Register now for the first ever T-Splines for Rhino User Group meeting/Level II training on Thursday, August 11 in Vancouver, BC. Meeting will be held immediately following the SIGGRAPH conference.
The agenda features training in the morning and user presentations in the afternoon. The event is designed to send you home with both the inspiration of seeing how to use T-Splines to make better organic models, and the point-and-click skills to actually get it done.
Details and registration...
http://www.tsplines.com/vancouver
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Jul 22, 2011
Apr 14, 2011
RhinoWorks from LEDAS Revolutionizes Direct Modeling
New plug-in gives Rhino users parametric control over their 3D models.
Novosibirsk, Russia – LEDAS, Ltd. today released RhinoWorks, their latest plug-in for Rhinoceros 3D, bringing constraint-based parametric design to the popular freeform modeling tool from Robert McNeel and Associates. Rhino is used extensively by designers of architecture, furniture, consumer goods, yachts, and jewelry. Now all of them can benefit from the new plug-in.
Based on the original technology developed by LEDAS and smoothly integrated in the Rhino environment, RhinoWorks allows designers to edit many kinds of solid, surface, and wireframe models parametrically. It gives them full control over design intent through the application of geometric and dimensional constraints, which significantly increases the productivity when designs change.
RhinoWorks unifies two previous LEDAS’ plug-ins for Rhino, RhinoAssembly and RhinoDirect, in one product. It is fully compatible with any model created by the two former plug-ins.
Functions
Adding constraints with RhinoWorks is like declaring, “these two faces should be parallel” and “the distance between these edges should equal 100mm.” Constraints are added easily to all existing models, including those imported to Rhino from other CAD systems. Once added, constraints are immediately solved, forcing changes to geometric shapes and body positions. Constraints added by designers are solved simultaneously, even in the case of constraint “loops” (such as three distances between three points). Constraints are stored in Rhino’s native .3dm files, and so can be used for further parametric modification of the same model.
For easy navigation through constraints, RhinoWorks includes RhinoWorks Manager, a special user interface that lets users switch constraints on and off individually, and change the value of their parameters.
Designers are not forced to add all constraints manually. RhinoWorks recognizes many geometric relationships automatically (such as coincidence, tangency, parallelism, concentricity, and equal radii). This means that designers merely need add a few dimensional constraints to have full control over the design intent for their models; the rest are added automatically. An Options dialog box allows users to specify specific modes in automatic recognition of constraints.
RhinoWorks also works in an “assembly mode” to prevent changes to geometric shapes. In this mode, the plug-in is limited to moving and rotating rigid parts sufficiently to satisfy constraints. Assembly mode is useful for simulating assembly processes and checking the kinematics of mechanisms.
The animation function of the RhinoWorks plug-in allows users to produce high-quality videos through the built-in or plug-in renderer. The movies are useful for demonstrating the motions of mechanisms, and for observing the changes of shapes and dimensions in realtime.
Availability and Price
Commercial single-user licenses of RhinoWorks are US$595 (EUR 595 in Europe) each, and can be purchased from the Share-it! online store at www.DrivingDimensions.com/store/Rhino. The plug-in is also available from authorized resellers; see the complete list at www.DrivingDimensions.com/resellers.
With this release of RhinoWorks, LEDAS stops sales of RhinoAssembly and the beta test program for RhinoDirect. Users of RhinoAssembly v1.0 and v1.1 can upgrade their licenses to RhinoWorks for just US$95 (EUR 95), which works out to less than the half of the difference in price for the products. With this low upgrade price, LEDAS thanks the first users of its plug-ins for Rhino.
A 30-day evaluation version of RhinoWorks plug-in can be downloaded at no cost from www.DrivingDimensions.com/download, where visitors also can watch video tutorials, read online help, and ask questions of LEDAS developers and users through the online forum. The Web site was recently redesigned to simplify the navigation, guaranteeing access to any information with just a couple of clicks.
With RhinoWorks, LEDAS extends its Driving Dimensions product portfolio, a collection of plug-ins that adds constraint-based parametric designing to popular 3D modeling software, like Rhinoceros from Robert McNeel and Associates, and SketchUp from Google.
Driving Dimensions software is based on Variational Direct Modeling, a powerful technology invented by LEDAS for easily modifying 3D solid, surface, and wireframe models parametrically in history-free environments, complete with automatic recognition of design intent. VDM combines direct modeling with a constraint-based approach, placing direct modeling systems at the level of parametric (a.k.a. history-based) ones - yet retains for end users the simplicity of direct modeling operations.
The core of VDM technology is the LGS 3D constraint solver. Already integrated into a dozen commercial CAD/CAM packages, it is available for licensing to all developers of engineering software.
Novosibirsk, Russia – LEDAS, Ltd. today released RhinoWorks, their latest plug-in for Rhinoceros 3D, bringing constraint-based parametric design to the popular freeform modeling tool from Robert McNeel and Associates. Rhino is used extensively by designers of architecture, furniture, consumer goods, yachts, and jewelry. Now all of them can benefit from the new plug-in.
Based on the original technology developed by LEDAS and smoothly integrated in the Rhino environment, RhinoWorks allows designers to edit many kinds of solid, surface, and wireframe models parametrically. It gives them full control over design intent through the application of geometric and dimensional constraints, which significantly increases the productivity when designs change.
RhinoWorks unifies two previous LEDAS’ plug-ins for Rhino, RhinoAssembly and RhinoDirect, in one product. It is fully compatible with any model created by the two former plug-ins.
Functions
Adding constraints with RhinoWorks is like declaring, “these two faces should be parallel” and “the distance between these edges should equal 100mm.” Constraints are added easily to all existing models, including those imported to Rhino from other CAD systems. Once added, constraints are immediately solved, forcing changes to geometric shapes and body positions. Constraints added by designers are solved simultaneously, even in the case of constraint “loops” (such as three distances between three points). Constraints are stored in Rhino’s native .3dm files, and so can be used for further parametric modification of the same model.
For easy navigation through constraints, RhinoWorks includes RhinoWorks Manager, a special user interface that lets users switch constraints on and off individually, and change the value of their parameters.
Designers are not forced to add all constraints manually. RhinoWorks recognizes many geometric relationships automatically (such as coincidence, tangency, parallelism, concentricity, and equal radii). This means that designers merely need add a few dimensional constraints to have full control over the design intent for their models; the rest are added automatically. An Options dialog box allows users to specify specific modes in automatic recognition of constraints.
RhinoWorks also works in an “assembly mode” to prevent changes to geometric shapes. In this mode, the plug-in is limited to moving and rotating rigid parts sufficiently to satisfy constraints. Assembly mode is useful for simulating assembly processes and checking the kinematics of mechanisms.
The animation function of the RhinoWorks plug-in allows users to produce high-quality videos through the built-in or plug-in renderer. The movies are useful for demonstrating the motions of mechanisms, and for observing the changes of shapes and dimensions in realtime.
Availability and Price
Commercial single-user licenses of RhinoWorks are US$595 (EUR 595 in Europe) each, and can be purchased from the Share-it! online store at www.DrivingDimensions.com/store/Rhino. The plug-in is also available from authorized resellers; see the complete list at www.DrivingDimensions.com/resellers.
With this release of RhinoWorks, LEDAS stops sales of RhinoAssembly and the beta test program for RhinoDirect. Users of RhinoAssembly v1.0 and v1.1 can upgrade their licenses to RhinoWorks for just US$95 (EUR 95), which works out to less than the half of the difference in price for the products. With this low upgrade price, LEDAS thanks the first users of its plug-ins for Rhino.
A 30-day evaluation version of RhinoWorks plug-in can be downloaded at no cost from www.DrivingDimensions.com/download, where visitors also can watch video tutorials, read online help, and ask questions of LEDAS developers and users through the online forum. The Web site was recently redesigned to simplify the navigation, guaranteeing access to any information with just a couple of clicks.
With RhinoWorks, LEDAS extends its Driving Dimensions product portfolio, a collection of plug-ins that adds constraint-based parametric designing to popular 3D modeling software, like Rhinoceros from Robert McNeel and Associates, and SketchUp from Google.
Driving Dimensions software is based on Variational Direct Modeling, a powerful technology invented by LEDAS for easily modifying 3D solid, surface, and wireframe models parametrically in history-free environments, complete with automatic recognition of design intent. VDM combines direct modeling with a constraint-based approach, placing direct modeling systems at the level of parametric (a.k.a. history-based) ones - yet retains for end users the simplicity of direct modeling operations.
The core of VDM technology is the LGS 3D constraint solver. Already integrated into a dozen commercial CAD/CAM packages, it is available for licensing to all developers of engineering software.
Apr 13, 2011
T-Splines Version 3 Organic Modeling for Rhino Design Program Released
PROVO, Utah - T-Splines, Inc., creators of high-quality organic 3D surface modeling tools, with full industry compatibility, announced the immediate availability of T-Splines 3 for Rhino.
