MachStudio direct export from Rhino

StudioGPU has released a free Rhino plug-in to directly export 3D models into MachStudio native GXB formats. These models can then be imported into MachStudio Pro where an artist can create and manipulate lights, materials, and HDR cameras in a real-time, non-linear workflow environment to achieve film quality results.

MachStudio Pro harnesses multi-threaded GPU (graphic card processor) computing to change the equation of time vs. quality. Frames that normally take 40 to 80 minutes each to render can be rendered in seconds at comparable quality.

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OSG Composer supports Rhino 3DM files

Simulation Lab Software announced support for Rhino 3DM files in their OSG Composer product. With OSG Composer, users can assemble an Open Scene Graph from many different 3D file formats and then export it to many different easy-to-share formats including osg, obj, 3d PDF, Collada, and Google Warehouse.

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Concepts: Captured, Modelled and Produced

Hosted by Coventry University, School of Art & Design, as part of their Summer School Series, Roland DG (UK) Limited, Patrick Thorn & Co and Cadsoft Solutions Limited are supporting a free two day (August 5-6) reverse engineering and Prototyping/CNC training event.

If you want to see how digitising, laser scanning, prototyping solutions can integrate with Rhino, do not miss this event to get some free hands on experience and advice. Emphasis will be on using the captured data with Rhino's mesh and surface tools to construct clean geometry for prototyping and production.

When?: August 5-6.

Where?: Coventry University Summer School, Coventy, UK. 

Places are limited so please follow this link to see the agenda and to register.

 
Successful registrants will be informed if there is a place available. Admission confirmation and directions to the university will be supplied.

Registration closes Midnight Monday August 3rd.

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Read and Write Rhino files in Pro/E

SYCODE launched fourteen file import and export plug-ins for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire including:

• 3DM Import for Pro/ENGINEER – Rhinoceros 3DM file import plug-in
• 3DM Export for Pro/ENGINEER – Rhinoceros 3DM file export plug-in

These plug-ins are designed to work with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and 5 Preproduction. All of the products are priced at $195 each and are available as fully functional 10-day/run trials. Each product comes with an installer and detailed documentation in the form of a compiled HTML help file which contains a step-by-step tutorial to get the end user started in the shortest possible time.

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RhinoScript Labs update (July 27, 2009)

RhinoScript is a scripting language based on Microsoft's VBScript language.

With RhinoScript, you can quickly add functionality to Rhino, or automate a variety of repetitive tasks.

The Labs version of RhinoScript contains additions and modifications to the version of RhinoScript included with Rhino 4.0 SR6.

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Grasshopper tools in C#

Grasshopper includes an impressive list of components, however, when design tasks become more advanced, you might need a custom component. With scripting components, the user can design their own custom components.

Giulio Piacentino, an architect based in the Netherlands, has been kind enough to share his custom C# components.

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New Grasshopper Tutorial

Woo Jae Sung has been teaching Grasshopper workshops at Cornell architecture. He has uploaded his newest tutorial materials to his blog, hoping they will be helpful to all beginning Grasshopper users.

Form vs. Shape Advanced Training - now with video

Hydraulic Design's collection of three easy-to-follow advanced tutorials now includes video. This is the product to help bridge the gap between knowing what the tools are and how to apply them to make Rhino do what you want.

They include 'online' HTML and printable PDF versions (about 620 pages total) illustrated with over 2300 screenshots and over an hour of video clips.

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