OK here’s my problem when you revolving geometry for a shaft. You would rarely to never ID that with the radius of a shaft. You would always pick the diameter of the shaft, so why can’t you dimension from the edge of your geometry to the centerline, then, right click and tell the program to dimension that has a diameter? That’s pretty fundamental. And for the record, I love the price versus value of this product. But this is something I have never understood for over a decade of using it.
Constraints in Alibre atom 3d are rubbish. i have just spent 35 minutes trying to locate a part in a slot. the trouble is that one cannot lock earlier constraints & it is easy to disconnect a past one when one constantly gets the " over constrained" command even when one has only applied 2 constraints. So when one goes back through the list to start deleting or suppressing constraints one often disconnects an earlier one & has to start the chain of constraining parts all over again. It really is a poor system. It works for you because I suspect that you have done dry runs first so you have probably sorted out the problems in each demonstration, thus making it look as if it works first time.
I've done Alibre live on a webinar and have had many one take videos. It sounds like you're having an error in the sketch that can be throwing off other parts of the sketch- something that can happen in any platform as there's no such thing as a perfect sketch solver. We are happy to help. You can send the part in question to joseph@alibre.com if you'd like a second set of eyes.
Your examples are great. Keep up with the good work. Also more difficult shapes are very welcome. Thanks from Holland.
Do you have a PDF of this training ?
Is amazing
OK here’s my problem when you revolving geometry for a shaft. You would rarely to never ID that with the radius of a shaft. You would always pick the diameter of the shaft, so why can’t you dimension from the edge of your geometry to the centerline, then, right click and tell the program to dimension that has a diameter? That’s pretty fundamental. And for the record, I love the price versus value of this product. But this is something I have never understood for over a decade of using it.
Constraints in Alibre atom 3d are rubbish. i have just spent 35 minutes trying to locate a part in a slot. the trouble is that one cannot lock earlier constraints & it is easy to disconnect a past one when one constantly gets the " over constrained" command even when one has only applied 2 constraints.
So when one goes back through the list to start deleting or suppressing constraints one often disconnects an earlier one & has to start the chain of constraining parts all over again. It really is a poor system.
It works for you because I suspect that you have done dry runs first so you have probably sorted out the problems in each demonstration, thus making it look as if it works first time.
I've done Alibre live on a webinar and have had many one take videos. It sounds like you're having an error in the sketch that can be throwing off other parts of the sketch- something that can happen in any platform as there's no such thing as a perfect sketch solver. We are happy to help. You can send the part in question to joseph@alibre.com if you'd like a second set of eyes.