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Solidworks or Rhino

Solidworks or Rhino

Solidworks or Rhino

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What is the difference between Rhino and SolidWorks ?. They both handle surfaces. What does SW do that Rhino does not?.
Thanks for your help.

RE: Solidworks or Rhino

Rhino is also not parametric.  Once you've drawn something that's the way it is.  If you want to change it you have to erase it and start over. That may sound like a huge pain, but it's actually very quick and easy to do in Rhino.

I find it a very fast way to do up concepts and materials for presentations and Flamingo, its rendering package is very good.

RE: Solidworks or Rhino

What I experienced in SW n Rhino is:
1. Rhino (NURBS)is excellent for ID and Freeform.
2. SW (Parametric)is fantastic in Mech. Solution.

RE: Solidworks or Rhino

I can only agree with the above. I use Rhino for free-form modeling, then export the model to SolidWorks for further use. I see those two products as complementary, not rivaling.
Rhino is very easy to use, and although it´s very moderate priced (700-800$) it's used by the big boys as Boeing and such.
There is no parameterism or other form of modeling-history, but that´s not such a big problem as it may sound. You can of course edit what you´ve been drawing, but only manually and not by altering the parameters, of say a curve or primitive. But this also gives you a great deal of freedom. Rhino is extremely capable of modeling very complex surfaces, who would be very hard, if not impossible, to model in SolidWorks.

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