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ImplicitAssembler
Jan 24, 2013

Sagebrush posted:

Alias is the other big surface modeling name. It's older than Rhino, going back to the 80s at least, and has the most complicated interface ever invented. You tried to select an object by clicking on it? You moron! You're supposed to hold ctrl and shift, press the middle mouse button, and swipe up to select the marking menu select tool. Duh.


what's that you're modeling, Alias? another car? ok, cool, keep it up

Alias arguably has a slightly more powerful surface modeling set than Rhino, but that's all it does and the interface is so obscure you'll never see it anywhere outside of an automotive industrial design studio. Not something people in here are likely to encounter.


Man, the interface hasn't changed much in the last 20 years. Anyways, pretty sure The Mill still uses it...for car commercials.

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ImplicitAssembler
Jan 24, 2013

Sagebrush posted:

Here is a very general overview of how you remodel from polygon meshes (3D scans, downloaded STLs, whatever) in Rhino.

Or just use a caliper and rebuild it from scratch? I think that would have been quicker :).

Fusion360 has a mesh to solid function and it can work for simple objects., ie if you just want to cut a hole at a bigger size, etc.
Most of the time, I find it much faster to pull in the object as a reference and model it from scratch instead.

ImplicitAssembler
Jan 24, 2013

Tradeshows, especially for software, are mostly pointless, unless you're selling stuff or looking for a new job.

ImplicitAssembler
Jan 24, 2013

Hadlock posted:

How do I get fusion 360 to not export lovely quality STL files (click to embiggen). There's some weird polygonal ....artifacting happening on the inside here below my embossed letters (red arrows)

noodling today, fusion 360:



imported stl file from fu360:



It's just a normal issue. You can preview the actual polymesh in Fusion.

ImplicitAssembler
Jan 24, 2013

Zbrush has a tool that does this. In most 'art' based modelers (Maya, Houdini, etc), you can also take a texture map and use it to drive deformation, although your resolution would need to be stupidly high to get this level of detail.

ImplicitAssembler
Jan 24, 2013

biracial bear for uncut posted:

Solidworks is not a hobby software package, though.

No, but here it's often used by hobby users. Live with it.

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ImplicitAssembler
Jan 24, 2013

Dude. How about reading his post!. He's not saying that he doesn't want to do it, he's saying that he doesn't want to do work-like stuff it *outside* work!.

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