Wish I had been on a beta list for Rhino 5. Never got a chance to express my wish list like I have done here for GH... so all I can do is pray that somebody made the same requests and they were honored. Things I would love to see in Rhino 5:
1) Most importantly: vastly improved Xref functionality. As of now, you can't separate the layers of a linked DWG to drive geometry creation (through manual creation, Record History, and/or Grasshopper). Look at 3DS Max for a model of the functionality I'm looking for... the lines are not editable, but they are used as proxies for functions like extrude curve, loft, etc... 2) Isolate layer functions that work like AutoCAD. (I know, something works better in AutoCAD than in Rhino? It's hard to believe...) 3) No control point picking hassles... (when zoomed in close the point on the screen and the point you must click to get the control point are different... OpenGL problem? Dunno...) 4) Improved Area and volume calculations... Rhino often gives bad data for single surfaces yet includes these in totals without warnings. Calculating areas and volumes become a time-consuming process of "Rebuild"ing surfaces and checking individual surface results to assure accurate and consistent results. Rhino should identify calculation problems automatically (e.g., negative and absurd results) and give warning messages at the very least, and at most automatically rebuild surfaces (in memory) to achieve the best approximations possible. I've got to say that there are very few things in Rhino that drive me absolutely crazy, but these are a few things I can think of off the top of my head that I have been hoping for in Rhino 5... I'm sure there are a couple other little things... Marc On Mar 10, 5:36 pm, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote: > I send a build of GH 0.6 to some people inside McNeel yesterday, they > found 2 serious bugs. Once I fix those I'll send it out again. We'll > keep repeating this until we can find no more (serious) bugs. > So, if all goes well, tomorrow... Don't count on that. > > Rhino5 is currently being held up by the installer. We ran into a few > issues with installing 32-bit Rhino on 64-bit windows when a 64-bit > Rhino was already installed or something similar. I'm not keeping > close tabs on the installer guys. > > Why do you want Rhino5? I mean, what do you think it will give you > that Rhino4 hasn't got? I'm just curious... > > -- > David Rutten > [email protected] > Robert McNeel & Associates > > On Mar 10, 4:56 pm, jd <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Thanks David. Is there an ETA for the next release of GH? What about > > Rhino 5?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
