@lagemann wrote:
Hi,
maybe this is a silly question, but: I am looking for something, which should be the most common thing to get: A proper plug-in for modelling complex machine parts. All I find in “Food for Rhino” is a fuzzy cloud of plug-ins that might or might not be helpful.
As a short explanation: All I want is to design a Chainring (which is not round) - I thought grasshopper might be a good idea because so I can script the whole gearing. However, it turns out that a) I have to do a lot of steps to generate the trim-shapes and -solids and b) the crucial part - the geometry collapses after only a few operations - not to bore, but it is not even possible to get proper chamfers at the tips of the teeth. A boolean operation works well for 43 teeth and the 44th is simply left out for no discernible reason. Not to speak of the possibility to fillet certain edges with a specific radius and then another edge on the same 3d-object with a different radius… I am not expecting Solidworks or CATIA, but something that is capable of some basics… if possible within Grasshopper. I anyone could give me advise I would be massively grateful.
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