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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.
Designed for the education industry, it helps teachers and students create 3D designs, & electronics simulations using coding or built-in design tools.
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.
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.
Alibre Design for me was a Professional MCAD software with amazing feature sets, very generous pricing and very flexible and pocket friendly upgrade options.
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.
FREE!!! for starters, and if your a Cadd user... well this is great, good to use and really awesome with a 3d printer.
Bad internet connection can frustrate you since it's a web based software.
I really liked the ease of use. It’s very intuitive interface and performance were great.
Also, it's difficult to use in modeling complex designs as it only offer primitives. It lack tools needed for modeling complex designs, for example creating 2D and extruding or revolving tools.
I love the web-based function of this software. It is so nice to be able to access my library and work on projects from anywhere.
Sometimes it’s hard to edit models because I can’t rotate to the spot I need.
My overall experience with Tinkercad have been quite positive. I have used Tinkercad to onboard my students into the world of 3D printing and to help them develop confidence in the design process.
The app will crash on us a couple times, but you just have to pull it back up - it’s not a deal breaker.
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