Version7 improved things a lot, but of course Covid then hit and the reality is we haven’t used it much in the last year so we are dropping it and reverting to Rhino7 and Fusion and.Altair Inspire Studio (which is available at a bargain subscription price). Assembly and in context modelling, pre version 7, was tricky without expensive AAX add ons.

Unfortunately Creo’s other tools are not great.

So we attempted to move all toy and surfacy work to Creo. (Looking at videos of the new SolidEdge subd toolset it appears to do the same). Less control curves means lighter surfaces. You just select the edge and set the sharpness you want. Anyone using TSplines, or PowerSurfacing, or the Rhino versions knows that you need to add control curves to the form to control the sharpness of an edge. It is an amazingly effective tool for sub d work, as you can control the edge sharpness from creased to smooth. Creo has a fantastic feature in all versions called Freestyle. At the time Creo had switched to subscription only so I bought a network license of Creo 4 with Style (ISDX). The trouble with doing this work is you need lots of revision phases so going Rhino/Fusion/Solidworks/Keyshot etc was a pain, so we started to look for alternatives. We tried using this in the betas but decided not to use it until it was released (which it is in Rhino7, more later)Ī few years ago, we picked up some toy design work, so we used Rhino5 and Fusion to do early versions of these guysĪD956E06-11A4-487E-B8E4-9E3BA52F029F.jpeg But the TSplines implementation improved release by release.Īs Autodesk had bought T Splines and pulled the plug on Rhino, it meant Rhino had to develop their own subd engine.

I had hoped Fusion could eventually replace Solidworks but early versions were even more unstable than a Solidworks beta. So Power Surfacing languished on the hard drive for a few years getting very little use.īy this time Fusion 360 had appeared (and as a pre beta tester I bought into it in version 1 for peanuts). I was used to something better with TSplines. Half the time the subd didn’t convert properly. Designed 100% in Tsplines and Rhino, tooled from data.Īnyway, moving on a year or two I invested in Power Surfacing for Solidworks, which in the early releases promised much but was as flakey as hell.

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