I still contend that Rhino has lost essentially most if not all hobbyist market share , but at least they could survive on Grasshopper… or can they? Blender conference just posted this video: [Architecture is about Beauty. How Blender can help.] Will McNeel survive if they loose the ar…

I’m also working on a super confidential project that has an adaptive reuse of a building from 1910, Rhino was great in generating useful geometry from 28gb of pointcloud files. so far so good.

[image] Keithscadservices: I’m having a hard time finding a cheap (or rather affordable) 3D scanner. Any recommendations? I really only need a point cloud with 1/4" (5mm… ish) accuracy. For $1000 USD even 3/8" (10mm) would be okay. Shining 3D and Einstar. [image] EINSTAR | Advanced …

Quite a few programs are able to work with Autodesk’s DWG format. It’s not that much of a secret. Some of the conversion issues are things I can solve with AutoLISP (and a bit of a time). If I can solve it with AutoLISP Rhino should be able to do the same thing quite easily. I’ve studied the DWG o…

My plan was to create a ‘base’ format and workflow for people wanting to model buildings in Rhino. I might get back on this once I familiarize myself with Rhino 8. My idea is that if people have a starting point/foundation, they can go further faster. That would bring in more people and more ideas.

[image] Keithscadservices: Quite a few programs are able to work with Autodesk’s DWG format. It’s not that much of a secret. [image] Keithscadservices: I’ve studied the DWG object model and there isn’t actually that much to it. [image] CNC files from Rhino I don’t recommend dxf or d…

[image] Martin Siegrist: What’s IGES good for? See IGES - Wikipedia

Ok. In other words. Why IGES when you can export STEP?

They aren’t for the same things. IGES is an ancient 3D geometry (but mostly vector graphics?) format, and STEP is a slightly less ancient 3D geometry format. The why for either of them is that they’re so old that they’re widely used in basically all software forever.

Not every CAD/CAM/CAE product supports STEP. Of course, by now, most do. At this point, we have no reason to drop support for IGES.

Rhino lost hobbyists to Autodesk. Are architects to Blender next?

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martinsiegrist (Martin Siegrist) November 17, 2023, 5:57am 122

What’s IGES good for?

OBJ is my preference for textured 3D scans… and 3MF is interesting for multi colored 3D prints with hierarchical overlapping.

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