Features and Enhancements - AI generated

Alibre Toolbox
- An Excel-Driven Library Of Components
  - In Expert Only
    - Easily create data-driven part libraries. Alibre will provide ISO, ANSI, DIN, GB, and JIS libraries over the next year or so as they become available, though none will be in v27.
Part Modeling
- Feature Pattern Along Path
  - In Pro & Expert Only
    - 3D features in part workspaces can now be patterned along paths made of edges or sketches.
- Text Along Path
  - Sketch Text can be warped about a path made of one or more sketch figures.
- Chain & Paint Select (Sketch Mode)
  - Select sketch figures by painting over them or select all sketch figures connected to the target figure.
- Errors From Degree Of Freedom Callouts
  - DoF Callouts in sketch mode sometimes causes scenarios where the program could crash or error out.
- Projection Of Spline Geometry
  - Under certain circumstances weights for a projected spline might get lost in processing, causing the resulting figure to not match the source.
- Sketch Degree Of Freedom Legend Text
  - Sometimes the text might get cut off by the edge of the screen or might disappear.
- Section Views Of Text
  - In some cases a part made only of text (extruded, for example) might have unexpected behavior when used in Precise Section View.
- Saving Parts With Heavily Split Faces May Be Slow
  - Fixed an issue where faces that were split many times as part of a hole pattern could cause the part to save very slowly.
- Face-Face Lofts Throw Error With Specify Tangent
  - Some face-face lofts might throw an error when Specify Tangent was unchecked.
- Custom Material Checkbox Could Throw Error
  - An error could occur after selecting a material from the material library and then enabling the Custom checkbox from File Properties > Material > Custom.
- Multiple Design Booleans And Configurations May Cause Issues
  - Affects Expert Only
    - Sometimes parts with multiple design booleans and also multiple Configurations may cause unexpected behavior.
- Interaction Between DoF Callout And Units Precision Can Lead To Physical Change Of Line Length
  - DoF Callout could apply dimensions at a lower significant digit value than desired. It now applies dimensions at 6 digit precision.
- Reference Line Icon In Right-Click Menu
  - Added the icon.
- Hanging Due To Specific Geometry
  - Hangs may occur in situations where a split face shares multiple edges with another face, and those multiple edges live in loops having a different number of coedges.
- Right Click > Clear All Could Throw Error
  - Using clear all on specific dialogs could cause an exception.
- Circular Pattern Type Might Reset Across Save/Open
  - In certain cases a circular feature pattern could have its type (Angle / Equal) reset.
- Accuracy Of Physical Properties Using Custom Materials
  - Slight inaccuracy in calculated physical properties using custom material with user provided density value corrected by increasing conversion factor significant digits.
Assembly
- Group & Rearrange Parts In Assembly Tree
  - Rearrange parts, subassemblies, and patterns in the Assembly Explorer and create folders to keep the Assembly Tree tidy.
- Undo - Component Drag
  - In some cases undoing a drag operation could take many seconds.
- Sketch Tools On Toolbar May Stop Working
  - Affects Pro & Expert Only
    - A specific workflow could leave sketch tools inaccessible on toolbars in assembly workspaces.
- Sped Up Show In Explorer Performance
  - Fixed by expanding the search algorithm to efficiently handle tree node structure under Assembly Mirror nodes.
- Showing Reference Geometry Might Cause A Crash
  - Fixed an issue where toggling reference geometry of components could cause an error or crash.
- Open Performance For Heavily Top Down Assemblies
  - Fixed a bug that caused out-of-date, inter-design-parts to unexpectedly notify their dependent assemblies, resulting in redundant assembly regeneration.
- Performance Of Edit Here In Large Assemblies
  - Some performance fixes have gone into place to make editing components in the context of a (large) assembly faster.
- Gear Constraints May Not Work When Inside A Subassembly That Has Been Made Flexible
  - Affects Expert Only
    - A fix addresses the issue for known causes.
- Constraints Recomputed On Constraint Name Change
  - A bug caused constraints to be recomputed every character change of the name in the constraint dialog.
- Show Part In Explorer May Not Highlight Part
  - Sometimes the part would be scrolled to but not highlighted.
- Assembly Mirror Incorrect Orientation
  - Affects Pro & Expert Only
    - Assembly mirror gets created initially with incorrect orientation that fixes itself later upon drag.
General
- Part Preview Icons
  - Improved and standardized thumbnail previews.
- Workspace Background Gradient
  - Slightly modified the default background gradient colors.
- File Associations
  - The installer now asks if you want to associate generic CAD files (like STEP or DXF) with your Alibre product.
- Shell Dialog Resizable
  - Made the Shell feature dialog resizable.
- Missing Files In Restored Packages
  - Restoring a Package file to a folder location whose file path exceeds a max character limit results in missing files.
- Non-English Installer Issue
  - Non-English installer not detecting and showing the correct warning if we try to install an already installed version.
- Linetype And Pattern Unicode Sample Files
  - These are now laid down by the installer.
- Updated Some Polish Strings In Installer
  - Minor string changes.
- Material Library Search
  - Material library search would sometimes not work properly.
- Material Library Increased Conversion Precision
  - Increased conversion precision between kg and lbs.
- Space Mouse
  - Modified the way Space Mouse interacts with Alibre products:
    - Default speed is more user-friendly
    - Setting Views in the Menu Editor will now work
    - You can now reprogram View buttons on right side of knob
- 3D Sketch Fillet Help
  - Affects Pro & Expert Only
    - Incorrect tooltip and incorrect Help topic association for 3D Sketch Fillet tool.
- Rendering Problems When Using Displaylink (USB Connected) Monitor
  - Updated HOOPS rendering engine should solve this issue.
- Polish Language - Incorrect Surface File Types
  - Insert Surface shows some unsupported file types in Polish language version.
API / Script
- Thumbnail Generation
  - Thumbnails can be saved when a part is saved via API.
- Point Associativity
  - Points created via API are now associative with their source geometry, if used.
- Sweep Might Cause Regeneration Failures
  - Addressed an issue where specific sweeps could cause poor regeneration behavior.