rhino designs parametric variable patterns?

[CADEnrico]

Bye to all,

I've been working for 2 years with solidworks and now I'm learning how to use rhino.

I'm currently following a video course and I'm about 1/5 of the program.

I realize that the design with rhino is very different from solidworks, especially I don't see the following things:

1) the working tree

2) I cannot assign constraints (e.g. tangence, orthogonality)


I wonder, as a neophyte, what is the workflow and how it is possible to make a 3d design without the 2 points listed above.

This thread of mine is not a criticism of rhino, because I am at the very beginning, it's just a request for clarification.

Hello and thank you,
enrico

 

[enri]

was not born to be parametric, but they did more than one plugin to make it such and to add constraints:
http://www.rhinoparametrics.com/index.phphttp://drivingdimensions.com/rhino/help/english/I sincerely ask myself how it is possible to make a 3d with these characteristics, too complicated! :
better direct modeling. In this sense, it can be used with rhino also space claim which is rather cheap.

there is also grasshopper, free, but it is more a nodi script editor, not simple, but you can parameterize anything, in a thousand different ways. There are many tutorials.

 

[maxopus]

I sincerely ask myself how it is possible to make a 3d with these characteristics, too complicated! :

Allow me a joke, it will seem strange but it is possible if you use software like pro/e, catia, nx, solid-edge, solidworks, inventor ... and there are others.

If it were like you say toyota, honda, duchies, ferrari, fiat, ford, sony, ansaldo, abb, piaggio, ford, citroen, gm, volkswagen (just to name you) would use rhino ... and instead.

 

[enri]

but I was talking for me! it will be indispensable, but it is very Moroccan. I think it's impossible to do without engines.

 

[Tristan]

allow me a joke, it will seem strange but it is possible if you use software like pro/e, catia, nx, solid-edge, solidworks, inventor...

above all try to compare the price of a rhino license with that of a license, for example, of catia, nx or inventor prof.

 

[CADEnrico]

Hi.

solidworks, inventor and other parametric cads, all have the menu, with controls for creating/editing surfaces.

I theoretically could continue working with solidworks.

I turned to rhino because I had heard about it well and because it seemed totally oriented to the surfaces.

After reading your answers, my question is as follows:

how is it possible to design a solid without having the opportunity to quote or add constraints?

Basically, what's the workflow?

in solidworks is simple:

1) select a sketch plan
2) draws a sketch
3) share the sketch
4) apply a processing (extrusion, revolution, etc.)
5) return to point 1

Hi.
enrico

 

[Tristan]

Basically, what's the workflow?

in solidworks is simple:

1) select a sketch plan
2) draws a sketch
3) share the sketch
4) apply a processing (extrusion, revolution, etc.)
5) return to point 1

Hi.
enrico

It is evident that you have never modeled in 3d even with autocad:wink:

 

[enri]

five clicks! in rhino, draw the spline, apply revolution etc.
but it will not be a solid, but a polysurface, that is a closed surface that rhino recognizes as such. then it is obvious that you can't take the odds and change them, but if you activate the history registration, you can change the spline to the flight.
with the above plugins instead I think you can do everything you need.

 

[stef_design]

then without making such a mess.
rhino was born for concept and design (so no constraints are needed)
sw was born for the engineering (so everything must be quoted and parametric)

if you move from sw to rhino is because you are looking for more creative freedom, for studies of form or aesthetics, for quick sketches but not for engineering a product.

 

[CADEnrico]

Hi.

stef_design made me clear.

Thanks, I'd say the thread can close it.

Hi.
enrico