Rhinoceros

six video tutorials about the V-Ray for Rhino.

David Rutten wrote this plugin  to import RealFlow data back into Rhino.

Download the plugin.

Examples:

Flooded house

Candy commercial

Rhino roadkill

————————————–I’m the cut line——————————-

Download Realflow

Two methods

1. Single-line fonts are the standard for laser cutting and CNC milling because they are more eficient to cut. Chris Chalmers provides a method of creating single-line labels by using pre-defined blocks instead of text.

How to:

1. Import the rhino file with the text blocks into your file. 
2. Run the script and it will simply turn the text you want to use into the appropriate block and place it.

(Right-click and save-as)

numbers.3dm

numbers-function.rvb

Read more…

2. Install a single-line font, and you can use the typical text tools to create the text.

Download the fonts  (Unzip the files you have downloaded, then put the font files into C:\Windows\Fonts)

Designer: SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL LLP

PanelingTools is a powerful plugin that enables you to create complex structures and surfaces in rhinoceros easily. Now McNeel has released a new PanelingTools manual (about 80 pages), and new release are now available for download.

Download PanelingTools Manual for detailed description of commands and options.

Read more from McNeel Wiki

Jeff McCartney, from Bunkspeed, demonstrates how to create new HDRI’s in Adobe Photoshop for use in HyperShot.

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HDR light Studio—make your own HDR studio lighting images.

HDR Light Studio™ software gives you the power to design and output HDR lighting environment images (as .HDR or .EXR images) to wrap around your 3D model, perfectly lighting and reflecting in it’s surfaces.HDR Light Studio™ is a ground breaking 2D authoring tool letting you design a 3D lighting rig to wrap around your 3D data. You create and move around lights on a 2D rectangular work space and in real-time the correct distortion is applied to the shapes so they will appear non-distorted when mapped onto a HDR lighting sphere, these are used in almost all modern rendering software.

If you’re not happy with your HDR creation you can simply move around or adjust your lights and re-output your HDR image. This software has been designed specifically for this task, so it is much faster and much more flexible than using photo editing software, which can not calculate the correct distortions to map back into 3D correctly, and is much faster than fiddling around with emitters in 3D.

HDR Light Studio™represents a paradigm shift in HDR based lighting and is a patent pending world first. With HDR Light Studio™ – you don’t need to search HDR libraries for the right studio lighting images that are fixed and may only be useful for a few projects. With HDR Light Studio you design the lighting to perfectly compliment and show off the job you are working on at the time.

Put it like this… imagine you buy an off the shelf HDR lighting image containing 3 soft boxes. You can’t move the lights to change their position, you can’t scale them to change their appearance in reflections. With HDR Light Studio™ you can – it’s like having interactive HDRs limited only by your imagination!

HDR Light Studio™ allows you to produce stunning studio photography style computer renderings of jewellery, packaging, new products, cars – in fact any 3D data that requires great lighting and reflections in a studio photography style environment. These images can then be used for marketing in print and on the web.

HDR Light Studio™ is a perfect companion product for any rendering application that supports HDR image based lighting.

See new features of the coming HDR Light Studio 1.5 from here.

HDR Light Studio is currently only available for Windows. A free try version of HDR Light Studio can be downloaded from here.

A try version of HDR Light Studio can be downloaded from here.