On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ries van Twisk wrote: >> On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ries van Twisk wrote: >>>> On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Sven Wesley wrote: >>>>>> On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:41 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>>>>>> Hi >>>>>>> I bought Rhino and importantly it is only 3D surface modeling >>>>>>> software >>>>>>> where nurbs is a part. NURBS let you grab point and drag it >>>>>>> and it >>>>>>> change >>>>>>> whole surface. It is interesting option. >>>> >>>> Do you guys use any of the Parametric plugins for Rhino? >>>> Honestly I don't see why a non parametric 3D modeler is any >>>> useful in >>>> the industry >>>> where you need to make more then just a part, I am not talking >>>> about >>>> people doing this for a hobby or the one-offs >>> >>> And that's me. No way in hell can I justify the cost of something >>> like >>> rhino, for one quick piece of wood or metal. I could easily empty >>> the SS >>> replenished bank account if I bought all the stuff that has been >>> mentioned >>> here. >> >> in that case the sort of business you work on doesn't even require >> it, >> no worries, it's really normal to use simple CAD/CAM pages. >> I see to much people buying autocad, while they also could >> have been buying qCAD or any other sub 100USD 2D CAD package. >> they Just pay a very file conversion package :) >> >> Ries >> > I have had qCAD's freebie installed several times, but I have yet to > see it > has an output format I can use or convert to use. Probably no > mistake... > > Thanks Ries. >
The payed version is a bit better on a usability level, but I could simply save as a DXF and use it with one of the free and some closed source CAM solutions. Ries ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
