Is Rhino suited for mechanical engineering?

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Permalink Reply by Tor on February 24, 2010 at 3:01am

Shalom Arye,
Well,

1. Imho Rhino is well suited for mechanical engineering. As a matter of fact I can not see any reason for sticking with auto-cad at all if you have rhino3d.

2. your workflow seems somewhat strange to me. Why would you want to do basic modeling and -2d-draftsin Auto-cad? Rhino works great for that as well.

3. I've seen some buggy features when importing models to/from rhino-autocad. The layers got screwed up but all in all it works fine.

4. (Although you did'nt ask :) ) if you're solely in to mechanical engineering I think it's a simple choice: Go with rhino and forget about auto-cad all together.

My only objection so far with rhino is the the the lack of tools for converting 3d-models to 2d-drawings, making sections etc. Since I'm into building construction and architecture it's a drawback since I don't fancy the idea of manipulating lineweights manually after I've spent hours making the model.

Since mechanical engingeering is less dependant on creating paper drawings than the building industry I think you'll do just fine with rhino3d alone.

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Permalink Reply by Arye Segal on February 24, 2010 at 9:14am

Thanks a ton for the detailed answer, Tor! :)

I will take everything you said into consideration.

Thanks a ton once again,

Arye Segal.

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