from this: [image] Rhino inside Civil 3D In general, if an application runs as a 64 bit application on Windows and supports some sort of plug-in architecture then it is technically possible to embed Rhino.Inside. It seems should be possible. Is anyone working on this?

Nathan gave it a quick shot, but had some problems with Rhino’s OpenGL initialization stepping on Blender’s OpenGL state. I think this just got set aside until he gets out from under his remaining list of Mac V6 items to finish off.

[image] rhinoinside Embed Rhino in CPython But as @stevebaer mentioned I haven’t been able to get it working just yet, and it isn’t highest on my todo list either (which is what @stevebaer also said) . I hope to get working on it before summer.

It also may require us to make some changes to Rhino itself so I don’t think there is much people besides myself and Nathan can really do to get this working yet

@stevebaer , @nathanletwory , How does that work? Do you need to create wrappers for each Blender command to return its RhinoCommon counterpart or a single wrapper and use decorations? similar to this: def wrapper(func): def foo(*args, **kwargs): print("This is the result of the wrapped…

No, more like the import_3dm code and the sample code on the page for rhinoinside for CPython

[image] nathanletwory: the sample code on the page for rhinoinside for CPython I was thinking about the AutoCAD+Grasshopper real-time link. Whatever you create in Blender to be visible in Rhino. How would that be done without a wrapper? I’m still very far from understanding rhino-inside …

In CPython, and by extension Blender, the point is to be able to access the geometry functions that Rhino provides through its RhinoCommon API. Rhino Inside is the glue to do this. All the computation and geometry types stay in Rhino, but you can now use the RhinoCommon API to utilize that in Blend…

Using Rhino commands directly in Blender console instead of linking the corresponding types? That’s cool, could save a lot of coding :slight_smile: But what if the application doesn’t have a python engine embedded? Do you use wrappers then?

[image] nathanletwory: You also get to access intersection code, surface evaluation, etc that doesn’t necessarily exist in Blender, especially for those geometry types that are not native to Blender How would you use intersection on blender native mesh type? How would you extend the type to b…

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ivelin.peychev (IVELIN PEYCHEV) April 15, 2019, 3:37pm 3

Hi @nathanletwory,

Does it have a github repo?

Rhino.Inside.QGIS?

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