https://www.alibre.com/version27/

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
  • Workspace Background Gradient
  • File Associations
  • Shell Dialog Resizable
  • Missing Files In Restored Packages
  • Non-English Installer Issue
  • Linetype And Pattern Unicode Sample Files
  • Updated Some Polish Strings In Installer
  • Material Library Search
  • Material Library Increased Conversion Precision
  • Space Mouse
  • 3D Sketch Fillet Help
  • Rendering Problems When Using Displaylink (USB Connected) Monitor
  • Polish Language - Incorrect Surface File Types
• API / Script
• Drawing Enhancements
• Import / Export
• Bill of Materials

Alternate Summary - AI generated

Features and Enhancements

Alibre Toolbox

• Excel-Driven Library of Components (Expert Only): Create data-driven part libraries with planned ISO, ANSI, DIN, GB, and JIS libraries.

Part Modeling

• Feature Pattern Along Path (Pro & Expert): Pattern 3D features in part workspaces along paths of edges or sketches.
• Text Along Path: Warp Sketch Text around a path of sketch figures.
• Chain & Paint Select (Sketch Mode): Select sketch figures by painting over them or by chain selection.