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 From:  MattGatten
2310.1 
I have been going nuts trying to learn Rhino3d while waiting for my CNC router to arrive. Base on a suggestion, I downloaded the trial and made this after about 30 minutes. This is, by far, way more than I have made in Rhino after a week of studying and practicing. haha

This was just me goofing off to make these chain gun looking dealies! Great app guys. I'm gonna be buying it real soon!


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 From:  manz
2310.2 In reply to 2310.1 
Hello,

Nice guns, glad they are pointing away.

Rhino is an excellent program but you can easily get lost with the various functions/options. Michael has put a lot of functions into one tool (what I mean is what may of taken 2 or 3 clicks/selections in Rhino, can be done with one click in MoI)and it works well (dont tell him I said so)

I hope you will be adding some feed for bullets to the gun,

Welcome and have fun with MoI

- Steve
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 From:  MattGatten
2310.3 In reply to 2310.2 
Yeah, it was just showing how fast a newbie could make something that actually looks like 'something'. I have no plans to continue building guns or robots. Yet! lol

Great product Michael has here. Now that I just read you can carry it around on a flash drive. Oh wow! I can model on my secure machine here at work because we're not installing anything! Love it. I'm definitely buying this. You can't beat the price or the speed with which someone like me could be moving on to CAM and Mach3 to start cutting something.

Thanks again!
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 From:  Michael Gibson
2310.4 In reply to 2310.1 
Hi Matt, thanks and welcome to the forum and to MoI - I'm glad that you were able to be productive with MoI so quickly, that is really cool!

Rhino is a pretty useful tool to have along with MoI, since it is kind of like a swiss army knife with a whole bunch of different tools, and you can share models back and forth between Moi and Rhino by Copy/Paste between them as well. But yeah Rhino is basically set up to be similar to AutoCAD in many ways. That makes it easy to use if you happen to have a background in AutoCAD but if you don't then all that AutoCAD-type stuff can be pretty strange especially when you're trying to learn it initially.

Many of the kind of overall strategies for how to build things are pretty similar between MoI and Rhino though (like when you would do a sweep, when you would do an extrude, when you would boolean, etc...) so I would not be surprised if Rhino would start to make some more sense to you after you've spent some more time in MoI as well.

Looks like you are off to a great start! It would be great to see some of your results that you cut on your CNC router after you get it all set up!

- Michael
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