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	Rhinoceros®  (Rhino3D) 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. FREE TRIAL DOWNLOAD
Highlights  User Projects and Gallery 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. Reknown 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. 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. 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.  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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SC/Tetra Rhino is a great help to evaluate the performance of product design. Here's an animation of the car passing through walls of plastic bubbles at 80 mph, which reveals complicated slipstream patterns behind the body. The simulation was performed on commercial CAE software SC/Tetra using the 3D model data created in Rhinoceros.

HP iPAQ Case Version 3 includes phone and camera Coming in June 2003

PRIMATIVE by SA DORMAN Psilomelane stone and 22K & 18K Gold Computer Generated Filament Necklace

Senninha Top Action by Grendene Designer: Grendene Calçados S/A Division Development Products

Lexus concept car for the movie, Minority Report Modeling by Paul Ozzimo   <-- this end is the front

Virgo MRI by Millennium Technologies "Rhino has been a great help in visualizing our product as we are somewhat limited in the way we can prototype due to the size. -about the size of a small car. The casing were manufactured directly from the Rhino surfaces." Robert Johnston Industrial Designer

SiS Virtual Showroom for Computex 2002

Gran Finale LOA: 147’ Beam: 26’-8” Draft: 6’-8” Styled by: Espinosa Inc., Stewart, FL Molds by: Janicki Machine, Sedro-Woolley, WA Engineered and built by: Delta Marine, Seattle, WA

New Holland Combine CX controls The New Holland Combine CX -who has won the "Combine of the Year award"- contains "packaging & interior trim" products that were originally designed in Rhino by EIA Electronics.

In the book, Behind the Mask of Spider-man: The Secrets of the Movie, learn how Rhino was used to develop many of the props for the movie, Spider-man®. For details on how Paul Ozzimo modeled the Green Goblin's glider and the Pumpkin Bombs, see pages 115 and 143.

Douw Steyn Multiple Arch Dam A dam for Shambala Farm, a private South African game reserve. The dam is comprised of 5 arches, 20m maximal height, 377m long. The dam wall volume is 14,200 m3, the impounded volume is 1.56 million m3, and surface area 29 ha. It was built in only 6 months, with construction finishing mid December 2001. Designers: Altus de Beer and Rossen Petrov of Reonet Pty Ltd. (part of NETGroup)

ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM  Designer: Gerhard Steinle, Prisma Design International, Inc.  Video entertainment center for the Mercedes-Benz M-Class

Lexmark i3 Color printer This new 2400 x 1200 dots-per-inch printer connects to your PC or TV set top box.

Super Mini Mouse  Designer: Super (Cha0-Jen) Wang, Jess-Link Products Co., LTD.  Small enough to use right on the palm rest of most notebook computers.

Renault Sport Designer: Kosaka Toru Promotional images and animations based on 3-D Rhino models.

GT1 Series Loudspeakers  By Design e  The GT1 Series Loudspeakers are about as far removed from the mass produced Hi-Fi market as it is possible to be, combining superb sonic performance with stunning sculptural forms. Design e used Rhino for the surface modelling and will continue to utilise this impressive package for future designs

Nokia 5510 Designer: Totti Helin Surface design and styling in Rhino. Product engneering in Pro/E.

Pocket watch by TO DO TECHNIK & DESIGN Winner of the Red Dot Award 2001 A photograph shows the watch in a switched-on condition. Actually, the watch does have that appearance when both the upper and lower shells are simultaneously in contact with the skin. Upon contact with only one face, the display is switched off (can be worn as an amulet); it remains also switched off when in contact with other materials (e.g. fabrics).

Snow Hawk by A.D.BOIVIN DESIGN Aimed at the 16-40 year old who seeks a new, exciting and physically demanding sport. Driving a Snow Hawk™ feels like a cross between a dirt-bike and a jet ski. Supple, agile, and lightweight. Body parts were modeled in Rhino by Instadesign based on a design of Jérôme Foy Design. The initial shape comes from a full-scale scanned clay model. Surfaces were then created in Rhino including all assembly details for high quality fit and finish as well as molding requirements. The Rhino files were sent directly to milling for production tooling.

The Turin design studio 3search, presents a 1:4 scale model of the NURB; a performance sports coupé (4390 mm long, 1940 mm wide, 2820 mm wheelbase). The car is design to take a V12 engine at the rear under a transparent polycarbonate lid with the cabin pushed well forward. Door mirrors and handles have been eliminated in favour of videocams and fingerprint scannersthat make for a cleaner line and a better drag coefficient.

Elios, climbing helmet by Petzl, designed by Inconito Elios is a new climbing helmet, designed in Rhino by Inconito and engineered in Pro/E at Petzl. Inconito is a new design company based on chedal anglay design which was started in 1991. They create all their designs in Rhino in many fields such as electrical-cooking, mountaineering, toys, snowboarding, ski, etc.

