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Rhinoceros 4.0 - Modeling Tools for Designers and Architects
Since its first release in 1998, Rhinoceros®, or Rhino®, has become one of the
standard 3D modeling tools for designers and architects. With more than 300,000
commercial users and more than 5,000 schools, Rhinoceros allows to quickly
develop your designs and accurately communicate them to everyone in the product
research, development, marketing, and manufacturing or construction process.
Start with a sketch, drawing, physical model, scan data, or only an idea—Rhino
provides the tools to accurately model and document your designs ready for
rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing or
construction.
Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS
curves, surfaces, and solids with no limits on complexity, degree, or size.
Rhino also supports polygon meshes and point clouds.
Its accuracy and flexibility makes it possible to students to explore and build
their ideas without having to spend much time learning “CADâ€. Also, any
geometry created in Rhino can be exported to laser cutters, milling machines or
3D printers, and this is really what makes Rhino different from general 3D
modelling tools based in polygons, where you can create great images, but
without manufacturing precision.
Rhino’s open architecture allows using also Rhino as a development platform: a
C++ SDK and a series of scripting methods (RhinoScript) allow programmers of
any level of expertise customize and automate Rhino and extend its
capabilities. Today, there are dozens of commercial plug-ins for Rhino for
nesting, terrain creation, parametric architecture, rendering, animation, CAM,
subdivision modelling, jewelry, mold design, etc.
A free Evaluation version can be downloaded at
www.rhino3d.com/eval.htm
Rhinoceros, Modeling tools for designers
To be an effective designer today, you need tools to quickly
develop your designs and accurately communicate them to everyone in the product
research, development, marketing, and manufacturing or construction process.
Start with a sketch, drawing, physical model, scan data, or
only an idea—Rhino provides the tools to accurately model and document your
designs ready for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and
manufacturing or construction.
Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate
NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids with no limits on complexity,
degree, or size.
Rhino also supports polygon meshes and point clouds. Rhino
offers:
Uninhibited free-form 3-D modeling. Tools like those found
only in products costing 20 to 50 times more. Accurately model any shape you
can imagine.
Extreme precision. Design, prototype, engineer, analyze,
document, and manufacture anything of any size no matter how small or how
large. Unrestricted editing. Revise freely without concern about how you got
there or where you want to go next.
2-D drafting, annotation, and illustration. In addition,
flatten 3-D surfaces into 2-D patterns and drive laser, plasma, and water jet
cutters. Large project organization. Work with both large models and large
teams.
Compatibility. Exchange files with your other design,
drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration
software.
File read and repair. Fix extremely challenging IGES and mesh
files.
Direct connection. Support for wide variety of 3-D digitizing
arms, 3-D scanners, and 3-D printers.
Customization. Easy-to-use tools let both you and software
developers make Rhino fit your special needs.
Short learning curve. Focus on design and visualization
without being distracted by the software.
Speed. Even on an ordinary laptop computer Rhino is fast. No
special hardware is required.
Affordability. Ordinary hardware. Short learning curve. Priced
like other Windows software. No maintenance fees. Worldwide support is
included.Download an evaluation version...
 Flamingo,
Raytrace and Radiosity for Rhino
Flamingo brings the raytrace and radiosity rendering inside Rhino. This
plug-in includes:
Rendering
Photometrically accurate images with reflections, refraction, diffusion,
translucency, transparency, color bleeding, hard and soft shadows, depth of
field, depth attenuation, and indirect lighting.
Materials
Drag and drop from an extensive material library with user controllable
properties including defuse color, reflections, refraction, translucency,
transparency, depth attenuation, bitmap textures with tiling and masking,
procedural 2-D and 3-D materials, ClearFinishâ„¢, and angular blend.
Lighting
Lighting options include directional, point, spot, linear, rectangular, and
goniometric lights, sun, ground, sky, and global illumination using a light
dome or an HDR image.
Other features
Procedural clouds, fractal-generated 3-D plants, progressive-refinement for
quick preview, RPC support, Piranesi EPix support, and extensive plant and
background libraries.
Detailed feature list...
Penguin, non-photorealistic renderer for Rhino
Penguin brings freehand sketching, watercolor painting,
cartoon-like rendering and technical illustration to Rhino and AutoCAD.
What is Penguin?
Penguin is a conceptual, sketch and cartoon, non-photometric scan line
renderer. With Penguin you can create stylized images of your models with an
artistic look for enhanced graphic and visual appeal.
More...
Download a free evaluation version.
Brazil for Rhino
Top artists and designers from every type of industry rely on the Brazil render
engine for their most demanding work. Whether showing off the latest designs
for a new mobile phone, doing site-accurate visualizations for a new
resort-hotel, or generating images of your newest jewelry designs, Brazil can
help you create stellar imagery quickly and easily.
Read about Brazil's features...
Product Design
Brazil can help you visualize your designs in a wide range of styles from
high-quality photorealistic renderings, to easy to understand line drawings and
illustrations.
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Flexible camera settings help achieve realism.
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Mix and match photorealistic and Illustrative rendering styles.
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Simulate a vast array of complex materials -- everything from hard reflective
materials to soft, translucent plastics.
More details...
Jewelry Design
Brazil is the ideal renderer for the hard-surfaces and complex light
interaction needed by jewelry designers.
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Diffusion in materials along with HDRI lighting create brillance in gemstones.
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Realistic lighting through caustic photon reflections and refractions.
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Advanced camera features, like depth-of-field, help show scale and make your
renderings look like photographs.
Transportation Design
Sharp rendering and multilevel materials allow Brazil to simulate the complex
material finishes needed for planes, trains and automobiles.
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Simple to use HDRI lighting makes set-up a snap.
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Accurate reflections communicate surface contours.
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Accurate shadowing and flexibility in camera lenses help create a sense of
scale in your images.
Architectural Design
Brazil's render engine has the performance and flexibility to render all forms
of exteriors, interiors and landscaping.
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Global Illumination and industry standard IES photometric datasets from
lighting manufacturers can be used.
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Sunlighting system allows for site specific daylighting studies.
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Sophisticated, realistic materials allow you to work equally well whether doing
interiors or exteriors.
Bongo, animation for designers
Bongoâ„¢brings professional animation into Rhino 3.0 or 4.0, using
familiar keyframe tools found in most high-end animation packages.
Professional animation tools
Animate moving, scaling, and rotating Rhino objects without exporting. Objects
and viewport animations are editable in the Rhino window using simple drag and
drop. Modify your objects and motion data without losing valuable time changing
between programs.
Easily preview your animations inside Rhino, in real time, in any shading mode
by scrubbing the timeline or playing the animation. Then render straight to an
animation file using any Rhino renderer including wireframe, openGL, render
preview, render, TreeFrog, Flamingo, and Penguin.
Bongo is also great for demonstrating moving objects using real-time playback
in the Rhino viewports - just drag the timeline around to show a client how
your design works.
Download the evaluation version.
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