How does work it with surfaces?

[vinot]

Hello world, here's my first post in CNCZone, my name is Toni.

Since few time ago I'm thinking on start with Alibre. I'm using SW since I started with my job, four years ago, and I always work with scanned surfaces and new designed parametric surfaces, with boleans operations and so on. It was hard for me to find my way of work, but now I have it. Anyway, I'm still thinking on Alibre... Can it work with my surfaces? can work scanned objects (point clouds, mesh to surface,...)? splines over surfaces?

Thanks

[tobyaxis]

Ask this question in the Alibre Forum

http://www.alibre.com/forum/index.php

[DareBee]

Not to be nosy, but wouldn't Rhino be better for more surface oriented work?
It is along the same price line as Alibre.

I feel that both Alibre and Rhino are superb programs but I would NEVER give up my SolidWorks for either.

[tobyaxis]

Originally Posted by DareBee Not to be nosy, but wouldn't Rhino be better for more surface oriented work? It is along the same price line as Alibre. I feel that both Alibre and Rhino are superb programs but I would NEVER give up my SolidWorks for either.

Though I have never used Solidworks but would have to agree that it is one AWSOME piece of Software. A few personal friends use it and would never dream of not upgrading or stop the Maintenance. That Software is wishful thinking on this end.

Darebee makes a very good point about Rhino. Their is a member with the handle DeathAdder that visits here. He is a Rhino and Surfcam user that has shown a lot about what Rhino is about.

Free Form surfaces, think Pro/E, Solidworks, or Rhino.

[vinot]

Thank you!

I worked a little with Rhino, and absolutely no doubt that for free from surfaces its the best option. But I need parametric designs for my job.

I will try alibre anyway.

Thanks again

[vinot]

Sorry, just one clarification: I'm using SW because it was the first CAD option more easy to get. Lately I knew that many CAD has the same kernel, which means that in principle all those apps can do the same job with the same efficiency. So in my opinion only the GUI and pathtools are the difference, but also defines the easy or not way to arrive at desirable results.

[tobyaxis]

Originally Posted by vinot Sorry, just one clarification: I'm using SW because it was the first CAD option more easy to get. Lately I knew that many CAD has the same kernel, which means that in principle all those apps can do the same job with the same efficiency. So in my opinion only the GUI and pathtools are the difference, but also defines the easy or not way to arrive at desirable results.

I have been told that Alibre follows Solidworks GUI. I never used SW but the info is pretty accurate because it came from a SW user

BTW: Here is a link to show what Alibre is capable of.

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