Solidworks or Rhino

[Dasboot]

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

 

[SBaugh]

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
credence69@REMOVEhotmail.com

http://www.3dmca.com

http://home.insightbb.com/~scott.baugh/

 

[TomD]

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.

 

[pakamy]

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.

 

[JmD32]

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.

 

[SBaugh]

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.

http://www.3dmca.com/Plane.jpg

[Cheers], Scott Baugh, CSWP
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http://www.3dmca.com

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