This latest major release builds on the growth and success of T-Splines across a broad range of industries, including consumer products, jewelry design, automotive design, and architecture, and introduces new modeling capabilities, with major speed and flexibility enhancements, to the leading organic design product available today.
Customers that have adopted T-Splines for their design work and have been involved with pre-release testing of this latest version are excited about the new capabilities.
“With T-Splines, I get the accuracy where I need it, and the nice smooth and fair surfaces everywhere else. It is, in a word, brilliant,” said Schuyler Greenawalt, aircraft designer. “With the addition of many new features in this latest release, including pipe modeling, surface matching and extended symmetry options, combined with the speed improvements, T-Splines has become an essential tool for my design business.”
“For us, this release represents the culmination of almost 2 years of work and listening closely to the feedback of our customers and partners,” said Matt Sederberg, CEO and Co-Founder of T-Splines. “T-Splines 3 for Rhino makes modeling faster, more enjoyable, more natural, and more tightly-integrated with your workflow, all the way from importing subdivision surface files, to more native modeling techniques, to seamless transfer into SolidWorks, leveraging our new add-in, tsElements.”
T-Splines, Inc. uses patented surface modeling technology to create tools for organic design for product designers, jewelers, engineers, and architects using Rhino and SolidWorks. T-Splines was founded in 2004 and is based in Provo, Utah.
This latest major release builds on the growth and success of T-Splines across a broad range of industries, including consumer products, jewelry design, automotive design, and architecture, and introduces new modeling capabilities, with major speed and flexibility enhancements, to the leading organic design product available today.
Customers that have adopted T-Splines for their design work and have been involved with pre-release testing of this latest version are excited about the new capabilities.
“With T-Splines, I get the accuracy where I need it, and the nice smooth and fair surfaces everywhere else. It is, in a word, brilliant,” said Schuyler Greenawalt, aircraft designer. “With the addition of many new features in this latest release, including pipe modeling, surface matching and extended symmetry options, combined with the speed improvements, T-Splines has become an essential tool for my design business.”
“For us, this release represents the culmination of almost 2 years of work and listening closely to the feedback of our customers and partners,” said Matt Sederberg, CEO and Co-Founder of T-Splines. “T-Splines 3 for Rhino makes modeling faster, more enjoyable, more natural, and more tightly-integrated with your workflow, all the way from importing subdivision surface files, to more native modeling techniques, to seamless transfer into SolidWorks, leveraging our new add-in, tsElements.”
T-Splines, Inc. uses patented surface modeling technology to create tools for organic design for product designers, jewelers, engineers, and architects using Rhino and SolidWorks. T-Splines was founded in 2004 and is based in Provo, Utah.
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Rhino
Mar 7, 2011
Okino Ships Revised .3dm 'Rhinoceros®/OpenNURBS v5' Import/Export Converters
Okino celebrates its 10th Anniversary of supporting Rhino/OpenNURBS .3dm File Format by releasing a new version compatible with Rhino v5. Provides robust support for converting Rhino .3dm files between all major 3D packages and file formats.
Toronto, Canada – Ten years after releasing their first Rhino/OpenNURBS .3dm file format support, Okino Computer Graphics announced today that it is now shipping its rewritten, revised and optimized import/export converters compatible with McNeel's Rhinoceros® v5.
Now into its 23rd year of development, Okino's PolyTrans|CAD is one of the most complex, robust and widely used products within the 3D graphics market, allowing cross conversion between all major MCAD, DCC/Animation and VisSim 3D file formats + programs. Okino's revised .3dm import/export converters work within the stand-alone PolyTrans & NuGraf products, PolyTrans-for-3dsMax, PolyTrans-for-Maya, PolyTrans-for-Softimage and within many third party products such as: 3DCreate (by Visual Components), Cinema-4D and its “Engineering Bundle” (by Maxon Computer), EON Reality, NGRAIN military training products, Pytha (by CATS Software), Quest-3D (by Act-3D), VirTools (“4DC” .nmo pipeline by Realicon) and others.
The newly released .3dm converters provide exacting support for the following core aspects of the .3dm file format: full cloning of Rhino's recursive instancing of block definitions + its nuances during import (conversion of instancing is one of the hardest aspects of professional 3D file format conversion), recursive layer recreation, trimmed NURBS surfaces, NURBS curves (single, composite and multi-segment), polyline curves, mesh geometry (with vertex normals, vertex uv texture coordinates and vertex colors), import of child render meshes of Breps, 3D point clouds, import of 2D vector text annotations, viewport cameras, ambient/spot/point/directional light sources, materials and diffuse+bump+environment texture maps.
“This is an important release for our Okino software users who connect to Rhino through our .3dm conversion pipeline,” said Robert Lansdale, president and CEO of Okino Computer Graphics, Inc. “14 years ago we began working with McNeel & Associates to create one of the first, if not the first, external conversion systems for their Rhino v1 software, using the little known and esoteric NURBS capabilities of the Wavefront OBJ format. In January 2001 we released our native Rhino .3dm import and export converters for Rhino v2, which have been revised with each new subsequent release of Rhino. With our new v5 release, complex Rhino files with recursive 'block' usage, alpha-textured objects and full scene attributes can flow out to our popular export formats such as SketchUp, U3D (for 3D PDF), Collada, FBX, OpenFlight, 3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, C4D, etc. with proper retention of the original Rhino scene data. In the reverse direction, Okino has been the main provider of all main CAD + DCC formats for the last 3 decades, and can move data ranging from SolidWorks to Collada into Rhino in a robust + error free manner.”
Major Benefits to Rhino Users
3D users implicitly assume that the free 3D converters which come bundled with their modeling or animation systems are complete and error free. This is typically not the case. Okino spends several years developing & refining each of its main conversion file formats, resulting in robust, fully supported and error free implementations. Import from these packages and formats into Rhino .3dm format (click to jump to Okino WEB page): Autodesk Softimage and dotXSI, ACIS SAT, Autodesk Inventor, BVH/Acclaim, CATIA v4 & v5, Cinema-4D, Collada, DirectX, DXF/DWG, DWF-3D (AutoCAD, Navisworks, Revit), ESRI, FACT, FBX, HOOPS, IGES, JT, Lightwave, OpenFlight, Parasolid, PDB, PLY, Pro/Engineer (using an embedded copy of PTC's Pro/Engineer), Solid Edge, SolidWorks, SketchUp, STEP, STL, U3D, Wavefront OBJ, VRML, X3D, XGL and others. Export from Rhino .3dm files to these packages and formats (click to jump to Okino WEB page): Autodesk Softimage and dotXSI, BVH/Acclaim, Cinema-4D, Collada, DirectX, DXF/DWG, DWF-3D, FACT, FBX, HOOPS, JT, Lightwave, NGRAIN 3KO, OpenFlight, OpenGL C code, PLY, RIB, SketchUp, STL, SW3D, U3D, Wavefront OBJ, VET, VRML, XAML, X3D, XGL and others. Other file formats supported through third-party plug-ins, http://www.okino.com/third_party_plugin_modules.htm. Native Rhino .3dm support within 3ds Max and Maya using Okino's PolyTrans-for-3ds-Max and PolyTrans-for-Maya plug-in systems. These have been the defacto, professional conversions systems for 3ds Max & Maya since 1995. Export Rhino .3dm to all main WEB streaming and downstream viewing formats: Collada, DirectX, DWF-3D, JT OpenHSF, U3D (3D PDF), Viewpoint VET, VRML, XAML, X3D and XGL. Import parts, assemblies, hierarchy and materials directly from a running copy or native file of Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge or Solid Works into Rhino. Unique! Strong ties to the visual simulation (VisSim) community with proven OpenFlight, VRML 1.0+2.0 and X3D support. Okino provides free, quick and highly educated support for its software direct from its development team.
The hidden magic in the conversion process is Okino's unique and proprietary CAD optimization processor, integrated into each of our CAD importers. This processor is by far the most complex aspect of our entire 3D CAD conversion software pipeline. Turn it on and it'll wrangle large and unwieldy CAD assemblies into refined datasets. Most importantly, Okino does not use reverse engineered CAD modules as is done by others, but rather licenses, utilizes and/or accesses the industry standard CAD geometry engines from Autodesk (Inventor), Dassault Systemes (CATIA), PTC (Pro/E), Solid Edge, SolidWorks, Spatial (ACIS solids engine), UGS/Siemens (JT Open toolkit) and others.
Toronto, Canada – Ten years after releasing their first Rhino/OpenNURBS .3dm file format support, Okino Computer Graphics announced today that it is now shipping its rewritten, revised and optimized import/export converters compatible with McNeel's Rhinoceros® v5.
