Due to my small outlay for a good and very usable product, I did quite well out of this part time work. Alibre Design has sheetmetal tools, multiple configurations, designs can be driven from equations and spreadsheets, perfect for quickly producing a range of centrifugal fans, for each size for each type, basically scaled versions of the same geometry. This worked as well as the more expensive AutoCad in the mainly 2D work it was being used for.īecause of the nature of the projects offered to me, a range of industrial fans and dust filtration equipment, I was looking for an application that had all the main features of Solid Works, but not the price.
I had used Bricscad which had been been purchases by my employer as an alternative to AutoCad. This being provided by my employer, getting a return on his investment being his problem and not mine.
Purchasing a Solid Works license was too expensive for the size of this work and the amount I could charge for this, so instead of making a comfortable return on my investment I would not have covered software purchase costs with Solid Works, which is what I was using in my main job at the time. I purchased this do do a few small projects that were simple for me to do, on contract. I first purchased this product in 2012 and paid the annual maintenance, not much, I may add. I have a licensed copy of Alibre Design, the expert version. I have used both Alibre Design and Bricsad.
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