Rhino 4.0 Upgrade

Rhino 4.0 Upgrade will upgrade from any Rhino 1.x, Rhino 2.0, or Rhino 3.0 to to Rhino 4.0, the most significant upgrade in the history of Rhino3D. Rhino 4.0 Upgrade includes the service packs to make your Flamingo, Penguin, and Bongo compatible with Rhino 4.0.

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This is the upgrade from any Rhino 1.x, Rhino 2.0, or Rhino 3.0 to Rhino 4.0, the most significant upgrade in the history of Rhino3D.

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We recommend to upgrade your old Rhino 1.x, Rhino 2.0 or 3.0 to a brand new Rhino 4.0 in order to benefit from several improvements and new features introduces by Rhino 4.0.

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If you don't own an old Rhino 1.x, Rhino 2.0 or Rhino 3.0 you can purchase a fresh new copy of Rhino 4.0, here.

Modeling enhancement

Enhancements include robust variable blend tools, improved booleans, and G-infinity blending.

New Editing Tools

New Editing tools including UDT for free-form deformation of all geometry types, feature recognition for direct polysurface and solids editing and command history for editing surfaces by changing their input curves.

Interface enhancements

Enhancements including SmartTrack technology and live help with video clips.

Display pipeline

The new pipelines takes advantage of the latest graphic card technology to provide a major speed improvement, new advanced display modes, new analysis tools, dual-screen support, and support for new third-party applications.

Rendering enhancements

New rendering including new basic rendering technology, upgraded Flamingo and Penguin, Brazil r/s available, and new third-party renderers including V-Ray and Maxwell render. Also included are texture mapping tools that can be used by all Rhino plug-in renderers.

2-D drawing/drafting tools

Several enhancements including line styles, line weights, hidden lines, dimensions, hatching, page layout and printing/plotting.

Mesh modeling, editing, analysis, repair, and rapid prototyping

Major enhancements in mesh creation and editing. Also many new tools for STL repair and 3-D printing.

Analysis with new tools for both measurement and display

Also enhanced tools detecting problems and evaluating model quality so the problems downstream can be avoided.

Large projects support

Large project are now supported with hierarchical layer management, file locking, and enhanced support for work-sessions, blocks, and reference files.

Compatibility enhancements

Several improvements including improved PDF, Adobe Illustrator 8+, STEP, AutoCAD DWG/DXF, PLY, DGN, FBX, SolidWorks, Google Earth, SketchUp, and WAMIT support.

New Software developer tools

Enhancements for users and third-party developers.