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New rhino book by michiel van der kley

January 9th, 2009 No comments

The new Rhino book “Working with Rhinoceros 4.0″ by Michiel van der Kley appear in print.

The book will teach you, step by step, to use Rhinoceros 4.0. The book describes drawing in 2D, building in 3D, editing in 3D, materials, light, rendering, the export possibillities, scripting and a lot more with a lot of examples.

276 pages, over 450 illustrations.

Sample Pages (view…)

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RhinoScript | Cut solids

January 8th, 2009 No comments

1.*How to use Rhinoscript

2. Cut solids script by Sac3
[VIA] Sac3

Option Explicit
'2008.12.10
'Script by sac3@rhinos.co.kr
 
CutSolid
Sub CutSolid ()
 
Dim arrObjects, arrPoints, arrVector1, arrVector2, arrBD, strCut
 
arrObjects = Rhino.GetObjects ("Select Solids to Cut",8+16,vbTrue,vbTrue)
If IsNull(arrObjects) Then Exit Sub
 
arrPoints = Rhino.GetPoints (True, False , "Pick 3 Points",, 3 )
If IsNull(arrPoints) Then Exit Sub
If UBound(arrPoints) <2 Then Exit Sub
 
Rhino.EnableRedraw False
 
arrVector1= Rhino.VectorCreate (arrPoints(0), arrPoints(1) )
arrVector2= Rhino.VectorCreate (arrPoints(0), arrPoints(2) )
strCut = Rhino.AddCutPlane (arrObjects, arrPoints(0), arrPoints(1) , arrVector2)
arrBD = Rhino.BooleanDifference (arrObjects, Array(strCut) )
 
If IsArray(arrBD) Then
Rhino.ShrinkTrimmedSurface arrBD(0)
Rhino.SelectObjects arrBD
Else
Rhino.DeleteObject strCut
Rhino.Print "Failed to Cut"
End If
 
Rhino.EnableRedraw True
 
End Sub

Video Tutorial
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a Grasshopper video lesson

January 7th, 2009 No comments
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Download Rhino4.0 Sr5

January 7th, 2009 4 comments

Rhino 4.0 Service Release 5

What’s New, SR5

Enhanced Features:

  • RecordAnimation: RenderFull method can now be canceled with the Esc key.
  • RoundHole: The Radius option now gets the keyboard input by default.

Bug Fixes:

  • ArrayPolar: Input angle sometimes overshot. This is fixed.
  • Crash reading dwg file.
  • Crashes fixed:
    • Revolve - A crash when revolving a closed curve has been fixed.
  • ExtrudeSrfTapered: Surfaces made by the PlanarSrf command may not work properly when they are used as the input surface for this command. This is fixed.
  • MoveCrv: History did not workproperly with the MoveCrv command. This is fixed.
  • Open:SolidWorks: Assembly files were read as empty. This is fixed.
  • PointCloud: When points were deleted from the pointcloud, the pointcloud’s bounding box did not update. This is fixed.
  • Print: A problem printing to Adobe PDF files has been fixed.
  • Project: Projecting a line to a planar surface incorrectly created a cubic line instead of a line.  It now creates either a line or a degree 2 single span NURBS curve.
  • Revolve: A failure bug when revolving closed polylines has been fixed.
  • RhinoScript: Cancelling a script could leave objects highlighted even though they were no longer selected. This is fixed.
  • Save:DWG/DXF: Multi-line text exported with wrong vertical position. This is fixed.
  • Save:STEP: A problem exporting planar surfaces has been fixed.
  • Save:STEP: A failure bug exporting to UG and SolidWorks has been fixed.
  • SmartTrack: Did not always snap to all ortho directions from the smart point. This is fixed.
  • Sweep2: Canceling an AddSlash operation caused the rails to become unslectable for another AddSlash operation. This is fixed.
  • UnrollSrf: A failure bug was fixed.
  • UnrollSrf: The border of an unrolled surface could not be joined. This is fixed.
  • WebBrowser: The command makes an attempt to open the desired page in a new tab or window.

1. Official Site (Download)

2. Rapidshare (Download)

Modeling a phone

January 2nd, 2009 1 comment

Do you know who design this phone? It certainly looks tempting.

red_design_phone

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