Re: Rhino3D vs Truspace

:-)

I am trying to prepare a graphic (rendered image) for
some on-line technical drawing lessons - multiview.
What I am trying to draw is an object in the center of
a glass box whose sides are hinged and can open.
(Rhino have provision for making and object
transparent)

My problem: I can't make lines and surfaces appear in
rendered views. For a rectangular surface, I have
managed to overcome the problem by drawing a very thin
(0.01mm) box instead and making it semitransparent,
but the lines representing the orthogonal views on the
glass panes refused to be made visible.

Support staff at Rhino suggested ticking the box to
render wire-frame in the render dialog box, but this
make my problem worse. The lines (orthonal views)
still remain invisible while the unwanted wire frame
for the glass panes appear in the rendered view.

As for the lines, I believe one way of making it
visible is to convert the lines (zero thickness) to a
very thin cylinder, but this will be a lot of work,
especially as I am still struggling to get use to
Rhino construction plane while still bewitched by
autocad UCS.

Perhaps there are smarter people here on the list than
at Rhino support :-), or there are other CAD software
that can do what I want?

P.S. Rhino demo only allow 30 saves, but if I save the
rendered view to clipboard, then into Words,
photoshop, etc., I can use Rhino3D for this purpose
till eternity. Please keep this secret from Rhino.

Peter



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