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nurbs in solidworks

does anyone have a recomendation for a good nurb surfacer for use inside soliworks. i have recently downloaded 2 differnent evaluation versions of Surfacing or NURB tools and they both suck. the surfaceing tool was GeometryWorks which repeated a bunch of already available SW surface tools with very little new or usable tools that i could see. the NURB add-in was ShapeWorks. this makes nice NURB surfaces but they cannot link to SW features. it seems like the "replace face" feature in SW works with the new NURB surface but once you modify the surface to the point where the original boundries are changed everything blows up.

anyone have a better recomendation?

-Jon

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jonoxford
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Ask Paul over at

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As you can see, he does some awesome surfacing in SW.

Reply to
haulin79

If you like direct NURBS modeling, SW is a poor choice. The standard responses to NURBS questions are Rhino and SurfaceWorks. Rhino can be used in a semi-parametric fashion if you know SW well. SurfaceWorks is pretty powerful and has a nicer integration, but the integration isn't complete. You wind up working in a separate window, but the surfaces you create can be edited.

If you're going to do shapes in SW, it is best to do them natively in SW. If you feel you can't make it happen, your best choice is to look at another package that handles complex shapes differently.

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matt

BTW what happened to the surface patch tangency improvements that were 'due' originally in SW06 ? I read SW07 may have deformable surface but that is a lesser priority IMHO. Any half insider news to share matt? :o)

Reply to
neillarsen

If I said everything I hear, my sources would probably dry up ;o)

The push-pull surface was shown publicly at SWW, so that's easy to talk about. That will be a welcome addition, hoping of course that there are no limitations like 4 sided patches only.

As for other stuff, I really can't say. I keep asking for c2 everywhere where appropriate, and to make it work where it already exists. Loft end conditions can have c2, but it only works in certain situations. Fill surfaces don't have c2, but I heard that it was somewhat better than c1 (does that make it c1.5?).

Anyway, keep hoping for the best. Actually, enhancement requests are better than hope, because someone actually looks at them.

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matt

I can't really say it is better, but the price probably is. head over to

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is a solidworks nurbs editor i have written up for download there.

check it out, and let me know what you think.

-Andrew

Reply to
plasmaandrew

is it the same version as before or have you made improvements/fixes ?

Reply to
neil

nope, nothing new. I've been trying to figure out how to turn this into an add-in, but still retain its ability to add the surface as a custom "macro feature"...

Reply to
plasmaandrew

You didn't figure out why it doesn't work for some of us by any chance?

John Layne

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John Layne

I have yet to run in to this problem myself, so its a bit hard to debug. I am building a new machine today, so maybe the issue will show up there and i'll be able to better diagnose it.

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plasmaandrew

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