Status & Known Issues

Known issues are listed below. If you discover other issues or defects, please contact me (Alex Franke) at the address at the bottom of this page (in the footer).

• Many OpenType fonts (usually non-Microsoft) are not supported. This is a bug in Microsoft's .Net Framework.
• Some fonts (especially script fonts) are designed to overlap. In many cases, these fonts will import correctly, but Alibre Design will not be able to build features with them until overlapping areas are "cleaned up."
• Complicated fonts may take a long time to import.
• Alibre Design sometimes reports "FF_MERGE_FAILURE: failure in face-face intersection merging algorithm." when complex curves (such as text) are on the exact same plane as the surface you're trying to extrude or cut. This is a bug in Alibre Design. To remedy this, simply move the curve ever so slightly away from that plane.

Versions & Update History

V.1.4 (Sep 22, 2007)

Revisions:

• More compatible with Alibre Design V10
• Protects against some extrusion errors caused by fonts containing curves defined with identical, consecutive points.

V.1.3 (Aug 29, 2006)

Revisions:

• Added extended character set (unicode) support
• Allows multiple, ordered transformations on imported text for registered users
• Added start menu icon
• Added script change to font dialog
• Many more types of fonts supported
• 10 character max length for unregistered users
• Wait-a-minute dialog for unregistered users

Available transformations include

• Mirror Horizontally- Reflect as if the mirror were placed on the horizontal axis.
• Mirror Vertically- Reflect as if the mirror were placed on the vertical axis.
• Rotate- Rotate the text about the starting position.
• Scale- Enlarge or reduce the output.
• Shear Horizontally- Slide the bottom edge horizontally. A value of 1 is the height.
• Shear Vertically- Slide the right edge vertically. A value of 1 is the width.
• Translate- Repositions each new character by the given offset.

V.1.0 (Apr 9, 2006)

Revisions:

• Fixed problem of extra points added at polyline joints.
• Optimized and refactored to ensure consistence among other (newer) applications.
• Added an icon.
• Fixed problem that caused session or sketch selection to fail when session or sketch order was out of synch with Alibre Design.
• Fixed problem with browser window opening behind topmost window
• Resized the license key field so it would show entire key

V.0.1 (Mar 26, 2006)

First release.