Maxwell | Rhino for Mac offers a brand new integration for Rhino for Mac, allowing you to work within the Rhino interface via a Maxwell toolbar. Also included with this integration is Maxwell Studio – Next Limit sophisticated standalone scene editor. This provides an additional workflow based on the Asset Reference feature, which allows live-linking to assets (.obj, etc) created in Rhino from within Maxwell Studio.
Bundled together in one easy installation package, the plug-in + Studio workflow includes the entire suite of Maxwell tools. For integrated features see the Feature Table.
I was very excited about this, as I’m a long-term use of Maxwell Render and a new Rhino user (and fan!), and loved the idea of them being combined.
However, I’m not sure that it really is actually available yet in a working form.
It definitely doesn’t work with macOS Sierra - in fact, no Maxwell Render product appears to work on macOS Sierra - and Next Limit support staff don’t currently have any idea when macOS Sierra support will be introduced. I also tried 4 on a previous macOS version and that didn’t run at all reliably - on average it was about 4 minutes work between crashes, and applying virtually any form of complex material was an instant fail.
YMMV, but before parting with any money I would strongly urge that you test Maxwell 4 thoroughly: I’m in the (long drawn out) process of obtaining a refund.
