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Architecture, Engineering, Industrial Design
From SMBs, startups, labs, educational institutions, and machine shops all the way to Sandia National Laboratories. Organizations of 1 to 1000 choose Alibre for economical, powerful 3D engineering.
Support by the software developer, resellers and an enthusiastic user community is of very good quality and highly appreciated especially when one gets into customization.
Difficult to get answers sometimes; limited tech support; had to re-install to overcome one problem.
I think it is a good software, After using it over 2 years now i can say that it's a good software for fresh architects who cannot buy some expensive software.
The most recent revision of progeCAD (10.0.10.8) is unstable and I have had to revert back to the previous version (10.0.6.23).
I have already recommended progeCAD to other business associates. I must congratulate you though on your excellent, highly responsive and customer-centric support service.
ProgeCAD is less well-known (although that is changing) and is often unfairly disparaged by those who have invested in vastly more expensive CAD software.
Excellent product, operates like "traditional" CAD, but with latest features. The trial version provide an excellent introduction.
Doesn't support GIS shape files and image calibration tools are weak.
Alibre Design for me was a Professional MCAD software with amazing feature sets, very generous pricing and very flexible and pocket friendly upgrade options.
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.
The new versions seem to be becoming more feature rich allowing me to do more things at an easier and fast rate. The price is wonderful and allowing for more progress through management is important.
Placement of initial components in assemblies is putsy. I prefer a dragon and drop of the first component that aligns itself automatically to the assembly datum planes.
The best part is the Company, their philosophy, being customer centric and the amazing community around this amazing tool.
Req'd by my Internal DWG Standards). 2D Drawings from Scratch are difficult.
Overall Alibre is a very good modeling software and I know that the programmers and future updates and new versions will make this software go from good to an excellent modeling software.
Limited material to follow as a first time user.
Prioritize real-user-identified key features according to your needs to find your best fit.
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