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   forestgirl | Nov 11, 2005 08:38pm | #1

   I think most of us were around when they debuted this product, maybe not.  Are you employeed by the company, or just thrilled to have found the freebie?

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
   Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   normite | Nov 11, 2005 08:46pm | #2

   Based on that sales line, I would venture to guess that this person is an employee.. I has posted a message regarding free CAD software that I have been using called CAD X11 however it didn't seem to generate any interest. I love it though!

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   forestgirl | Nov 11, 2005 09:06pm | #3

   That was my first guess, but he's been registered for quite awhile, so figured I'd give him the benefit of the doubt.  Obviously, the post was a cut-and-paste job.  Alibre did a huge media blitz when they were gearing up for their release. 

   So, you like the X11, eh?  I'm waiting for a program that can be downloaded directly to my brain -- that CAD stuff is hard!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   normite | Nov 11, 2005 09:48pm | #4

   Hard is an understatement! The learning curve was about six weeks. But once I got the hang of it, it was great! And you can't beat the price (i.e. $0)!

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   DennisS | Nov 12, 2005 06:38am | #8

   " ...I'm waiting for a program that can be downloaded directly to my brain -- that CAD stuff is hard!"Jamie -There is nothing hard about CAD! When you drop by, remind me to spend a bit of time in front of my CAD screen to show you a few things and I think you'll find it's really very, very simple. There are just a few concepts you have to come to grips with and all of a sudden a light starts to shine!Really!It's just a numbers game.

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   Dunwright | Nov 12, 2005 02:54am | #5

   I am not an employee of the company, nor do I own any stock in the company. I was merely passing-on the info that I had received that very day; thinking it was something new and of interest.
   I merely wanted to share with the list.Was it Murphy that said; "Let no good deed,go unpunished" ?Arlington, Texas (The dash in Dallas-Fort Worth)
   Practice...'till you can do it right the first time.

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   forestgirl | Nov 12, 2005 04:22am | #6

   DW -- I was pretty sure that was the situation.  Might be best "next time" to state simply "Hey guys ('n gals) I got this email today, thought you might be interested).

   Thanks for thinking of us!  Free is (almost) always good. :-)forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   normite | Nov 12, 2005 05:26pm | #11

   Sorry I jumped to conclusions! It just sounded too scripted to be real.. I hope you enjoy the program..

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   DennisS | Nov 12, 2005 06:34am | #7

   Hi every persons ....

   Always a sucker for 'free' this or that and always interested in new 3D parametric software developments, I opted to download the program; Alibre. During the install, the install wizard didn't find a required copy of DirectX 9.0 and offered to let me log onto the MS download website to get one.

   The download failed four times before I decided to launch EI (I use Mozzila Firefox as my prefered browser) which indeed got me to the download site then .... to download the end user run time application, I had to 'Verify' my computer and OS with MS. OK, I guess if they offer free downloads of sofware upgrades, they have the right to sneak stuff off my computer to verify that my software is legal and so forth but it kinda pee'd me off anyway.

   Now be aware that living at the very end of a 35 year old copper telephone line, my dial-up connection speed rivals two oatmeal boxes and a piece of string. So we're talking overnight downloads of this stuff.

   MS is doing an install of DirectX as I type with a little less than a half hour to go. Only then will I be able to run the install for Alibre.

   I think, anyway.

   To be continued.

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   forestgirl | Nov 12, 2005 09:36am | #9

   Oh, Dennis, I could burn it to a disk and send it to you!  I was one of the "first 100,000" -- whatever that got me, I never did figure it out.  Felt good anyway, LOL.  Thanks for the offer of CAD help.  I may take you up on it, but I know in my heart if I just sat down and walked carefully through the tutorials that came with DesignCAD 14, the light would go on.  Always seem to be more fun things to do, like here at Knots or in the shop.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   DennisS | Nov 12, 2005 11:20am | #10

   Well, Jamie - you **can't** burn it to a disk and send it to me. Read the license agreement! That's a big no-no.In any event, got everything hooked up, baling wire, scotch tape and Wd-40 and got the program running (Alibre). I have to admit, it's quite impressive. I've got Autodesk's Inventor and after hours of trying to figure it out, I managed to build a couple parts with Alibre in about an hour plus. Haven't gotten a round tooit to see about assemblies, though. That part of Inventor I've beaten into submission.Alibre is not free, but the way. Well, not forever anyway. I noticed in one dialog box that the 'license' expires exactly one year from today (11/11/06) so I guess you get a year's use out of it then either buy or re-download the thing.So far,though, the two parts I modeled in Alibre I can model in AutoCAD. Just don't get the fancy real time rendering and pan/rotational graphics. I might try creating a run of cabinets with Alibre and see how it behaves.

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   forestgirl | Nov 13, 2005 10:27pm | #13

   Dennis, it's a free download, right?  You don't have broadband, right?  You want the free program.  I don't see any problem with downloading it to a CD and shipping it to you.  It's no different to the company how you get the program, as long as I don't charge you for doing such. forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   John_D | Nov 12, 2005 09:53pm | #12

   It's too bad they stopped selling that CD.  I know the big phrase right now is "monetizing IP", but sometimes getting too controlling ends up killing the market.  If we can download and keep the articles off the website, I'll subscribe for a while... but if you can't save 'em, it's worthless.  What sucks is, I'll spend all that time downloading them and putting them on a CD myself, and I'm sure they did a better job than I'll take the time to do.

   They seem to do things right, mostly, so we'll see.  I'll still wish I could just buy the CD / DVD.