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reutmanx · 18th September 2007, 10:21

If you would like to model mechanical things Amapi is suberp. You can work nearly in the same manner like in CAD apps., I mean that you can give accurate measurments and can analyze area, volume and such things. Quite good if your modeled shampoo bottle should give space for 500 ml.

I hope Amapi will have a future. I don't get it why e-frontier bought Amapi when they have Shade, which has model capabilities as well but different. The beziercurved base is interesting but right now I cannot figure out if you can model as accurate as with NURBS and all rounds, chamfer and boolean functions. Maybe they will make a package out of it. Right now they state Shade is for architectural modeling and Amapi more mechanical (product design). Shade is for render as well. I use Carrara 5 it has a link for Amapi files. Carrara 6 hasn't.

18th September 2007, 10:21	#17 (permalink)
reutmanx Vertex Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 20	If you would like to model mechanical things Amapi is suberp. You can work nearly in the same manner like in CAD apps., I mean that you can give accurate measurments and can analyze area, volume and such things. Quite good if your modeled shampoo bottle should give space for 500 ml. I hope Amapi will have a future. I don't get it why e-frontier bought Amapi when they have Shade, which has model capabilities as well but different. The beziercurved base is interesting but right now I cannot figure out if you can model as accurate as with NURBS and all rounds, chamfer and boolean functions. Maybe they will make a package out of it. Right now they state Shade is for architectural modeling and Amapi more mechanical (product design). Shade is for render as well. I use Carrara 5 it has a link for Amapi files. Carrara 6 hasn't.