Rhino 3D is easy to learn!

[BobWarfield]

Rhino 3D is not too bad to learn. I was able to do a chuck backplate drawing about an hour after opening the box. I had already finished the two simple tutorials on the trial version.

Here is the drawing:

http://www.thewarfields.com/img/Toys...3ViewGhost.jpg

[Ed_R]

Wow, I might have to open the wallet and get it!

[turmite]

http://www.ob.com/ $695

Best price I've seen so far.

[BobWarfield]

I got mine for $500 from www.ez-router.com. They were recommended by Bob Campbell and they are good people.

Best,

BW

[sdantonio]

Hi,

Let me ask a dumb Rhino question. I, like a number of others out here am using Rhiho for musical instrument design and CNC. I'm also using it to convert all my old blueprints to electronic copies (scanning them in at wrk, vectorizing them and then importing them into Rhino). Only half of my stuff is worth taking the time to render into 3D, the rest is flat and would be better off as a flat print like a blueprint.

Ok so here is the stupid question and I haven't been able to find and answer in any of the Rhino tutorials or their help section.

Is there any easy way to do dashed or dotted lines in Rhino (like you would use to signify a structure inside of a body cavity or going through another part).

Steven

[BobWarfield]

No dotted lines, but aren't the ghosted lines similar to what I had in my drawing good enough? Or is the issue simply that you don't want to have to create a 3D object in order to get them. If it's the latter, you're probably out of luck with Rhino.

The next thing I want to play with is adding dimensioning information to the drawings.

Best,

BW

PS: I just learned there will be a lot of 2D enhancements to Rhino 4. You can download the beta on their site. Looks like dotted lines might be possible after all.

[chmillman]

As Bob said, dotted lines (and other linetypes) are available in the V4 Beta, which you can download and use if you are a registered V3 user. --ch

[Dan B]

Rhino V4 offers linetypes, hatching, ordinate dimensioning, a layout mode, a much improved Make2D command and much more. It is going to be a huge step forward for Rhino in the 2D world. A lot of people are going to stop using their Autocad LT when this comes out.

If you buy V3 now, you can start working with this immediately. Although it is still in beta, it is more stable than most other software ever hopes to be!

Dan

[sdantonio]

Thanks for the info, I figured they would be putting it into ver 4