| Are you looking for something just to annotate your model? Or you want a parametric subd modeling system? The only program I can think of which has subd modeling tools and is driven parametrically is Solid Thinking. It’s currently about 15 times the price of Amapi. Another one is Concepts Unlimited (now called Shark?) but I can’t confirm that for sure. My experience with ST left me feeling is had MUCH better history abilities than Amapi (it even allowed surface point editing, nested within the history tree). But history updates were slow as all hell. I recall the subd tools were also very weak compared to a dedicated subd modeler as Modo, Hex, Silo, etc… If you just need a cheap program to make drawings, try ViaCad (little brother of Shark). It has associative dimensioning for it’s natively created Nurbs models. Not sure if you can work with imported meshes… There is also the pair of Rhino and Tsplines. That is probably the most accurate solution right now for subd modeling and modification. But it doesn’t model in the same way as you do with Subd’s. You can import your subd models and then resize/rebuild them. And they are now building a subd modeling toolset for version 2. Cost of Rhino plus Tsplines is about $1300 online… Beyond those options, I think you could use hack methods in most subd modelers to get reasonably accurate sizing by eye. But nothing will be as accurate as working with Nurbs… Have you tried Lightwave with LWCAD?
jonah |