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Paint Presets and RAL color table

rideone
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Santucci Cycles
Berlin, Germany
By rideone | 10:49 AM EST, Mon January 12, 2026
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I was delving deeper into the paint options and had an idea that would significantly improve my workflow. I "designed" a color and paint scheme and wanted to copy it to another frame drawing. The only solution I found was to note the parameters from the window and manually enter them into the other project. Then I thought, how cool would it be to have paint presets?! Does something like this already exist?

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Keyboard shortcuts redux

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Habanero Bikes
By cat8 | 2:03 PM EST, Sun December 28, 2025
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I'm not sure if this is (still) a feature request, but I got a streamdeck to help me remember how to do certain things in bikecad (I'm not great remembering icons only) and can only see "shortcuts" for a few top level options like file, view and help whereas I'd like to shortcut the things I often forget like how to see the stay clearance, etc.

 

Is there an API available or shortcut keys so I can program macros into my steam deck? I saw a request from years ago, but wasn't certain if I'd missed where or how these are implemented.

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Dropouts Not Using Derailleur Hangers

WrenchingWench
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By WrenchingWench | 10:47 PM EDT, Mon July 21, 2025
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Several dropouts have hangers but aren't using them. Instead, the derailleur is mounted to the axle.

Affected:

  • Allotec C23
  • Allotec C49
  • Allotec C64
  • Artefact DR30
  • Coast Cycles

Everything else appears to be correct. Went through every static drawing with a transparent derailluer to check. :)

Unless there's an option I'm missing? But then it'd be odd that others are auto detected.

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Which frame geometry database to connect to BikeCAD?

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By Anonymous (not verified) | 12:34 PM EDT, Thu April 17, 2025
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In my opinion, the big selling point of offers such as bikefitting.com (by Shimano) and Retül is their large frame databases. In the context of BikeCAD, you could use the fit advisor to determine a starting point for the bike geometry, then potentially refine it by putting the rider on a fitting bike and then you could use those databases to automatically create a ranking of the frames that come closest to the target geometry, among all the available frames on the market.

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Finding bikeCAD files

Tarmacadam
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Garry Kirk Bike Fitting
Glasgow, United Kingdom
By Tarmacadam | 3:53 PM EDT, Tue March 18, 2025
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I have recently moved all my business documents into proton drive on mac. Reason being that nothing is currently end ot end encrypted in the UK at the moment due to the British government wanting a back door into peoples computers. When i wan to 'open a design from a BikeCAD file' I can't find the proton drive folder anywhere. The folder is located under 'locations' in the sidebar and i can access it with other apps, but i can't open or save to it from BikeCAD. Any ideas?

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Storing Template

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Garry Kirk Bike Fitting
Glasgow, United Kingdom
By Tarmacadam | 12:10 PM EST, Sat March 01, 2025
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I have uploaded a design from the archive and then amended it and then tried to save it as a template, but every time i re open the app it opens with a differnt template. I have tried dropping the file into the 'bike' folder and same thing happens, yet if i open design from BikeCAD file it works. Baffled here. I can't understand how the same file can be opened but isn't opening when I select it as a template.

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updating BikeCAD Pro

Tarmacadam
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Garry Kirk Bike Fitting
Glasgow, United Kingdom
By Tarmacadam | 10:17 AM EST, Sat March 01, 2025
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Updating BikeCAD Pro

Tarmacadam
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Garry Kirk Bike Fitting
Glasgow, United Kingdom
By Tarmacadam | 10:15 AM EST, Sat March 01, 2025
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update BikeCAD Pro

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Garry Kirk Bike Fitting
Glasgow, United Kingdom
By Tarmacadam | 10:13 AM EST, Sat March 01, 2025
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Kickstand

Kobel Cycles
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www.kobel-cycles.de
Freiburg, Germany
By Kobel Cycles | 6:39 AM EST, Sat February 08, 2025
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I'm not sure if it is possible somehow, but unfortunately I couldn't find any way to take a kickstand into account. I wanna build a bike with a two-legged stand, therefore I wanted to check the chainstay length, tire clearence, crank clearence etc. Is there some workaround to do this?

Thanks,

Quirin.

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