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by throw_m239339 1220 days ago
Houdini, as a mesh based modeler, also called artistic modeler, is not appropriate for industrial design, because of the way it handles topology like every other mesh modelers.

This is a very different use case. CA industrial D software are actually aware of how machine tools work, that's why their tools and API are named based on real machine tools and have the exact same constraints as physical machine tools. Houdini has no such constraints nor awareness about manufacturing trade, anything goes including non-manifold geometries in topologies.