Hello all,
I have a question for any of you that could help. Now I have my mill
hardware working with excellent results due to the Geckos (stepper
drives) and Art?s soft combination, they are so good that the
motivation has increased dramatically and now I am looking to find
the soft CAD CAM solution.
And here is the question, after researching the web during some
hours and reading previous post I end up thinking that an Alibre 3D
CAD plus VisualMill CAM or Rhino plus VisualMill would make it for
me. I design mechanical pieces and I have been working with Autocad
(2d) for time, now I would like 3D solid design. My conclusions have
been that Alibre would be Ok. but Rhino is a very attractive
solution due to the free surface modeling but what I don?t know is
if Rhino is capable alone to create solids with regular shapes also
in a practical way. Why I ask this is because I have seen some
bundles of both (Alibre+Rhino) together with makes me think Rhino is
not so good alone to work 3D apart of the NURBs surfaces.
Thank you in advance for your comments.
