CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
November 13, 2008
Product News
Free Alibre Design Xpress V11 Now Available for Download
Alibre, Inc. today announced that Alibre Design Xpress TM V11 is now available for download. Alibre Design Xpress is the world's most popular free 3D mechanical CAD program and has been downloaded by more than 500,000 customers.
"Alibre is unrivaled as the best cost provider in the 3D parametric design market" says J. Paul Grayson, Alibre Chairman and CEO. "Design and manufacturing companies worldwide are struggling with a serious downturn in business conditions and are increasingly turning to Alibre because we offer robust, high performance, high quality parametric CAD/CAM and PDM solutions for less than 20% of the cost of products from companies such as Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp and Autodesk."
Alibre Design Xpress V11 is based on and provides a subset of the rich functionality found in Alibre's commercial products, which include Alibre Design ($999 SRP), Alibre Design Professional ($1499 SRP),and Alibre Design Expert ($1999 SRP). The commercial versions of Alibre Design were updated to the V11 code base in late September.
Alibre Design Xpress V11 effectively doubles performance and productivity with often-used assembly operations being as much as ten times faster. V11 also includes significant 2D drawing speed enhancements and feature improvements. In addition, the entire code base has been migrated to the .NET platform, resulting in easier installation, better graphics device driver support, and stability. Finally, all versions of Alibre Design including Xpress now include SolidWorks file compatibility enabling customers to directly read native SolidWorks files.
What is Alibre Design Xpress?
Alibre Design Xpress is a combination evaluation and learning tool. It is an ideal product for professionals evaluating CAD options as well as 3D newcomers learning or improving modeling skills. Alibre Design Xpress is licensed perpetually. During the first 30 days, it functions as a free upgrade to Alibre Design Professional so users can all the modeling capabilities of Alibre's mid-level commercial product. After 30 days, Xpress automatically reverts to the free, feature-limited version.
Availability and Pricing
Alibre Design Xpress is free and is available worldwide in 15 languages. To learn more or to download, please visit here.
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