Have the confidence to tackle projects of nearly any scale.
Alibre Design Overview
Alibre Design is powerful 3D CAD software suitable for mechanical design, prototyping, and manufacturing.
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Easy to learn and use with straightforward workflows, built on a beautiful modern interface.
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Parametric and rules-based modeling of complex mechanical systems with multiple ways to manage complexity.
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Dedicated tools for modeling, sheet metal, assembly, drawing, rendering, and data/logic-driven design.
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Industry-leading interoperability and a native, Python-based scripting language for automation.
What's Inside Alibre Design
Alibre Design has been refined over 24 years to help you to drive innovation across your design, manufacturing, and marketing processes.
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Great Interface
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Easy Sketching
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Powerful Modeling
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Sheet Metal
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Assembly Design
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Drawings
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Bill of Materials
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Rendering
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Scripting
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Interop
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Data-driven Design
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API
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3D/2D Publishing
Extreme precision for demanding component modeling
Efficient and versatile sketching
Sketching is critical to 3D component creation, and a great sketching toolset makes all the difference. Equation-driven design, color coded problem areas, automatic sketch health analysis, and a rich feature set all keep you confidently moving forward.
3D modelling of complex components
Alibre Design simplifies complexity with intuitive tools that let you create intricate shapes and geometries with ease, offering a more streamlined workflow. Iterations are a breeze - modify and refine designs with just a few clicks, facilitating a more efficient and creative design process.
Eliminate human error by leveraging data-driven design
Parametric Modeling
Precise, repeatable modeling based on design variables that are easy to change
Design-wide Variables
Store important variables in a standalone file and drive multiple designs simultaneously
Spreadsheet-driven Design
Link models to Excel documents and drive geometry directly from spreadsheets
Dynamic Model Generator
Dynamic configurators that presents options only within your data and business logic
Model Variant Management
Create multiple variants ("Configurations") of models to dramatically reduce duplication
Component Metadata
Each component has robust metadata that can be shown on manufacturing drawings
Material Library
A robust and extensible library makes assigning materials super fast
Thread Library
Share an extensible thread library across the organization for standards adherence
Standard Part Library
Coming soon. A wide variety of components from ANSI, ISO, DIN, JIS. and GB
Powerful and accurate sheet metal modeling toolset
Perfect, repeatable sheet metal
Take the guesswork out of sheet metal design - Alibre Design handles the math and flat patterns for you automatically.
From simple to complex
Most sheet metal parts are pretty basic, but if you need to get more exotic you'll have the power - including complex shape transitions.
Automatic flat patterns
Instantly view the flat pattern of your design at any time in the design process to ensure no overlaps and good manufacturability.
Manufacturing drawings
Turn the 3D form or flat pattern form into a 2D drawing instantly - send it right to your laser cutter or manufacturer.
Accurate, beautiful drawings for production, patent, and manuals
Easily created, always updated
2D drawings are based on 3D models, and model changes propagate automatically into all views, annotations, and dimensions.
Capture every manufacturing requirement
A comprehensive suite of detailing and view management tools efficiently creates an exacting representation of any model for production or patent.
Bill of Materials
A customizable BoM can show many kinds of data, and exploded views with balloon callouts makes referencing easy.
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Standards adherence
A robust templating system lets you customize once and deploy across many drawings in a consistent and predictable way.
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Make manuals & instructions
Easily make assembly instructions by defining custom views and exploded states in the 3D model and consuming them in a drawing.
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Cutting Profiles
Output clean cutting profiles for laser cutters and CNC in a variety of formats.
Impress with images that pop
Turn models into outstanding images
Drag-and-drop materials make it easy to quickly get amazing results. Customize and tweak to your heart's content. Output to any resolution using CPU or GPU.
Your automation superpower
Grab a coffee while Alibre Script rips through tasks with easy-to-learn code.
Create and modify models
Repetitive modeling tasks can transferred into Alibre Script and run at the click of a button, saving significant time.
Access & use data sources
Access many third party data sources like Excel, CSV, Access, SQL, web data, or manually entered data. Use this data to drive geometry.
Build logic into designs
Code simple or exotic design logic based on what a user has chosen in previous steps. "If radius is between 6 and 9, holecount = 5," for example.
Math-intensive geometry
Some geometry is really math-intensive and hard to create manually. It can be much easier to generate this geometry using code.
Create a user interface
Easily create graphical user interfaces that make user inputs for data and options and use the user selections in code.
Automate tedious tasks
Need to export every file in a directory as STEP and STL? Mass update metedata for components in an assembly? Script makes it easy.