"In the highly competitive world of sport optics Smith Sports Optics is supreme. Smith teamed up with Metropolis Design to provide innovative design and amazing prototypes for their ski goggles. Rhino is a great tool for a firm like Metropolis Design that is constantly working on a variety of projects. It allows us to meet deadlines and produce a quality product for our clients." Frank Algarin, Metropolis Design

TOP8s washing machine by Electrolux/Brazil "This was the first project in which Rhino was used for surface modeling. It was introduced at this stage because of its excellent relationship between cost and benefit. The software is easy to learn and use, and your requirements of hardware are very small when compared to other similar software applications." said Herman Zonis, Industrial Designer, and Rhino user since the first version.

The Blackout by Kershaw Knife Co. Engineering Design Consultants, Ltd., a Portland-based engineering and design firm, was able to come up with the conception, design and production parts in record time using Rhino. This knife is already a sales sensation and was recently honored as The Blade Magazine's 1999 Best Buy.

EDC's 'N Touch concept computer Engineering Design Consultants, Ltd., in conjunction with Intel, chose Rhino to design and develop their 'N Touch and 'N Touch II concept computers. The 'N Touch and 'N Touch II function simultaneously as all-in-one wireless Internet connections, viewing stations, laptop computers and desktop PC's.

FARGAS ASS., S.L. Barcelona's Federico Fargas Texidó's latest project is the Cricursa booth for Batimat 2001, Europe's most important construction exhibition. Cricursa makes curved glass for important buildings worldwide. They made the curved glass for the Frank Gehry designed Experience Music Project in Seattle and many other stunning architectural designs.

adidas Palestra Soccer shoe developed especially for women. At adidas, Rhino is used in various aspects of product development, from construction of the initial prototype, through revising data for the manufacturing, to rendering pictures for presenting the design concept.

Kestrel’s Talon bicycle Manufacturing efficiency, faster development, striking visual effect Talon is a new family of Kestrel bicycle frames developed by IDE Inc. using Rhino 3D. Doug Jones headed up this project, establishing the modeling methodology and developing four of the five frames. Doug was assisted by Jon Moriconi on the fifth frame.

Philips Integris Allura   Since its introduction in December 2000, Philips Integris Allura has become the new worldwide standard for cardio-vascular imaging. The design is based on an innovative mechanical solution, created by Philips Design and Philips Medical Systems, is open and accessible for both patient and operators - while retaining its predecessor's range of movement. Integris Allura has won several awards including a 2001 IF award for good industrial design. The Integris Allura system was Philips Design's first project using Rhino. Philips Design chose Rhino to replace two other, more expensive, CAD systems because it is easier to use, faster, runs on a desktop PC, and delivers functions that other surface modelers lack.

Ford Prodigy Tooling "Rhino was used to design, develop and make the surface data required to build the Ford Prodigy carbon fiber hood and deck lid. Rhino was also used on other projects for Aston Martin, Ford, and Viper. Rhino is a fantastic package." Cameron Dempster Multimatic Inc.

2001 Saleen S7 The first true American supercar is designed to compete with the fastest, quickest, best handling, most luxurious grand touring cars in the world, while providing a distinctly American driving experience. Saleen design consultant, Phil Frank is the first designer to use Rhino's full potential in the exterior development of a true production car.

New Ford Dealership Signs "When Ford was looking for a new image to replace the sign they've had since the 1960s, they asked us to submit some concepts. Mine was chosen. It was entirely created with Rhino. The details were hammered out over the next three months, with a lot of input from Steve Gillespie at Ford and Tom Fry at Zimmerman. Almost daily design modifications were made with Rhino, rendered in MAX and e-mailed to Detroit for approval. The design was finally finished and approved by the guys at Ford and my data was sent to Pro/E for the actual production models. A real 130 square ft. prototype was built and installed in Las Vegas in May. It was a big hit and now the Zimmerman factories are gearing up for production of thousands of these signs. Eventually, every Ford sign in the world will be replaced with one of these new ones. This really couldn't have happened without Rhinoceros." Hank Gatewood, the 3-D visualization guy  at Zimmerman Sign Company

Gonzales Stapler Design: Peter Naumann Speedy and Gonzales: the latest hot numbers from Koziol. Gonzales may be a mouthful, but at least he's always smiling - and sporting a transparent, high-tech design. He sticks his neck out for anyone who prefers staple goods to getting caught up in sticky business.

Chichester Scow "I couldn't be more satisfied with the realization of the designs I create in Rhino! I wonder if you realize what creativity you have unleashed around the world since you created Rhino!" Justin Adams Flight Marine Limited

Kestrel’s KM40 Airfoil bicycle Aerodynamic, lightweight, one-piece, carbon fiber with low-wind-resistance airfoils. Silver winner of 2000 Industrial Design Excellence Award Design by IDE Inc.

