V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino Beta Now Available

The V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino Beta is now available! Now users can enjoy features such as V-Ray RT, Dome Light, Proxy and many more. Sign up now to evaluate the new features and enhancements included in the latest release.
Please, note that upon release the new version of V-Ray for Rhino will be running with a Hardware Key (licensing dongle) installation only.
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New Features
- V-RayRT
- Dome Light
- V-Ray Proxy
- Lens Effects (Glare / Bloom )
- Dispersion
- Retrace Threshold
- Ambient Occlusion
- VRayDirt
- Interpolation (Reflections and Refractions)
- IES Light
- Sphere Light
- Additional Parameters
- Improved Rhino Integration
- V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino supports the RDK Sun
- V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino supports the 32 and 64 bit versions of Rhino 5.0. as well as the 32 bit version of Rhino 4.0
T-Splines 2011 Design Contest

The T-Splines 2011 design contest, “Make the world a better place” is now launched! Register now to compete for over 100 prizes, including CAD software, iPads, and 3D prints.
Special free trial software bundles are available for your use during the contest when you register.
There are five categories: architecture, transit, jewelry, consumer products, and miscelleneous.
The architecture category comes with a special offer: Z Corp will ship 3D prints of your model to you during the contest so you can see your design evolve in real life!
An Introduction to Grasshopper for Rhino

Live! Wednesday, April 27, 2011 — 11:00am PDT
Grasshopper is a visual programming platform that offers the possibility to explore parametric and associative designs with unprecedented fluidity. In this introductory webinar, Grasshopper guru Andy Payne will take a look at the Grasshopper interface and walk through a series of examples that take advantage of various generative and associative modeling techniques.
Andy Payne is a licensed architect and founder of LIFT architects who is currently pursuing his doctoral degree at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Andrew’s work explores embedded computation and parametric design and is a co-author (with Rajaa Issa) of The Grasshopper Primer which provides an in depth look at the Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino.
[VIA: Novedge Webinar Series]
TsElements for SolidWorks
[VIA] Rhino News

Mark Biasotti has recently published two free video tutorials that provide the usage and implementation of TsElements for SolidWorks.
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