Foveate - New interactive 3D presentation and collaboration tool for Rhino and Grasshopper

Foveate is a 3D platform for creating interactive presentations, digital twins, walkthroughs, and more from your Rhino files.

Foveate is built for architects and engineers to simplify spatial communication using Rhino, all on a link. Learn more on food4Rhino.

Foveate can compress your Rhino/Grasshopper models up to 80% and render them in a real-time 3D environment with PBR Materials, 8K HDRs, and Post-Processing FX like Rhino’s Arctic Mode, all without coding.

Combine your Rhino CAD models, renderings, and drawings into one immersive presentation.

Easily drag and drop multiple .3dm, .glb, .fbx, .pdf, .png, .jpg, and more from Rhino/Grasshopper into the collaborative web-based scene creator and share your vision with dynamic lighting, HDR Environments, Real-time Visual FX and Camera Paths.

Comment on your Rhino designs in 3D.

Foveate’s Moments system lets teams use Rhino comments directly in 3D, saving countless hours and miscommunications compared to redlining screenshots.

Built for iterative design.

Rhino users move fast. That’s why a Foveate Interactive Presentation can be easily updated, and any asset can be replaced with one button click. This removes the headache of creating and updating design presentations with last-minute changes.

Spatial communication simplified.

Are you tired of clients not ‘getting it’? Foveate, using the innovative Present Mode, lets Rhino users walk their clients through a model in real time without the choppiness of screen-sharing.

Watch how Foveate can supercharge your Rhino projects with this short tutorial... 

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Kit Crashing, parametric design and landscape architecture

Tune in to this YouTube channel, Kit Crashing, delving into the world of parametric design in landscape architecture. 

These videos show you how parametric modeling techniques can revolutionize your approach to landscape design, making computational modeling software like Grasshopper accessible to everyone! Stay tuned for discussing integrating parametric design principles into landscape architecture using Land Kit. 

Crash together all the fascinating parts of parametric design, computational design, landscape, architecture, urbanism, art, industrial design, 3D printing, immersive media, animation, and more.

Hosted by Chris Landau, the founder of LANDAU Design+Technology and creator of the Land Kit plugin for Rhino and Grasshopper. 

The first three episodes....

Moving Pictures: The Art of M.C. Escher and Animation

National Museum of Mathematics

January 11, 2023

The work of M.C. Escher can be thought of as related to animation, for example, his long print Metamorphosis.  But Escher didn’t need an animation technique, instead finding his own solutions.  A square slowly changes shape and other recognizable shapes—such as birds and fish—emerge precisely because of the clear visual language that Escher developed.  Looking more closely from this perspective, are there perhaps other wonderful worlds that will become visible?  Join Dutch mathematician Rinus Roelofs and Authorized Rhino Trainer for a closer look at Escher’s work, a great source of inspiration from which unexpected moving images have arisen.  Math Encounters is MoMath’s popular free public presentation series celebrating the spectacular world of mathematics, produced with support from the Simons Foundation.

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Rendering and visualization with Rhino and Weviz Studio

Weviz Studio is a new generation of visualization software. Thanks to real-time technology, rendering is now instantaneous! 

Reviewing your designs, validating them, creating smashing 3D presentations and videos is now as easy as a game! Discover the easiest-to-use and most realistic real-time software, especially for design and manufacturing industries.

Easy import from Rhino: Weviz supports 3DM format and many others natively! Drag and drop your 3D projects on Weviz Studio.

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Rhino 7 GPU / Graphics Card Tests (by SimplyRhino UK)

SimplyRhino UK has completed its latest GPU test report, looking at performance not only with Rhino 7 (and Rhino Raytrace rendering engine) and popular companion products such as KeyShot, Twinmotion, V-Ray for Rhino and Chaos Vantage.

"Choosing a GPU / Graphics Card isn’t a straightforward task, especially when you have a mix of software tools that you switch between, as many CAD users do. It is a challenge to find a good balance between GPU price and performance, so we set out with this report to fill in some of the gaps to help you choose the right card for your applications."

Complete test details...

Rhino to Twinmotion Video tutorial – An Introduction to Twinmotion Materials, Characters and Vegetation

SimplyRhino UK has been kind enough to share a new video tutorial on how to transfer your Rhino models and scenes to Twinmotion and apply materials, characters and vegetation.