Now into its 23rd year of development, Okino's PolyTrans|CAD is one of the most complex, robust and widely used products within the 3D graphics market, allowing cross conversion between all major MCAD, DCC/Animation and VisSim 3D file formats + programs. Okino's revised .3dm import/export converters work within the stand-alone PolyTrans & NuGraf products, PolyTrans-for-3dsMax, PolyTrans-for-Maya, PolyTrans-for-Softimage and within many third party products such as: 3DCreate (by Visual Components), Cinema-4D and its “Engineering Bundle” (by Maxon Computer), EON Reality, NGRAIN military training products, Pytha (by CATS Software), Quest-3D (by Act-3D), VirTools (“4DC” .nmo pipeline by Realicon) and others.
The newly released .3dm converters provide exacting support for the following core aspects of the .3dm file format: full cloning of Rhino's recursive instancing of block definitions + its nuances during import (conversion of instancing is one of the hardest aspects of professional 3D file format conversion), recursive layer recreation, trimmed NURBS surfaces, NURBS curves (single, composite and multi-segment), polyline curves, mesh geometry (with vertex normals, vertex uv texture coordinates and vertex colors), import of child render meshes of Breps, 3D point clouds, import of 2D vector text annotations, viewport cameras, ambient/spot/point/directional light sources, materials and diffuse+bump+environment texture maps.
“This is an important release for our Okino software users who connect to Rhino through our .3dm conversion pipeline,” said Robert Lansdale, president and CEO of Okino Computer Graphics, Inc. “14 years ago we began working with McNeel & Associates to create one of the first, if not the first, external conversion systems for their Rhino v1 software, using the little known and esoteric NURBS capabilities of the Wavefront OBJ format. In January 2001 we released our native Rhino .3dm import and export converters for Rhino v2, which have been revised with each new subsequent release of Rhino. With our new v5 release, complex Rhino files with recursive 'block' usage, alpha-textured objects and full scene attributes can flow out to our popular export formats such as SketchUp, U3D (for 3D PDF), Collada, FBX, OpenFlight, 3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, C4D, etc. with proper retention of the original Rhino scene data. In the reverse direction, Okino has been the main provider of all main CAD + DCC formats for the last 3 decades, and can move data ranging from SolidWorks to Collada into Rhino in a robust + error free manner.”
Major Benefits to Rhino Users
3D users implicitly assume that the free 3D converters which come bundled with their modeling or animation systems are complete and error free. This is typically not the case. Okino spends several years developing & refining each of its main conversion file formats, resulting in robust, fully supported and error free implementations. Import from these packages and formats into Rhino .3dm format (click to jump to Okino WEB page): Autodesk Softimage and dotXSI, ACIS SAT, Autodesk Inventor, BVH/Acclaim, CATIA v4 & v5, Cinema-4D, Collada, DirectX, DXF/DWG, DWF-3D (AutoCAD, Navisworks, Revit), ESRI, FACT, FBX, HOOPS, IGES, JT, Lightwave, OpenFlight, Parasolid, PDB, PLY, Pro/Engineer (using an embedded copy of PTC's Pro/Engineer), Solid Edge, SolidWorks, SketchUp, STEP, STL, U3D, Wavefront OBJ, VRML, X3D, XGL and others. Export from Rhino .3dm files to these packages and formats (click to jump to Okino WEB page): Autodesk Softimage and dotXSI, BVH/Acclaim, Cinema-4D, Collada, DirectX, DXF/DWG, DWF-3D, FACT, FBX, HOOPS, JT, Lightwave, NGRAIN 3KO, OpenFlight, OpenGL C code, PLY, RIB, SketchUp, STL, SW3D, U3D, Wavefront OBJ, VET, VRML, XAML, X3D, XGL and others. Other file formats supported through third-party plug-ins, http://www.okino.com/third_party_plugin_modules.htm. Native Rhino .3dm support within 3ds Max and Maya using Okino's PolyTrans-for-3ds-Max and PolyTrans-for-Maya plug-in systems. These have been the defacto, professional conversions systems for 3ds Max & Maya since 1995. Export Rhino .3dm to all main WEB streaming and downstream viewing formats: Collada, DirectX, DWF-3D, JT OpenHSF, U3D (3D PDF), Viewpoint VET, VRML, XAML, X3D and XGL. Import parts, assemblies, hierarchy and materials directly from a running copy or native file of Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge or Solid Works into Rhino. Unique! Strong ties to the visual simulation (VisSim) community with proven OpenFlight, VRML 1.0+2.0 and X3D support. Okino provides free, quick and highly educated support for its software direct from its development team.
The hidden magic in the conversion process is Okino's unique and proprietary CAD optimization processor, integrated into each of our CAD importers. This processor is by far the most complex aspect of our entire 3D CAD conversion software pipeline. Turn it on and it'll wrangle large and unwieldy CAD assemblies into refined datasets. Most importantly, Okino does not use reverse engineered CAD modules as is done by others, but rather licenses, utilizes and/or accesses the industry standard CAD geometry engines from Autodesk (Inventor), Dassault Systemes (CATIA), PTC (Pro/E), Solid Edge, SolidWorks, Spatial (ACIS solids engine), UGS/Siemens (JT Open toolkit) and others.
Dec 10, 2010
MecSoft Corporation Partners with Rhino3D VAR in Norway
Irvine, CA : MecSoft Corporation announced today a VAR partnership with Pivot Produktdesign AS, located in Oslo, Norway.
"We are very pleased to announce our partnership with Pivot,” stated Gerald Hiller, Director of International Sales. “In addition to their strong knowledge of CAD and CAM, they have extensive experience in the industrial design and fabrication industries.”
Established in 2008, Pivot Produktdesign is a value added reseller for such globally branded software products as Rhino 3D, T-Splines, Virtual Shape Research (VSR) and Maxwell Render. They will resell RhinoCAM, a uniquely integrated CAM solution that runs directly inside Rhino 3D.
“We are very excited to become a RhinoCAM VAR for Norway,” stated Kristian Wenstøp, President of Pivot Produktdesign AS. “The software offers our customers a powerful CAM solution that is extremely easy to use, fully integrated with Rhino 3D and at a very nice value.”
"We are very pleased to announce our partnership with Pivot,” stated Gerald Hiller, Director of International Sales. “In addition to their strong knowledge of CAD and CAM, they have extensive experience in the industrial design and fabrication industries.”
Established in 2008, Pivot Produktdesign is a value added reseller for such globally branded software products as Rhino 3D, T-Splines, Virtual Shape Research (VSR) and Maxwell Render. They will resell RhinoCAM, a uniquely integrated CAM solution that runs directly inside Rhino 3D.
“We are very excited to become a RhinoCAM VAR for Norway,” stated Kristian Wenstøp, President of Pivot Produktdesign AS. “The software offers our customers a powerful CAM solution that is extremely easy to use, fully integrated with Rhino 3D and at a very nice value.”
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Rhino
Nov 9, 2010
MecSoft Europe presents new products at EuroMold
Pre-announcement VisualMILL for Inventor and new plug-ins for Rhinoceros.
This year, MecSoft Europe GmbH, located in Bad Kreuznach near Frankfurt, will exhibit at EuroMold for the first time. At the trade show, MecSoft Europe will present the MecSoft product family together with some new products. The MecSoft product family includes powerful, high-quality and budget friendly CAM software such as VisualMILL, RhinoCAM, VisualMILL for SolidWorks and others.
Pre-announcement: VisualMILL for Inventor
MecSoft Europe will show its new CAM product versions based on high-end technology for machining operations from 2 axis up to 5 axis simultaneously. MecSoft will also pre-announce VisualMILL for Inventor, a fully integrated CAM application for Inventor. Inventor users can utilize seamless single-window integration, complete with full model associativity, to generate effective and high quality 2-1/2 axis, 3 axis, 4 axis, and 5 axis tool paths for high speed machining.
New plug-ins for Rhinoceros
Another highlight will be the presentation of the latest plug-ins for Rhinoceros: TerraFlat and XShoe. TerraFlat was designed to create 2D patterns ready for production directly from 3D models. With TerraFlat, users can flatten any shape, from automotive seats and custom awnings to sports shoes or furniture. xShoe4Rhino is a new plug-in to serve the shoe industry. It was specifically developed to assist shoe, last, heel, soles and sole moulds manufactures.
EuroMold – Hall 8, Booth H148
This year, MecSoft Europe GmbH, located in Bad Kreuznach near Frankfurt, will exhibit at EuroMold for the first time. At the trade show, MecSoft Europe will present the MecSoft product family together with some new products. The MecSoft product family includes powerful, high-quality and budget friendly CAM software such as VisualMILL, RhinoCAM, VisualMILL for SolidWorks and others.
Pre-announcement: VisualMILL for Inventor
MecSoft Europe will show its new CAM product versions based on high-end technology for machining operations from 2 axis up to 5 axis simultaneously. MecSoft will also pre-announce VisualMILL for Inventor, a fully integrated CAM application for Inventor. Inventor users can utilize seamless single-window integration, complete with full model associativity, to generate effective and high quality 2-1/2 axis, 3 axis, 4 axis, and 5 axis tool paths for high speed machining.
