3D CAD and the cost of ownership

Background news With all Brexit uncertainty life must go on. In CADCAM world there is also much uncertainty, many vendors have price pressure from increased costs as sterling loses value and at the same time changes to restrictive subscription sales practices while others adopt new punitive maintenance contracts which in effect negates the customer’s choice on continuing with that vendor This year we have kept to our principals and continue to offer low cost flexible perpetua

Mintronics is moving office to 43 Duke Street, Darlington. DL37RX From 1st April Mintronics will be resident in a new home near the centre of Darlington. This office includes training room facilities which will enable more courses to be organised New dates to be announced soon for Alibre advanced Geomagic Design X for reverse engineering Alibre Atom3D a one-day introduction For those who do not know Darlington it is the north east of England and boasts excellent rail, road an

Happy Christmas and lets have a healthy New Year We had a very good 2018, the business Mintronics has progressed, perhaps this is the main reason why the news page is not updated like it should be, we are always busy! Alibre has continued its upwards trajectory and we are excited about the coming 2019 release, we had the opportunity to meet with Alibre management at our resellers event in Athens September and discuss all the plans for 2019 release. ATHENS ALIBRE RESELLER MEET

Following the recent advert in the model engineer with article we are pleased to publish information about our new version of Alibre 3D mechanical CAD for hobbyists and engineers. The name of the new version Alibre Atom, we anticipate making the release of this product early July 2018 and full details of the specification by 30th June 2018. All details of this will be posted on a new tab on the Mintronics website under the heading Alibre then on the drop down menu Alibre Atom