Kestrel’s airfoil bicycle fork An airfoil triathlon bicycle fork, designed almost totally in Rhino by Tem Kuechle, IDE industrial designer. The entire form was developed directly in Rhino, wind tunnel tested by Kestrel from a CNC model made from the Rhino model, and finally imported into Pro Engineer for Kestrel's tool maker to manufacture the production tooling. The entire design in Rhino took only six days including the CNC model! Design by Tem Kuechle, IDE Inc.

Ora Squared by Bathsheba Grossman Digital Sculpture in bronze and silver designed in Rhino, rapid prototyped, and then cast into bronze and silver using the lost-wax process. Visit Bathsheba's online gallery.

Toaster for Target One of hundreds of products by Michael Graves Design for Target designed in Rhino. Mostly known for his architectural designs including the Disney headquarters and the World Swan and Dolphin Hotels in Orlando, Michael Graves has also designed products for Alessi, F.A.O. Schwartz. and Steuben.

Human knees by Matthew G. Bevan, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Built from cross-sections from The Visible Human Project®. The cross-sections were downloaded from a web site in Switzerland. Slices were digitized by hand. The surfaces were then lofted or patched.

Electric Fish for neuroethology Casts using a silicone rubber mold and urethane were marked up with 15 cross-sectional curves. These curves and the dorsal and ventral edges of the fish were used to generate the model in Rhino. For details visit: Journal of Neuroscience Methods (2000), MacIver, M.A., and Nelson, M.E.

Crowley Tug Length: 360’ Breadth: 78’ Draft: 12’ Power: 4,000 hp Designed by: Guido Perla & Associates, Inc. Naval Architects, Seattle, WA

Toaster A new inexpensive and attractive metaloplastic toaster with bun warmer for Groupe SEB (France) represented worldwide by different brands: TEFAL/T-FAL (worldwide), SEB (France and Japan), ARNO (South America), CALOR (France), ROWENTA (worldwide) Designed by: CHEDAL ANGLAY DESIGN

Vitro Laser GmbH Provides both the technology and the service to subsurface engrave Rhino models using laser marking technology. The service is inexpensive. Give it a try.

The NOMAD MP3 Jukebox by Creative Labs IDE used Rhino to develop and refine the industrial design and used Pro Engineer  to complete the engineering.

Roadrails are ultra-light inline racing frames for competition on road or track. They were designed for professional inline skaters, but may also appeal to fitness skaters who prefer racing equipment.

Allegro Field PC Juniper Systems specializes in providing field computing solutions and GPS for natural resource and other rugged applications. Their field computers are rugged and waterproof for use in any harsh environment.

A series of 75 Ft. Trawler Yachts in steel is being built by Pictou Industries in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada, for Cape Horn Trawler Corporation in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada. The hull file from Fastship imported effortlessly into Rhino through IGES. A complete model was built with Rhino, developing and expanding the many complex lofted and sculpted surface. The export of 2-D drawings to AutoCAD was used extensively.

Europa This new line of mid-sized buses was designed for tour operators on the tight roads in the mountains of the Italian Riviera. Designed and developed in less than six months using SDRC I-DEAS and Rhino.

Montrail's New Integrafit Footwear An innovative line of outdoor footwear combines a digital database of scanned foot dimensions with biomechanical research. Design by Montrail. Modeling in Rhino by Frank Woll.

FURY Swim Goggles Designed entirely in Rhino. See the ad in Fitness Swimmer with the Rhino rendering.  "Rhino saved us a load of cash on this project." Paul Reeder, President ZURA Sports, Inc.

Intel's Aztec To design Intel's new Aztec computer, Ziba Design was able to fit 30 working parts into a small but pleasing package using AutoCAD, Rhino, and Pro/E.

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Rhino runs on ordinary Windows desktop and laptop computers, with: Hardware: Pentium, Celeron, or higher processor. 200 MB disk space. 512 MB RAM. 1 GB or much more is recommended. OpenGL graphics card recommended. IntelliMouse recommended. 3-D digitizer optional. 3-D printer optional. Operating systems: Rhino 4.0 runs only on Windows 7, XP and Vista* including an Intel Mac with BootCamp or Parallels. *Vista requires Rhino 4.0 Service Release 1 or above. Rhino 4.0 will not run on Windows NT, 95, 98, or ME. Native Windows x64 is not supported and will not be until the required development tools and libraries are available. There will be a free service release available as soon as possible after 4.0 ships. Rhino 4.0 does run as a 32-bit application on Windows x64. Rhino 4.0 does not run natively on Mac OS X, Rhino 4.0 does not run natively on Linux, or any other operating system not listed above.

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