Alibre is Now Geomagic
3D Systems recently acquired Geomagic. Several years ago they acquired Alibre. Alibre is a parametric CAD program. It appears that they are simply re-branding the existing version of Alibre as Geomagic, but will incorporate feature of the Geomagic product line over time. Here is the basic product line.
- Geomagic Design Expert $1999
- Geomagic Design Pro $999
- Geomagic Design Personal $199
I am also pretty sure that Cubify Invent @ $49 is a further simplified version of “Personal” that allows you to work at the part only level. A comparison of the upper levels is here.
I have used Alibre and Cubify Invent and find them to be quite capable. Some day I may loose my easy check out access to Pro/Engineer and these products are on the radar as possible solutions. I found the even Cubify invent could do a few little tricks that are a pain in Pro/E.
I wonder if Geomagic Design Personal (Now allready renamed Cubify Design) would be an interesting package to design for example a robot arm or a 3d printer.
Is it easy for example to model a screw with thread or to tap a metric hole in this software?