Robert McNeel & Associates   
 

Start with a sketch, drawing, physical model, or only an idea -- Rhino provides the tools to accurately model your designs ready for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing.

Rhino can create, edit, analyze, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids in Windows. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size. Rhino also supports polygon meshes.

Rhino also supports polygon meshes and point clouds. Other special features include:

• Uninhibited free-form 3-D modeling tools like those found only in products costing 20 to 50 times more. 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.

• Affordable. Ordinary hardware. Short learning. Priced like other Windows software. No maintenance fees. 

Rhino Evaluation Version --Try before you buy

This fully functional version is the same as the commercial version except that it only saves 25 times. After that it is still fully functional except it will not save. It will still work great to learn Rhino and as a viewer for Rhino and many other file formats.

Flamingo brings the raytrace and radiosity rendering to Rhino. This plug-in includes:

Rendering
Photometrically accurate images with reflections, refraction, diffusion, translucency, transparency, color bleeding, shadows, depth of field, depth attenuation, ClearFinish™, and indirect lighting.

Animation
Viewpoint animation for walk-throughs and fly-bys, and sunlight animation for shadow studies.

Other features
Procedural clouds, fractal-generated 3-D plants, procedural 2-D and 3-D materials, progressive-refinement for quick preview, and extensive material, plant, and background libraries.

Hardware requirements
Flamingo runs inside Rhino and has the same hardware requirements. Rhino with Flamingo runs on ordinary Windows desktop and laptop computers, with:
 • Pentium, Celeron, or higher processor.
   (Dual processors are supported.)
 • Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP for Intel or AMD.*
 • 40 MB disk space.
 • 64 MB RAM. More is recommended.
*Rhino and Flamingo will NOT be ported to any other operating system.

Available for Rhino 2.0 and 3.0.

Download Flamingo Evaluation Version --Try before you buy

This is a fully functional version except it has limited materials and plant libraries, and it also draws thin gray lines across the final rendered image.

Penguin brings freehand sketching, watercolor painting and cartoon-like rendering to Rhino and AutoCAD.

What is Penguin?
Penguin is a conceptual, sketch and cartoon, non-photometric scan line renderer. With Penguin you can create stylized images of your models with an artistic look for enhanced graphic and visual appeal.

Download Penguin Evaluation Version This is a fully functional version that draws thin black lines across the final rendered image.

Requirements
Penguin for Rhino
Penguin runs inside Rhino and has the same hardware requirements. Rhino with Penguin runs on ordinary Windows desktop and laptop computers. 
Penguin works with Rhino 2 and Rhino 3.

Penguin for AutoCAD
No special hardware is needed beyond what is required for AutoCAD. 
Penguin works with AutoCAD 2000, 2000i, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Bongo brings professional animation into Rhino 3.0, using familiar keyframe tools found in most high-end animation packages.

Professional animation tools
Animate moving, scaling, and rotating Rhino objects without exporting. Objects and viewport animations are editable in the Rhino window using simple drag and drop. Modify your objects and motion data without losing valuable time changing between programs.

Easily preview your animations inside Rhino, in real time, in any shading mode by scrubbing the timeline or playing the animation. Then render straight to an animation file using any Rhino renderer including wireframe, openGL, render preview, render, TreeFrog, Flamingo, and Penguin.

Bongo is also great for demonstrating moving objects using real-time playback in the Rhino viewports - just drag the timeline around to show a client how your design works.

Bongo is now shipping - Order your copy today.
Download Bongo beta version. --Try before you buy.
This is a fully functional version with the limitation that it saves animation data only 30 times.
Rhino 3.0 or 3.0 evaluation is required...

Rendering
Photometrically accurate images with reflections, refraction, diffusion, translucency, transparency, color bleeding, shadows, depth of field, depth attenuation, ClearFinish™, and indirect lighting.

Animation
Viewpoint animation for walk-throughs and fly-bys, and sunlight animation for shadow studies.

Virtual reality
Panorama networks using iMove or Live Picture technology.

Lighting analysis
Walk through a pseudocolor display showing illuminance or luminance contours. Use the cursor as a meter to measure the values on any surface.

Hardware requirements
No special hardware is needed beyond what is required for AutoCAD.

Available for:
AutoCAD 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2006 (Download a demo)

Try before you buy. This is a fully functional version except it has limited materials, light fixture, and plant libraries, and it also draws thin black lines across the final rendered image.

The Blocks & Materials for AccuRender CD-ROM includes more than 1,000 3-D models, 50 light fixtures, 400 texture objects, and 800 textures for use with AccuRender. All models include pre-attached materials you just insert and render.

Libraries include vehicles, office, furniture, people, lights, plumbing, site work, miscellaneous, plants, materials.