Last September I needed to produce some detailed 3d reliefs and reluctantly bought a year subscription to Autodesk’s Artcam. Software is great and it was fun to learn a new way of working. Last December I even posted a suggestion on this forum that someone interested in high resolution reliefs look into Artcam. I should have known better! In their own words: “We regret to inform you that on July 7, 2018, ArtCAM will be discontinued with no planned future releases or updates.” https://www.autodesk.com/products/artcam/overview
Hope that Rhino can develop some model editing capability similar to this-I don’t care about the CAM part (already use RhinoCAM) but the editing tools are very cool. Just saw that RhinoArt is now bundled with RhinoCAM 2018 at no additional cost. But how about something in Rhino?
TDM also has RhinoEmboss IIRC…
I don’t know if you you can do your stuff with the Rhino native Heightfield command, or perhaps ZSurf…
Oh, and I guess if you’re good, you could concoct something with Grasshopper’s image sampler going to a mesh and perhaps some other components and plug-ins…
–Mitch
Thanks Mitch, looking into these now.
Although Leveller is self described as a “terrain” modeler, all of the functionality works for relief modeling as well. There are sculpting brushes, mesh import/export, 16-bit greyscale import/export …
http://www.daylongraphics.com/products/leveller.php
I’ve been using as a mesh modeling tool for many years.
Cool. I’ll check this out as more becomes public. When Autodesk stopped development and selling new licences for Artcam they offered every user with a valid subscription a free upgrade to a lifetime (non expiring) license, so I got one, but I’d rather support the original developers.