Designed in Rhino - the HÅG FUTU

HÅG, Norway's biggest office chair producer, just released their new chair, the HÅG FUTU.

Leif Isachen at KODE Design, the chief designer on the project, worked in Rhino for almost one year, from early sketches, through all the design phases up to manufacturing.

AutoStereogram for Rhino - Free Plug-in

FlexiCAD just released a free AutoStereogram Plug-in for Rhino.

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Datakit Import, Export Rhino Plug In - New Bundles

Datakit releases an import and/or export “all-in-One” Rhino Plug-in bundles of CAD data exchange solution. The new bundle pricing is comparable to old single converter pricing.

The import bundle includes 9 solutions for reading native or neutral files from Acis, CATIA V4, CATIA V5, Inventor, JT, NX, Parasolid, Pro/E or Solid Edge into Rhino 4.0.

The export bundle enables Rhino 4.0 to write CATIA V4 and/or V5 files.

Bundles under maintenance are guaranteed to be compatible with new versions of the native or neutral files.

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MicroScribe "End of Life" Announcement

Today, Immersion Corporation announced that they have decided to end of life the MicroScribe product line, and all associated 3rd party products. This announcement applies to all hardware, software and accessories. The last day to order any kind of MicroScribe product directly from Immersion will be December 24th, 2008.

Please see their Press Release for additional details...

PanelingTools for Rhino 4.0 Updated

A new release of PanelingTools plug-in for Rhino 4.0 is available for download. New in this release:

• Fixed divide surface by direct distance bug for closed surfaces.
• Added the ability to select a base point to start dividing a surface from in ptGridSurfaceDirectDistance command.
• Added u & v optional parameters of base location to PT scripting functions "DivideSurfaceByDirectDistance" and "GridByDirectDistanceOnSurface".
• Added ptTriangulatePoints command to create a mesh using Delaunay Triangulation algorithm.
• Added ptGroupSimilarPanels that groups similar curves. It is based mainly on number of curves segments and their length. It also test area for planar curves.
• Added labeling for 3d custom panels.
• Fixed shift defaults values in 2D and 3D pattern managers.
• Fixed divide surface by distance preview bug.
• Added new animated short tutorials to the wiki page.
• Updated menu, toolbars and PT for monkey.

Rhino Tech Tips Blog

In case you missed it, Vanessa has been posting tech tips on the Rhino Tech Tips blog.

If you have tips or ideas please e-mail them to Vanessa.

Grasshopper for Rhino - new minor version

Grasshopper 0.50092 for Rhino 4.0 is now available to download. This minor new release has a huge list of new features and enhancements, including:

Fixes:

• Setting a Graph back to None did not cause an update. This is fixed.
• Graph mapper objects with no graphs failed to read back in. This is fixed.
• Transformations that do not maintain similarity now properly deform non-deformable geometry types (circles, arcs and boxes become NURBS curves and BReps respectively). This is fixed.
• Orient transformation had a bug which resulted in erroneous mappings for some input cases. This is fixed.

Changes:

• EvaluateCurve component has an extra output for curve span length.
• Curve divisions components have been moved into a separate category.

Additions:

• CurveFrame component
• CurveHozirontalFrame component
• CurvePerpendicularFrame component

Details and download...

Grasshopper for Rhino - new version

Grasshopper 0.50090 for Rhino 4.0 is now available to download. This major new release has a huge list of new features and enhancements, including:

• Reworked interface icons and display modes
• Reworked Graph Mapper interface
• Improved Graph Editor dialog
• New Gradient Control
• Automatic data casting from Colour to Points and Vectors added
• New mutable code lines in VB and C# script components which allows for custom type definitions and custom procedures
• New curve components (Shatter, Trim with BRep, Split with BRep, Trim with Region)
• New Surface components (Rail Revolve, Copy UV Trim, Retrim)
• New Mesh components (BRep mesher, Surface mesher, Mesh settings)
• New Graph types (Parabola, Sine summation, Sinc, Square Root)
• Merge Definition menu item has been reincarnated
• 3D text tags are now available from the panels
• Invariant culture is now used everywhere (I think) so all floating point numbers should be entered using the point decimal symbol

Details and download...