This way it will become available everywhere instantly.
I doubt this is doable without massive development, but it surely would be fantastic.
You mean like this?
ā Dale
@dale,
That looks more like a sharing and communication tool rather than a fully functional rhino version inside the web browser, so, no.
Check Vectary for another example.
Maybe you mean something like OnShape? It totally exists in a browser, from the userās perspective.
Not really, should be just like running rhino on a virtual machine.
You could also just run Rhino on a remote machine and use i.e. VNC to connect.
Some VNC servers have a simple webserver built in, one that serves a viewer for in the browserā¦
Of course I can, there are several solutions. But all too geeky. The purpose is to make it easily accessible.
And thisā¦
Paperspace used to highlight Rhino in their demos/ web marketing.
https://www.paperspace.com/vfx
I use(d) Paperspaceā¦works!
In Europe, there is this (never tried it)
Iād like to know why? What problem are we trying to solve by running Rhino by launching a web-browser instead of launching Rhino.
I tried visualizations and remote access before, including Frame and itās all slow. Delay is minimal enough to seem useful, but long enough to be a horrible experience.
Same goes to CAD in the cloud: it works great for a plank and a hole sample file. Or the simplistic stuff you can model with Onshape tools. But if you feed it a large, heavy, complex model it just melts.
Maybe Iām being too critical. But I see no upside here. A fast PC with decent video card and ram is 100x better than any remote solution. Just me?
G
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Because it is there, dudeā¦(and it is your futureā¦)
Hey, if you canāt figure out what youād want to do with it, Iām sure as poop not going to tell you. Different strokesā¦
I will say thisā¦Frame sucked when I tested it, and Paperspace worked and still does. I think I know why, but why botherā¦
Not for everyone, (essentially old geezers like @gustojunk 
)
But here is Paperspace. Largest model I could find in a hurry on GrabCAD (because you canāt see my heavy models)
I will say performance is somewhat close to local, but not quite the same, with whatever model IMO. Your mileage will varyā¦
I know Iām an old gizzard, and probably Iām assuming you all also see the obvious. Let me explain: I see value in remote access when you want to access a system thatās way more powerful that whatās physically in front of you. Examples: traveling, or away from your system and need to do things like rendering or grasshopper calculations. And your laptop will not be good/fast enough.
ā¦but I still fail to see many cases where it makes sense for an interactive/modeling session like what we do in Rhino. That frame rate you show there seems unusable to model with IMO.
Thanks for sharing.
G
Have you tried otoyās octane and blender demos?
https://home.otoy.com/ click on āCloud Demosā.
They have the most convincing solution I have seen, I can operate those with minimal lag even on my old copper internet connection with 8Mbit download and 0,5Mbit upload speed.
But for med it would require that I built and stored the file/assembly online too, as uploading a 500MB file takes for ever and interrupts my download for an hour (I use dropbox a lot and upload speed is my biggest issue for large files)
One other reason to have Rhino running in browser would be that it will become available for ChromeOS. Right? Thereās no real cad software for it right now.
Nah, youāre not. Just āschoolyardā playing with you. Youāre a good sport for playing along!
Youāre totally right too. A local desktop does āfeelā better. Iād rather user one, for the most part, and at present.
Bottom line - itās really situational right now.
That said, one day, I do believe SaaS is the future, like it or not. I believe that IaaS (your whole operating system/computer in the cloud,) is not the way to go and ultimately yields to SaaS. ISV will love it too, as they can crush piracy through SaaS subscriptions, etc.
Still, SaaS will not dominate (per industry segment) until people like us sayā¦āyea, I want to use that all the time.ā When all the ducks line up and that happensā¦canāt exactly predict, obviously. Long time? Soon? Never???
No, but you hit the nail on the head!
It is really about the implementationā¦and that varies currently.
Killer implementations will fly, IMO
This is the other reason it has legsā¦
Millennials and GenZ are likely to reject status quo. Theyāll want to run āwhateverā off their phone (sort of), beamed to paper thin OLEDs on the wall.
Another reason: It will bypass the IT department that pre-installs autocad only, in those old school, never changing, 500 employees companies, where creativity dies for every intern without admin privileges. 