Why does Rhino have lots of issues in filleting complex surfaces while Solidworks usually fillets easily?

Hi Fellow Nerds :nerd_face:,

Pro tip for everyone here:


Invest $99 in Plasticity (one time fee, not subscription), never look back at these threads, and leave the poor 1-2 fillets developers at McNeel alone (who also need to be working in shelling, offset srf, and I rather see them working on new stuff, like rethinking/rebuilding the _RebuildSrf, _BlendSrf and _NetworkSrf tool, instead of wasting time in these losing battles.

It looks like Siemens is maybe doing a pre-Acquihire move here by licensing Parasolid to this developer for practically nothing. Or VCs are the ones forking the money to Siemens (who is getting the full licensing price for Parasolid) and the cost is not being passed to us? Who knows.

Eitehr way, probably this is a way to buy a Roledex of future customers later on, in an otherwise stagnant CAD market. Obviously, no one is making money selling this for $99. Except for us, by riding along in these weird CAD industry shenanigans for as long as they last. I love VCs and Late state capitalism, they throw so much free food around!

All we (RHino users) need now is a 1-button export/import (LMB/RMB) to Send to Plasticity to do fillets (or anything else) and bring back to Rhino as a matched part (same name, layer, materials, and any other properties as the selected/previously exported part. Who can build this? I’ll sponsor your license of Plasticity if you can build this nicely.

G

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