What it means for the purpose of this discussion was clearly explained in the first post at the top. The question was asked can Rhino deliver models that are usable for manufacturing purposes or is Rhino just good for visualization.
The answer is that Rhino can and does deliver models that can be used in manufacturing. I’ve model parts used in Nuclear power plants and those folks are really picky about what they will accept. Same with aerospace industry.
The fact is you can model very complex mechanical parts in Rhino even if you are using what Mitch calls old, crappy, cheap hardware.
Maybe, for visualization purposes, I would imagine you might need a lot more expensive hardware,
I think this is a good two sentence summary of the thread, noting that this isn’t an engineers vs visualization people division because some engineers and architects etc. have great visuals as a required part of their workflow.
You can even do visualization on crappy old hardware. Just takes a while to render. Did that as a student all the time. Or use the crappy old hardware to send it to a cloud render service.
I think you are all missing the point here. The reports here from people with"crappy old hardware" (and drivers) are people where Rhino doesn’t run at all… Black screens, simple curve drawing not showing up etc., etc. So yes, you can model in Rhino on this hardware… if you can get it to run at all.
Lets put it this way → I don’t think you are trying to help him at all.
The reason I believe you are just blowing smoke about trying to help is just today another user has the exact same problem. See here And you did try to help that user.
You told that user: “You have completely disabled the use of your GPU for Rhino. Having that slider all the way to the left should only be used for extreme purposes and is really meant for trying to diagnose problems with different GPU drivers”
You could have given this user the exact same advice you gave the other user.
Why did you not?
My guess is you helped the other user because he had spent a huge amount of money on hardware. The user in this thread had not spent a lot of money on hardware so you and Pascal won’t help him.
What I would like to know is what the heck is that all about?
Are you guys making money on hardware sales?