What do you wish you knew earlier?

This is true 100%, but until the future makes them plug and play, and more intuitive and more fluent, you will always be limited by your own perception and imagination. Hence, your mind is where the real power is.

The more you exercise all the peripherals, tools, features etc., as you work, you’ll empower your mind as you dream.

The time will come, if not already, when you will imagine everything in your mind and project onto the future with potential things you can do with CAD’s such as Rhino.

Kinda like a mathematician that solves an equation in their dreams. You exercise your mind, and your mind will work like a brain storm on many things that can be done in CAD’s. You almost wont have to be at the keyboard to imagine what’s possible.

In other words, sometimes when I don’t have my ‘spacemouse’ or if I’m not using it, I’ll sit back and imagine the project in my mind, moving around :sweat_smile:

Sometimes I’ll use the ‘regular mouse’ to rotate or pan, to see what the silly ppl do without the spacemouse :joy: jk

Yeah, I guess this has been on my mind more lately. I used to just purge and vaporize them :joy:

But my assemblies are needing to become evermore complex, so I’ll need to practice them.

Yes, indeed, I need to work on this discipline as well.

This is one of my priorities as I continue with Rhino into the foreseeable future. This is, I believe, the wave of the future.

Yeah, I’m not sure I’ll ever invest in that, but I’m sure it’s cool.

I’m open to anything GH, but I’m focused on ‘constraint’ based modeling stuff, even though I heard loops aren’t prevalent enough yet, so I’ll probably have to engineer some new components or something…

Yes, subd’s omg. I’m soo grateful Rhino went subd! It means I have direct access to that technology now with my Rhino! I’m so glad I don’t have to use some other program to use that tech now!

Such an amazing direction Rhino has gone now. I’m convinced there are no limitations going forward. There’s nothing Rhino can’t do. The future is very bright.

For my two cents, I began using Rhno in 2004-2007 as a file format converter. The university at the time that I was at had an outdated version of Rhino and they never taught classes on it.

The only reason I discovered it was cause I was searching the whole world for answers, basically, and so coincidentally I saw it on the computers in the CAD lab there.

Now, by the time I went to work full time in 2007-2010 I’d already become very advanced in solid modeling programs.

But the work I was doing, demanded the skills of ‘free form surface modeling’.

I felt very new to something I should have already been familiar with.

So, I wish I knew more about free form surface modeling earlier. Since those days, I’ve learned alot. And some reason I continue to feel like I’m just getting started :sweat_smile:

Some ppls here are starting to make me think about using degree 5 srf’s, but idk I think deg 3’s are fine :smile:

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