Rhinoceros (Single User) + V-Ray Next for Rhino - Bundle

Description

Rhino and V-Ray Next for Rhino bundle (10% discount). Two market leading software technologies a bundle.

Licensing

Chaos Group products are licensed via an online licensing system. It used to be licensed with hardware lock (USB dongle), but that system is being phased out. Online licensing requires Internet access. Licenses can be activated in real-time once an order is processed. For offline use, licenses may be checked out for up to 15 days at a time.

In exceptional cases, dongle licensing can still be offered. Contact us for more information.

V-Ray Benchmark – How fast is your hardware?

Test how fast your hardware renders by using Chaos Group's free V-Ray Benchmark application. Read more and see where your hardware ranks at benchmark.chaosgroup.com.

About V-Ray Next for Rhino

V-Ray is a very popular and feature rich renderer that because of its high render performance reveals a whole new world of possibilities. Chaos Group, the developer of V-Ray, has put a lot of effort into making ray tracing as fast as possible, which has made V-Ray one of the absolute fastest rendering softwares on the market.

About Rhino

Rhinoceros (aka Rhino) is a powerful 3D design software for Windows and Mac which uses NURBS geometry to describe any form regardless of size or complexity. Rhino is commonly used for industrial design as well as for example architecture, furniture and jewelry design. 

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The right tools for creating complex surfaces and solids

Rhino allows you to model the most complex surfaces you can imagine. The 3D information can then be exported to a variety of formats for further processing in the visualization and manufacturing process. Start off with a sketch, drawing, model or just an idea – Rhino provides all the tools needed to make models of your products. Then they are ready for rendering, animation, design, analysis and manufacturing. Rhino can create, edit, analyze, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces and solids. There are no restrictions in complexity, extent, or size. Rhino also supports polygon meshes and point clouds.

Differences Windows vs Mac

Rhino 6 is multiplatform: the same license can run on Windows and on Mac (but not simultaneously). For using Rhino 6 on Windows and Mac alternatively, licensing through Cloud Zoo or Zoo is required. Standalone installation does not allow it. Note! Feature sets in Rhino 6 for Mac and Rhino 6 for Windows differ. On this page the differences in features are listed. On this page you see what commands that are not yet available in Rhino 6 for Mac. See news section below.

Easy to learn

The software’s interface is easy to understand and has distinct icons. Many features and shortcut keys are logically structured which make Rhino easy to learn. As you get more comfortable with the software you can gradually adapt the look of the interface to make it more streamlined and efficient. Rhino’s interactive built-in manual gives you graphical information, such as short videos and text instructions, for each software feature. This makes Rhino a piece of cake to learn, as all you have to do is to click on an icon and watch a short video or quickly read the instructions provided.

Photorealistic visualizations

Rhino provides an unmatched workflow efficiency, and by combining Rhino with the extra plugin called Flamingo, alternatively an external rendering software such as V-Ray or Maxwell Render, you will be able to easily produce photorealistic visualizations of your models. Non photorealistic renders (cartoon style etc) can be done using the Penguin plugin.

What's new in Rhino 6?

Rhino 6 offers lots of news. See list below, or click here for Windows version news. Click here for Mac version news.

Grasshopper
Grasshopper, the world's most beautiful programming language, is now a full-fledged part of Rhino. Used in some of the most ambitious design projects of the past decade, Grasshopper, like Rhino, has become a robust development platform. Grasshopper provides the solid foundation for many incredible third-party components ranging from environmental analysis to robotic control.

Presentation
Presentation is key: during nearly every phase of design, you need to communicate, getting "buy-in" from clients, customers, collaborators, or the public at large. McNeel have improved Rhino with the aim of helping you present your work: be it "quick and dirty" or "high-res glossy." With major changes to Rendering, Materials, or just plain capturing the viewport, it's now easier and faster to present, discuss, make decisions, and iterate.

Display
Rhino's new display pipeline is faster, more stable, and uses features found on modern graphics hardware, like GPU sensitive shaders and memory optimizations. This results in fewer GPU-specific display glitches and more consistent, beautiful, and frequent frames, even with large models. In some conditions, display speed can be up to 300% faster.

Documentation
Modeling is just one part of the design process; you also need to show how to build what is on the screen. McNeel have refined many parts of the documentation workflow, from a completely reworked annotation-style interface, to better DWG support, and RichText throughout. It's now easier to convey accurately and clearly the what and the how of your design.

Licensing & Administration
McNeel have made it easier to install, license, and configure Rhino. There's a great new option to license Rhino using the Cloud Zoo. 

Make2D
Make2D has been completely rewritten to provide faster, better, cleaner, more customizable results.

Rhino Refinements
Small quirks add up to painful paper cuts over the course of a prolonged modeling session. In Rhino 6, McNeel have fixed hundreds of minor bugs and consolidated disparate – but similar – features into single commands, making Rhino much more refined.

Development Platform
Rhino is more than just a modeler. With a rich ecosystem of plugins and an open set of development tools, Rhino is quickly becoming the development platform for those seeking to push the envelope of design. Rhino 6 brings major improvements to the free SDKs, with API refinements, better documentation, and more access to Rhino commands from Grasshopper.

System requirements

See this page for system requirements and recommendations for Rhino 6 (Win and Mac).