Alamo Inventors, San Antonio, Texas

Come and learn about inventing and how to take your idea to the next level.
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Once a month, we have a meeting with a presentation about something invention related. Sometimes it's the creative part, like how someone came up with an idea. Sometimes it's the legal parts, like protection, patents, trademark, & licensing. Manufacturing comes up a lot, and so does marketing. We always enjoy our speakers, and we always learn from them. Questions are always encouraged, and our speakers share insights you can't get anywhere else. Before the meeting, you can visit with other inventors. New faces are always welcome, and if you have questions about invention or patents or marketing or ... there are usually members who can help guide you.

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Meeting Date
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 (Register Here)
If you've registered before, you don't need to register again. You should get an email from Zoom

6PM CST, usually until 8PM or so. This meeting is online, on Zoom

Design Your Prototypes For 3D Printing And Manufacturing

Matt Feldman & Joseph Larson

Matt and Joseph from www.alibre.com will present their company's Atom 3D software program, www.alibre.com/atom3d, which is designed for entry level developers and inventors but also for skilled users requiring advanced capabilities. The user friendly software can be used to design simple to complex part models, assemblies and drawings for the purpose of 3D printing and manufacturing of prototypes and production products.

The presentation will cover the following topics:

What Is 3D CAD – what is it used for;

What are the parts of CAD – the modeling environment, what is a sketch, how sketches are used to make solids using extrude, sweep, revolve and loft commands;

How solids are edited – fillet/chamfer, patterns, etc. and parametric nature of edits;

Examples of parts that can be made; Assemblies – how assemblies are made;

Drawings – overview of drawings and how they are made.

This is a video showing what can be designed With Atom 3D:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r00ebajnslixd8d/Final%20Edit.mp4?dl=0

Be sure to stay to the end of the meeting as Alibre will provide how meeting attendees can purchase an Atom 3D license at the special price of $99 and Atom 3D license and yearly updates for $125. Attendees will also be provided a link to download Alibre’s Power Guide, E-book.

Here is the first video on Alibre’s “Beginner’s Series” that provides information on how Alibre CAD software is used,
https://youtu.be/RRsmRZZZtYo?feature=shared

This is a video on why Alibre might be the best CAD program for inventors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4feJpAnxB8

Alibre had a drawing contest specifically for Atom3d licensees and this is a link to the winners and details on what they made:
https://www.alibre.com/2022-contest-winners/



Guests are welcome.

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