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Designers
will have hands-on experience using Rhino and FastShip in the
ship design and analysis process.
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Rhino3D has earned good marks over time, and has been accepted as
a perfect companion for FastShip,
the world's best hull design program by Proteus Engineering, also
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Use
basic commands and tools to create 2-D geometry. Use this geometry
to create surfaces and solids
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Rhino
3.0 - Features
Unlike other Rhino upgrades, Rhino 3.0 is a ground-up rewrite that provides a modern user interface, a new geometry core, and a robust new development environment. There are also a few major new features and enhancements. Here are some details: Rhino 3.0 is a ground up rewrite. Because Rhino was full of old technology, we needed a rewrite using the latest tools and based on the latest technology in order to move forward. New geometry core. Rhino was based on a licensed geometry library, most of which was replaced in Rhino 2.0, but in order to continue enhancing the user interface, a complete rewrite was needed. New user interface pipeline. Since the original Rhino was written for Windows 3.1, there was no provision for graphics hardware acceleration or localized languages. Because of the new core, Rhino 3.0 supports the latest graphics hardware and will be fully translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Rhino now also supports working in shaded and analysis views. New development tools allow developers to rapidly add new features. For example, Rhino can be run in the background from other Windows applications like Visual Basic, Excel, and Internet Explorer. The new 3.0 C++ SDK gives third-party developers access to almost everything that we use in-house. Rhino 3.0 will allow us and third-party developers to rapidly add new features.Rhino 3.0's other enhancements and refinements include :
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What's next We are never done. As with all software, each release is followed by a few service releases to fix bugs. Since much of the core Rhino is new, we expect that users will find bugs that were missed in the six months of field testing. Rhino 3.0 users with an internet connection will be automatically notified when a service release is available to download. Rhino 2.0 has been known for its stability, ease of use (feel), speed, and compatibility. Since Rhino 3.0 is a ground-up rewrite, we will take advantage of the opportunity to continue to make enhancements in these areas. With the new core, we can now release new features without releasing a completely new version. Shortly after the first of the year, new features will be released as prototypes for design discussion on the newsgroup. These new betas will be available to all 3.0 users, and Rhino 2.0 users until 31-Mar-03. We do not have a list of the new features for the next release yet, but along with Rhino's traditional focus on free-form 3-D modeling, accuracy, compatibility, data exchange, ease of use, speed, and affordability, Rhino 3.x development will also focus on ease of editing free-form shapes and Rhino as a platform for third-party developers. Unlike Rhino 3.0, the next release has no concrete deadlines, but here are the current plans:
As in the past, our development process will be open, and we
will be posting details, prototypes, and beta versions on the
Rhino newsgroup as they become available. The first new Rhino 3.0 plug-in is now available. TreeFrog is a fast, colorful, basic renderer for Rhino 3.0. Rhino 3.0 currently ships with a basic raytrace render using the Flamingo engine that supports shadows on all light types and complex models with transparency. TreeFrog, like Rhino 2.0's base renderer, only supports shadows from spotlights. TreeFrog does not handle transparency on complex models as well as the Flamingo engine, but it is much better than Rhino 2.0. TreeFrog is very fast, even on more complex models. TreeFrog will be in beta testing for a few more weeks. It will be included in the first Rhino 3.0 service release as a second basic renderer. |
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DATAKIT has just released six new Rhino plug-ins that directly read :
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| "For
a VW engine visualization we fortunately used Rhino to convert 800
IGES parts into perfectly optimized high-quality models for SOFTIMAGE.
No other converter software was able to do that with the same speed,
control and precision. No idea what we had done without Rhino to
fullfill the quality proof of the VW engenieers." Michael Klein, creative director . animation supervisor M O T I O N GmbH, Duesseldorf, Germany "As an aircraft designer, I find that RHINO
offers ease, versatility and speed to generate complex surfaces
with precision accuracy needed for aerodynamic considerations.
An excellent product, steadily improving, with matched support
system. I have been using it since it came into the market without
any reason to find a substitute, if there is any." "I have been a boatbuilder, loftsman, ship
builder, ship designer and Cad Engineering manager for 34 years.
I have yet to find a shipyard/boatyard detail design task that
I could not accomplish simply and effectively with Rhino. Simply
put, it is an incredible tool. Keep up the good work." "With Rhino, things fit! We use Rhino because
we produce higher quality more accurate vessels with less construction
problems." "Integrating 3-D design throughout the project,
from the initial proposal to the final details, benefits the entire
project team."
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"With Rhino our design studio has been able
to realize yacht design compositions that are very complex and
solve many of the detailed surface intersections before they become
an issue on the shop floor." "Rhino's combination of reliability, its
ability to handle complex organic shapes and its flawless translation
to and from the other software tools I and my clients use, are
completely unique in the marine software market." "It is absolutely the easiest-to-use 3-D
modeling program I have found." "I have learned 90% of what I know about
modeling with Rhino and have decided after years of doubt that
I am going to do animation for a living. Yours is the best 3-D
modeling program I have ever used and as a development team you
have also been the model of your craft. I will continue to support
the use of Rhino and have already taught my first batch of people
the basics in 3-D modeling using Rhino." |
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