Frequently Asked Questions

Most of the links below are organized in the form of a user guide at this link.

How To

Adding tabular data from CSV file
Adjusting Axle Position in Track and Sliding Dropouts
Aerobar dimensions and top view (showing)
AI Tool
Allotec C40 modular dropouts
Angle of Attack
Animated GIFs (Exporting from BikeCAD Pro)
Bakfiets style cargo bikes
Belt and Chain drive (mixing on tandems)
Bending tubes (a new method introduced in version 16.0)
BikeCAD Pro Key (for saving designs online)
BikeCAD Pro on Different Operating Systems (Differences)
Bitmap Images (Exporting from BikeCAD Pro)
Bottle bosses (locating from either end of tube)
Brake lever styles (Controlling)
Brand Logos in BikeCAD
Bridges (Modeling seat stay and chain stay bridges to locate caliper brakes)
Bulk export PDF and SVG files
Cable guides (Locating from either end of tube)
Cable guides (modeling)
Caliper brakes (locating the front brake)
Cantilever brake bosses (locating)
Capping the saddle clamp on a seatpost
Center of Mass
Chain or Belt Drive (Modeling)
Chainline (Displaying front and rear and chainline offset)
Chainstay dimples or cutouts (adding)
Chromebook (Running BikeCAD on)
Chromebook desktop icon
Cleats (positioning)
Cobra Framebuilding Creator Frame Fixture (Setting up)
Cobra Framebuilding Stay Slayer spacer width
Colors (Copy and Pasting)
Configuration files (Selecting new location for)
Configuration folders in BikeCAD Pro
Control Frame by Front Center, Effective Top Tube, Handlebar Position or Stack and Reach
Controlling front end geometry (Six ways)
Controlling rear end geometry with bent seat tube
Controlling the Rear End by Chainstay Length or Rear Wheel Gap
CSV File (Exporting Frame Building Specs in a CSV File)
CSV Output (obtaining older version formatting)
Curved stay bridges
Curving tubes
Custom battery
Custom drawing aspect ratio
Customizing BikeCAD Pro
Customizing the BikeCAD Interface
Damaged File
Dashed lines (associating with dimensions)
Decal text angle (adjusting)
Dimension color (changing)
Dimension states (toggling)
Dimensions (Creating angular dimensions with respect to horizontal)
Dimensions (Creating User Dimensions in BikeCAD Pro)
Dimensions (Displaying in BikeCAD)
Dimensions (Showing frame fixture dimensions)
Dimensions (Understanding the meaning of)
Disc brakes (modeling)
Discontinuous seat tubes (Designing beam bikes)
Display Modes
Display of Components, Views, Animation, and Crosshairs
Donate
Double clicking to launch BikeCAD Pro
Down tube and Bar end shifters
Downloading BikeCAD Pro
Drag and drop (must be into main window)
Drag and Drop Files into BikeCAD Pro
Driving vs. Driven Dimensions
Dropout spacing
Dropout spacing (Changing)
Dropouts (Choosing from static drawings)
Dropouts (Orienting the Slot Angle)
Dropouts exported to FreeCAD
Dropper posts (showing maximum drop and current drop)
Dual dimensioning
Dual monitor (and going back to single monitor)
DXF Export from BikeCAD Pro
Elliptical (ovalized) tubes
Embedding a Custom Applet on your own Website
ENVE Handlebars
ETB Jig Mark III dimensions
Extension of head tube and seat tube above top tube and below down tube
Extra Tubes
Extra tubes (connecting to a single tube)
Fender geometry (Defining)
Fillets (Rounding edges)
Finding Files Quickly in the File Open Dialog Box
Fit advisor (new outputs)
Fit Advisor: Applying Recommended Dimensions
Fit Advisor: Approximating Missing Dimensions
Fit Advisor: Collecting Body Dimensions On Your Web Page
Fit Advisor: Customizing Fit Formulas
Fit Advisor: Customizing in BikeCAD Pro
Fit Advisor: Determining Rider Anatomy From
Fit Advisor: Using in BikeCAD Pro
Fitting a bike into a travel case
Flattop chains
Fonts (Adding to BikeCAD)
Fork Crown Clearance (Checking for)
Fork paint scheme
Fork Rake (Measuring an actual fork)
Framing Bike in Printouts
Free standalone version of BikeCAD
FreeCAD (Exporting to)
FreeCAD (Installing on MacOS)
FreeCAD (Installing requests library (Alternative))
FreeCAD (Installing requests library)
Freehand drawing
Freehand sketch elements (naming)
Front derailleurs
Gearing Data (Displaying)
Gender removed from Fit advisor
GUI Font and Text Size (How to change in BikeCAD Pro)
Hand position (adjusting)
Handlebar and stems (modeling one piece bar and stem)
Head tube (Selecting tube profiles)
Head tube logos (preparing for export to FreeCAD)
Headset spacers (Extra)
Helmet style (switching)
Highlighting dimensions and tables
Horizontally oriented dimensions
Hub display
Icon size (Scaling)
Identifying problematic curves in BikeCAD Pro
Images files (How BikeCAD saves imported images)
Input fields (Changing size of)
Installation Directory (Finding where BikeCAD Pro is installed on a PC)
