All the intuitiveness and accessibility of Alibre Design Standard, but with even more features to perfect and manage your project. For professional CAD users serious about taking the next step toward production, Alibre Design Professional has all the answers – and still at a price no one can match.

Configure your model and shorten work-time by picking from thousands of common design elements from three different part libraries. Create photo-realistic images to share with colleagues, or use the Direct Editing Toolset for conceptual design work or to edit imported models that don't have a design history. Plus, run engineering analyses on your virtual parts to avoid costly problems down the road.

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Alibre Design Professional Features

All the tools in Alibre Design Standard, as well as:

• Integrated Sheet Metal module : makes designing sheet metal parts a snap.
• Design Configurations : helps manage large numbers of parts and save disk space.
• Integrated PDM : lets you securely store your data, manage access rights, and more.
• Extended PDF Publishing : allows you to publish interactive assembly/disassembly animations to anyone that has the free Adobe Reader.
• 3 Part Libraries : The Alibre Part Library, TraceParts, and CADRegister combine to give you access to over 100 million of standard design and manufacturing parts.
• Integrated ALGOR DesignCheck : for finite element analysis (FEA)
• Alibre PhotoRender : turn your models into photo-realistic renderings
• NEW Direct Editing Toolset : grab portions of the model and drag them to change things without manually making or editing features or sketches.
• NEW Fast Views : save time with this new projection method specifically designed for large and complex assemblies. Get your models into a 2D format for detailing 4 to 10 times faster.
• NEW Improved Patterning Tools : new Topology Patterns doesn't rely on features, so you have the ability to pattern a much wider variety of items.
• For a full, detailed list of new features in v10click here.

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System Requirements

Recommended Operating Systems

• Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition
• Windows® 2000 Professional SP2 or later
• Windows Vista Business, Home, or Ultimate

Unsupported Operating Systems

• Windows® XP Starter Edition
• Windows® NT
• Windows Me
• Windows 98

Software Requirements

• Internet Explorer 4.01 SP2 or later (6.0 or later recommended)
• Microsoft Virtual Machine (Microsoft VM)
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0c

Internet Connection

• Minimum: 56.6 kbps
• Recommended: Broadband (DSL, cable modem, T1 or faster)

Hardware Recommendations

• Intel Pentium or equivalent processor: 800 MHz or faster
• 512 MB RAM
• 1024x768 minimum screen resolution
  (1280x1024 recommended)
• 64 MB or higher video card with DirectX 9.0c
• Color: 16-bit or 32-bit
• 200 MB available hard disk space
• 800 MB Virtual memory
• CD-ROM drive
• Mouse or pointing device

When working with more than 500 parts, we recommend the following changes:

• Intel Pentium or equivalent processor: 2 GHz or faster
• RAM: 1024 MB or more
• Virtual Memory: 1000 MB

For Windows Vista, we recommend the following changes:

• Intel Pentium or equivalent processor: 1 GHz or faster
  (2 GHz or faster with >500 parts)
• 1024 MB RAM
• Video Card: 128 MB higher
• Color: 32-bit