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What is Rhinoceros 3D? The Benefits of Rhino 3D

What is Rhino 3D?   Rhinoceros 3D, or Rhino 3D, is the world’s most versatile 3D modeller. It can create, analyse, edit, animate, render, document and translate polygon meshes, point clouds, solids, surfaces and NURBS curves. Apart from the size of your hardware, there are no limits to the complexity you can produce with Rhino […]

What is Rhino 3D?
 
Rhinoceros 3D, or Rhino 3D, is the world’s most versatile 3D modeller. It can create, analyse, edit, animate, render, document and translate polygon meshes, point clouds, solids, surfaces and NURBS curves. Apart from the size of your hardware, there are no limits to the complexity you can produce with Rhino 3D.
 
Rhino 3D offers the precision needed to design, prototype, analyse, engineer and manufacture anything from an airplane to jewellery. Its uninhibited free-form 3D modelling tools are usually only found in products 20-50 times more expensive, meaning you can model any shape you want.
 
Rhinoceros has been designed to be compatible with a range of design, drafting and CAM software, as well as engineering, analysis and rendering programmes. It can also be used with animation and illustration software, presenting a range of new possibilities to your artwork. For Windows users, Rhino 3D functions as a development platform for many different modelling products, making it even more versatile. Rhino 3D has the ability to read and repair meshes, including IGES files, which can be extremely challenging.
 
What are NURBS?
 
Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines, or NURBS, are simply the mathematical representations of 3D geometry that accurately describe a shape, from the most simple 2D line, to the most complex 3D free-form solid or surface. NURBS models are often used in many processes such as manufacturing, illustration and animation due to their immense flexibility and accuracy.
 
There are several reasons NURBS are the best option for computer-aided modelling (CAM):
 
• Many industry standard model use NURBS, making it able to store information in a way that will be useable for the foreseeable future
• NURBS have a well-known and precise definition. NURBS geometry is taught at most universities, making it easy to find trained programmers.
• NURBS not only has the ability to represent standard geometric objects, such as spheres, circles and ellipses, but free-form geometry, such as car bodies and dogs.
• NURBS representation of a piece of geometry requires a lot less information when compared to other common faceted approximations.
 
Who can use Rhino 3D?
 
Anyone can use Rhino 3D. No special hardware is needed and it’s fast even on a regular laptop. It’s affordable too, with an affordable price and no maintenance fees, coupled with the lack of specialist hardware and the short time needed to learn how to use it, Rhino 3D is the perfect design software. As you can focus on the design and visualisation aspect of Rhino, quickly learning how to master it, it’s an insanely accessible product, unlike many other design software packages.

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