It would be interesting to know how many expect or even know that feature.
As I said. I know that it is a default feature but I personally consider it a wast of modifier keys.
the new tool features look great!
Do you know if it can export models to IGES or a format that can be *edited* in Solidworks?
Solidworks anc open and view but cannot edit the STLs from cheetah3D...
Edit: Someone, who developed a lossless conversion tool from subD to real Nurbs and the other way round would float on his own 30-meters-yacht in the monte carlo bay in no time...
To my knowledge, STL is not really intended to be edited, but to be read by prototyping machines. There's quite some difference between the solidworks NURBS files and the facetted Cheetah STL. CAD type Applications usually save their data to an ACIS compatible format that consists of curve and spline definitions of objects opposed to Polygon type 3d apps, where objects are made of quads, tris and ngons. The only real way to get a poly-modeled object into a CAD app for editing is to rebuilt the surface with NURBS and solids. It's a lot easier the other way round...
greetings, S.
Does such a thing exist in the same price range as Cheetah3D and for Macs?
btw, thanks for that very detailed reply Sebastian!!
Jesse
btw, thanks for that very detailed reply Sebastian!!
EDIT: Seems, this discussion belongs to another corner of the Forum – can we move it?
In addition, there's also Bonzai3d from AutodeSys, which is 399$ – It feels like Sketchup on crack and can output ACIS compatible .SAT files
Does it out put to IGES and Solidworks friendly formats?
You sir, are a rock star.
I tried ViaCad (the 99$ Version) and I think, if your Objects aren't getting any more complex than the screenshot you posted, this app will do the job. Beware: It's another type of modeling, and takes some time getting used to... Unfortunately, the guys from Punch! (the makers of Viacad and Shark) removed their trial versions from the website for no reason...
As for the "two finger + click" — it's in the little gesture tutorial built into system preferences. So I don't know how many people know about it, but certainly once you learn it you don't go back
Hi,
here is a short movie showing some of the new features in Cheetah3D 5.6.
(URLS removed to avoid duplicating the videos in this posting)
Sorry for the quite questionable quality of the movie.:wink: But I hope it gives you an idea of the features I'm working on.
Bye
Martin