Learning Rhino 6 for Mac

Discover how to get started with Rhino 6 for Mac, the powerful hybrid 3D modeling software for designing complex forms and shapes.

Introduction

• Design complex forms and shapes with Rhino
• 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 for Mac

• Start window
• Menu bar
• Viewport
• Sidebars
• Command icons
• Command line
• Modeling constraints
• Gumball tool
• Associative History toggle
• Status bar
• Rhino themes
• Customizing unit and grid settings
• Navigating viewports
• Customizing viewports
• File management
• Rhino objects
• Selecting objects
• Staying organized with layers
• Help and troubleshooting

2. Differences between Rhino 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 panel differences
• Autosave differences

3. Curves

• Curve basics
• Drawing straight line curves
• Drawing polygons
• Drawing circles, ellipses, and arcs
• Drawing spirals and helixes
• Drawing freeform curves
• Analyzing curve length
• Analyzing curve angles
• Analyzing curve radius
• Analyzing curve curvature
• Analyzing curve continuity
• Analyzing curve direction
• Exploding and joining curves
• Editing curve control points
• Smoothing curves
• Extending curves
• Splitting curves
• Trimming curves
• Offsetting curves
• Matching curves
• Filleting curves
• Rebuilding curves

4. Surfaces

• Surface basics
• Making extrusion surfaces
• Basic lofted surfaces
• Lofting surfaces with loft options
• Surfaces from edge curves
• Creating revolved surfaces
• Making sweep 1 rail surfaces
• Making sweep 2 rail surfaces
• Network surface creation
• Analyzing surface direction
• Analyzing surface radius and curvature
• Analyzing surface continuity
• Editing surface control points
• Exploding and joining surfaces
• Smoothing surfaces
• Extending surfaces
• Splitting surfaces
• Trimming surfaces
• Offsetting surfaces
• Matching surfaces
• Filleting surfaces
• Bending surfaces
• Rebuilding surfaces

5. Solids

• Solids basics
• Creating solid objects
• Freeform solids creation
• Analyzing solids: Edge analysis
• Editing solids: Boolean difference
• Editing solids: Boolean union
• Editing solids: Boolean intersection
• Editing solids: Boolean two shapes
• Editing solids: WireCut
• Editing solids: Chamfer

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 gumball
• Duplicating objects with array commands

7. Accurate Modeling

• Understanding coordinate systems
• Using construction planes
• Modeling constraints: Ortho
• Modeling constraints: Planar
• Drawing with reference images: Picture frame
• Drawing with reference images: Background bitmap
• Persistent object snaps
• One-shot object snaps
• Grid snap settings
• SmartTrack

8. Rendering

• Render settings and scene setup
• Lighting setup: Two-point lighting
• Lighting setup: Three-point lighting
• Applying and customizing materials
• Rendering

Conclusion

• Next steps