New plug-ins for Rhinoceros
Another highlight will be the presentation of the latest plug-ins for Rhinoceros: TerraFlat and XShoe. TerraFlat was designed to create 2D patterns ready for production directly from 3D models. With TerraFlat, users can flatten any shape, from automotive seats and custom awnings to sports shoes or furniture. xShoe4Rhino is a new plug-in to serve the shoe industry. It was specifically developed to assist shoe, last, heel, soles and sole moulds manufactures.
EuroMold – Hall 8, Booth H148
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Rhino
Nov 5, 2009
LEDAS releases Rhino Assembly 1.0 plug-in for Rhinoceros software
Adds Assemblies and Kinematics to Rhino.
LEDAS moves McNeel & Associates’ Rhinoceros NURBS modeler closer to mainstream MCAD with $395 Rhino Assembly 1.0 plug-in for assembling complex mechanisms and simulating kinematics
Novosibirsk, Russia – LEDAS Ltd., an independent provider of variational design tools and software development services for CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market, today announced the availability of the first commercial version of the Rhino Assembly 1.0 plug-in for McNeel & Associates Rhinoceros software. The plug-in is a part of the Driving Dimensions product line from LEDAS aimed at making advanced MCAD technology available at an affordable price to all users of popular 3D software.
After installing LEDAS plug-in and starting Rhino, users see the Assembly toolbar that was specially designed to look like Rhino’s other built-in tools. The Assembly Manager allows users to easily navigate geometric constraints and driving dimensions, which for large assemblies can number in the thousands. The Driving dimension editor with its spin buttons easily modifies values of driving dimension parameters. The Animation panel and its slider are familiar to anyone who uses video or audio players. During kinematic animation, Rhino users can pan, rotate and zoom the model.
Since the release of the previous public beta version 0.2, the latest changes in version 1.0 include an automatic update option, a new constraints status signal, a new flip side button, the option to group parts into rigid sets, new 3D planar angles, multi-parameter animation. These and many other improvements were suggested by the more than 3,000 beta testers who downloaded Driving Dimensions plug-in for Rhino since its first beta release in June 2009.
“Rhino Assembly plug-in is the second product of the Driving Dimensions line that already includes the plug-in for Google SketchUp, the popular 3D modeling software,” explains Dmitry Ushakov, Director of Product Management, LEDAS Ltd. “We are now working on a second Rhino plug-in for history-free 3D geometry editing, while preserving design intent. We expect to deliver the first public beta before the end of 2009.”
The Rhino Assembly Plug-In
A whitepaper How to Express Your Design Intent in Rhino. Part I: Assembly Design and Kinematic Simulation is available at www.ledas.com/group/white_papers, and is recommended reading for anyone wishing to efficiently model design changes in Rhino using the LEDAS Driving Dimensions product line.
The Driving Dimensions Rhino Assembly plug-in 1.0 is compatible with Rhino 4.0 SR5B and above, and has been tested with the 32-bit versions Windows XP and Vista.
A 30-day evaluation version of the Rhino Assembly plug-in can be downloaded at no charge from www.DrivingDimensions.com/Rhino, where visitors will also find detailed on-line help, text and video tutorials, and a set of sample drawings.
Commercial licenses of Rhino Assembly 1.0 may be purchased for US$395 from the Share-it! online store.
In partnership with McNeel Europe, LEDAS will present its Driving Dimensions product line for Rhino at the forthcoming EuroMold-2009 event on December 2 - 5, 2009 in Frankfurt Main, Germany.
LEDAS moves McNeel & Associates’ Rhinoceros NURBS modeler closer to mainstream MCAD with $395 Rhino Assembly 1.0 plug-in for assembling complex mechanisms and simulating kinematics
Novosibirsk, Russia – LEDAS Ltd., an independent provider of variational design tools and software development services for CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market, today announced the availability of the first commercial version of the Rhino Assembly 1.0 plug-in for McNeel & Associates Rhinoceros software. The plug-in is a part of the Driving Dimensions product line from LEDAS aimed at making advanced MCAD technology available at an affordable price to all users of popular 3D software.
After installing LEDAS plug-in and starting Rhino, users see the Assembly toolbar that was specially designed to look like Rhino’s other built-in tools. The Assembly Manager allows users to easily navigate geometric constraints and driving dimensions, which for large assemblies can number in the thousands. The Driving dimension editor with its spin buttons easily modifies values of driving dimension parameters. The Animation panel and its slider are familiar to anyone who uses video or audio players. During kinematic animation, Rhino users can pan, rotate and zoom the model.
Since the release of the previous public beta version 0.2, the latest changes in version 1.0 include an automatic update option, a new constraints status signal, a new flip side button, the option to group parts into rigid sets, new 3D planar angles, multi-parameter animation. These and many other improvements were suggested by the more than 3,000 beta testers who downloaded Driving Dimensions plug-in for Rhino since its first beta release in June 2009.
“Rhino Assembly plug-in is the second product of the Driving Dimensions line that already includes the plug-in for Google SketchUp, the popular 3D modeling software,” explains Dmitry Ushakov, Director of Product Management, LEDAS Ltd. “We are now working on a second Rhino plug-in for history-free 3D geometry editing, while preserving design intent. We expect to deliver the first public beta before the end of 2009.”
The Rhino Assembly Plug-In
A whitepaper How to Express Your Design Intent in Rhino. Part I: Assembly Design and Kinematic Simulation is available at www.ledas.com/group/white_papers, and is recommended reading for anyone wishing to efficiently model design changes in Rhino using the LEDAS Driving Dimensions product line.
The Driving Dimensions Rhino Assembly plug-in 1.0 is compatible with Rhino 4.0 SR5B and above, and has been tested with the 32-bit versions Windows XP and Vista.
A 30-day evaluation version of the Rhino Assembly plug-in can be downloaded at no charge from www.DrivingDimensions.com/Rhino, where visitors will also find detailed on-line help, text and video tutorials, and a set of sample drawings.
Commercial licenses of Rhino Assembly 1.0 may be purchased for US$395 from the Share-it! online store.
In partnership with McNeel Europe, LEDAS will present its Driving Dimensions product line for Rhino at the forthcoming EuroMold-2009 event on December 2 - 5, 2009 in Frankfurt Main, Germany.
Sep 7, 2009
T-Splines 2.1 for Rhino Released for Freeform CAD Surfacing
Provo, Utah: T-Splines, Inc, a producer of 3D surface modeling tools, today announced the release of T-Splines 2.1 for Rhino. Version 2.1 builds on the milestone 2.0 release in May of this year and further extends the software's toolset for creating organic, freeform shapes for manufacturing.
T-Splines for Rhino introduces timesaving commands to generate free-form surfaces and brings a full suite of polygonal modeling tools into industrial design software for the first time. This fully integrated Rhino plugin gives designers the ability to create smooth organic shapes, edit them quickly, and export them for manufacturing directly without any remodeling.
"With 2.1, we continue to advance our most comprehensive and feature-rich release in T-Splines' history," said Matt Sederberg, CEO of T-Splines. "Designers can now directly create and edit surfaces faster and easier than ever before, with full confidence that the end result will be a smooth, gap-free manufacturable model. The months since our 2.0 release have been our strongest sales months ever, and we would like to thank our customers for their support."
The features of T-Splines allow designers to trim hours or even days from the design process.
"T-Splines has allowed me to create and design my musical instruments much easier and faster," said Jason Burns, President of King Doublebass. "I can now create several variations on my design in an hour. This same process used to take days before I started using T-Splines."
T-Splines users can export T-Splines-generated designs for manufacturing without remodeling. Non-rectangular areas in T-spline surfaces are the smoothest of any software in its class. T-spline surfaces are aesthetically pleasing, easy to offset, and convert to NURBS patches without sliver surfaces.
"We continue to work closely with T-Splines in the evolution of their plugin for Rhino," added Bob McNeel, CEO of Robert McNeel & Associates, creators of Rhino. "The capabilities of their plugin are a great addition to any designer's toolbox."
A free trial version of T-Splines is available. T-Splines 2.1 is available for only $599. The upgrade is free for users of T-Splines 2.0 and $199 for users of all earlier versions. T-Splines for Rhino is available for sale at major Rhino resellers worldwide and at the T-Splines website.
T-Splines for Rhino introduces timesaving commands to generate free-form surfaces and brings a full suite of polygonal modeling tools into industrial design software for the first time. This fully integrated Rhino plugin gives designers the ability to create smooth organic shapes, edit them quickly, and export them for manufacturing directly without any remodeling.
"With 2.1, we continue to advance our most comprehensive and feature-rich release in T-Splines' history," said Matt Sederberg, CEO of T-Splines. "Designers can now directly create and edit surfaces faster and easier than ever before, with full confidence that the end result will be a smooth, gap-free manufacturable model. The months since our 2.0 release have been our strongest sales months ever, and we would like to thank our customers for their support."
