Re: Surface Tools... What's Really Needed

Jon, Where, EXACTLY, is this level two manual found ?? Is it a seperate purchasable manual, on the CD or what ?

Thanks, Chris L

Chris,

You get it when you buy Rhino. I believe it was first offered with Rhino V2 but I'm not a Rhino expert... other than knowing what I do and don't like about it. As long as someone purchases Rhino they have access to it on CD or with their serial number which allows one to download it from McNeel's website.

IMO, the Rhino Level Two manual contains far, far better explainations of what C2 curves and surfaces are and how to create, modify and check them than have ever been discussed in either alt.machines.cnc / comp.cad.saladworks. ;>)

A lot of what is in the Rhino Level Two training manual can be applied to other CAD/CAM programs that offer NURB surfacing.

jon

You can actually buy the training manuals if you haven't purchased Rhino. The cost is $50 each.

--Mitch

Thanks Jon, I'll have to dig up my CD and see whats on it. The main manual you get is pretty intensive.... We'll check out the one(s) on the CD. Thanks again, Chris L

Feel free to e-mail me if you can't find it, Chris. ;>)

jon

The $50 is money well spent.

For those who want to understand the basics of creating quality curves and surfaces I would highly recommend reading Rhino Level Two training.

jon

uhm... i don't use icem software, but since it's that famous and well-known, i guess they'll hardly well me their .com domain... :)

have a good day :)

LOL

Perhaps it's time for your company to change to ICEM Surf so your material handling equipment won't look so box like and will have really slick curves ?

I checked out your website :

If you can't cope with ICEM sharing your name then I have just the thing for you, Gianni....

I say time to make the switch to VX..... NOW before it's to late !!! ;>)

On a serious note.... I understand thinkDesign is very big in Italy. Have you seen thinkID / thinkDesign ?

jon

well, actually it's a matter of costs and robustness/toughness more than ability to design something looking beautiful. if we produced coaches/buses --like officine padane or neoplan or setra or whoever else--, it would be far easier: those products are 300k+ euros each and nice designs are more compatible with very expensive products than with cheap ones. in our market --electronic pallet trucks, stackers, vert./horiz. order pickers and so on-- you often loose a selling for 30/50 euros and producing "nice" products is hardly compatible with low costs. what is more, we're specialized in producing customized products

--longer or shorter, wider or narrower, thicker or thinner forks, wide or narrow bodies, high capacity (up to 10 tons)-- and since we often produce unique machines it would be impossible to adopt nice covers/bodies.

and we cannot even use plastic covers/parts, because if you buy a toyota or linde pallet truck and you break a plastic cover every 2 weeks, you pay for the spare part and are happy with it. if you buy an icem pallet truck and you break a plastic cover after 6 months, i receive a letter from your lawyer :)

oh, i *love* american --muscle-- cars from late 60's / early 70's ;)

but, joking apart, my products must be, first of all, functional, reliable, robust and, as much as possible, cheap. i'd love to move to beautyful looking bodies, but they're so expensive that we cannot afford them.

i'll do my best to improve our products design :)

and one more --and last-- thing: at the moment the website isn't very nice, but it's temporary, we're working on the new one.

i've never heard of it, but i stopped reading/following the cad/addons market in late 1998, when we started using swx. it may be very popular nowadays, but at that time i can't remember of it.

cheers!