What is this plastic and why have i not tried it?
Id be careful with these softwares that are on cloud or promoted by (man i hate this word) InFLuencErS it feels like a rug pull waiting to happen
But I’ll give it a try 
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Plus
+Linux support
+Own the licence
+149 1 year updates is fair but meh
+X nurbs (to fix anything automagically)
Minus
-30 days
-no commercial on trial
-does not have a mascot like a Rhinoceros
Founder according to linked in senior software engineer and metaphysician and sandwich artist at twitter (no wonder X fired so many)
Now let’s try software 
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Plasticity is nice software and I bought a license as it is reasonably priced and not subscription based. It is not as intuitive as something like SketchUp and you can break models fairly easily with enough compound use of tools. That’s the thing that irritates me a little as a program “for artists” shouldn’t be so constrained. Still, you get a nice set of additional tools for a good price. I still prefer Rhino more as most of the things I want to make have a CAD focus and Rhino’s tools support that methodology extremely well.
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I work at an industrial design firm with about 30 people. For the last 20 years, we’ve had seats in Catia, Solidworks and NX. For the last 6 years, I have been the only person where I work who has used Rhino and there’s been zero interest from anyone else.
In the last year alone, about half a dozen people have asked me about Plasticity and in every single instance I recommended them Rhino instead, yet we now have about half a dozen people using Plasticity.
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I think this is the nature of complex surface modeling: if your software is able to create complex compounds of surfaces (with complex continuities) you have to work meticulously and be mindful of multiple things that can (and very likely) will go wrong.
This is true for Rhino too.
There is just no way around this.
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I agree.
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Have a look at FillSrf being developed for Rhino 9. WIP version is available for users with paid (not evaluation) V8 licenses.
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This is how it works with young people: they trust more Instagram than experienced user.
But I’ve to admit that Plasticity has a very good balance in tools.
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Fun to see Plasticity using some of the good old (seriously, also for Rhino users) Alias explanatorials on their website to illustrate a few basic concepts 
At €300 for a license incl. Xnurbs, it’s a steal for any industrial, transportation, or packaging design studio.
And the speed of development is breathtaking.
Indeed, good chordal fillets since a while also.
Even chordal g2 blends via bridge surface work quite well.
you know that Rhino is getting its own native tool that is challenging xnurbs? if you haven´t already check out FillSrf in the wip
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I agree with David, it’s more natural this way (Through point as default behavior). Offset should be like that by default too.