Hi @nathanletwory , just stumbled across your Blender 3dm importer video via Luis’s tweet and I’m completely blown away! This seems to be the link that I wished to have for years now.. Did the transport via FBX and OBJ until now but it always was some kind of a hassle. Do you plan on extending that…

hi @nathanletwory , all, Do you have any way to reverse this so we can open .blend files in Rhino, and see all the geometry, file structure, collections, etc. preserved? Blender is not exporting file structure as. fbx and we don’t have a good way to bring full blender structure back to Rhino. Any id…

[image] Gustavo Fontana: Do you have any way to reverse this so we can open .blend files in Rhino, and see all the geometry, file structure, collections, etc. preserved? Blender is not exporting file structure as. fbx and we don’t have a good way to bring full blender structure back to Rhino. An…

Hi Nathan, We live in both of these worlds of Rhino and Blender constantly, so we’ll be happy to test, help, guide how this should work. Best, G

Nathan，thank you for your great work. Blender can be a good render engine for rhino. but there is a problem. I use your plugin to import 3dm， if the 3dm fle is large than 100MB, the time of import is very very long, blender is Unresponsive. Could you speed the process? D5 render have a plugin to ex…

Hi @nathanletwory any plans to update plugin for Blender 4? Also does it support blocks to instances ? Thank you

Thank you Nathan. What is the latest blender and Rhino version which are supported? Also when importing blocks does it preserve origin ? Planing to model a lot of plots in Rhino bit replace with Blender made houses

I’ve used it with Blender 3.5, haven’t tried with newer versions. Current plug-in should be able to read up to Rhino 7 files. Block instance insert points should be preserved. Regular objects in Rhino don’t have an origin, they all have their geometry in world space.

Hi Nathan, any plans to evolve this work towards live-linking? Similar to the RhinoInside work you guys are doing for other industries like architecture. We really need this functionality in our production work. It’s very time consuming to have to reimport things. Also we need subs to stay live/edi…

Rhino 8 release has sucked up huge amounts of my attention (there are only so many hours in an 8-hour work day :wink: ), but once things calm down a bit I intend to pick this up again.

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nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory) January 26, 2024, 9:23am 382

There are plans, but I haven’t had the time yet. The plan is also to update to using the latest rhino3dm version, which should allow me to extract materials and textures better.

Block instances are already supported.

Rhino-Blender LiveLink Add-on similar to Keyshot?

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