It's finally here, the commercial release of Rhino, great news for the
fabricator industry.
Best regards,
Marshall Burns
Marshall@Ennex.com
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Rhinoceros Brings Powerful NURBS Modeling To Windows
(Business Wire; 10/02/98)
SEATTLE (Oct. 2) BUSINESS WIRE -Oct. 2, 1998--New from Robert McNeel &
Associates is Rhinoceros (Rhino), the first full power NURBS (non-uniform
rational B-spline) modeler made for the Windows platform.
Initial release is scheduled to ship in October for US$795. Because of its ease
of use and low cost, Rhino is an ideal companion to many animation and
rendering products as well as to CAD, CAM, CAE, 3-D digitizing, rapid-
prototyping, 3-D painting, games development, and VR authoring tools. Spline-
based models created in Rhino can be used in most rendering and animation
products, including 3D Studio MAX, Softimage, and LightWave 3D.
"Our goal is to give professional modelers the Windows tools they need to
accurately build complex free-form models," explains Bob McNeel, President of
Robert McNeel & Associates. "Until now, robust NURBS modeling technology like
this has been available only in UNIX workstation software costing thousands of
dollars."
Rhino combines the accuracy of traditional CAD with the flexibility of spline-
based modeling technology, to create objects that are smooth NURBS curves and
surfaces rather than line segments or polygon meshes. Rhino uses trimmed free-
form NURBS surfaces to accurately represent curved shapes, including curved
shapes with holes in them. Rhino also integrates solids (surfaces joined
together at their edges) and surface modeling so that solids can be exploded
into surfaces, edited, and then joined back together again. Any combination of
curves, surfaces, and solids can be trimmed.
Under development for over 5 years and field tested for more than 2 years at
over 110,000 user sites, Rhino runs on a PC with a Pentium processor, 32 MB
RAM, and 15 MB disk space under Windows 95, 98, or NT; no special graphics
hardware needed. Supported standards include IGES, DWG, DXF, 3DS, LWO, VRML,
STL, OBJ, WMF, RIB, BMP, TGA, JPG, and AI. Rhino directly supports Faro and
MicroScribe 3D digitizing systems.
Rhino is backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee. User support is by phone, on
a private Internet newsgroup, and by e-mail. Rhino updates are available
through the Internet. Local language versions will soon be available from
dealers and the Internet worldwide. A working demo can be downloaded from
www.rhino3d.com.
For more information contact Robert McNeel & Associates, 3670 Woodland Park Ave
No, Seattle, WA 98103 USA; phone 206/545-7000; fax 206/545-7321; email
sales@mcneel.com; Web site www.rhino3d.com.
Note to Editors: Images and additional information are available at
www.rhino3d.com/press.
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