Rhinoceros 4.0 New Technologies

Rhino 4.0 is the most significant upgrade in the history of Rhino.  There are ten major new technologies that add more than five hundred new features and enhancements.

• Universal Deformation Technology™ (UDT)
  This proprietary new technology lets you deform, without constraints, any curves, surfaces, meshes, and solids while maintaining the integrity of the object.
   
• History
  History aware commands create geometry that can be edited by editing inputs. History recording, updating of history-aware objects, objects with history locking, and warning messages can be toggle on or off. Not all geometry creation commands support history.
   
• Feature recognition
  There are a group of new editing commands that can automatically select all of the geometry when any part is selected. For example, a hole can be deleted or moved by clicking on any related geometry.
   
• Display pipeline
  The new display pipeline takes advantage of the latest graphic card technology to provide a major speed improvement, new advanced display modes, real-time rendering, new analysis tools, multiple monitors, and support for new third-party application display modes. The new display pipeline also provides support for user-configured display schemes.
   
• SmartTrack™
  A system of temporary reference lines and points drawn in the Rhino viewport using implicit relationships among various 3-D points, other geometry in space, and the coordinate axes' directions.
   
• G-infinity™
  Provides designers with the tools to interactively adjust the shape of the blends while maintaining continuity beyond G2.
   
• Filleting and blending
  Enhancements include continuity control between G0 and G4, new cross-section position and shape controls, fillet rail styles controls for Rolling ball, Distance from Edge, and Distance between Rails.
   
• Intersection
  Speed improved and more Boolean special cases are handled.
   
• Toolbars and docking
  Toolbars and docking mechanisms have been completely rewritten. Docking toolbars, the command prompt, layer, properties, and other controls easier and more reliable.
   
• 2-D drawing/drafting tools
  Including line styles, line weights, hidden lines, dimensions, hatching, page layout and printing/plotting.

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