SubD in Rhino

Hello, what development will be gained by Sub-D in Rhino?

Well, you’ll develop the ability, in native Rhino, to work with subdivision designed objects in addition to, and along with, traditional nurbs based surfaces and poly surfaces. Such is important to many designers.

Does that answer your question?

I it seems saw messages that in Rhino 6 there will be no Sub-D? :thinking:

There will be two versions: the official, commercial release in which the sub-d functionality will not be present and the WIP version, and there sub-d is available.

More specifically: There will be a released version 6 w/o sub-D and a version 7 WIP which includes it. The version 7 WIP will be just that: a Work-In-Progress, and initially will most likely be something you wouldn’t want to use for any actual projects.

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Not really, guys. Dale’s document on the status of SubD describes what will be in Rhino 6.

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Thanks for reminding us. I had forgotten about this relatively recent change in status.

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The tool is poorly developed in comparison with T-Splines or?

The tool is not complete, thus why you’ll find it in the Work In Progress versions of Rhino.

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Just that early WIPs are not to be trusted. Experience will show you how usable they are for you. Even then you still need to be aware that things can change in unexpected and undesirable ways from one WIP to the next. Also as Luis said for Sub-D specifically.

It is clear, it would be very good to have the built-in Sub-D technology of modeling in Rhino :grinning:

A simple curiosity: will be available the most important commands (thicken, insert edge, bridge, crease, match, weld point, etc.), like those present in TSplines?
The SubD in Rhino 6 beta are still in the embryonic phase, unripe…

I hope that, after so many years of development, Rhino 7 will not make us regret the loss of TSplines!
Example: tsplines command

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