Prior Rhino Gold and Matrix user. I am loving Rhino Artisan so far. It would be great if I could switch back and forth between the Rhino and Artisan interfaces. But that is minor
It’s a great software. I use it every day. I am so happy that I purchased it through you guys. Thank you so much for a great customer service.
With the understanding that MatrixGold is the king of the category, RhinoArtisan takes a strong second place. But there are reasons to believe it will overtake the GemVision product. The obvious reason is that the developers of RhinoArtisan also created RhinoGold, which was purchased by GemVision to make MatrixGold what it now is, so there's a track record of excellence already. The developers are constantly improving the product, and are highly responsive to user input.
The program is lightweight (I can run it on a three-year-old Surface Pro!), is fast, takes advantage of aspects of parametric modeling, has great granularity (you can even parametrically model assets as mundane as bales) and is pleasant to use. While I'm certainly used to doing layouts in plain Rhino, RhinoArtisan has already sped up my workflow in many aspects.
For me, personally, I love that the program can be run either using the RhinoArtisan UI that they've built, OR as any other plugin whose toolbar you might add to the standard Rhino3D interface. When I worked in a large company that used Matrix, I set up my options to see all of the Rhino toolbars inside the workspace so that I wasn't forced into using the Matrix version of Rhino commands (I only used Matrix for things Rhino didn't do natively). Running the default Rhino UI with a RhinoArtisan toolbar fits my workflow better, which is an option Matrix will NEVER give you.
Giving four stars only because there are certain things missing, which they know about and are already actively working to add. With those and other future improvements—and if they can keep the price within the current ballpark relative to the competition—I'm certain this will be a five-star product in very short order.
I used to use VectorWorks and now I've switched to Rhino3d. Rhino is more general case so it's easier to build models that show custom details exactly as I want built. And I love being able to type commands on the keyboard—it goes very fast once I learn them.
My main pain point is turning the model into construction drawings. Setting up a detail view is a little more tedious than VectorWorks, and sometimes the printout/pdf looks different from how it looked on the screen which makes it very time consuming to adjust.
Editor is not intuitive and text edits are especially glitchy.
The new version 8 came out shortly after I bought 7. The upgrade price is nearly the cost of an entirely new license
Excellent software. Recently became aware of the product and service. Editing abilities are impressive, quick, and efficient.
Rhino 8 is on the cutting edge. If you want to try the latest stuff this is your tool. The mcneel team is super responsive and they are the best. Give it a go it is free for 90 days.
Rhino 8 is a great upgrade from Rhino 7. User friendly with nice features. Easy to navigate and get tasks done in timely manner. Thanks so much!
In many 'updates' to previous versions, someone finds it necessary to re-make existing icons. Not sure why. Seems like extra effort and ultimately extra costs to the consumer to re-do what ahs already been done. Not needed.