Rhino 3DM files can be viewed on your iPhone now.
http://itunes.apple.com/app/irhino-3d/id373666504?mt=8

Cool.
C. Smith

Now that is amazing!
Do I need to put the Rhino files on my web site?

Paul Lamar

Wouldn't hurt, if you're cool with it. I bought Rhino last semester with my
student discount, and would love to get the native Rhino files for my CH-640.
that way I can do some deconstruction, and also do some slicing and dicing to
plot 1:1 patterns at work for my cowl project.
C. Smith


I am not sure what you are going to see when viewing a 3dm file.

Putting them on the web site is a lot of work but if you can handle
zip files I can send them that way. That way they can be directly
loaded into Rhino. I am sure your i-phone does not run Rhino or
does it? :)

See if you can unzip this and load it into Rhino.

Paul Lamar

Sorry, sometimes I blend a couple of different thought processes into one
sentance. Do not bother with adding files to site.
If you would please send me the native rhino files directly (anything you have
related to my project), that would be excellent. I had no problem opening the
attached file on my laptop.

I already installed the rhino app to my phone, and the samples from Novedge look
great. I have only an iPhone 3g, so the rotates and zooms are a bit clippy. The
"limits" are 50k polygons per file give or take.

On my laptop, this file opened in a wireframe view. I will get it into the
iPhone and see how it looks, report to follow.

The iPhone does not run rhino, but the file viewer is  pretty cool. If the
surfaces have been shaded, the 3DM files can be viewed with zoom and rotate in
all axis. It is more wow factor at this moment, but I suspect there will be a
dimensioning feature added in the near future. Nice to show engineers on the
floor what we are doing with rotaries, and in a way they can't do on their
blackberries. I love to rub this project in their noses.
C. Smith

The raw .3dm is 42 meg. zipped it is 16 meg. Can your email
system handle 16 meg?

Paul Lamar
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-- No problem with 16 meg, Thanks a bunch.
C. Smith

I did not think that would work so I put it up on
the web site. Go on the front page and scroll down
to Tech Paper Download section. Go to the bottom of
the list and click on:

"Zenith 640 motor mount and cowl. Rhino 3dm file zipped."

Your browser will download the 16 meg zip file.

Paul Lamar

Got it, thanks Paul.
C. Smith