We had a contest in class tonight.
This is a spray nozzle with holes drilled into a cylinder
end at a 30 degree angle.

Rhino five minutes.... Solid Works?... the instructor and the most
experienced Solid Works student (a professional user of Solid Works) was
still trying to figure it out at the end of the four hour class :-)

For the ultimate indignity I exported it as an .iges file and loaded it
into Solid Works in an additional five minutes!

IMHO Solid Works has a cryptic and recalcitrant user interface.
It is nearly impossible for the average bear to learn.

I've heard SW is not a fun learning curve. Certainly do-able in AutoCAD solids in 5min  or less.
Of course I was not working from or constrained by a 2d drawing.
...Chrissi

Cozy Mk-IV 13B-turbo
www.CozyGirrrl.com
Chrissi@BlueMountainAvionics.com

Actually that problem was a piece of cake for Rhino.
Try intersecting compound curves in ACAD.

Paul Lamar

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