Rhinoceros® (Rhino 3D)

Start with a sketch, drawing, physical model, or only an idea— Rhino provides the tools to accurately model your designs ready for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing. Rhino can create, edit, analyze, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids in Windows. There are no limits on complexity, degree or size. More...

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• NURBS

  Rhino3D uses NURBS. Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) are mathematical representations that can accurately define any shape from a simple 2-D line, circle, arc, or box to the most complex 3-D free-form organic surface or solid. Because of their flexibility and accuracy, NURBS models can be used in any process from illustration and animation to manufacturing.

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  Rhino3D is reknown for its intuitive method of operation, feature rich tool set and exceptional file translation ability..

  File formats supported: DWG/DXF(AutoCAD 200x, 14, 13, and 12 ), SAT (ACIS), X_T (Parasolid), 3DS, LWO, STL, OBJ, AI, RIB, POV, UDO, VRML, BMP, TGA, JPG, CSV (export properties and hydrostatics), uncompressed TIFF, STEP, VDA, GHS, SLC, Deep Paint 3D.

  IGES (Alias, Ashlar Vellum, AutoFORM, AutoShip, Breault, CADCEUS, CAMSoft, CATIA, Cosmos, Delcam, EdgeCAM, FastSurf, FastSHIP, Integrity Ware, IronCAD, LUSAS, Maya, MAX 3.0, MasterCAM, ME30, Mechanical Desktop, Microstation, NuGraf, OptiCAD, Pro/E, SDRC I-DEAS, Softimage, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, SUM3D, SURFCAM, TeKSoft, Unigraphics), NASA GridTool, Yamaha ESPRi, Tebis.

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• Rhino3D has hundreds of third party applications available for manufacturing, jewelry design, boat design, product design etc.
• Rhino3D is the base modeller on which you can plug in "Flamingo" photo realistic renderer, "Penguin" non-photoreal renderer and "Bongo" animation creation and dozens of 3RD party applications and visualisation tools.
• Whilst Rhino3D is not designed to be a 2D drafting tool to produce drawings, it is a powerful 3D modeller that will export models and views to your favourite CAD software such as RealCAD or AutoCAD for production drafting.
• Uninhibited 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.
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• Compatibility with all your other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software.
• Read and repair extremely challenging IGES files.
• 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.
• Create curves: point, line, polyline, polyline on mesh, free-form curve, circle, arc, ellipse, rectangle, polygon, helix, spiral, conic, TrueType text, point interpolation, control points (vertices), sketch.
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• Create curves from other objects: through points, through polyline, extend, fillet, chamfer, offset, blend, from 2 views, cross section profiles, intersection, contour on NURBS surface or mesh, section on NURBS surface or mesh, border, silhouette, extract isoparm, projection, pullback, sketch, wireframe, detach trim, 2-D drawings with dimensions and text, flatten developable surfaces, extract points.
• Edit curves: control points, edit points, handlebars, smooth, fair, change degree, add/remove knots, add kinks, rebuild, refit, match, simplify, change weight, make periodic, adjust end bulge, adjust seam, orient to edge, convert to arcs, a ployline, or line segments.
• Create surfaces: from 3 or 4 points, from 3 or 4 curves, from planar curves, from network of curves, rectangle, deformable plane, extrude, ribbon, rule, loft with tangency matching, developable, sweep along a path with edge matching, sweep along two rail curves with edge continuity, revolve, rail revolve, blend, patch, drape, point grid, heightfield, fillet, chamfer, offset, plane through points, TrueType and Unicode (double-byte) text.
• Edit surfaces: control points, handlebars, change degree, add/remove knots, match, extend, merge, join, untrim, split surface by isoparms, rebuild, shrink, make periodic, Boolean (union, difference, intersection), unroll developable surfaces, array along curve on surface.
• Create solids: box, sphere, cylinder, tube, pipe, cone, truncated cone, ellipsoid, torus, extrude planar curve, extrude surface, cap planar holes, join surfaces, TrueType text.
• Edit solids: fillet edges, extract surface, Booleans (union, difference, intersection).
• Create meshes: from NURBS surfaces, from closed polyline, mesh face, plane, box, cylinder, cone, and sphere.
• Edit meshes: explode, join, weld, unify normals, apply to surface, reduce polygons.
• Edit tools: cut, copy, paste, delete, delete duplicates, move, rotate, mirror, scale, stretch, align, array, join, trim, split, explode, extend, fillet, chamfer, offset, twist, bend, taper, shear, orient, orient planar object on curve, flow along curve, smooth, project, object properties.
• Annotation: arrows, dots, dimensions (horizontal, vertical, aligned, rotated, radial, diameter, angle), text blocks, leaders, hidden line removal, Unicode (double-byte) support for text, dimensions, and notes. Dimensions in perspective views are supported. This is NOT a drafting tool for production drawings however.
• Analysis: point, length, distance, angle, radius, bounding box, normal direction, area, area centroid, area moments, volume, volume centroid, volume moments, , hydrostatics, surface curvature, geometric continuity, deviation, nearest point, curvature graph on curves and surfaces, naked edges, working surface analysis viewport modes (draft angle, zebra stripe, environment map with surface color blend, show edges, show naked edges, Gaussian curvature, mean curvature, and minimum or maximum radius of curvature).
• Rendering: shade, shade (OpenGL), shade selected objects, raytrace render (with textures, bumps, highlights, transparency, spotlights with hotspot, angle and direction control, point lights, directional lights, rectangular lights, linear lights, and shadows, and customizable resolution), render preview (OpenGL), render preview selected objects, turntable, RIB export, POV export, rendering plug-in support, settings saved in file.
• File management: Notes, templates, merge files, export selected objects, save small, incremental save, bitmap file preview, Rhino file preview, export with origin point, worksessions, blocks, file compression for meshes and preview image, send file via e-mail.
• Plug-ins: The Rhino SDK exposes most of the internal workings of Rhino, making it possible for third-party developers to create powerful plug-ins and add-ons, programmer's I/O tool kit with source code is available on openNURBS web site.
• Scripting: VBScript support exposes most of the internal workings of Rhino, making it possible to develop powerful scripts.
• The RhinoScript ActiveX object can be accessed by many different programming languages including Visual Basic, Microsoft Word VBA, and Excel VBA.

