Alibre Review by 3D ENGR

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Comment by martin kopplow on March 15, 2010 at 3:00am

We bought five or six seats of the pricey version some time ago, as it appeared to be just what we needed and not have all the overhead we did not want. It was not overly hard to use, though also not overly easy, mimicking the likes of SW and SE in many places, plus some own elements, so users familiar with other standard CAD had no real issues working with it. We used it for a while and then found that is was not up to the task, especially in a collaborative environment. As soon as file exchange over a server came into play it was short of being dangerous, with it's cryptic direct file paths to intransparent repositories that actually made backups and integration in project archives impossible, unless you wanted to manually restore (or rather 'hack) the config of every single project on every single machine in the house once a disk was swapped, an archive reopened, a backup copied back or a server volume renamed. Most of the collaborative features we wanted were not available when working in usual file directories instead of the repositories, and a server application that was said to be included as the solution never became available at the time. The support seemed to be on a defensive standpoint most of the time and acted like we only lived to prove the problems of the program, of which we found many, unfortunately. We had many crashes, and many corrupted files, especially in large projects.
Maybe they have improved since, and maybe for a single user environment it's okay, though for us, with training sessions and all, lost files and lost time, oh so cheap Alibre was quite an expensive experience.

Comment by Narendra on March 14, 2010 at 10:26pm

Hey
Frank,
I am regular user and in-fact tech. support person for Alibre & Rhino in INDIA-Pune. I know Alibre since its V5...! Its always been my Fav. CAD tool. Those who have innovative approach & always look for new potentials I recommend this Alibre is perfect combination.

Alibre has revolutionized CAD industry......! Unfortunately in INDIA people have different mindset...... they assume that, if it is cheap then it is not worth!......... but they do not know what they are loosing.

I give 9 points out of 10 to Alibre tool!!!

Regards