▼Rhino 4.0

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Rhino 4.0 is the market leader in industrial design modeling software. Highly complicated shapes can be directly modeled or acquired through 3D digitizers. With its powerful NURBS based engine Rhino3D can create, edit, analyze, and translate curves, surfaces, and solids. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size. Robert McNeel & Associates Rhino 4.0 also supports polygon meshes and point clouds for a complete coverage of geometric data types. With its unparalleled modeling power McNeel Rhino lets you focus on designing, not on cumbersome modeling workarounds.

• Uninhibited free-form 3-D modeling tools like those found only in high-end systems. 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 curve. Priced like other Windows software. No maintenance fees.

Modeling enhancement

Enhancements includ 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. 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, AI 8+, STEP, DWG/DXF, PLY, DGN, FBX, SolidWorks, Google Earth, SketchUP, and WAMIT support.

New Software developer tools

Enhancements for users and third-party developers.