This makes it easier and more efficient to develop or modify a new component based on the drawn sketches, similar to the way you can create a 3-D figure based on its isometric drawings. This allows the user to treat every part that can later be added to an assembly or modified as independent components of a more complex system. Once your prototype is assembled, it will tell the weight of the assembly and the surface area.
It will also give you the center of gravity on a part or assembly just to name a few things. When it comes to these features, with Rhino you will not find them built into the program, they are available as plug-ins that you should buy apart from the program and each plug-in has its own price and unique feature to empower your basic features of the software.
Rhino includes new tools and enhancements to help ensure that the 3D models used throughout your process are of the highest possible quality.
The process of analysis takes into consideration points, length, distance, angle, radius, bounding box, normal direction, area, area centroid, area moments, volume, and much more. Inventor includes an integrated motion simulation and assembly stress analysis environment. Users can input driving loads, friction characteristics, and dynamic components, then run dynamic simulation tests to see how a product will work under real-world conditions. The simulation tools can help users optimize strength and weight, identify high-stress areas, identify and reduce unwanted vibrations, and size motors and actuators to reduce energy consumption.
Presentation is key during nearly every phase of design because you need to communicate with clients, customers, collaborators, or the public at large. Rhino actually has very good tools for adding materials to assemblies that are comprised of many elements and rendering them nicely and in a timely manner. This allows you to see results taking place in the viewport in realtime without needing to wait for renders.
This software comes with a ready to use library of materials, you can just drag and drop to see it in the viewport.
Rhino even has UV unwrapping tools so you can control the process of texturing if the model you are working on needs complicated materials and textures. The render engine in Inventor is kind of outdated and the materials system is rather inflexible. But overall you can add materials and light to light your project and render it with good enough quality that shows all the necessary details. Every type of physical product design relies on technical illustration and 2D drawing to concisely communicate ideas, specifications, and instructions to people in design, development, and fabrication.
You can use Inventor commands to adjust the base features and add new features to the Inventor feature tree.
You cannot modify the original definition of the base features. Open and change models created in SolidWorks up to version These types of SolidWorks files can be imported:. These types of NX files can be imported:.
The solid body is saved in an Autodesk Inventor file, and no links are maintained to the original file. If it contains assembly, it produces an assembly with multiple part files.
You can import an SAT file versions 4. The curves, surfaces, and solids are saved in an Autodesk Inventor file, and no links are maintained to the original file. If an imported SAT file contains a single body, it produces an Autodesk Inventor part file with a single part. If it contains multiple bodies, it produces an assembly with multiple part files.
To selectively import into file, do one of the following: To import to a new file select: Open Import CAD Formats Get Started tab Launch panel Import CAD Formats When you import a file, Inventor automatically detects whether the imported file is a part or assembly and creates the new document accordingly.
In the applicable dialog box, set the Files of type to view the available files. Select the file to import and click Open. Options tab Specify the Import Type. Mesh models cannot be used to make tooling, therefore ZBrush is unsuitable.
I should add that its possible to convert a mesh to nurbs, but it complicates the process. T-Splines has been used to do this, but there are other options now. Your link to their automotive stuff is interesting though. Rhino gives you more flexibility, and more direct control over every aspect of you model. If you are comfortable manually managing assemblies, and manually making updates to parts parametric relationships can be a pain to manage , it works very well.
Thank you all for your feedback. This all gives me a better idea of the overall suitability of these applications for this kind of technical design work.
Rhino is suitable for models of boats, airplanes, and other curved objects that must be manufactured with high precision. Most of these objects are filleted polysurfaces. If you want to change them, you have to explode them, change them, and make new fillets. Can someone please offer some advice on the following. I have no clue what Rhino is about, or how good it is, perhaps someone can enlighten me. Thank you. Reg Message 2 of Message 3 of Message 4 of ChristianAlanJa mesBerg.
Message 5 of Rhino's advantage - cost Disadvantage - no drawing tools, people produce nice models with it but then have to export to create drawings. Message 6 of Message 7 of Message 8 of Message 9 of Message 10 of Rhino has no drawing tools?
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