Quite more flexible and powerful options in Solidworks compared to Rhino, although technically you use GW3D and XNurbs here, which are proprietary third-party plugins (not cheap either). Seems also the surfaces are single span as well, well mostly arc/circular so they should be single span by default.
Different pieces of software obviously. Surfaces definitely not single span. You can check this with GW3D. I believe one of the reasons you can't check this in normal SolidWorks is because it always creates very dense multispan surfaces. But at the same time, if the resulting multispan surface is smooth should we care?
@@marklandsaat3696 Interesting. I did not know that. Makes sense though, becuase technically SW is a solid modeller, not a surface modeller. Not sure whether there is a span check/set option in XNurbs or not. The result looks good enough, even perfect so... yes, maybe we should not care much.
XNurbs for Rhino can in certain cases respect input curves, but from what I can tell in SolidWorks it creates Degree 5 multi-span surfaces. I have done several tests comparing SolidWorks Boundary/Loft/Fill to XNurbs and XNurbs pretty much always creates a surface with better control point distribution while at the same time using less control points.
Quite more flexible and powerful options in Solidworks compared to Rhino, although technically you use GW3D and XNurbs here, which are proprietary third-party plugins (not cheap either). Seems also the surfaces are single span as well, well mostly arc/circular so they should be single span by default.
Different pieces of software obviously. Surfaces definitely not single span. You can check this with GW3D. I believe one of the reasons you can't check this in normal SolidWorks is because it always creates very dense multispan surfaces. But at the same time, if the resulting multispan surface is smooth should we care?
@@marklandsaat3696 Interesting. I did not know that. Makes sense though, becuase technically SW is a solid modeller, not a surface modeller. Not sure whether there is a span check/set option in XNurbs or not.
The result looks good enough, even perfect so... yes, maybe we should not care much.
XNurbs for Rhino can in certain cases respect input curves, but from what I can tell in SolidWorks it creates Degree 5 multi-span surfaces. I have done several tests comparing SolidWorks Boundary/Loft/Fill to XNurbs and XNurbs pretty much always creates a surface with better control point distribution while at the same time using less control points.