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.