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Sorry to go CAD chat, but I gave Rhino a try for about 2 days and really struggled and lost motivation. From what I've found, Rhino seems to be best at the very high-end and very complex structures and shapes - lots of freedom for the experienced user, and especially with Grasshopper if parametric is needed (although that blows my mind!). Also really good for surfacing. So probably really good for bike frames, Ultimate freedom.
I think Solidworks (which I'm on) and Fusion can be better for speed, making changes, repeat work etc. It's not just the parametric thing that is different, there's different features that I think suit industry - like tab and slot for assembling sheet parts, automatically calculating K-factor when bending, auto-adding tolerances on things, automatically filtering changes made in one part through to your assemblies and the drawings, simple exploded assembly drawings etc - Great for regular industry type of assemblies that go into busses, conveyors, structures, mass furniture etc - I think that's where Rhino is disadvantaged maybe.. but I see it used everywhere too.
Your CAD always looks tasty :)