Learning Rhino 5 for Mac

Get up and running with Rhino for Mac. Learn about basic interface navigation, 3D modeling, lighting, and rendering in Rhino 5 for Mac.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• What is Rhino for Mac?
• System requirements and supported hardware
• Downloading and installing Rhino for Mac

1. Getting Acquainted with Rhino 5 for Mac

• Start window
• Rhino interface basics
• Navigating viewports
• Customizing viewports
• File management
• Rhino objects
• Selecting objects
• Rhino commands
• Staying organized
• Help and troubleshooting

2. Differences between Rhino 5 for Mac and Rhino for Windows

• What's missing from Windows
• Keyboard, mouse, and peripheral differences
• Contextual menu differences
• Commands and command-line differences
• Toolbar and palette differences
• Autosave differences

3. Curves

• Curve basics
• Drawing lines and curve primitives
• Drawing freeform curves
• Analyzing curves
• Editing curves

4. Surfaces

• Surface basics
• Making extrusion surfaces
• Lofting surfaces
• Surfaces from edge curves
• Creating revolved surfaces
• Making surfaces with sweep commands
• Network surface creation
• Surface analysis
• Editing surfaces

5. Solids

• Solids basics
• Creating solid objects
• Freeform solids creation
• Boolean operations
• Editing solids

6. Transforming Geometry

• Moving objects with Drag, Move, and Gumball
• Rotating objects with Rotate and Gumball
• Scaling objects with Scale commands and Gumball
• Duplicating objects with Copy and Array commands

7. Accurate Modeling

• Understanding coordinate systems
• Drawing with reference images
• Using the snapping tools
• Working with modeling constraints
• The SmartTrack tool

8. Rendering

• Render setting and scene setup
• Lighting basics
• Materials and final rendering