The features of T-Splines allow designers to trim hours or even days from the design process.
"T-Splines has allowed me to create and design my musical instruments much easier and faster," said Jason Burns, President of King Doublebass. "I can now create several variations on my design in an hour. This same process used to take days before I started using T-Splines."
T-Splines users can export T-Splines-generated designs for manufacturing without remodeling. Non-rectangular areas in T-spline surfaces are the smoothest of any software in its class. T-spline surfaces are aesthetically pleasing, easy to offset, and convert to NURBS patches without sliver surfaces.
"We continue to work closely with T-Splines in the evolution of their plugin for Rhino," added Bob McNeel, CEO of Robert McNeel & Associates, creators of Rhino. "The capabilities of their plugin are a great addition to any designer's toolbox."
A free trial version of T-Splines is available. T-Splines 2.1 is available for only $599. The upgrade is free for users of T-Splines 2.0 and $199 for users of all earlier versions. T-Splines for Rhino is available for sale at major Rhino resellers worldwide and at the T-Splines website.
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Rhino
Aug 19, 2009
LEDAS Improves Assembly Design and Kinematic Simulation in Rhino 3D and Announces History-Free Geometry Editing
Driven by suggestions from numerous beta testers the new version of LEDAS Driving Dimensions plugin simplifies assembly design and kinematics simulation making it easy to use for all Rhino fans.
Novosibirsk, Russia - LEDAS Ltd., an independent provider of variational design tools for different CAD platforms, today announced second preliminary version (0.2) of its Driving Dimensions plugin for Rhinoceros, a popular NURBS modeling application. The plugin can be downloaded free of charge and offers easy-to-use parameterization tools, which considerably reduce the time required to make changes to the existing models and open new modeling capabilities.
The new features of Driving Dimensions 0.2 for Rhino are improved kinematic simulation functionality, enhancement of graphical user interface, and an easy-to-use installer. Now animation frames are computed in a background mode when a user starts the animation of a driving dimension, and the animation can be controlled as a movie using a traditional interface (play/pause, reverse/backward, slider navigation bar). At any moment of the animation the user can pan, rotate and zoom the model. Animation parameters are now stored in .3dm files (Rhino native file format).
Driving Dimensions Manager and Constraint Properties Editor windows are significantly improved to have a better look and feel. Now they can be docked, small icons are used for each kind of driving dimensions and constraints. Performance is optimized for models with a large number of constraints. Constraint arguments are automatically highlighted when the constraint is selected in the Driving Dimensions Manager window. In addition, when the user selects an object, all related constraints are highlighted. Command line prompts are now more informative, and the default value for a new driving dimension is suggested.
Driving Dimensions 0.2 for Rhino is delivered as an executable module that automatically installs the plugin on a computer with Rhino 4.0. Several bugs reported by our users during testing version 0.1 have been fixed.
"In two months passed since the release of the first preliminary version of Driving Dimensions 0.1 for Rhino 3D, more than 1400 Rhino users worldwide took part in beta testing by downloading our plugin," says Dmitry Ushakov, Director, Product Management, LEDAS Ltd. "We carefully consider everything they say to us – directly by email or indirectly on numerous forums and blogs. Most of improvements in the second preliminary version of our plugin were suggested by our users."
Along with development of a solution for assembly design and kinematic simulation of rigid bodies LEDAS is working on a history-free direct and indirect geometry editing plugin for Rhino. The plugin is expected to be ready for beta-testing before the end of 2009.
Driving Dimensions 0.2 for Rhinoceros is compatible with Rhino 4.0 and above and can be run on 32-bit Windows XP and Vista. The beta version can be freely downloaded.
Novosibirsk, Russia - LEDAS Ltd., an independent provider of variational design tools for different CAD platforms, today announced second preliminary version (0.2) of its Driving Dimensions plugin for Rhinoceros, a popular NURBS modeling application. The plugin can be downloaded free of charge and offers easy-to-use parameterization tools, which considerably reduce the time required to make changes to the existing models and open new modeling capabilities.
The new features of Driving Dimensions 0.2 for Rhino are improved kinematic simulation functionality, enhancement of graphical user interface, and an easy-to-use installer. Now animation frames are computed in a background mode when a user starts the animation of a driving dimension, and the animation can be controlled as a movie using a traditional interface (play/pause, reverse/backward, slider navigation bar). At any moment of the animation the user can pan, rotate and zoom the model. Animation parameters are now stored in .3dm files (Rhino native file format).
Driving Dimensions Manager and Constraint Properties Editor windows are significantly improved to have a better look and feel. Now they can be docked, small icons are used for each kind of driving dimensions and constraints. Performance is optimized for models with a large number of constraints. Constraint arguments are automatically highlighted when the constraint is selected in the Driving Dimensions Manager window. In addition, when the user selects an object, all related constraints are highlighted. Command line prompts are now more informative, and the default value for a new driving dimension is suggested.
Driving Dimensions 0.2 for Rhino is delivered as an executable module that automatically installs the plugin on a computer with Rhino 4.0. Several bugs reported by our users during testing version 0.1 have been fixed.
"In two months passed since the release of the first preliminary version of Driving Dimensions 0.1 for Rhino 3D, more than 1400 Rhino users worldwide took part in beta testing by downloading our plugin," says Dmitry Ushakov, Director, Product Management, LEDAS Ltd. "We carefully consider everything they say to us – directly by email or indirectly on numerous forums and blogs. Most of improvements in the second preliminary version of our plugin were suggested by our users."
Along with development of a solution for assembly design and kinematic simulation of rigid bodies LEDAS is working on a history-free direct and indirect geometry editing plugin for Rhino. The plugin is expected to be ready for beta-testing before the end of 2009.
Driving Dimensions 0.2 for Rhinoceros is compatible with Rhino 4.0 and above and can be run on 32-bit Windows XP and Vista. The beta version can be freely downloaded.
Jul 24, 2009
StudioGPU MachStudio Pro Adds Support for Google SketchUp Pro and Rhino Software
New Exporters Offer Artists, Designers and Engineers Immediate Access to Real-Time 3D Workflow and Rendering.
LOS ANGELES - StudioGPU announced today that MachStudio Pro™, a professional 3D-workflow and rendering package created by artists for artists, now offers free exporters for Google SketchUp Pro and McNeel Rhino 3D modeling and animation software. With these new exporters, 3D assets from SketchUp Pro 7 and Rhino 4 can easily be transferred into MachStudio Pro, where users can create and manipulate lights, materials and HDR cameras in a real-time non-linear environment to achieve cinematic-quality results.
MachStudio Pro is real-time 3D final shot and compositing package that harnesses the power of today’s massively parallel processing units in off-the-shelf professional graphics accelerators, changing the equation of time versus quality in the production pipeline. Frames that typically take hours to render can now be rendered in seconds and sub-seconds, eliminating the need for expensive render farms.
Visit StudioGPU and AMD (booth #2417) at SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans, August 4-6 to see the advanced workflow benefits of MachStudio Pro on the latest AMD ATI 3D workstation graphics accelerators.
MachStudio Pro allows artists to easily create, manage and interact with complex lighting, caustics, cameras, shaders, materials, ambient occlusion, and color grading. Powered by a real-time rendering engine, MachStudio Pro software fits into the creative pipeline after all 3D models are produced to streamline lighting, cameras, materials, compositing and finishing capabilities.
MachStudio Pro ships with an AMD ATI FireGL™ V8650 3D-workstation graphics accelerator card featuring 2 GB onboard graphics memory and a parallel processing Unified Shader architecture. Supporting a wide range of industries—from computer-aided design (CAD) visualization and 3D animation to top-quality film and broadcast projects — MachStudio Pro offers seamless interoperability with leading professional 3D modeling, animation, and CAD software packages.
Pricing and Purchasing Information
MachStudio Pro supports Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista operating systems, and comes standard with an AMD ATI FireGL™ V8650 3D workstation graphics accelerator card. MachStudio Pro has an introductory price of $4,999 (USD MSRP), which includes a full year of technical support and product maintenance updates. Education and volume licensing is also available.
LOS ANGELES - StudioGPU announced today that MachStudio Pro™, a professional 3D-workflow and rendering package created by artists for artists, now offers free exporters for Google SketchUp Pro and McNeel Rhino 3D modeling and animation software. With these new exporters, 3D assets from SketchUp Pro 7 and Rhino 4 can easily be transferred into MachStudio Pro, where users can create and manipulate lights, materials and HDR cameras in a real-time non-linear environment to achieve cinematic-quality results.
MachStudio Pro is real-time 3D final shot and compositing package that harnesses the power of today’s massively parallel processing units in off-the-shelf professional graphics accelerators, changing the equation of time versus quality in the production pipeline. Frames that typically take hours to render can now be rendered in seconds and sub-seconds, eliminating the need for expensive render farms.
