I’ve been using iRhino 3D for years on my Apple devices but would also like to know is there a similar viewer for Android devices this would be great for my Clients.
Regards
Arnold C.
Sorry, there isn’t.
The iOS viewer was a fairly simple and natural spin-off of the OS X Mac Rhino development process.
We looked at the Android development and it would be a much more difficult development process because of all the supported screen sizes and resolutions; none of which are managed by the operating system. In iOS all of the supported screens and resolutions are built into the development tools.
It would be possible for a third-party Android developer to use our free development tools and write one, but there are no plans for us to do one ourselves.
Thanks for your quick response. I shall continue to view on iOS.
Arn
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Simlab has a viewer that runs on Android and iOS. Their desktop application is needed to import the Rhino file to make a a viewer file. There is an integration utility for many applications including Rhino, that attemps to make the transfer to the desktop application a bit more transparent.
I don’t work for them but I do use Simlab Composer. I admit, I have not used the viewer but its worth investigating.
Sorta, kinda…
One workaround: Import your .3dm into Fusion, and use the Fusion 360 Android app…
I too am looking for an Android viewer for 3dm files. Does anyone know about this Android viewer on Rhino3D’s resources pages? The page seems to be an approved rhino3D resource but links on that page go to a parked domain. I’ve tried to reach out to the contact, but I’ve received no response to date.
Apologies for the delayed reply.
I do not believe that ThinSlices are continuing to develop their viewer. That resource should probably be removed.
You might try ViewER by AMC Bridge.
It would still be awesome if there was one. In example, with the latest Samsung Note and the Dex which isnt amazing, but still work alright. There could not only be a Rhino Viewer but maybe it would be possible to make slight changes to the model as well. Of course in terms of actually doing it might be impossible or very hard, but I reckon it would make quite a buz around Rhino to be able to work models, to any degree of limitations, from your phone. Might be stupid but just thinking out loud.
Nine years late, but for anyone landing here from a search: John Brock wrote at the top of this thread that a third-party developer could use McNeel’s free tools and write an Android viewer. Someone did. It is me, so read the rest with that in mind.
Worth noting first, because this thread is what a search lands on: both Android viewers named here are gone. The resource rfm asked about in 2017 already pointed at a parked domain, and ViewER’s Play Store listing no longer resolves either.
SRD Android CAD Viewer opens a .3dm directly on an Android tablet. Rhino’s own file reader runs on the device, so there is no conversion step — no SimLab desktop pass, no Fusion import, no export of any kind. The file is read where it sits, offline, and is never uploaded.
The honest limit: it draws the 2D drawing, not the shaded model. Model space and every layout tab, with dimensions and text at their effective style, hatches, detail views, and anything set to “no print” left off the sheet, the way Rhino puts it on paper. Arnold, if what your clients need is to turn the model around, this is not the iRhino equivalent you were asking for. Gpetrica, it does not edit either — no changes to the model, slight or otherwise. It reads drawings.
So: if the thing that has to reach the tablet is the sheet, it covers that. If it is the model, the gap in this thread is still open.
Free to download today, details here: SRD Android CAD Viewer — reading Rhino layouts on an Android tablet
A follow-up to my post above. It said the app reads the 2D drawing, not the 3D model, which left this thread’s own question open. Since the September release that has changed: SRD Android CAD Viewer now opens the 3D model too.
- Wireframe, shaded and ghosted display, with top, front, left, isometric and perspective views
- A section box you drag to cut the model open
- Measuring on the model as well as on the sheet: distances, plus linear, aligned, radius, diameter and angular dimensions
Two honest limits. The 3D view draws the render meshes Rhino saves in the file, so a model saved with “Save Small” shows no surfaces. And opening a file needs no connection, but the app has to reach our server at least once a week, and after the first week it asks you to sign in.
Same disclosure as above: it is my own app, and it is free to download today. The full list of changes is in the announcement: