McNeel Rhino 5.0 for Mac

Educational Student License

Rhino 5.0 for Mac Educational Student License is the market leader in industrial design modeling software. Highly complicated shapes can be directly modeled or acquired through Rhino 3D digitizers. With its powerful NURBS based engine Rhino 5.0 for Mac can create, edit, analyze, and translate curves, surfaces, and solids. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size.

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McNeel Rhino 5.0 for Mac also supports polygon meshes and point clouds for a complete coverage of geometric data types. With its unparalleled modeling power McNeel Rhino 5.0 for Mac lets you focus on designing, not on cumbersome modeling workarounds.

• Faster display using modern graphics hardware
• Updated Material and Rendering system
• Grasshopper updated with multi-threaded components, Kangaroo 2, and more
• Raytraced viewport display mode
• Faster, cleaner Make2D with more customizable results

• Uninhibited free-form 3-D modeling tools like those found only in high-end systems. Model any shape you can imagine.
• Accuracy needed to design, prototype, engineer, analyze, and manufacture anything from an airplane to jewelry.
• Compatibility with all your other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software.
• Read and repair extremely challenging IGES files.
• Accessible. So easy to learn and use that you can focus on design and visualization without being distracted by the software.
• Fast, even on an ordinary laptop computer. No special hardware is needed.
• Development platform for hundreds of specialty 3D products.
• Affordable. Ordinary hardware. Short learning curve. Priced like other Windows software. No maintenance fees.

Overview

McNeel fully embraced Grasshopper - the wildly popular visual programming language - by "baking it in." Grasshopper 3D is no longer beta; it's a stable development environment. McNeel has also rewritten some features and renovated workflows that needed fundamental overhauls to make them truly productive.

Grasshopper

The long beta period is over: Grasshopper 3D, the world's most beautiful programming language, is now a full-fledged part of Rhino. Used in some of the most ambitious design projects of the past decade, Grasshopper, has become a very robust and widely adopted development platform. Grasshopper provides a solid foundation for many incredible third-party components ranging from environmental analysis to robotic control.

Presentation

Presentation is key: during nearly every phase of design, you need to communicate, getting "buy-in" from clients, customers, collaborators, or the public at large. McNeel has improved Rhino with the aim of helping you present your work: be it "quick and dirty" or "high- res glossy." With major changes to Rendering, Materials, or just plain capturing the viewport, it's now easier and faster to present, discuss, make decisions, and iterate.

Display

Rhino 5.0 for Mac's new display pipeline is faster, more stable, and uses features found on modern graphics hardware, like GPU sensitive shaders and memory optimizations. This results in fewer GPU-specific display glitches and more consistent, beautiful, and frequent frames, even with large models. In some conditions, display speed can be up to 300% faster.

Documentation

Modeling is just one part of the design process; you also need to show how to build what is on the screen. McNeel has refined many parts of the documentation workflow, from a completely reworked annotation-style interface to better DWG support and RichText throughout. It's now easier to convey accurately and clearly the what and the how of your design.

Licensing & Administration

McNeel has worked hard to make its software easier to install, license, and configure. There's a great new option to manage your licenses using the Cloud Zoo (see paragraph below).

Make2D

Make2D has been completely rewritten to provide faster, better, cleaner, more customizable results.

Refinements

Small quirks add up to painful paper cuts over the course of a prolonged modeling session. McNeel has fixed hundreds of minor bugs and consolidated disparate - but similar - features into single commands, making Rhino much more refined.

Development Platform

This is more than just a CAD 3D modeler. With a rich ecosystem of plugins and an open set of development tools, i's is quickly becoming the development platform for those seeking to push the envelope of design. It comes with major improvements to the free SDKs, including refinements, better documentation, and improved access to Rhino commands from Grasshopper.

Serengeti

McNeel is constantly improving Rhino. Users have access to the Serengeti Community and our Work-In-Progress (WIP) builds. The WIP builds are where McNeel is developing future features like SubD support, Grasshopper 2, a new real-time rendering engine, and much more.

Cloud Zoo is a new option: It does not replace the existing license key system or Zoo, you can continue to use them. Cloud Zoo is a cloud-based license management system that:

• Allows you to use Rhino by logging into the Cloud Zoo using your Rhino Account.
• Allows you to track and manage your licenses and users.
• Keeps track of the licenses you own.
• Manages your licenses across multiple computers and users. (Run anywhere your license allows)
• Allows you to use Rhino on multiple machines as long as you abide by the license agreement.

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