Visit StudioGPU and AMD (booth #2417) at SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans, August 4-6 to see the advanced workflow benefits of MachStudio Pro on the latest AMD ATI 3D workstation graphics accelerators.
MachStudio Pro allows artists to easily create, manage and interact with complex lighting, caustics, cameras, shaders, materials, ambient occlusion, and color grading. Powered by a real-time rendering engine, MachStudio Pro software fits into the creative pipeline after all 3D models are produced to streamline lighting, cameras, materials, compositing and finishing capabilities.
MachStudio Pro ships with an AMD ATI FireGL™ V8650 3D-workstation graphics accelerator card featuring 2 GB onboard graphics memory and a parallel processing Unified Shader architecture. Supporting a wide range of industries—from computer-aided design (CAD) visualization and 3D animation to top-quality film and broadcast projects — MachStudio Pro offers seamless interoperability with leading professional 3D modeling, animation, and CAD software packages.
Pricing and Purchasing Information
MachStudio Pro supports Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista operating systems, and comes standard with an AMD ATI FireGL™ V8650 3D workstation graphics accelerator card. MachStudio Pro has an introductory price of $4,999 (USD MSRP), which includes a full year of technical support and product maintenance updates. Education and volume licensing is also available.
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Google SketchUp,
Rhino
Jun 9, 2009
LEDAS Announces Beta Release of Driving Dimensions Plugin for Rhino
Industry standard assembly constraints and kinematics simulation are now available for Rhino 3D users.
Novosibirsk, Russia – LEDAS Ltd., an independent provider of variational design tools known as Driving Dimensions plugins for different CAD platforms, today announced the beta release of its new plugin Driving Dimensions 0.1 for Rhino 3D. With this plugin, Rhino users get a powerful tool for bottom-up assembly design and kinematics simulation with assembly constraints compatible with the capabilities of mainstream MCAD software packages.
With Driving Dimensions 0.1, Rhino users can easily position their 3D parts with respect to each other by specifying assembly constraints (fixation, concentricity, coincidence, parallelism, perpendicularity, or tangency) and driving dimensions (distance and angle) between their faces and edges. Driving Dimensions plugin automatically satisfies all constraints and dimensions making a consistent assembly from existing parts. An assembled mechanism can then be animated by varying a parameter of one of its driving dimensions. A constraint manager tool allows easy navigation over all assembly constraints and driving dimensions imposed on geometric elements of a designed model.
"We are happy to share our many-years industrial experience in development of variational modeling tools with Rhino users,” said David Levin, the founder and CEO of LEDAS Ltd. "Our Driving Dimensions plugin for Google SketchUp has been extremely successful - more than 9,000 users downloaded it in 7 months. We hope for even greater reaction from Rhino users."
“Being a powerful 3D free-form modeling software package, Rhinoceros 3D by McNeel and Associates still lacks parametric modeling features,” explained Dmitry Ushakov, Director of Product Management, LEDAS Ltd. "Driving Dimensions 0.1 for Rhino is only the first step to our global objective that is to equip Rhino users with a powerful technology for direct geometry editing while preserving design intent expressed as implicit and explicit constraints.”
"We helped LEDAS to develop their first parametric plugin for Rhino," added Bob McNeel, the founder and the President of Robert McNeel & Associates. "There is a big interest in dimension driven blocks/parts/components in Rhino."
A free beta is available for download at www.DrivingDimensions.com. Driving Dimensions 0.1 for Rhinoceros is compatible with Rhino 4.0 and above and can be run on 32-bit Windows XP and Vista. A detailed on-line help, text and video tutorials, and a set of examples are provided for the users of Driving Dimensions plugin for Rhino 3D.
Driving Dimensions are end-user applications developed by LEDAS as plugins for popular 2D and 3D modeling systems to provide advanced parameterization capabilities to their users. Driving Dimensions are based on the Variational Direct Modeling technology, which uses direct (history-free) editing model elements, preserving its design intent, expressed by explicit and implicit driving dimensions (linear, angular, radial) and geometric constraints. Simultaneous satisfaction of geometric and dimensional constraints is achieved with LGS variational geometric solver, which is being developed by LEDAS since 2001 and is available for licensing to all CAD developers.
Novosibirsk, Russia – LEDAS Ltd., an independent provider of variational design tools known as Driving Dimensions plugins for different CAD platforms, today announced the beta release of its new plugin Driving Dimensions 0.1 for Rhino 3D. With this plugin, Rhino users get a powerful tool for bottom-up assembly design and kinematics simulation with assembly constraints compatible with the capabilities of mainstream MCAD software packages.
With Driving Dimensions 0.1, Rhino users can easily position their 3D parts with respect to each other by specifying assembly constraints (fixation, concentricity, coincidence, parallelism, perpendicularity, or tangency) and driving dimensions (distance and angle) between their faces and edges. Driving Dimensions plugin automatically satisfies all constraints and dimensions making a consistent assembly from existing parts. An assembled mechanism can then be animated by varying a parameter of one of its driving dimensions. A constraint manager tool allows easy navigation over all assembly constraints and driving dimensions imposed on geometric elements of a designed model.
"We are happy to share our many-years industrial experience in development of variational modeling tools with Rhino users,” said David Levin, the founder and CEO of LEDAS Ltd. "Our Driving Dimensions plugin for Google SketchUp has been extremely successful - more than 9,000 users downloaded it in 7 months. We hope for even greater reaction from Rhino users."
“Being a powerful 3D free-form modeling software package, Rhinoceros 3D by McNeel and Associates still lacks parametric modeling features,” explained Dmitry Ushakov, Director of Product Management, LEDAS Ltd. "Driving Dimensions 0.1 for Rhino is only the first step to our global objective that is to equip Rhino users with a powerful technology for direct geometry editing while preserving design intent expressed as implicit and explicit constraints.”
"We helped LEDAS to develop their first parametric plugin for Rhino," added Bob McNeel, the founder and the President of Robert McNeel & Associates. "There is a big interest in dimension driven blocks/parts/components in Rhino."
A free beta is available for download at www.DrivingDimensions.com. Driving Dimensions 0.1 for Rhinoceros is compatible with Rhino 4.0 and above and can be run on 32-bit Windows XP and Vista. A detailed on-line help, text and video tutorials, and a set of examples are provided for the users of Driving Dimensions plugin for Rhino 3D.
Driving Dimensions are end-user applications developed by LEDAS as plugins for popular 2D and 3D modeling systems to provide advanced parameterization capabilities to their users. Driving Dimensions are based on the Variational Direct Modeling technology, which uses direct (history-free) editing model elements, preserving its design intent, expressed by explicit and implicit driving dimensions (linear, angular, radial) and geometric constraints. Simultaneous satisfaction of geometric and dimensional constraints is achieved with LGS variational geometric solver, which is being developed by LEDAS since 2001 and is available for licensing to all CAD developers.
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Rhino
May 14, 2009
T-Splines announces availability of T-Splines 2.0 for Rhino
Improve the speed, quality and fidelity of your organic surface modeling projects.
Provo, Utah - T-Splines, Inc., creators of precise and flexible 3D surface modeling tools with full industry standard compatibility, today announced the production release of T-Splines 2.0 for Rhino.
The 2.0 version adds several new tools and workflows to generate free-form surfaces and brings for the first time a full suite of polygonal modeling techniques into Rhino. T-Splines gives Rhino users the ability to create smooth organic shapes, edit them quickly, and export them for manufacturing directly without any remodeling.
Key Features
Create smooth organic shapes
* Box modeling tools. There are many new ways to add detail to a T-spline, including subdivide face, insert edge, delete face, weld points, extrude edge, fill hole, merging and many more.
* Simpler surfaces. T-Splines now allows triangle and other n-sided (pentagon, hexagon, etc.) faces in the model.
* Primitives. It's easy to start your T-splines models from T-spline box, plane, sphere, torus, cone, and cylinder primitives.
* Symmetry. Work on either part of your symmetric model and see the other side update in real time! Supports axial and radial symmetry.
* Thicken. Turn your T-spline surface into a solid with the push of a button using the Thicken command.
Edit surfaces quickly and easily
* Enhanced surface editing. The move, rotate, and scale manipulators feature exact numerical input, a clickable heads-up display, and other improvements.
* New grips. In addition to standard control points, T-spline models can now be directly edited using face grips, edge grips, and tangency handles.
* Hotkeys. T-Splines brings the Rhino experience to a whole new level with the introduction of hotkeys, which can be assigned to both T-Splines and Rhino commands. With one hand navigating with the mouse and the other hand calling commands through hotkeys, design time speeds up significantly.
* Smooth mode/mesh mode toggle. T-spline surfaces can now be displayed both as a boxy mesh and a smooth surface for easy and quick editing.