Watch the full video tutorial here...

Enscape 3.2 offers dynamic real-time visualization and streamlined workflow with Rhino

Enscape, a leading provider of real-time visualization, 3D rendering, and virtual reality technology for the global AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) industry, recently released version 3.2. This latest update includes many new features that help architects and designers worldwide to transform Rhino models into immersive real-time 3D experiences, creating more vivid real-time visualizations and streamlining workflow.

Enscape 3.2 New Features

• Dynamic asset placement
  
  Users can select, place, and edit assets from the Asset Libraries into their designs via the Enscape rendering window. The Rhino model instantly reflects everything added to the rendering, offering a two-way asset placement. Users can rotate, scale, and delete an asset, and all changes will sync back to the project. Multi-asset placement is also now available to quickly populate scenes with assets such as trees, cars, and people, directly inside Enscape.
  
  
• Green building assets and materials
  
  Over 250 new assets, including 150 green building assets like wind turbines and solar panels, have been added, in addition to new materials such as organic bricks, recycled plastic, hay plastic, solar modules, solar roof tiles, and more.
  
  
• New materials and people assets
  
  
• Batch rendering of panoramas
  
  
• Panorama tours
  
  
• Upload management overhaul
  
  
• Ray-traced sun shadows in the real-time view
  
  
• Windows 11 support

Read more about Enscape 3.2...

Request a free student and educator license...

Try Enscape for free...

Rhino 7 to FELIX Online Render

FELIX Render is a clever cloud-based rendering software for architects and designers. It offers superior rendering quality, rich collaborative material and object libraries, wonderful tools to quickly populate your designs with furniture and vegetation, the comfort of a 100% non-destructive workflow, and fantastic lighting tools. It can handle huge projects from an old laptop. Its performance is almost entirely hardware-independent.

It's very affordable and since the cloud is based on sharing hardware resources, it's also environmentally friendly. 

Download the Rhino 7 to Felix Render Exporter on food4Rhino...

Enscape 3.1 with NVIDIA DLSS support and a new material library

Enscape, a 3D real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin for Rhino, is now available with new features that enable 3D renderings to be quicker and easier and provide fully immersive experiences for designers and their clients.

New Material Library

Designers can choose from over 200 predefined high-quality materials, such as wood, fabric, brick, and tile. These materials can also be imported into the Enscape Material Editor, where various elements can be edited to get the look and feel desired for projects.

New Panorama Gallery

It is easy to share and group multiple 360 panorama images simultaneously, entirely through the web browser, to create a personalized experience when presenting designs. Clients can navigate a project from a web link or even a QR code and visualize multiple rooms or compare different design options.

NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) Support

Users can now enjoy improved real-time performance of walkthroughs and higher frame rates with much lower GPU requirements. The deep learning-based upscaling technique renders internally at a lower resolution but outputs a clean and sharp high-resolution image for high-quality videos and high-performance virtual reality walkthroughs. DLSS is available to users with an NVIDIA RTX graphics card.

With Enscape 3.1, users will also enjoy:

• An improved Material Editor
• Simplified assets
• Ray-traced sun shadows

Rhino users can try Enscape 3.1 for free for 14 days...

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Learn more about Enscape 3.1...

Exporting Data from Rhino to Twinmotion

In this Simply Rhino UK video tutorial, senior Trainer Phil Cook takes a look at exporting data from Rhino to Twinmotion using the new Datasmith Rhino Exporter.

Improved Rhino to Twinmotion workflow

The new Direct Link, which also uses the Datasmith file format, makes it very easy to have Rhino and Twinmotion open together and push design changes in Rhino to Twinmotion for evaluation.

Watch the video tutorial...

Enscape Educational program

Enscape’s real-time rendering features can help students to achieve so much more in their design projects. From creating lifelike design experiences to supporting effective diagnosis and experimentation, the tool gives you the ability to speed up your design process and envision better designs.

With Enscape and its Rhino plugin, you can integrate real-time rendering and VR into your workflow, helping to improve and speed up the entire design process significantly.

Enscape offers free educational licenses to both students and classrooms. To learn more about Enscape and obtain your free real-time rendering license, visit the Enscape Educational website.

And see the amazing projects done by students using Rhino and Enscape!

Give your design workflow a boost with real-time rendering!