Plugins power up Rhino

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jun 6, 2003

Power Solids and Power Booleans now bring new power to Rhino, the popular NURBS modelling software for Windows.

Power Solids and Power Booleans now bring new power to Rhino, the popular NURBS modelling software for Windows.

Power Solids extends Rhino to support high end solids modelling.

The powerful combination of Rhino with Power Solids provides a geometric modelling tool set equivalent or superior to those found in high-end (and high priced) solids modelling products.

Power Solids includes three new Rhino tools: a filleting tool, a shelling tool, and a Boolean tree tool.

The filleting tool has the following features: variable radius, constant radius, and constant distance tracing; fillet/chamfer; circular, linear and blend curve fillet surface cross-sections; handles difficult large radius, self-intersection and rollover cases; and saves fillet data for easy modification/revision.

The shelling tool includes the following features: solid offset or inset with blending; solid shelling inward or outward with blending; and handles many difficult self-intersection cases.

The Boolean tree tool includes the following features: union, difference, intersection of solids and surfaces; merge overlapping surfaces to create solid; automatic filleting of intersection, operator, or operand edges; and saves boolean history to facilitate CSG tree editing.

Power Booleans includes the following features: union difference, intersection of solids, surfaces, and polygons; high quality mesh generation with optional polygon reduction; produces quality STL files; and NURBS Booleans and polygonal Booleans with the blended curve fillet, users have the option of generating an organic blend curve fillet.

Power Solids filleting opens up the power of variable radius fillets to Rhino customers.

Power Solids 1.5 sells for $295 and Power Booleans sells for $195.

A bundle of Power Solids and Power Booleans sells for $395.

Power Solids and Power Booleans are available for purchase at the nPower Software online store, and through various resellers throughout the world.

A free 30 day evaluation copy can be downloaded from the nPower Software website.