Considering Rhino is now using Cycles, and Blender is now with 2.8 out, it would be amazing, as an architect, to design on Rhino and export to Blender for the final render, adding complex materials, use cloth tools which Blender has, and not have to add to the Rhino design a degree of complexity I o…

I already replied here [image] Rhino to Blender Cycles? Rendering Although it woukd be cool to write directly .blend files the import_3dm add-on for Blender already should get you going for most cases. There is a request opened here https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrac…

I’m very happy for getting a reply from you, I have been wanting to test the 3dm reader, I did not have the chance to test it yet but I’d like to thank you for putting the effort. As an architect on Archicad, Archicad makes a great 3dm file already. If I can get that file with all the information (…

I use Rhino and Archicad as a paid on my workflow… I make many scene objects and furniture design on Rhino and import on Archicad… or construct urban scenes on Archicad using Grasshopper as a base… today, for some quick high resolution renders on VRay, I simply save the Archicad as 3DM and do it al…

Nice to hear you’re looking into EEVEE as a potential render engine. Rhino already does indirectly support Blender/Cycles development by having its own Cycles fork publicly available at https://github.com/mcneel/cycles , https://github.com/CCSycles and https://github.com/RhinoCycles . I suppose I coul…

when rhino files over 600 mb it crashes so the import_3dm is not working exactly

You could follow in the task manager how the memory usage is during the import. I’m guessing at some point there is no free memory.

I have 32 gb ram. Ram usage is normal when I check. Also is there a solution for when I try to import hundreds objects in rhino layer to blender, the grouped file splited in parts. So the blender file is getting huge and hard to arrange layer system.

For architecture, import_3dm addon is not functional workflow.

Still… if I want to do an animation… and use Blender elements such as fluids and particle systems… which Rhino should not have… I’d love to just “save as Blender”, go to blender and do a small movie for my architectural project using my Rhino Geometry… and have Rhino as a pure design tool, and Blend…

It is very interesting indeed, but technically very challenging. There is no library for the Blender format, and it isn’t all that well documented. Creating an exporter in Rhino to the Blender format is going to be very time consuming, and difficult. The Blender Python API is the best access to Ble…

Rhino V7 Request: Save as Blender 2.8

Serengeti (Rhino BETA)

kitjmv (jmv) October 25, 2020, 6:31pm 18

I know, I sent you this link.

And at this topic, i have found
http://homac.cakelab.org/projects/JavaBlendFileViewer/index.html
It uses the “sdna.blend” to generate the structure.
But it’s Java, I didn’t know how to use it.

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