Is Rhino 2.0 still alive? What about 3.0?

[Arquibaldo]

Dear Rhino experts:

The reason I ask about Rhino 2 & 3 and their scripts is the following:

A few years back I used Rhino 2 to design a small router (I know, Rhino is
a modeler, not a CAD system, but it was all I had access to...). The design
wasn't good, but in the process I learned about Rhino scripts and wrote a few,
particularly one that was very useful, enabling me to automatically build
a model by assembling hundreds of smaller parts.

I now have the time to go back playing with these scripts, specially the
"mount script" which I'd like to extend with parametric capability. But I
see that Rhino is now in version 4... So let me ask these questions:

Is anybody still using Rhino 2? Rhino 3?

Would a Rhino 2 script work under Rhino 3 or 4? Would it be too difficult
to upgrade a Rhino 2 script to Rhino 3 or 4?

There must be dozens of scripts around to do these things, but would anybody
be interested in the "mount script" or in its parametric extension?

Is it still possible to buy Rhino 3 (at a reduced price, of course)? I thought
Rhino 2 was pretty good (although the scripting system was somewhat buggy) - Is
it worth it to upgrade? Why?

Thank you for your patience. If there is any interest, I will start by posting
the documentation file for my original "mount script".

Nelson

[chmillman]

Is anybody still using Rhino 2? Rhino 3?

Certainly. Probably many more using V3 than V2, but I know some that still use V2 on a regular basis.

Would a Rhino 2 script work under Rhino 3 or 4? Would it be too difficult
to upgrade a Rhino 2 script to Rhino 3 or 4?

Unlikely. Rhino was completely re-written for V3, and there were many changes to V4, including the SDK. But they might be able to be adapted to V4 with a little work. And a number of things that needed to be scripted in V2 are standard in V3/4. Scripting capability itself has been far extended with V4.

There must be dozens of scripts around to do these things, but would anybody
be interested in the "mount script" or in its parametric extension?

I'm not sure what you mean by "mount script" but it is highly likely that these kinds of things are do-able via V4's scripting capability (via the Monkey script editor), or with the generative modeling plug-in Grasshopper. Both can be found here:
http://en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.as...oHomeLabs.html

Is it still possible to buy Rhino 3?

Not "officially", but someone might want to sell you a used version (it's legal under certain conditions).

Is it worth it to upgrade? Why?

IMO, yes. Directly to V4. I would keep V2 on your computer as well, because there are actually a couple of things that it does better than V4... Otherwise, V4 blows both V3 and V2 out of the water in terms of features and capabilities.

--ch

[Arquibaldo]

Dear chmillman

Thanks a lot for your kind and thorough reply.

By "mount script" I mean the script I mentioned in the 1st patagraph, which creates a
model by "assemblying" the models of its many parts.

Nelson

[Dan B]

I could convert your script from V2 to V4 if you think that would be useful. Contact me off-line if you are interested.

rhinomech@gmail.com

Dan