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C/S Dialog Box Greyed Out - Help

tim@velosmith.co
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Velosmith
Mountain River, Australia
By tim@velosmith.com.au | 5:14 AM EDT, Sun June 07, 2020
BikeCAD Pro How To Forum

For the life of me I can't work out why all boxes apart from "Include" and End of Stay Dimples are greyed out.

Cheers

Tim

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Saving File Error

bluesteelfab
Framebuilder
By bluesteelfab | 8:37 PM EDT, Fri June 05, 2020
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When I try to save file, save as, or export PDF, I am getting a small box in the upper left corner. It just says "Problem", and a button to clear log. Any thoughts? My files are not being saved at this time. Thanks!

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curved seat and chain stays with dropout

radsurf
Framebuilder
By radsurf | 5:25 PM EDT, Fri May 29, 2020
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So im trying to figure out how to add my curved seat and chainstays with my dropout into my bike design. I have columbus zona butted cyclecross S bend chainstays oval/round 24 od 8/.6 wall and columbus zona 29er S bend seat stays 19 od .6 wall . The dropouts are allotec rear through axel for flat mount disc with eylets [ M12x1.0] any help would be appreciated

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BikeCAD Pro license renting ?

sorg
Framebuilder
By sorg | 1:44 AM EDT, Wed May 27, 2020
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Hi !

I like bicad free version, but i need some of the pro features for a couple of weeks.

I can not afford buying the full license cost, so i was wondering if there is a way to buy a limited time license for the pro version ?

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Spacing in between seat stays at ST?

BAHL Cycle Works
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BAHL Cycle Works
By BAHL Cycle Works | 2:41 PM EDT, Sat May 09, 2020
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I can't seem to find it, so if it's in there, please forgive me. I'm looking for the dimension on spacing in between the seat stays from the inside edges rather than from the center of the stays, much like the inside dimension on the chainstays.

Thanks in advance.

Brandon

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Stay Auxiliary View

brewery
Framebuilder
By brewery | 1:12 AM EDT, Fri May 08, 2020
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Why does the seat tube appear as an oval in the auxiliary stay view? I can't figure it out but I assume there must be a reason for it.

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All the dimensions

BAHL Cycle Works
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BAHL Cycle Works
By BAHL Cycle Works | 2:25 PM EDT, Tue April 28, 2020
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I just purchased PRO and am very excited to put it to use. I've playing with it for a while now but for the life of me can't find where to see all the actual frame dimensions other than in the boxes that I have to open.

How do I display the angles, tubes lengths, dimensions, frame jig figures, etc, etc? All I can see is the bike that I've designed. I need to see the numbers needed to actually make a bike.

I'm sure it's easy, but I'm not familar at all yet.

Thanks in advance.

Brandon

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Is there a parameter archive?

Paul L
Framebuilder
By Paul L | 8:58 PM EDT, Mon April 27, 2020
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Is there a document that shows what all of the dimensions is, across the program? I'm a new user and finding myself getting lost a litte, and occasionally struggling to find an obvious dimension that I swear I had earlier. Right now, I'm trying to find the chainring / chainstay clearance dimension and can't for the life of me. I've tried searching to no use.

Thanks in advance!

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File Access from iCloud Drive or NAS

Vertigo Cycles
Framebuilder
Vertigo Cycles
Portland, OR United States
By Vertigo Cycles | 1:34 PM EDT, Thu April 02, 2020
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After a pretty rough week in which the logic board in my laptop suddenly quit, the fusion drive on my desktop quit and a drive failure in my NAS which corrupted the whole system, I'm ready to start paying for cloud services to ensure better data stability in worst case scenarios like this.

Currently, when I try to open a file in BikeCAD, I only see local options. Is there a setting that allows me to access everything I can see in my Finder window? Specifically, I'd like to be able to use iCloud Drive as my central repository and barring that, my NAS.

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BikeCAD Pro reads as if not the Pro version

bikingman
Framebuilder
By bikingman | 8:50 AM EDT, Tue March 10, 2020
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Hello, I'm wondering if anyone has run into the problem of BikeCAD Pro reading files as if it's not the Pro version, i.e. selecting and modifying certain frame values within a .bcad file is not permitted (greyed out). This happens in some (not all) files every now and then, and will appear seemingly at random. The problem persists through opening and closing the file, and rebooting my computer. I'm running on a Mac.

P.s. great software

Thanks so much!

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