posted February 15, 2008 08:01 PM
Hi all, as many know I am on a (long) quest doing dimensional signage. I have chosen a bunch of grapes (difficulty factor) as the test for buying a program to enable me to cut 3D on my MultiCam. And YES!!! before some may jump in... tried the chisel thing and it don't work. My design skills do. Question is... here in Oz, Enroute has a RRP of $12,000 (which is just out of the question at this point in time) Rhino and RhinoCam I can get for $3000. Does anyone run Rhino and RhinoCam, and what are your opinions. Are 3D grapes possible with the right original design. So far I have'nt really come across too many negatives on this program. I believe they have a 30 day return policy which seems good.
-------------------- Gregg Sydney Signworks (02) 9837 1198 Schofields NSW Australia Posts: 368 | From: Schofields | Registered: May 2007
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posted February 15, 2008 09:12 PM
The price you quote for EnRoute seems to be high by a factor of about 2. If you want a contact number for the shead sales guy at EnRoute drop me a note and I'll pass it on to you.
The new tools in version 4 of EnRoute which is to debut in about a month are nothing short of amazing!!
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
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posted February 17, 2008 09:57 PM
Gregg, I'm biased against Enroute, after getting "the short end of the stick" with a program called Inspire, I vowed to never give Scanvec another chance to cheat me.
Before you drop big bucks on programs download the demos and try them out. You can do 25 saves with Rhino 4 before you have to buy it. I tried it and found it to have commands very similar to autocad. Another inexpensive program Vectric Cut3D will allow you to generate gcode files from .stl output by Rhino. Their website has lots of tutorials and you can download a demo.
I have been using Claytools for 3D work since it is so easy to use and it will handle large files.
Lately I have been evaluating an inexpensive 3D program called Zbrush. It is quite easy to use and has lots of video tutorials.
ernie
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posted February 18, 2008 05:42 PM
Greg I use Rhino for my 3d Modeling and yes you will be able to exactly what you want once your through the steep learning curve. As for the Machining side of Rhino I haven't used it so I couldn't tell you.
One thing I have found out about 3D modeling in a more organic nature is I can sculpt it out of clay faster then you could ever model it in a program then I just use our 3d scanner to scan it into Rhino and do whatever slicing you want to do to make it machinable with a 3 axis machine.
I am also in Agreement with Ernie about Enroute. I am not going to ramble about it. It's just like the old PC vs Mac find what you like and use it who cares what anyone else thinks.
[ February 18, 2008, 11:21 PM: Message edited by: William DeBekker ]
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