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Rhino vs. Alibre

 

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.
Robert Campbell
 

Luis,

If you are doing primarily mechanical design, then Alibre would be my first
choice. If you need to do complex surfaces including text, then Rhino would
be a good addition. All of the high end programs like Solid Works are
recommending Rhino as an addition. Rhino alone can do most of what you want,
but Alibre will allow you to build mechanical parts faster.

For your Cam part VisualMill is a great product. I went to California about
a week ago for a dealers update class on VisualMill 5.0. I am very impressed
with the product. They have added in all of the 2D functions that were
missing. 5.0 should be a great seller.

I am currently using Alibre design, Rhino 3D and VisualMill.

My recommendation would be to download all three demos and try them.

When you are ready to buy, I can help you. I plan on having a support type
page on my web page for VisualMill. There is also a VisualMill user group
on Yahoo.

If there is anything that I can do to help, please let me know.

Bob Campbell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Luis Serrano" <serrano@...>
To: <mach1mach2cnc@...>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 3:58 AM
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Rhino vs. Alibre


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 Arts 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 dont 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.




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