How do you use Rhino?

[turmite]

I am curious how different the use of Rhino is and wanted to poll the audience!

Vote then give some detail here.

Mike

[turmite]

I will go first.....I voted for both forms of design and manufacturing.

I do some in house design, and I outsource some of it. Most all the manufacturing of parts is done in house.

Mike

[ger21]

If you choose the "Outsource Both" option, then you wouldn't be using Rhino, would you??

[turmite]

Hi Gerry,

I supposed that could be worded a little differently, but I hope I got the point across. I am interested in hearing some of the "others"!

Mike

[Dan B]

We use Rhino in almost every area of our company. It's used in sales, engineering, the shop and QC.

Thanks to the versatility of Rhino's scripting language, I have been able to make it a very specialized tool for each of the departments.

Dan

[turmite]

Dan though I know you from the forum, I don't know a lot about what you do.
Can you give a descricption of each use you mentioned. For instance.....how is it used in sales?

Mike

[JDcam]

We use it for design, reverse engineering, and occasionally for providing models/renders for demonstrative purposes. 90% of what we use Rhino for is primarily for design, R-E and pre-CAM setup. Using Rhino for drawing and model creation is obviously significantly easier than using MasterCAM's drafting interface.

[Dan B]

Hi Mike,

I can't get too specific, due to our confidentiality policy. Rhino gives us a huge competitive advantage, kind of like our "secret weapon". While our competitors are slowly churning out the work, we are flying through it. For example, one of our competitors here in the city produce around 100 fixtures a year. We do 120 a month. Rhino is a huge part of how we can pull that off. It's not the only factor obviously, but it definitely plays a big part in our success. We'd like to keep how we do that inside these walls.

Sorry to be such a jerk about the secrecy thing, but that's how it has to be. I've probably said too much already.

Dan

[aubergine2001]

Hello everyone,
just joined, got the link from the Rhino news group. I have only been using Rhino for close to a year.
I get designs (jewellery) in 2D, ie. pencil & paper, then make the 3D model from those and it then gets sent to manufacturer. I do not know anything about the machining side of things, so this could be an interesting forum.
Thanks and I enjoy working with Rhino very much.
Randy

[BobWarfield]

JDCam and DanB, thank you for confirming Rhino's productivity!

I tried a number of CAD packages before settling on Rhino, including the parametric style. I literally made myself use each one for at least 2 weeks until I could comfortably draw a selection of similar models and I could compare and contrast.

While Rhino is far from perfect, what I found was that it was lighting fast at converting my thoughts to finished models with a minimum of hassle or keystrokes. It was just a lot more efficient drawing tool for me.

Best,

BW

[turmite]

Hi Mike,

I can't get too specific, due to our confidentiality policy. Rhino gives us a huge competitive advantage, kind of like our "secret weapon". While our competitors are slowly churning out the work, we are flying through it. For example, one of our competitors here in the city produce around 100 fixtures a year. We do 120 a month. Rhino is a huge part of how we can pull that off. It's not the only factor obviously, but it definitely plays a big part in our success. We'd like to keep how we do that inside these walls.

Sorry to be such a jerk about the secrecy thing, but that's how it has to be. I've probably said too much already.

Dan

Hi Dan,

Nope never even considered you being a jerk. But, I don't know that you understood what I was asking for either. Here is an example.

Sales......we use Rhino to create 1. artwork or renderings for brochures
2. we use Rhino to create an animated simulation showing the design in use?

That is what I was looking for. By no means would I ask you do divulge your trade secrets. I do know from email conversations with you in the past that you have written many scripts for your company that are trade secrets, but it would be ok to say I have used Rhino with a custom script to do...???


Mike

[turmite]

Bob can you give an example of how you use Rhino, or maybe even in what field you use it......and I am not talking left field either!

Mike