  Rhino can be run in the background by an application via the RhinoScript ActiveX object.

• Input devices: Support for SpaceBall and SpaceMouse.3-D digitizing support: MicroScribe, FaroArm, and Romer/Cimcore.

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Frequently Asked Questions

[Q] Where can I find some examples of products or models modeled in Rhino?

[A] This article explains Rhino Projects through history since the first Rhino public beta release back in 1994.

[Q] What are the Trial Limitations of Rhinoceros 4.0?

[A] The trial version is the same as the commercial version except that it only saves 25 times. After that it is still fully functional except it will not save. It will still work great to learn Rhino and as a viewer for Rhino and many other file formats.

System Requirements

Rhino runs on ordinary Windows desktop and laptop computers, with:

Hardware

• 1 GB RAM. 8 GB or more is recommended
• DVD drive or an Internet connection for installation
• 600 MB disk space
• OpenGL 3 capable video card recommended
• Note: Apple hardware is supported only with Bootcamp

Operating System

• Windows 7 or 8 - recommended
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP (32-bit only) Service Pack 3
• Note: Both 32- and 64-bit versions are installed on 64-bit Windows systems.

Internet

Robust Internet connection is highly recommended.

• Service releases downloaded automatically
• License validation and product registration is simplified

Not supported

• Linux, or any other operating system not listed above
• Windows NT, 95, 98, ME, or 2000
• Windows XP 64-bit
• Mac OS X, but an OS X version is under development
• Virtualization systems on OS X such as VMWare and Parallels

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Downloads

• Download Rhino 5 for evaluation (32 bit installer) (200 MB)
• Download Rhino 5 for evaluation (64 bit installer) (225 MB)

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