Hi, Is it true that Solidworks has better filleting tools? Filleting complex surfaces has much pain. It usually fails. What priveleges does Rhino have over Solidworks?

[image] John Brock: The presenter covers the filleting differences and issues that plague both Rhino AND SolidWorks. What the presenter said about ‘parallel vs perspective’ projection effecting the position of geometry is nonsense. I’m willing to bet it’s not true. The presenter also said s…

Keep in mind you’re commenting on the state of Rhino and SW from 2017. There has been a lot of development work between then and now.

[image] jim: Rhino could have powerful filleting if they w If they wanted to. :blush: [image] jim: Well not really. Whereas FilletSrf makes the same correct surfaces that Solidworks makes, FilletEdge makes incorrect fillet surfaces. Filletedge makes some surfaces that shouldn’t be the…

[image] John Brock: Keep in mind you’re commenting on the state of Rhino and SW from 2017. There has been a lot of development work between then and now. very true. I’m just being sensitive about the presenters comments on parallel and perspective projection cause of my experience with thos…

[image] pu235: i don´t use filletedge for my modeling anymore since some years ago and switched to blend fillets or filletsrf i realized that rhino don´t has a fillet problem. It has a trim problem. Fillet edge allways fails on the same typical points and you see that the problem often looks lik…

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A little tip. Fillet is trimmed surface, which means it could be “not” trimmed. Solidworks sometimes cheating on fillets. Rhino Import stp export from SW, you will find untrimmed fillet surface.

[image] CAD CAM CNC: I agree, but I think it’s all relative to the ‘breps’ and how the surface edges are pulled away during joining of srf’s into polysrf’s, trimming, etc. In Rhino, how far trimmed edges are from the underlying surface is supposed to be determined by the user specified absolu…

[image] jim: In theory edges are never supposed to “pull away” from the faces to which they belong any farther than the tolerance. Tha’s basically how I’ve understood it since I first began noticing it and testing it. [image] jim: If you use Rhino’s surface modeling tools on well constur…

[image] eobet: Green and blue are tangent. Rhino’s FilletEdge attempts to do this in a single surface and fails. Why can’t it just give up and split it into two surfaces, saving us all from a lot of manual work AND getting cleaner fillet surfaces at the same time? [image] Indeed another goo…

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

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

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