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+ | ====== Tips and advice for using Rhino together with Surfcam ====== | ||
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+ | ======Rhino and Surfcam====== | ||
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+ | Rhino and Surfcam work very well together, perhaps one of the best CAD/CAM combinations of surface modelers. | ||
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+ | Surfcam' | ||
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+ | Surfcam will not open Rhino files directly, but are various things you can do to make the interface between the two programs almost seamless anyway. | ||
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+ | //<color gray>New development! There is now a Rhino to Surfcam plug-in available! | ||
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+ | =====Transferring Geometry from Rhino to Surfcam===== | ||
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+ | First thing you can do is to set up a "one button" | ||
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+ | ! //Select //Pause | ||
+ | //-Export " | ||
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+ | //<color steelblue> | ||
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+ | What this does is export all geometry selected (if none is selected it will prompt for selection) via iges/ | ||
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+ | Inside Surfcam, all you have to do is File> | ||
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+ | So, once you're rolling, it's: select stuff in Rhino, bing!, one click and it's out, Alt+Tab to SC, Open, enter/enter and click the close box (or hit alt+C) | ||
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+ | I have on the right button an alternative macro: | ||
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+ | ! //Select //Pause | ||
+ | //-Export " | ||
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+ | This allows me to export via IGES 144 flavor instead of Surfcam flavor. | ||
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+ | =====Things to watch out for:===== | ||
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+ | * Rectangles export as one entity via Surfcam flavor, if you want four line segments, explode them before exporting. | ||
+ | * If you have used **JoinEdge** anywhere in the hopes of closing edge gaps, it will all disappear when exported to Surfcam - even if export as a solid format like ACIS or STEP - so beware. (I don't have Surfcam solids, so I can't tell you how this reacts) | ||
+ | * Object colors and layer names don't transfer. | ||
+ | * Check your geometry in Surfcam after importing. Occasionally there is some geometry that Rhino considers valid that Surfcam doesn' | ||
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+ | I'm sure I'll be able to think of more tips later. | ||
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