Dear FillSrf
I know we’ve only been together for a short while, and that I might be coming on too strong… but I love you… I really LOVE you!
Sorry for the cheesy intro, but I was just presented with a STP file out of Solidworks/Tsplines, and the continuity and trims of those surfaces were just a bloody mess; self-overlapping, out of tolerance, G0… Just so F’ing bad and potentially hours of remodeling the entire part. This is the manufacturers production files, mind you, but they don’t care, since the polish the sh*t out of those parts after casting/welding anyway. We needed them for visualizations and thus need them to look perfect - enter FillSrf to perfectly fill 4 unique (6-8 sided) areas in a matter of seconds, leaving me with a perfect part for close-up visuals
Again, sorry for the childish enthusiasm, but today FillSrf was a life saver; or at least it saved whatever remains of my sanity
SWX is such a hot mess, I have seen hardly any file that isn’t littered with yellow warning trinagles, but it still works “enough” for people to keep using those same files for production parts…
Rhino/GH FTW !!
If I recall this correct the yellow triangles serve as unresolved warnings when something is not right with the modell or sketch this means they either don’t have good modellers or bypassed the warnings which you can do in solidworks, I did the training manual for 2023 there was examples on how to clean up the modells if such things occur.
i tested importing a model from onshape to Rhino a while back which is similar to solidworks I did not see this atrocious spaghetti mess in Rhino but also could be how solidworks does things to.
Solidworks is fine as long as it stays in solidworks I think lol
This goes both ways - spaghetti generated in SW by poor technique and using fill surfaces everywhere as a replacement for planning the model. Rhino can generate an equally messy bowl of spaghetti when people leverage the network surface too much.
Also, SW will apply fillets in cases where it possibly should throw an error, for example, when you have a disappearing crease. Depending on the base geometry it’ll throw in a micro cow lick on the tangent end of the crease which turns into spaghetti when imported elsewhere. Whereas in Rhino, it’ll just fail to build the fillet - a built in safety net
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