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Originally Posted by Raggi_Thor  Let' see how much the 2011 version is, released yesterday.
As a reseller I always try to be honest, and I thinks surface modelling is not the strongest part of Alibre. SW and maybe Inventor (now?) is better at that. BUT, importing rather "clean" surfaces from Rhino works OK, better than the often "dirty" IGES you get from several yacht design programs. So clean up, rebuild, smoothen, your surfaces in Rhino and then import to Alibre (or SW). |
Yes, I'd seen that had come out - not had chance to see what it did new. How does it changes things with respect to the changes in the levels that came out in the summer (pre-hobby editions etc.)? Can you upgrade to that without loosing the functionality? That's it, I typically use Rhino for getting a good IGES surface out from, SW isn't great for it either I've found.
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Originally Posted by Raggi_Thor It's also about relationships between parts. Drawing a sketch for a frame or bulkhead and "extrude to the skin (hull)" is no problem in one part, but if you do this in many parts in an assembly it seems like the constraints between parts get time consuming to manage. If you simplify parts and make them "dead", not linked to the skin, "frosen", then everything speeds up, but you miss some of the points with "feature based parametric design"  |
I see, I suppose it's a bit off your machine how much it can process - I don't like to disconnect things, because like you say, it often becomes a pain down the line. I suppose you could break your vessel into smaller units but you'll stuck when you come to view it all together.
10-26-2010, 04:24 AM
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