![]() ![]() ![]() Many needs of the architecture world would surely also be positive for product designers. I think those who want rhino to be a fully fledged BIM / Drafting tool are looking in the wrong place. The boundaries between the two are, I would believe, often not so clear. I say that, but I would be very interested to know what things are so conflicting? Dare I say it, meeting the needs of architects should probably be prioritised even if it is to the detriment of product designers. If the market segments size disparity is as you say, then ignoring the needs of architects would seem rather silly. The other thread where you more forceful, it really did come over as rhino was and will always be focused on product design. That doesn’t mean we won’t try and hopefully eventually be successful, but I don’t know how we will do that. It is unclear to me how to easily and seamlessly accommodate both. ![]() So I repeat: Architecture is a design world with unique needs that are at odds with Industrial design. At it’s core, NURBS surface modeling is better suited to industrial design and product styling. I think it would be a mistake to abandon our industrial design focus and shift to architecture. Grasshopper has made Rhino attractive to architects. ![]() The developers are still a small, privately held company, but our reach is much wider with the help of our users. Rhino is no longer a little start up application. We intentionally avoided architecture because of it’s huge size and because it was well supported by many successful applications. Also, it was poorly supported by software tools available at the time. When we designed Rhino, we chose the much smaller industrial design market segment because as a small company with limited resources, it was a size we could deal with without being steam rollered by it. Yes, it is troubling me that I have now seen a couple of occasions where seems to essentially be saying that Architectural design doesn’t matter because rhino is an industrial / product design tool. I suspect that it applies in 3DS Max and Maya etc too. It I know it applies to Revit and Microstation. Specifically relating to this post, most modelling tools work better when the geometry is close to the origin. Rhino has become a vital tool for us but if new tools directed towards our market are considered important then eventually something else will come along that does. I think there is a big argument to say that the market is who buys it, not what the makers say it is.Īs the company making it, and as a representative of that company, it is very worrying to hear that the market I am in appears to not be valued as much as others. That may have been the case originally, and I don’t know what the relative market sizes are, but Rhino is one of the big modelling tools used in architecture. It’s better to shift your project coordinates to be closer to World it is troubling me that I have now seen a couple of occasions where seems to essentially be saying that Architectural design doesn’t matter because rhino is an industrial / product design tool. In either case, avoid using State Plane coordinates or you will run out of decimal place accuracy and see a lot of confusing problems. If you want to see the unshifted coordinates displayed, click the CPlane label in the lower left corner of the Status bar so it will display World coordinates instead. If you go into Options > Modeling Aids, and switch your Construction planes to Universal construction planes, then changing the CPlane origin in one viewport will shift the origin in all the viewports.īy default the coordinate display in the Status bar is set to report CPlane coordinates. By default this will shift only the CPlane origin of the current viewport. Use the CPlane command with the Option origin. The other is to shift the Viewport Construction Plane origin to be closer to your model. You can change the Grid settings to be much larger so it extends far enough out from World 0,0 to include your working coordinates area. Since Rhino was intended to be used with the World 0,0 origin near the center of your work, the Grid is centered around 0,0. There’s not a perfectly clean way currently, but there are two options that come to mind. ![]()
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