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songjaejoong  
#1 Posted : Friday, April 27, 2007 4:08:21 PM(UTC)
songjaejoong

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I am using Alibre Design Express for free, and it is good for me.
I appreciate to Alibre team.

But sometimes I need to buy $1000 Alibre Professional,
for use of boolean function.

As ViaCAD is much cheapper than Alibre Professional
I am thingking about moving to ViaCAD.

But to learn new software, and to be accoustumed to it,
it will take several weeks for me.

Is there anyone who can compare ViaCAD with Alibre?
Though ViadCAD is very cheap, if it is not good,
then I may consume several weeks again.

I will wait for Alibre comparison.
If you are kind enough, please send me your opinion.
songjaejoong@ daum.net

Thank you.
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Tim Olson  
#2 Posted : Saturday, April 28, 2007 2:38:23 PM(UTC)
Tim Olson

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>But sometimes I need to buy $1000 Alibre Professional,
>>for use of boolean function.

Since Alibre and ViaCAD are based on the same ACIS kernel, your booleans should be the same assuming each product is on R16 or R17. ViaCAD supports add, subtract, and intersection boolean operations. Plus trim and split operations which are based on booleans.

>But to learn new software, and to be accoustumed to it,
>it will take several weeks for me.
ViaCAD has close to a gig of videos and tutorials that may help out as you learn at your own pace. Also check out the Tips section of this forum for useful training material.

>>Alibre?
Alibre has dimension constraints not found in ViaCAD. We do not have a limit as to the number of parts you can create in ViaCAD.
Tim Olson
IMSI Design/Encore
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rjotto  
#3 Posted : Monday, April 30, 2007 8:44:19 PM(UTC)
rjotto

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Joined: 2/19/2007(UTC)
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songjaejoong wrote:
I am using Alibre Design Express for free, and it is good for me.
I appreciate to Alibre team.

But sometimes I need to buy $1000 Alibre Professional,
for use of boolean function.

As ViaCAD is much cheapper than Alibre Professional
I am thingking about moving to ViaCAD.

But to learn new software, and to be accoustumed to it,
it will take several weeks for me.

Is there anyone who can compare ViaCAD with Alibre?
Though ViadCAD is very cheap, if it is not good,
then I may consume several weeks again.

I will wait for Alibre comparison.
If you are kind enough, please send me your opinion.
songjaejoong@ daum.net

Thank you.

Hi, for what it's worth, I switched from Alibre Design (pro) to Concepts Unlimited about 4 months ago. I understand that ViaCAD is an "apples & oranges" comparison to CU, but the basics are the same.
Why the switch? Simple... I mean Alibre is NOT simple. It became too way to hard to make money when I had to constrain every single thing. Alibre was overly complex. I found myself using it only when a customer required a visualization. Otherwise, I'd sketch concepts by hand and just create tool paths directly in my CAM software.
Anyway, now I find CU to be flexible enough that I can sketch out things in 3D and skip a few prototype iterations (eureka!)
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