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Robert McNeel & Associates Announces the Release of Rhino 4.0

mary | 06 March, 2007 10:20

The Robert McNeel & Associates latest Rhino upgrade, Rhino 4.0, is the most significant in the history of the software, with hundreds of new features and enhancements.

New enhancements and features include:  

  • Modeling enhancement include robust variable blend tools, improved Booleans, and G-infinity™ blending.    
  • Editing new features include UDT for free-form deformation of all geometry types, feature recognition for solids editing and history for editing surfaces by changing their input curves.
  • Interface enhancements including SmartTrack™ technology, heads up prompts, advanced tooltips, and live help with video clips.    
  • Display enhancements take advantage of the latest graphic card technology to provide a major speed improvement, custom advanced display modes, new analysis tools, dual-screen support, and stereo.
  • Rendering and animation enhancements including faster basic rendering, advanced texture mapping tools, updated Flamingo and Penguin, Brazil r/s, and new third-party renderers from V-Ray and Maxwell.
  • 2-D drawing/drafting tools 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 with hierarchical layer management, file locking, and enhanced support for worksessions, blocks, and reference files.
  • Compatibility enhancements including improved PDF, AI 8 , STEP, DWG/DXF, PLY, DGN, FBX, SolidWorks, Google Earth, SketchUP, and WAMIT support.
  • Software developer tools for users and third-party developers include an update C SDK, a new .NET SDK, and a new rendering SDK (RDP), and a update openNURBS Toolkit.
Rhinoceros 4.0, AccuRender 4, Bongo and Flamingo 1.1 academic pricing is available from CCV Software.
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