and relevant information to the many Machine Shops that I work with. Also, allows me to make excellent Proposal and Informational PDF files (3D and 2D) for my Customers.
Vorteile:
Overall, it is very easy to use, and it works great. Allows me to make Excellent 3D Models and 2D Drawings. I often get positive comments on my Shop Drawings and 3D PDF Models.
Nachteile:
Hidden Line Management in 2D drawing can be a real pain and cumbersome to manage. No option to set Annotation Text Colors and Leader Colors to be the same, by default. (Req'd by my Internal DWG Standards). 2D Drawings from Scratch are difficult. Easier to make a 3D Model and then Generate the 2D DWG. Can be slow, when you just want to make a sketch.
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Easy to learn CAD software at a reasonable price.
Vorteile:
Although it has it's share of idiosyncrasies, Alibre proves itself to be a good solidworks alternative for individuals and small businesses. The price of Alibre Atom and Design Pro makes them attainable to home users, Atom especially which is quite a powerful CAD application in it's own right, given it's low price. Overall I am generally designing objects for 3D print, and Alibre gives me the tools I need in an easy to learn package. I often use it alongside Blender and ZBrush, when I need certain components to be accurately modelled or made in a parametric manner.
Nachteile:
Alibre is a bit lacking in surface modeling tools, making it harder to model complex curved or organic surfaces. Sometimes there are also basic tools you expect to be there, and they don't exist. For example scaling a sketch requires a workaround of extruding the sketch, scaling the entire object, projecting the sketch, suppressing the rescale and extrude, then going into sketch edit and moving the sketch back into position using a somewhat cumbersome move tool.
Now great 3D Mechanical CAD software that has come a long way in a short time.
Kommentare: Very pleased overall. I am glad that I have made the jump and am seeing the continous progress.
Vorteile:
I was an avid SolidWorks user and the shift from SolidWorks to Alibre was a short learning curve. It has many of the same features as Solidworks at a competitive price. I like that the license is perpetual unlike the subscription base that other providers are moving to (please don't take that away). Assemblies and mating has come a long way since I first started using. Assemblies are now easy to accomplish. I like that there are frequent updates from Alibre that are always adding features and enhancements. I look forward to receiving the next update announcement.
Nachteile:
It still has some features missing that I was used to in Solidworks but seems to be catching up fast. It has a couple of bugs that I have reported to Alibre and support seems to be very good and quite responsive.
An excellent and modern tool for those who care to create with pleasure.
Kommentare: I used Alibre for professionnal tasks to fabricate real products, tools and machines, and for my personnal pleasure to create and illustrate dream fantasies. It is an easy and affordable tool in this era of digital creativity.
Vorteile:
I am an old designer who worked on many cad programs like Autocad, Euclid, Applicon, Versacad, Solid Edge and of course Solidwork. I bought a licence for Alibre Expert in 2006 and upgraded to Professionnal in the same year. And I never left since then. I just feel home with Alibre.
Nachteile:
Many customers used to ask for Autocad drawings final as-build documents and translating Alibre 2D drawings to Autocad has always been complicated, and I agree that this problem is not easy to solve.
Alibre Design just works....very well.
Kommentare: I've been using Alibre for 20 years and it's the CAD package I always return too, having had experience with many others more than double the cost.
Vorteile:
No subscription, cost effective. Feature rich. Stability.
Nachteile:
Drawing environment can be a little sluggish with large assemblies.
One happy camper
Kommentare: I would recommend it to anybody that wants design anything.
Vorteile:
Great product at an affordable price. Great customer support, even on Sunday!
Nachteile:
Little sketchy on troubleshooting yourself but customer support is within a few minutes even seconds.
Alibre Design review
Kommentare: very good - I use it primarily for 3D printing of custom fixturing for industrial measurement sensors, and it works very well for that.
Vorteile:
functionality and flexibility - easy to build complex assemblies
Nachteile:
learning curve can be a little steep - sometimes confusing. That said. the included and online help is excellent.
It is perfect for my
Kommentare: I have been using Alibre for over 15 years and it is perfect for my needs
Vorteile:
It gives me full 3D cad at a reasonable price
Nachteile:
I don't have any major complaints about the product.
Alibre Design Critique
Vorteile:
ease of use, the fact that I can purchase and not be tied to an annual subscription is ideal for an occasional user.
Nachteile:
Can be a bit annoying at times particularly when a sketch is not fully defined other cad programs have a much better "self healing" situation. The sheet metal program could be improved at the moment it's a bit of an afterthought.
Fantastic Alternative
Vorteile:
I've been using this software for years and highly recommend it! The learning curve isn't steep for such a powerful platform.
Nachteile:
No cons on my list. The programs great and is a huge value for the money!!
Alibre Design is the best CAD solution for me
Kommentare:
I couldn't have wished for anything better.
I am extremely satisfied with the tool and I love using it all day everyday.
Vorteile:
As a solo young Independent Industrial Design, Design Engineering & CGI Contractor, working with many softwares in their pipeline including Mechanical CAD, Simulation, 2D Raster/Vector/Publishing, Mesh CAD DCCs, Animation and Visualisation tools, the costs can ramp up very quickly. To add to that, very few today offer perpetual licenses which is better as with Saas the data, software and access is controlled by company whose pricing, policies can change anytime. Alibre Design for me was a Professional MCAD software with amazing feature sets, very generous pricing and very flexible and pocket friendly upgrade options. Using Alibre, I am no more anxious about missing maintenance and paying huge costs or upfront overpriced licensing fee which is not solo contractor friendly. The modelling tools are great, the features match upto competitor mid-tier MCAD with 3x the price. The best part is the Company, their philosophy, being customer centric and the amazing community around this amazing tool. I could not have wished for anything else and I am very positive my relationship with Alibre Design is going to be very long term.
Nachteile:
I feel the high tier surfacing for Industrial/Product Design use cases can be improved and I am positive the team is working on better surfacing capabilites.
Alibre Design, The Best
Kommentare: Been using it for over 12 years, have designed 14 AMRs (Autonomous Mobile Robot), some weighting in at 1500 pounds. That is complete design to include pulling in the electronic PCBs for a visual.
Vorteile:
Ease of use, coupled with great functionality. Depending on your needs the different levels of packages. the combination of 3D modeling that can be converted into sheet metal.
Nachteile:
Do not have anything that I find as a con.