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Solidworks or Rhino
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Rhino does surfaces better than SW (So I understand from others that use both programs), but I think SW surfaces does a fine fine job for what I need them for.
Not a lot of help, but I hope it does help somewhat! Scott Baugh, CSWP![[spin]](/data/assets/smilies/spin.gif "[spin] [spin]")
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Not a lot of help, but I hope it does help somewhat! Scott Baugh, CSWP
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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.
I find it a very fast way to do up concepts and materials for presentations and Flamingo, its rendering package is very good.
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$) it's used by the big boys as Boeing and such.
There is no parameterism or other form of modeling-history, but that´s not such a big problem as it may sound. You can of course edit what you´ve been drawing, but only manually and not by altering the parameters, of say a curve or primitive. But this also gives you a great deal of freedom. Rhino is extremely capable of modeling very complex surfaces, who would be very hard, if not impossible, to model in SolidWorks.
Rhino is very easy to use, and although it´s very moderate priced (700-800$) 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.
A friend of mine took the Plane from my site and brought it into this Flamingo a Rhino add-in and this was the result.
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[Cheers], Scott Baugh, CSWP
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