Rhino & SW 2007
Rhino & SW 2007
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I'm looking for feedback on those of you that may do work in both Rhino & SW 2007. How well do they work together now? Any opinion on wether the two will create a closer relationship in the future? To me it looks as if SW may be possibly creating a relationship with Rhino to counter Autodesk's acquisition of Alias a while back. Thoughts?
Thanks!
Mark
Thanks!
Mark






RE: Rhino & SW 2007
I've not worked with anyone using Rhino recently, so I don't have any other input--but I'd be interested in seeing if your theory proves correct. The ID tools recently improved within SW in the last three releases have been great (surface creation, filling, tangency, curvature, etc.), and rendering looks like it may be getting stronger beyond 2007 with whatever SW is doing with Maxwell.
Whatever the future, it looks fun.
Jeff Mowry
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RE: Rhino & SW 2007
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I could create some competition for SWx & SE
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RE: Rhino & SW 2007
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern Vermont
SolidWorks User Group
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SW 2007 SP 2.0
RE: Rhino & SW 2007
CJ Goodrich
Product Design Engineer
Leatherman Tool Group
Portland, Oregon
RE: Rhino & SW 2007
I would really welcome such a relationship. A recent project had me using a different package (Concepts Unlimited) to explore concepts, with surfaces, to make the "shell" of the part and then import to SW to add inner features and so on. It was pretty cumbersome to make a change and then recreate the SW model time after time. I ended up recreating it complete in SW once I had found the shapes I was looking for. While SW was able to create it I doubt I would have had the same results if I used SW exclusively. It's just not that good for exploring ideas, but works well if you already know what it is you want to model.
So please let me know if anyone has both and can test the functionality of the two packages together. It's obviously far from seamless but may very well be a functional solution.
Mark
RE: Rhino & SW 2007
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern Vermont
SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/rob_rodriguez/
SW 2007 SP 2.0
RE: Rhino & SW 2007
Would be interested in what you think of Alibre. It's been a couple years since I worked with it and was really impressed what it did for the price. If my company wasn't footing the bill for SW I would be using it today.
Dennis
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.0
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RE: Rhino & SW 2007
I have done this same approach with ProE files which reeked havoc on my models we (re)importing new models.
CJ Goodrich
Product Design Engineer
Leatherman Tool Group
Portland, Oregon