Customer Reviews

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Eric Flachbart
Rhino Artisan is very efficient

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

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Joshua Edelstein (Honolulu, US)
Second to one, but also better

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.

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