Installing BikeCAD Pro on a Mac
Installing BikeCAD Pro on a PC
Installing BikeCAD Pro on a PC (Remember to extract setup file first)
Installing BikeCAD Pro on Linux
Installing BikeCAD Pro on Mac OS
Installing BikeCAD Pro on Windows
Introduction to the BikeCAD.ca Website
Java (Check if Java is enabled)
Language (How to change in BikeCAD Pro)
Language (How to change in free version of BikeCAD)
Launching BikeCAD Pro from a Batch File
Launching the Free Version of BikeCAD
Lean Angle (Displaying)
Lefty forks and inverted suspension forks
Line weight of dimensions (Controlling independent of outline thickness)
Lock Frame
Lock Scale Icon
Logos (adding vector logos to the title block)
Logos (How to change)
Look and Feel (How to change in BikeCAD Pro)
Looped stays (modeling)
Lug Angles (Building a frame to suit predefined lug angles)
Lugs (Modeling)
MacOS Big Sur in Full Screen Mode
Managing Dialog Boxes in BikeCAD Pro
Minimum tube length (displaying this dimension as well as c-c and miter to miter)
Miter template enhancements
Miter Templates
Miter Templates: Do Not Scale Prints
Mitering the seat tube to the down tube or chain stays
Mixte (Designing)
Modeling foot position through the pedal stroke
Morphing designs
Motor cabinet for Shimano E6000 series STEPS system
Mountain bar bend angle
Multi-model PDF (Exporting)
New Brake Levers in BikeCAD version 18.0
Notes (Adding on-screen notes in BikeCAD Pro)
Offset rear dropouts for fatbike tire clearance
Offsetting the down tube, seat tube or chain stays at the bottom bracket
Opening and Saving Designs Online in BikeCAD Pro
Optimizing space in a drawing of a bare frame
Outline Thickness (Changing)
Paint Palettes (Configuring in BikeCAD Pro)
Paint Schemes
Paint schemes (including fork, stem, headset spacers and pump)
Parallelogram flat pedals
Phase Blocks (Modeling Sputnik Tool's mitering fixture)
Photorealistic rendering using FreeCAD and CADRays
Photos (Importing into BikeCAD Pro)
Pinion gearbox
Primary Dimensions (Changing)
Pump (adding a frame pump)
Quickly changing colours, hiding items and changing geometry
Quill Stems (modeling)
Rear axle to seat tube (Driving frame by)
Rear derailleur attachment
Rear dropout spacing for thru axle dropouts
Rear end geometry (Controlling by Rear axle to seat tube)
Recent files list (setting number of files)
Registering changes (with the Enter or Tab keys)
Removing older versions of BikeCAD on a PC
Removing Tubes
Rider anatomy (controlling in BikeCAD Pro)
Rider Anatomy Tabs (The difference between the two)
Rider position
Rise applied at angle in drop handlebars
Saddle (Fore and aft positioning)
Saddle (Positioning by height and seat angle, or by X and Y coordinates)
Saddle dimensions
Saddle height (Changing)
Saddle Reference Point
Saddle to Pedal Dimensions (Showing)
Saving BikeCAD Designs Online
Scroll wheel (Reversing the effect of)
Seat angle dimension on a curved seat tube
Seat Stay Mounting Options
Seat stays (attaching to seat tube measured from top tube)
Seat tube sleeve
Seat Tube Top Profile
Seatmast (modeling)
Seatpost clamp, binder boss or wedge
Seatposts (Constant diameter)
Seatposts (modeling dropper post)
Serotta Font
Setting Permission Levels on BikeCAD Models
Shimano Steps Electric Drive
Snapshot (Enabling tool in BikeCAD Pro)
Snapshot in BikeCAD Pro
Splash screen (Customizing)
Stack and reach to top of headset
Standard parts libraries (Adding components to)
Standover height (Custom)
Stays (Displaying Auxiliary View)
Steering geometry (ISO recommendations)
Step through frame (Creating)
Tables in BikeCAD Pro
Tabulating specs from multiple bikes
Tandems
Tapered head tubes (mitering to)
Template menus (relocating)
Templates in BikeCAD Pro
Tire Diameters: Understanding
Tire Profile (Controlling the cross-sectional shape)
Title Block (Adding Your Own Logo to)
Title Block (Fitting a design into limited sheet size)
Title Block (Setting Up)
Title block color and gridline weights
Toe Overlap (Displaying)
Toe Overlap (ISO standard)
Translation of Languages in BikeCAD
Tubing Profiles (Controlling)
UCI Regulations (Checking compliance with)
Updating BikeCAD Pro
Updating BikeCAD Pro (a simple approach)
Upload a BCAD file
View menu (adding menu options to)
Water bottle bosses (adding single bosses)
Water Bottle Cage (Changing styles)
Water bottle direction (Changing)
Water bottles (adding, with cages and bosses)
Water Bottles (Positioning)
Website User Profile and User Map (Configuring)
Wheel display modes
Windows 10 Start Menu (Adding an icon to)
Windows 11 (Installing BikeCAD Pro on)
Yokes (adding chainstay yokes)
Yokes (positioning with F dimension)
Yokes (single sided chainstay yokes on both drive and non-drive side)
Zooming In and Out