Export for manufacturing without remodeling
* High fidelity surfaces. T-Splines' new, smoother star points are the best of any software in its class. They yield surfaces that are more aesthetically pleasing, easier to offset (they are G1 smooth), and convert to NURBS patches without sliver surfaces.
* Full integration with Rhino. The T-Splines plugin is fully integrated with Rhino and provides a seamless user interaction between Rhino and T-Splines commands.
* 100 % NURBS Compatible. All T-spline surfaces can be exported without loss of quality to manufacturable NURBS surfaces.
“This is the most comprehensive and feature rich release in T-Splines' history” said Matt Sederberg, CEO of T-Splines. “We would like to thank all the customers that have helped us review and enhance the WIP and Beta versions over the last few months and achieve this production release milestone. For the first time ever, a full suite of box modeling tools are available fully integrated within Rhino and fully compatible with NURBS surfacing. Designers can now directly create and edit surfaces faster and quicker than ever before, with full confidence that the end result will be a smooth, gap-free manufacturable model.”
“T-Splines allows us to cross the barrier from subdivision models to NURBS seamlessly and without effort," stated Joaquin Laborda, owner of Trum Design. "We can now bring our exploratory design concepts directly to the final production model without redesign or any compromise in our aesthetic goals.”
"We continue to work closely with T-Splines in the evolution of their plugin for Rhino," added Bob McNeel, founder and president of Robert McNeel & Associates. "The capabilities of their plugin are a great addition to any designer's toolbox."
Provo, Utah - T-Splines, Inc., creators of precise and flexible 3D surface modeling tools with full industry standard compatibility, today announced the production release of T-Splines 2.0 for Rhino.
The 2.0 version adds several new tools and workflows to generate free-form surfaces and brings for the first time a full suite of polygonal modeling techniques into Rhino. T-Splines gives Rhino users the ability to create smooth organic shapes, edit them quickly, and export them for manufacturing directly without any remodeling.
Key Features
Create smooth organic shapes
* Box modeling tools. There are many new ways to add detail to a T-spline, including subdivide face, insert edge, delete face, weld points, extrude edge, fill hole, merging and many more.
* Simpler surfaces. T-Splines now allows triangle and other n-sided (pentagon, hexagon, etc.) faces in the model.
* Primitives. It's easy to start your T-splines models from T-spline box, plane, sphere, torus, cone, and cylinder primitives.
* Symmetry. Work on either part of your symmetric model and see the other side update in real time! Supports axial and radial symmetry.
* Thicken. Turn your T-spline surface into a solid with the push of a button using the Thicken command.
Edit surfaces quickly and easily
* Enhanced surface editing. The move, rotate, and scale manipulators feature exact numerical input, a clickable heads-up display, and other improvements.
* New grips. In addition to standard control points, T-spline models can now be directly edited using face grips, edge grips, and tangency handles.
* Hotkeys. T-Splines brings the Rhino experience to a whole new level with the introduction of hotkeys, which can be assigned to both T-Splines and Rhino commands. With one hand navigating with the mouse and the other hand calling commands through hotkeys, design time speeds up significantly.
* Smooth mode/mesh mode toggle. T-spline surfaces can now be displayed both as a boxy mesh and a smooth surface for easy and quick editing.
Export for manufacturing without remodeling
* High fidelity surfaces. T-Splines' new, smoother star points are the best of any software in its class. They yield surfaces that are more aesthetically pleasing, easier to offset (they are G1 smooth), and convert to NURBS patches without sliver surfaces.
* Full integration with Rhino. The T-Splines plugin is fully integrated with Rhino and provides a seamless user interaction between Rhino and T-Splines commands.
* 100 % NURBS Compatible. All T-spline surfaces can be exported without loss of quality to manufacturable NURBS surfaces.
“This is the most comprehensive and feature rich release in T-Splines' history” said Matt Sederberg, CEO of T-Splines. “We would like to thank all the customers that have helped us review and enhance the WIP and Beta versions over the last few months and achieve this production release milestone. For the first time ever, a full suite of box modeling tools are available fully integrated within Rhino and fully compatible with NURBS surfacing. Designers can now directly create and edit surfaces faster and quicker than ever before, with full confidence that the end result will be a smooth, gap-free manufacturable model.”
“T-Splines allows us to cross the barrier from subdivision models to NURBS seamlessly and without effort," stated Joaquin Laborda, owner of Trum Design. "We can now bring our exploratory design concepts directly to the final production model without redesign or any compromise in our aesthetic goals.”
"We continue to work closely with T-Splines in the evolution of their plugin for Rhino," added Bob McNeel, founder and president of Robert McNeel & Associates. "The capabilities of their plugin are a great addition to any designer's toolbox."
Filed under:
Rhino
Mar 19, 2009
RhinoMembrane v1.22 released
The new version of RhinoMembrane, an FEM form finder Rhino plug-in, has been released by Gerry D'Anza. The new version has added support for tensegrity structures and mixed formfinding with URS (Update Reference Strategy ) and FDM ( Force Density Method ) in addition to a few new options like plot of reaction forces.
RhinoMembrane provides options for pneumatics, trusses, and cables that makes it able to find any real equilibrated surface with tension or tensegrity system.
RhinoMembrane provides options for pneumatics, trusses, and cables that makes it able to find any real equilibrated surface with tension or tensegrity system.
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Rhino
Nov 5, 2008
Datakit Offers Two bundles For All CAD Converters
All CAD converters in one Rhino Plug-in. Datakit now offers two bundles.
Benefits:
- A large choice of CAD file exchange solutions available on the designer’s PC
- Simple “all-in-one” installation
- More competitive pricing
- Clearer presentation of the Datakit offering for the Rhino community
Designers who use Rhino 4.0 can now directly purchase an import and/or export “all-in-One” bundle of CAD data exchange solution. Pricing is very comparable with that of converter purchased on a per unit basis. (Maintenance is obligatory to guarantee flawless compatibility with all CAD software upgrades that are brought to the market. Fees are about 20% of the prices).
The import bundle includes 9 solutions for reading native or neutral files from Acis, Catia V4, Catia V5, Inventor, JT, NX, Parasolid, Pro-E or SolidEdge into Rhino 4.0.
The export bundle enables Rhino 4.0 to writing Catia V4 and/or V5 files.
These converters are perfect complements of the standard Rhino 4.0 functionalities. They support part and assembly files (i.e. including instances), geometry, wireframe and meshes and also topology.
Because they make Datakit’s data exchange offering more accessible these bundles are fully endorsed by McNeel.
Remy Ratanat, account manager at Datakit explains: “one of the things that we took away from our recent meeting with Bob McNeel and his team in Barcelona was the need to streamline our offering and present it as the Rhinoceros ‘data exchange’ module. To make things easier for users, we decided to implement a single installation procedure for the two bundles. We hope the offering will be really popular.”
Olivier Rigollet, in charge of the management of the network of resellers and current contact of Datakit’s partners adds: “our converters enable stylists, creators, architects, designers … who use Rhino 4.0 to reread and export files without having to have the same software as the design office, because these tools are not what they need to express their ideas. However, they may have to get a part from an assembly. Our functions let them view an assembly before they load it, and, with just one click, select a part that is of particular interest to them and import it. This enables them to focus on their core job without having to worry about how they are going to get hold of the models.”
Benefits:
- A large choice of CAD file exchange solutions available on the designer’s PC
- Simple “all-in-one” installation
- More competitive pricing
- Clearer presentation of the Datakit offering for the Rhino community
Designers who use Rhino 4.0 can now directly purchase an import and/or export “all-in-One” bundle of CAD data exchange solution. Pricing is very comparable with that of converter purchased on a per unit basis. (Maintenance is obligatory to guarantee flawless compatibility with all CAD software upgrades that are brought to the market. Fees are about 20% of the prices).
The import bundle includes 9 solutions for reading native or neutral files from Acis, Catia V4, Catia V5, Inventor, JT, NX, Parasolid, Pro-E or SolidEdge into Rhino 4.0.
The export bundle enables Rhino 4.0 to writing Catia V4 and/or V5 files.
These converters are perfect complements of the standard Rhino 4.0 functionalities. They support part and assembly files (i.e. including instances), geometry, wireframe and meshes and also topology.
Because they make Datakit’s data exchange offering more accessible these bundles are fully endorsed by McNeel.
Remy Ratanat, account manager at Datakit explains: “one of the things that we took away from our recent meeting with Bob McNeel and his team in Barcelona was the need to streamline our offering and present it as the Rhinoceros ‘data exchange’ module. To make things easier for users, we decided to implement a single installation procedure for the two bundles. We hope the offering will be really popular.”
Olivier Rigollet, in charge of the management of the network of resellers and current contact of Datakit’s partners adds: “our converters enable stylists, creators, architects, designers … who use Rhino 4.0 to reread and export files without having to have the same software as the design office, because these tools are not what they need to express their ideas. However, they may have to get a part from an assembly. Our functions let them view an assembly before they load it, and, with just one click, select a part that is of particular interest to them and import it. This enables them to focus on their core job without having to worry about how they are going to get hold of the models.”
