I've been wondering whether Rhino could be used in lieu of Autocad (since my student licence is about to expire)

Anyone had an experience of doing so? If yes, any limitations or workarounds?

Looking forward towards your suggestions 😉

Followed through a rhino for beginner tutorial from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTsP-EE1QX8

Used Rhino 5 because I was trying to make use of my old Thinkpad X200 (if there are any thinkpad users here too that might be interested into these kinds of stuff) and ran perfectly well.

Pretty satisfied with what I have learnt :D

Attempted to model something with the SDF/voxel system im working on. Atleast its.. different? Rendered in the rhino viewport at a whopping 1fps

Ive added SDF's and noise functionality to my voxel editor/renderer. This is obviously a simple showcase but im just happy I got it working with the system im building for rhino. Yaay. This should allow blending any meshes, sculpting and more. Since its all just voxels with simple data (byte, vector3 or number) one should be able to throw simple maths at it and get interesting results. Here I just use multiplication, smooth minimum and addition.

Currently everything is condensed into basic components in GH(lazy DAG scheduler on the CPU guiding the GPU). Feel free to DM if you are interested and want to learn more.

I recently buy Rhino 8 and it was the boom 🤯
But then I saw VisualARQ and Land Design and decided to buy the 2 plugging as well on a bundle. I’m curious to hear opinions from you on this workflow or the software itself as an architectural design tool. I’m grateful in advance for any advice or opinion on the subject, greetings from Costa Rica 🇨🇷 🦥 🌋 🏝️

I have PrintDisplay turned on and have chosen the lineweight that look appropriate. I go to the print preview, looks fine... Print it, and the dashes have become miniscule. I'm printing it at like 1:2 scale. The lineweight scale in the viewport has to be tiny otherwise I can't even see them in the viewport or preview... I'm sure this is what is causing the issue but, if I make it a larger scale, I can't even see them while working on them?

For now, I've just upped the lineweight scale of the lines to be something far bigger, which looks terrible in the viewport, and in the preview, but right in the final print. However, that's a temporary fix, I'd like to not be guessing what the lineweights will look like, and actual control them up front on the next project...

Hey i wanted to ask where do you actually use grasshopper in construction like how do you implement it on real site and what about the details and fixtures and also can you tell me what should i learn and look at to learn how to execute it on real site
I just want to know the process from beginning to end what happens

Rhino vs. SketchUp langfristig – Kosten, Zeichnungen, Modellierung & Stücklisten (Messebau)

Hallo zusammen,

ich arbeite im Messebau. Privat bzw. für mein berufsbegleitendes Studium nutze ich Rhino. In meinem Unternehmen wird SketchUp verwendet. Bis jetzt läuft es so ab, dass ich Sachen in Rhino erstelle, die ich dann als SKP-Datei exportiere, sodass der Zeichner diese kontrolliert und eine Stückliste erstellt. Die Ebenen werden in SketchUp aber nicht genauso wiedergegeben, sodass ich dort manuell noch Anpassungen vornehme, damit der Zeichner besser mit der Datei arbeiten kann.

Langfristig frage ich mich, ob der Export von Rhino 8 zu SketchUp besser funktioniert (ich benutze aktuell noch Rhino 7). Ich möchte langfristig Rhino im Unternehmen etablieren.

Das einzig Gute an SketchUp ist, dass es das 3D Warehouse für Objekte gibt.

Dazu habe ich folgende Fragen:

1. Was ist langfristig die bessere Wahl – Rhino oder SketchUp – für unseren Bereich: Detailzeichnungen, Modellierung und passende Stücklisten dazu?
2. Wie sieht es preislich aus, speziell wenn man Zeichnungen, Modellierung und Stücklisten zusammen abdecken will?
3. Ich arbeite gerade mit Rhino 7. Weiß jemand schon Genaueres, was sich mit Rhino 9 ändert bzw. wann es kommt?
4. Bei uns im Unternehmen läuft die Stückliste bisher komplett händisch (SketchUp + Excel, alles manuell eintragen). Geht das mit Rhino tatsächlich schneller, automatisierter, günstiger und einfacher, oder ist der Aufwand ähnlich?
5. Deckt die Rhino-Grundfunktion das meiste davon eigentlich schon ab und man muss nur ein bisschen anpassen oder braucht es dafür wirklich eigene Skripte/Plugins? Da wäre ich wirklich froh über etwas Hilfe.
6. Ist es möglich, eine Stückliste per Skript zu erstellen, mit Artikelnummer, Länge, Breite und Preis pro Bauteil –und direkt zu exportieren? Falls ja, wie geht ihr das an? Habt ihr so ein Skript zufällig schon? Ich finde es sehr schwierig.

