Rhinoceros Features
RHINOCEROS
CAD software for 3D modeling
Take a look at the main areas where Rhinoceros CAD software con really improve your daily work with its hight performing features.
RHINO 8 NEWS
Rhino 8 adds dozens of refinements to existing tools, some new commands, and the new lightweight extrusion objects:
- WrapMesh: WrapMesh creates an airtight mesh around open or closed meshes, NURBS geometry, SubD objects and point clouds: ideal for creating meshes for 3D printing.
- SubD folds: subD folds create a feature somewhere between a sharp edge and a soft edge, without adding complexity to the SubD control mesh-a great soloition for creating fillet fillet features.
- Simplified modeling: Rhino 8 offers new modeling workflows, such as PremiStira, and adds intuitive new features to Gumball, automaticC plans, and more.
- Cutout plans and sections: Rhino 8 introduces numerous improvements to cutout and section planes and supports various drawing and fabrication workflows.
- SubD: For designers who want to quickly explore organic shapes, SubD is a new type of geometry that can be edited, with highly accurate shapes. Unlike other geometry types, SubD combines free-form precision by enabling fast modifications.
- Optimizations: In Rhino 8, the Cycles rendering engine has been updated, streamlining the UV workflow, improving procedural textures, adding a display mode, and more.
In Rhinoceros visibility features include: fast 3D graphics, unlimited views, shaded views, multiple perspective views, named views, floating windows, full-screen view, 3D stereo view mode, two-point perspective, clipping planes, and 1:1 scale to view models at full size.
Rhinoceros rendering technology includes the advanced use of both CPU and GPU which allow models to be displayed using the augmented reality.
Robust mesh import, export, creation, and editing tools are critical to all phases of design. With Rhinoceros you can:
- Transfer captured 3-D data from digitizing and scanning into Rhino as mesh models.
- Exchange mesh data with many applications such as SketchUp and Modo.
- Export meshes for analysis and rendering.
- Export meshes for prototyping and fabrication.
- Convert NURBS to meshes for display and rendering.
Recent improvement in mesh management:
ReMeshQuad: Quickly create a quad mesh from existing surfaces, solids, meshes and SubD objects – ideal for rendering, animation, CFD, FEA and reverse engineering.
Both new and enhanced mesh tools, plus support for double-precision meshes, accurately represent and display ground forms such as the 3-D topography of a large city.
3D data management is one of the first operation that needs to be performed when making a project. Rhinoceros supports 64 bit 3D scanning to better manage big point clouds.
One of he specific implementation for the 3D data capturing is the LIDAR technology which allows the capturing of soils data. This application is supported even by specific plugin like RhinoTerrain which provides fundamental info about soil.
More than 25 new commands and major enhancements for working with large teams organize, manage, and administer massive projects and huge files, including:
- 64 bit Rhino allows working with huge files without running out of memory.
- New lightweight extrusion objects save significant memory and improve display speed.
- Double-precision meshes accurately represent and display ground forms such as the 3D topography of a large city.
- Display speed is improved by taking advantage of faster graphic cards.
- Major enhancement to Layer, Block, , and Worksession management.
Rhino is compatible with hundreds of different products for CAD, CAM, CAE, rendering and animation. The openNURBS libraries allow hundreds of other applications to read and write Rhino’s native 3DM files. Additionally, you can Copy/Paste items between Rhino and Illustrator®, Inkscape™, and Affinity Designer® (Windows only).
Grasshopper is a graphical algorithm editor included in Rhino. Despite what happens with RhinoScript, Rhino.Python or other programming languages, with Grasshopper, the users can write thier own code without having the knowledge.
Main features:
- Grasshopper Player: Convert Grasshopper definitions to Rhino commands.
- Conflict Detection: Quickly find large numbers of objects to locate intersection points between pairs of conflicting objects.
- Placeholder Component: Placeholder component for missing plugins. Package Manager installs missing components without having to reboot. New components for Fill, Rhino.Inside.Revit and more.
Clash is a Grasshopper component dedicated to conflict detection. It identifies points of objects intersection that you can quickly detect and eliminate to void collisions. It is particularly useful in architecture, engineering and construction.
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