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We are happy to announce that Alibre Design 2017.1 is scheduled to ship October 1, pending QA. Alibre Design 2017.1 contains the following improvements: Licensing / Installation
Dark Site licensing - Ability to activate and deactivate license offline
Show ‘Computer ID’ in product UI for licensing support
Licensing logic to bypass Trial if user has license code
Fix issue with pre-dated license maintenance expiry date
Improved license error reporting
Support for specifying Proxy Server credential to license server
Fix Installer looping when Start Menu Shortcut is de-selected
Product Features
Rectangle by Center tool in 2D Sketch
Extrude Boss/Cutout/Thin: Bi-directional unequal lengths option
Revolve Boss/Cutout/Thin: Bi-directional unequal angle option
Ability to zoom/pan View Creation Preview in 2D Drawings
Extend Hide Part in Assembly to hide part in all drawing views
Add a Select by Layer tool in 2D Drawings, allowing the user to select all items by layer. This can be used for several things, such as the ability to get rid of sick dimensions all at once or performing layer changes on many entities at once without manual selection.
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Component / Addon Upgrades
Migrate to latest conversion library from Datakit for import/export of 3rd party CAD application data
Fixes ‘Alibre Parameters’ Excel Add-in to work with 32 bit
Bug Fixes (Planned, pending investigation)
Fix issues with cursor icon artifacts and distortion
Cannot enter angle values into Japanese Alibre input boxes because the automatically added degree symbol (°) is a multibyte character in Japanese which makes the entry invalid
Exception when placing Note in 2D drawing on some computers
Customer Assembly file exported as STEP from Inventor 2017 has some parts incorrectly scaled
Major component updates, for example ACIS, will come in the release following this release, which is scheduled in just a few months. More details will come for the second release in the next month or two.