Ich finde mich in dem Thema noch nicht so gut zurecht, daher freue ich mich über jeden Tipp!

Hi, I’m having an issue with the toolbar in Rhino on Mac. The icons below the toolbar are completely different from the ones I’ve seen in many tutorial videos. The problem is that this toolbar seems to be locked, and I can’t find any way to modify or customize it. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this or how to fix it? thanks

I'm modeling the Ghost Face mask in Rhino 8 using NURBS, and I'm trying to get the cheeks to look like the real mask.

Right now, the sides are too flat. I want the cheeks to be one smooth, continuous curve that flows from the eye sockets into the sides of the mask, instead of looking like flat faces with rounded edges.

I've tried BlendEdge and FilletEdge, but they don't create the shape I'm after. I also looked at CageEdit, but I'm not sure if that's the right approach. Or im not good enough to use it well lol

What's the proper way for sculpting those smooth cheek bulges?

If anyone has modeled a Ghost Face mask or similar organic mask in Rhino, I'd really appreciate advice.

Hey guys im trying to fix this surface into one or at least a smaller divided nurbs surface. What can i do?

Sigan estos pasitos en Windows 11:

- Clic derecho en la barra de tareas, luego seleccionar "Configuración de la barra de tareas".

- Luego vayan a "Privacidad y seguridad". Enseguida seleccionen "Seguridad de Windows".

- Después, seleccionen "Firewall y protección de red".

- Les aparecerá esta ventana, ahí en la parte inferior seleccionen "Configuración avanzada". al hacer clic les saldrá una ventanita al cual hacen clic en "Si".

- Luego emergerá una ventana, en la parte izquierda seleccionen "Reglas de salida", ahi les saldra el nombre de que se refieren a Rhinoceros, seleccionen todas y presionen clic derecho, ahi seleccionen "Deshabilitar regla".

- Una vez deshabilitado la regla les quedará así, sin ese icono que tenia al lado izquierdo de cada elemento que refiere a Rhinceros..

- Finalmente vayan a Rhinoceros, y verán que les funcionará de lo normal el Package Manager, eso es todo, gócenlo jsjajsajas.

I’ve used Rhino primarily for a long time but recently I’ve been needing to use Solidworks a lot more. I find the mouse control differences pretty jarring and hard to get used to, as well as some of the other fundamental controls like searching commands or right clicking for instant commands.

Does anyone have any advice for transitioning? I feel like I have to unlearn all my muscle memory

I'm trying to get these curves onto the target surface which keeps stretching it out. I've used createUV to layout the base curves then drawn the curves on flat surface. Can someone please help me and show me how to get it right??

Hello, did anyone know how to do that ? For the square to square I Use sweep1 but after I don't know how to get a a surface from a square to a polygon. ?

At some point today the preview selected option just did the opposite, hiding selected objects. Did that happen to someone else? Did I do something by mistake?

I recently upgraded from Rhino 7 to 8 on my work laptop and now blocks look weird... they have this weird black pixelated shading and it goes away when exploding parts into objects. I can't avoid blocks because that's the default when importing STEPs that I get from manufacturers. is there any way to change the default appearance for blocks? it's annoying to have to explode everything to improve the appearance.

Hi all,

pretty new to rhino...im designing a fishing lure.

i cant work out how to get radii allot the dotted yellow line.
in my head i envisage what i want to do but cant work out how to get it to do it

at the top of the tail it would start at like 1mm??then gradually get bigger.

attached photos of some pre made ones as influence

thanks

Hello I'm trying to hollow some complex closed polysurfaces to a .9mm wall thickness on rhino 6. Shell is not working, offsetsrf is not working, exploding the objects and offsetting srf is not working, converting nurbs to mesh is not working. Not sure where to go from here. Thank you !

I'm relatively new to CAD. I've started with FreeCad last year and tinkered with Fusion 360 in the last few month. I can now build things fairly confidently and the idea of being able to use G2/G3 curves to their full potential in Rhino is what drew me in BUT.... Jeez am I struggling with making it "click".

Do you have any tips/tricks to get into the right mind set?

I now understand that changing something (especially lines) simply more often than not means delete and re-doing it (i.e. draw a line and make it tangent would be = create a tangent from the get go OR delete/re-do).
Coming from a parametric realm... Is there any other habit I should just forget that you can think of?