Wheel Rig

This is the kind of thing I am looking to be able to do in Grasshopper(not so interested in the animation). I am very confidant that it can do this. I am just wondering what the learning curve is for the average professional. I am also wondering why I am not seeing more examples like this in the GH galleries.

Watch the video.

http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/discussion/topic.aspx?f=4&t=8...

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Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on July 4, 2014 at 12:33am

Well ... although doable ... er... hmm... without provoking ww3 (or Armageddon) I would strongly suggest to try feature driven parametric MCAD applications (CATIA and NX are the kings of the hill, Solidworks and SolidEdge are the kids of the above, Creo is the poor relative) for doing such purely "mechanical" things (for REAL-LIFE I do hope so).

Lot's and lot's of reasons for this : solid modeling (vs surface modeling), incredible modification capabilities, assembly/component concepts unheard to Rhino (and/or GH), PLM strategy to manage collections of variations, clip capabilities totally unknown to Rhino, feature driven components (a very long story to explain what is this), a very robust mold advisory arsenal of tools, INCREDIBLE kinematics, real-time FEA/FIM analysis, blah blah blah.

The fact that CATIA/NX totally dominate MCAD things worldwide ... well ... you get the gist I do hope.

PS: of course you can do "incredible" things using the wrong application: see the ultimate stupidity of mine (modeling parts of my Ducati Panigale for fun) using the totally wrong "tool" (Microstation and Generative Components in some places):

https://www.behance.net/gallery/3702778/The-art-of-pointless

best, Peter

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