Rhino on Mac OS X coming at a time of powerful change in App...

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[CANEHDN]

Article looks long a boring. Can't bring myself to read it.

[Silencio]

Article looks long a boring. Can't bring myself to read it.

Well, it is kind of a long, rambling missive that somehow goes from CAD/3D apps to the iPhone and back, but hey -- the more Mac OS X native options for the architectural and engineering markets, the better.

[RedTomato]

It's only about 9 paragraphs long. The rest of that page is about 5 miles of links to every article they ever wrote.

Nowhere does it give any detail about what Rhino is or what it does.

Why is this wankery on the MR frontpage?

[Peace]

http://www.rhino3d.com/

[mkrishnan]

I've never heard of anyone in mechanical, aerospace, etc, engineering using Rhino... is it actually used in architecture? Or any other field?

[From Win to Mac]

I work in Aerospace, and the industrial design guys use it to model seats, overhead bins, galleys, lavs, everything. Then it goes off to CATIA for detailed engineering.

[ATD]

I know some people who use this in graphics and their impression of it is that it's one of the best NURBS modelers on the market.

I see this as a really good thing, just this week I heard about two other 3D apps (Brazil and xStream) that are working on porting to the Mac for the first time. I hoping to see a better Mac foothold in the 3D/CAD market, if enough apps start moving this way it may level the playing field. On the 3D boards I see lots of guys that would toss windows in a second if they could get more of these apps to the Mac. Autodesk is the one that needs a big push here.

[arkitect]

I know some people who use this in graphics and their impression of it is that it's one of the best NURBS modelers on the market.


:) :)
This is the best news I have heard in a long time.
Have been using Rhino since its first Beta release — 1998? And it has grown into a truly lovely piece of software.

Its load on system resources is light compared to other 3D apps and there really isn't anything you can't model with it.

The plug-in Flamingo renderer is also not too scruffy. :)

Now if only AutoDesk can move their lazy backsides into gear…:rolleyes:

[mkrishnan]

I work in Aerospace, and the industrial design guys use it to model seats, overhead bins, galleys, lavs, everything. Then it goes off to CATIA for detailed engineering.

Ahhh, okay. I guess that makes sense. Now CATIA I've heard of. ;)

[avus]

For last 3 years I've been using Rhino3d, simply the best NURBS modeler for money, and I am completely shocked that Robert McNeel and Associates will port it for Mac, period. As much as I love the program and now my livelihood depends on it, I've always detested the company's attitude toward Mac and Linux. They had been acting like a typical Windows developer openly stating the software would never be ported for anything else, and so ignorant for Mac users that they didn't update the system requirement page mentioning Virtual PC as late as this year.

So, they did a quite 180 degree turn - and I can't be happier. I can get rid of all the PCs I had to invest in order to use the software and this will also eliminate my need for Bootcamp, too!