Yes, Robert, thanks for your reply (original of which follows). However.
Does this allow the equivalent of "hand work?" In other words, can I
create the same shapes that I can create with Ren shape and a set of
riffler rasps? My experience with CAD applications is that the curves
which are created are based in a certain mathematics. The shapes I create
by hand, however, do not conform to those mathematics. I am, of course,
wanting to create the "by hand" shapes, not the "computer limited"
shapes. This happens with any design that uses complex curved surface
modeling - furniture (ergonomic office chairs) hand-held shapes, etc. It
is a major shortcoming which keeps those of us who work in such form
language still working by hand with foam or Ciba-Tool (Renshape) in the
shop.
S/he who solves this shortcoming will be thanked by all...
Regards,
Katherine
____________________________________________________________________
Katherine Bennett kbid@xxxxxxxxxx
Katherine Bennett Industrial Design
On Fri, 6 May 1994, Robert P. Davis wrote:
> >The original message follows this reply.
> >
> >Claudio, I can well imagine VR "modelmaking" for industrial design
> >applications. Graphic designers /illustrators are able to go completely
> >thru to final printed piece on the computer - disk to press, even
> >bypassing film - and I can see a definite possibility for someone like me
> >to sit in my virtual shop, with some sort of input-output device to both
> >generate shapes with my hands and feel them as well as see them, "pick
> >up" a file and rough out a shape, put it on the table saw, create a
> >volume, a surface,
>
> Such a product exists...Surfcam (Surfware) which simulates machine tools
> creating a part using CAD input then producing a 3D model whose parameters
> include all the relevant machine instructions.
>
Does this allow the equivalent of "hand work?" In other words, can I
create the same shapes that I can create with Ren shape and a set of
riffler rasps? My experience with CAD applications is that the curves
which are created are based in a certain mathematics. The shapes I create
by hand, however, do not conform to those mathematics. I am, of course,
wanting to create the "by hand" shapes, not the "computer limited"
shapes. This happens with any design that uses complex curved surface
modeling - furniture (ergonomic office chairs) hand-held shapes, etc. It
is a major shortcoming which keeps those of us who work in such form
language still working by hand with foam or Ciba-Tool (Renshape) in the
shop.
S/he who solves this shortcoming will be thanked by all...
Regards,
Katherine
____________________________________________________________________
Katherine Bennett kbid@xxxxxxxxxx
Katherine Bennett Industrial Design
On Fri, 6 May 1994, Robert P. Davis wrote:
> >The original message follows this reply.
> >
> >Claudio, I can well imagine VR "modelmaking" for industrial design
> >applications. Graphic designers /illustrators are able to go completely
> >thru to final printed piece on the computer - disk to press, even
> >bypassing film - and I can see a definite possibility for someone like me
> >to sit in my virtual shop, with some sort of input-output device to both
> >generate shapes with my hands and feel them as well as see them, "pick
> >up" a file and rough out a shape, put it on the table saw, create a
> >volume, a surface,
>
> Such a product exists...Surfcam (Surfware) which simulates machine tools
> creating a part using CAD input then producing a 3D model whose parameters
> include all the relevant machine instructions.
>