Alibre Tools Fuel Do-It-Yourself Innovation

Linn Audio has designed seven-foot tall custom home theater speakers, using Alibre Design and Alibre CAM to design the panels and machine out the parts. Owner David Lynn says he “likes how in Alibre Design you can draw a rough sketch of the part you need to make and then go back and dimension it to exact specifications.”  Alibre CAM then sends the cutting toolpath in the form of G-code to the CNC Machine, which cuts the pattern of internal and external components of the speaker cabinet.

University of New Mexico masters student Francisco Rodriguez Alibre-inspired creation is a robot based on the TXT-1 monster truck. Using Alibre Design, Rodriguez added an odometer and extra shock absorber on each of the truck’s front wheels and an aluminum plate to support the sensors and computer. The end result: A robot used to make simulations in a virtual world with the goal of becoming a search and rescue robot that could be used to locate victims in mine fields, collapsed building or for structural inspection.

String Theory Yoyos’  Mark Mankiewicz decided to try his hand with Alibre Design, creating a professional grade yo-yo that’s precision machined for maximum stability and balanced-rim weighted for maximum spin time. His material of choice: Aerospace grade aluminum and premium steel bearings. Mankiewicz’s design called for two butterfly-bell halves to form an exact weight. Alibre Design Expert helped the fledging designer calculate the physical properties after each design change so he could ensure he was within regulation.