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free-form 3-D modeling tools like those found only in products
costing 20 to 50 times more. Model any shape you can imagine.
Accuracy needed to design, prototype, engineer, analyze, and manufacture anything from an airplane to jewelry. Compatibility with all your other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software. Accessible. So easy to learn and use that you can focus on design and visualization without being distracted by the software. Fast, even on an ordinary laptop computer. No special hardware is needed. Affordable. Ordinary hardware. Short learning. Priced like other Windows software. No maintenance fees. |
 Apparel |
 Architecture |
 Automotive |
 Electronics |
 Mechanics |
A non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) is a mathematical representation that can accurately define geometric shapes ranging from a simple 2-D line, circle, arc, or box to the most complex 3-D free-form organic surface or solid. Much of the original NURBS technology was developed in the early 1980s for the aircraft industry.
Because of its flexibility and accuracy, NURBS geometry is an ideal 3-D design medium for developing and communicating ideas, feelings, solutions, and information.
Before Rhino, NURBS technology like this was only available in high-end CAD systems running on UNIX workstations. Rhino runs on ordinary Windows. Most modelers with this level of NURBS technology only run on UNIX workstations.
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Industrial designers. Industrial designers have complex needs: freedom to design without constraints or historical baggage, tools to capture and communicate ideas and solutions so precisely that they can be directly manufactured, tools so easy to use that they are never given a thought, and tools so robust that any idea can be explored. Rhino was developed with these needs in mind. Educators and students. With no restrictions on approach, Rhino provides the ideal learning environment for important 3-D geometry and graphics skills. Since Rhino is so easy to learn, educators can focus on teaching design and problem solving and no longer need to spend time teaching software commands. CAD/CAM/CAE users. No matter which CAD, CAM, or CAE product is used, there is always something missing. Rhino does not try to fully replace those products. Instead, Rhino enhancesalmost every CAD, CAM, or CAE product in some way. CAD/CAM/CAE users can use Rhino as a surface modeler for a parametric feature-based modeler, as a modeling front-end and translator for a CAM product, as a mesher for an analysis package, as a model translator for a rendering or animation product, as an STL viewer and repair tool, as a 3-D digitizer interface, or as just an easy-to-use conceptual modeling tool.Multimedia. NURBS geometry is an ideal modeling medium for animators and multimedia authors. Since most multimedia products have little or no support for NURBS geometry, Rhino is an ideal companion to almost every multimedia product on the market. In addition, Rhino has IGES translation tools and 3D digitizer support that are very useful for multimedia users. Drafters, graphics artists, and illustrators. Most are using 2-D CAD or graphics products like Adobe Illustrator, FreeHand, Corel Draw, Visio, and AutoCAD LT. While these products provide exceptional 2-D tools, they have limited or no 3-D capability. Since Rhino reads and writes many 2D file formats and has a familiar user interface and functions, it is the ideal tool for exploring 3D. Rhino supports many common 2-D graphics file formats including AI, WMF, DWG, BMP, TGA, JPG, and DXF. |
 Jewelry |
 Furniture |
 Aviation |
 Marine |
 Medicine |
| An easy to use plug-in, which works seamlessly inside Rhino, and provides a host of features that speed and simplify image rendering. Create sophisticated single-frame images and animations with raytracing and radiosity. What is raytracing and radiosity? Raytracing provides unrivaled realism and accurate reflection, refraction, shadows and more. The basic concept behind radiosity is to produce renderings by performing an accurate physics simulation of the bouncing of light around a scene and into the viewer’s eye. Rhino and Flamingo are available as a special money-saving bundle below! |
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Rhino Features
User interface:
- Camera-based view manipulation
- Perspective match image
- Context sensitive right-click menu
- Alt key copy
Construction Aids:
- Feet
and inches with fractions
-
Groups
-
- Select
previous selection set
Create Curves From Objects:
- Contour
on mesh
- Make
2-D dimensions and text
- Orient to edge while editing
Create Surfaces:
- Loft
with tangency matching
- Sweep
with edge matching
- Sweep
with edge continuity
- Plane
through points
- Unicode
support for text objects
Analysis:
- Curvature graph on surfaces
Rendering:
- Hotspot,
angle, and direction
controls for
spot lights
- Point
lights
- Directional
lights
File Formats Support:
- STEP
- VDA
- GHS
- SLC
- Deep
Paint 4D
- AutoCAD
2002 DWG/DX
import/export
-
IGES
for NASA GridTool, Tebis,
and
Yamaha ESPRI
- Viewpoint
File Management:
- Export
with origin point
- File
compression for meshes
and
preview images
Scripting:
- VBScript
- JScript
Plug-In Support For:
- Rendering
- 3-D
Input devices
- C++
applications
System Requirements
- Pentium, Celeron, or higher
processor
- Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2K/XP
- 40MB disk space
- 64MB RAM
- IntelliMouse recommended
- 3-D digitizer optional
No special graphics cards are required. Standard Windows accelerator cards will provide
the best display performance. Rhino will take advantage of OpenGL
acceleration if it is available.
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