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Nov 1, 2008
ASGVIS, LLC UNLEASHES SERVICE RELEASE 1.5 FOR V-RAY FOR RHINO AND V-RAY FOR SKETCHUP
Bug fixes, V-Ray Toon material, render channel additions and more offered in Service Release 1.5, available now
Baltimore, MD: ASGvis today announced Service Release 1.5 for both V-Ray for Rhino 4 and V-Ray for Sketchup 6. This release offers several additional features, including the much anticipated V-Ray Toon material, expanded render channels and extra light options. In addition, this service release also addresses several bug fixes.
V-Ray Toon Material"We are very excited to bring this Service Release to our customers," said Damien Alomar, Product Manager for ASGvis. "This release continues to add features and clear up issues that will offer a marked improvement in render quality and workflow for V-Ray."
In anticipation of the next full version of both V-Ray for Rhino 4 and V-Ray for Sketchup, Service Release 1.5 will be the final update for both products. From this point on, the development team will focus efforts on new features, updates and interface changes that have been requested by our dedicated user base. "
We are really excited about the new features we have planned for the next full version," continued Alomar. "Interface and workflow improvements, V-Ray Proxies, expanded materials and Per-Object Properties are welcomed additions by both beginners and advanced users alike."Users can download V-Ray for Rhino 4.0 SR1.5 and V-Ray for SketchUp 6 SR1.5 from the support section of www.asgvis.com.
Baltimore, MD: ASGvis today announced Service Release 1.5 for both V-Ray for Rhino 4 and V-Ray for Sketchup 6. This release offers several additional features, including the much anticipated V-Ray Toon material, expanded render channels and extra light options. In addition, this service release also addresses several bug fixes.
V-Ray Toon Material"We are very excited to bring this Service Release to our customers," said Damien Alomar, Product Manager for ASGvis. "This release continues to add features and clear up issues that will offer a marked improvement in render quality and workflow for V-Ray."
In anticipation of the next full version of both V-Ray for Rhino 4 and V-Ray for Sketchup, Service Release 1.5 will be the final update for both products. From this point on, the development team will focus efforts on new features, updates and interface changes that have been requested by our dedicated user base. "
We are really excited about the new features we have planned for the next full version," continued Alomar. "Interface and workflow improvements, V-Ray Proxies, expanded materials and Per-Object Properties are welcomed additions by both beginners and advanced users alike."Users can download V-Ray for Rhino 4.0 SR1.5 and V-Ray for SketchUp 6 SR1.5 from the support section of www.asgvis.com.
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Oct 29, 2008
Brazil r/s 2.0 Beta 22 for Rhino Now Available
Rhino users can now use endering technology Based on the Brazil r/s 2.0
Brazil r/s for Rhino is intended to bring Rhino users the latest rendering technology.
Though Brazil r/s for Rhino is still in development, Rhino 4.0 users can fill out an application.
Read more - http://brazil.mcneel.com/
Brazil r/s for Rhino is intended to bring Rhino users the latest rendering technology.
Though Brazil r/s for Rhino is still in development, Rhino 4.0 users can fill out an application.
Read more - http://brazil.mcneel.com/
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Oct 7, 2008
MecSoft releases RhinoCAM 2.0
Irvine, CA – October 7, 2008: MecSoft Corporation, developer of industry leading CAD/CAM solutions announced today the release of the RhinoCAM 2.0. This product release reinforces MecSoft’s position as the leading provider of affordable and powerful 3D CAD/CAM products in the market today.
Building on the powerful design feature set of Rhinoceros 4.0, RhinoCAM 2.0 introduces new features found only in systems costing 3 times as much. RhinoCAM 2.0 offers full data associativity and seamless user interface integration with Rhinoceros 4.0. These dramatic improvements serve to make the combination of Rhinoceros 4.0 and RhinoCAM 2.0 the most powerful and easiest to use CAD/CAM system under the $5000 price range.
MecSoft' President Joe Anand says: "RhinoCAM 2.0 continues the proud tradition of combining the best of breed CAM technology with one of the leading edge 3D design products in the market today. With the introduction of powerful new toolpath generation methods, enhancements in existing areas of the product along with processing and productivity improvements, we believe strongly that RhinoCAM 2.0 is simply the best CAD/CAM product in its class. Download a demo from our website today and we have no doubt that you will be impressed. "
The RhinoCAM 2.0 product is available for download at www.rhinocam.com
For further information on this product or any other MecSoft Corporation products, please call 949-654-8163 or email Email Contact
MecSoft Corporation is a leading provider of CAD/CAM software solutions for manufacturing parts in a wide variety of industries, including automotive, mold & die, aerospace, general machining and education.
Founded in 1980, Robert McNeel & Associates (RMA) is a privately held, employee-owned corporation providing technical professionals with productive tools shaped from emerging technologies. RMA has regional offices in Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
RhinoCAM are registered trademarks of MecSoft Corporation. Rhinoceros is a registered trademark of Robert McNeel & Associates. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft, Inc.
Building on the powerful design feature set of Rhinoceros 4.0, RhinoCAM 2.0 introduces new features found only in systems costing 3 times as much. RhinoCAM 2.0 offers full data associativity and seamless user interface integration with Rhinoceros 4.0. These dramatic improvements serve to make the combination of Rhinoceros 4.0 and RhinoCAM 2.0 the most powerful and easiest to use CAD/CAM system under the $5000 price range.
MecSoft' President Joe Anand says: "RhinoCAM 2.0 continues the proud tradition of combining the best of breed CAM technology with one of the leading edge 3D design products in the market today. With the introduction of powerful new toolpath generation methods, enhancements in existing areas of the product along with processing and productivity improvements, we believe strongly that RhinoCAM 2.0 is simply the best CAD/CAM product in its class. Download a demo from our website today and we have no doubt that you will be impressed. "
The RhinoCAM 2.0 product is available for download at www.rhinocam.com
For further information on this product or any other MecSoft Corporation products, please call 949-654-8163 or email Email Contact
MecSoft Corporation is a leading provider of CAD/CAM software solutions for manufacturing parts in a wide variety of industries, including automotive, mold & die, aerospace, general machining and education.
Founded in 1980, Robert McNeel & Associates (RMA) is a privately held, employee-owned corporation providing technical professionals with productive tools shaped from emerging technologies. RMA has regional offices in Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
RhinoCAM are registered trademarks of MecSoft Corporation. Rhinoceros is a registered trademark of Robert McNeel & Associates. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft, Inc.
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Sep 2, 2008
Fourth Orca3D WIP Released!
The fourth release of Orca3D, a marine design and analysis plug-in for Rhinoceros has been anounced.
The latest WIP includes speed/power prediction for planing hulls, offset tables, greatly improved lines plans, and many other improvements. The complete Release Notes with the details of the improvements in WIP4 can be found at http://www.orca3d.com/support/manual/index.html?orca_release_notes.htm.
With this release, Orca3D is very close to being ready to officially release. Pricing information for new licenses and upgrades is now available on our website, at www.orca3d.com/order/order.htm. Upgrade pricing is significantly lower than list price, and is available to current users of RhinoMarine V4 and FastYacht/FastShip (proof of eligibility will be required; see the website for details). For the first 30 days after release, the Upgrade price will be lowered even further. After 60 days, the Upgrade price will no longer be available.
Before installing Orca3D, please be sure that you are running Rhino Version 4, Service Release 3 or higher; Orca3D will not function with earlier versions of Rhino.
The latest WIP includes speed/power prediction for planing hulls, offset tables, greatly improved lines plans, and many other improvements. The complete Release Notes with the details of the improvements in WIP4 can be found at http://www.orca3d.com/support/manual/index.html?orca_release_notes.htm.
With this release, Orca3D is very close to being ready to officially release. Pricing information for new licenses and upgrades is now available on our website, at www.orca3d.com/order/order.htm. Upgrade pricing is significantly lower than list price, and is available to current users of RhinoMarine V4 and FastYacht/FastShip (proof of eligibility will be required; see the website for details). For the first 30 days after release, the Upgrade price will be lowered even further. After 60 days, the Upgrade price will no longer be available.
Before installing Orca3D, please be sure that you are running Rhino Version 4, Service Release 3 or higher; Orca3D will not function with earlier versions of Rhino.
Aug 25, 2008
RhinoCAM 2.0 Beta now Available
Major new version of RhinoCAM nearly ready
The software includes Many major enhancements
download the RhinoCAM 2.0 beta from :
http://www.mecsoft.com/rc2/rhinocam2.html
The software includes Many major enhancements
download the RhinoCAM 2.0 beta from :
http://www.mecsoft.com/rc2/rhinocam2.html
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