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Article published on November 30, 2009 on NOVEDGE blog. Italy is a country famous for several reasons. Among them: artistic and historical monuments, great food, fashion, music, and sports cars. Software and technology are seldom added to the list. So when you happen to meet the CEO of a successful Italian software company, the first... Continue Reading →
Rhino is a very flexible application and is gradually penetrating different professional areas, from industrial design to architecture, and jewelry design. Each specific domain can significantly benefit from Rhino's features but requires specific commands and libraries that are usually not provided by Robert McNeel and Associates. What McNeel delivers is a powerful software platform on top of... Continue Reading →
Something must be right for jewelry design in Spain. Not only are several jewelry designers active in Spain, but Spain is also the source of some of the best and most popular software tools for jewelry design. Among those tools, RhinoGold stands out as a reference point, setting standards both for features and customer support. The manufacturer of RhinoGold is TDM... Continue Reading →
Articole published on June 9, 2009 on the NOVEDGE blog. One of my recurring complaints about surface modeling is the intrinsic complexity of existing modeling systems. Even if the level of user-friendliness of these systems has improved, sooner or later, every user needs to invest some time to understand how the underlying geometry works and... Continue Reading →
It's part of my daily job to stay in touch with new technologies and systems by reading CAD news and playing with trial versions. Over the years I've become immunized to most of the CAD marketing buzz. Despite the grand announcements, the CAD world evolves at a slow pace with few real advancements each year.... Continue Reading →
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CYS9WMI?ie=UTF8&tag=ffbooks-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=B00CYS9WMI Ron KC Cheng is the author of a new book Inside Rhinoceros 4 published by Thomas Learning, an introduction to the latest release of Rhino, the popular NURBS modeling system by Robert McNeel and Associates. This is not the first book about Rhino written by Ron; he is also the author of Inside Rhinoceros 3, a sort of classic for... Continue Reading →
My interview with Giuseppe Massoni, a jewelry designer and a Rhino 3D guru. Giuseppe talks about the intersection between CAD and jewelry design.
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