I have a few questions about how we can make rhino better for making patent drawings, if you have experience doing this type of work, please respond to this thread, or email me kyle@mcneel.com

My recent experience doing patent drawings(albeit for small-time American clients) is that the whole specific “patent drawing style” is obsolete. Whatever gets the point across is fine.

That’s been my experience too.

I did a lot of patent drawing work between 2000-10 Rayflectar Illustration Used Rhino always as a starting point, but never as total solution. The main issue was shading, Utility patents use light shading using parallel lines (more so for design patents) and design patents occasionally require stip…

The patent office believes that everyone makes drawings with black ink and paper, and that it is impossible to reproduce any color except black color. This is the reason why all colors except black are prohibited.

I thought it was to make sure that faxing a fax or copying a copy would always result in the closest possible version of the original.

I’ll rework it a bit and post a version if of interest. Should I redo it to output an image than can be saved insted? Or is a pointcloud a good idea? I figured a pointcloud would be good since points can be deleted and it’s easy to combine with a line drawing.

not sure- my 1st thought was for an image, but having it be something that could be edited is compelling- anyone else have an opinion?

Hi Kyle, all, I don’t know how patent drawings are done in other countries but in the US you don’t need the stippling, in fact, you don’t even need a specific shading type of drawing, however, there are situations where the linetype does matter, and that’s only in design patents. Here’s an example…

That’s super valuable information, thanks for thaking the time to write it all down and finding all the images. None the less, if some are interested in a dotted shaded image to go with a 2D drawing I just updated the script with a lightness multiplier and a viewport frame to match the 2D drawing. …

Anyone using rhino for patent drawings?

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theoutside (Kyle Houchens) January 3, 2024, 8:21pm 20

it got very little internal traction… Needs a push from users if it’s going to get any more attention.

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Anyone using rhino for patent drawings?

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