Being a Rhino only reseller, it is interesting to hear every now and then about other CAD tools and where they stand in relation to Rhino. Therefore I am happy that I saw this video from a Sketchup User: https://youtu.be/rb385302GzA?si=tujrVPsm9sztuuj1 When it comes to other CAD software: What i…

[image] Takalo_Mika: No history and no parametric driven sketching is really annoying. I started my career with Autodesk Mechanical Desktop 25years ago and we made 3D modeling then like this, it is really no needed to do things this hard and time consuming anymore. Sorry if this thruth hurts som…

Parametric isn’t always better. It solely depends on what kind of work you do. I can tell you that most of the stuff I do in Rhino would take like at least 5 times more time in a parametric CAD and it would negatively affect my design process and quickly sketching out multiple solutions and adjustin…

Yeah, we did note this. It is allowing Group editing like Block editing with a double click.

Yes, for artists with a paintbrush on hand it might be ok, but for me as a mechanical engineer…NoGo.

[image] Simon R: It speeds up my workflow so much, at least on this kind of projects I’m currently working on. IIRC groups worked the same way in 3ds Max, including the “partial bounding box” appearing when entering a group. Luckily, I don’t need to use that piece of s…oftware anymore but if the…

Yeah, mechanical engineering, at least in the most classical sense (ie. no industrial design with artistic overlap, just plain functional parts), is not something you’d want to use Rhino for. But I don’t think Rhino ever tried to replace other CADs in this field. So you’re really comparing apples an…

Mechanical engineer here chiming in to say that I disagree with the notion that Rhino has no use in this field. When I first started using Rhino, getting accustomed to a non-Parametric workflow took time, but today I find the history based modelling paradigm frustrating. Almost like I’m modelling in…

I wasn’t trying to say that it has no use in it (Edit: ok, I did kinda say it tbh*), just that it isn’t trying to replace parametric CADs, so complaining that Rhino doesn’t have those capabilities is like complaining that Adobe Illustrator isn’t good for photo editing. I absolutely agree about the …

Problem is that some companies are buying the softwares like this and then they are waiting the designer to make some easily mofiafiable models with it…sorry, no can do. Making it modifiable takes a huge amount of working hours, if I need to parametrize something on Grasshoppper. We just dont have t…

Agree, that’s not a good use case for Rhino/Grasshopper. GH is great for procedural/generative design (eg. what architects like to do) or for parametric functions that you’d use over and over again. But for simple parametrization of mechanical parts, especially for one-time use, while possible, make…

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RH-1045 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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