I just tried this to open a Rhino 7.0 file …works fine.
https://dev.opencascade.org/project/cad-assistant
Cheers,
Mike.
Did you try the SketchFab? Simple if you quit asking endless questions and just follow their instructions. Did you even click on the example I shared with you here and navigate it to see what it does? Give it a go , please.
Many organisations, certainly UK Govt will not allow progs to be installed, even internet sites might be vetted.
Then there are PC non confident people, and those that want simple and shy away at prospect of anything other than a simple viewer with just a few knobs and buttons.
likewise opencascade, needs installing, and so many controls on it, he will want ortho and persp zoom and a measuring device, and perhaps print, thats all.
We dont get scared at loads of menus but some folk with grubby fingers and a disc cutter in hand needing to just make something do.
ref sketchfab,
I do need to know before uploading it if its going to be visible to anyone, they dont have an easy means of asking them without fist creating an account, and as such being unable to find out anything I moved on. So as you know sketchfab is this public viewable or just myself and my client ?
I started to create an account and T&C was about price plans, so I will have to look further when I get time to read all the blurb, pages of it.
Does it have a measuring tool as if not I can forget it. Wish they had an easy support section ,not require account making first.
I would need to find out if client is win10, I think he is, then 3D viewer might be of use, I cant test it as I am not Win10, and I need to see how it opens my file, is it in colour, can it be measured etc.
Steve
Hi Steve -
The Simlab 3D PDF exporter works OK. A client can open the PDF file in the free Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and can measure the model. All Rhino named views can be exported and the client can also create sections. You can password-protect the PDF file.
Simlab-PDF-from-Rhino5.pdf (14.1 MB)
(I had to cut parts of it to get it small enough to get attached here…)
-wim
Hi.
I opened the pdf without savig to PC, options trust always, and a white page, nothing to see.
click the white and again select trust always, did that a few times, no image.
I shall try the exporter, many thanks for the link.
One way or another I may eventually get a viewer.
Steve
I opened 3D PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader. My understanding is some or all non-Adobe PDF viewers do not work with 3D PDF files. I had to “enable” 3D to see the contents. It worked for me.
Hi,
I right click the file , go open with Adobe Acrobat Reader and try again, blank white.
I download latest from Adobe, installer says already exists and stops.
I try again and I see model, hooray. but its appearance is dreadful,100% glossy, reflecting lights and killing detail in the burn out areas, I try all the lighting options under the little angle poise lamp icon and they are even worse.
By default one needs it matt and lit as in Rhino, which also matches metashape. so as to work with it.
It had opened on CAD Optimized which was areas burnt out, headlamp is the best it will do and thats useless. Needs the high gloss removing, and light level increasing.
and my RhinoV5 file with texture as per Wim is below. which is as per real thing.
as the file I have opened is in this thread, made by Wim, how does it look for you guys ?
Steve
When you open the file in Acrobat Reader and you’re confronted with a blank white page, select one of the View names on the left hand menu (Top, Right, Front etc). Does the model then swing into view?
Hi, now that its managed to open it, if I start over and open it its there now.
However the lighting and colours etc are hopeless as shown, and those from you guys, thanks for trying, are also not as per the actual item I am looking at in Rhino, so this pdf viewer item changes the lighting and colours and applies high gloss on which the lights reflect. Who asked it to gloss it up then shine bright lights at it from my direction ? Who thought that might be a good idea ? It needs same reflectance and same lighting as default in Rhino, as I am still using default, not dabbled with lighting as its normally good to go.
As such the pdf viewer is of no use with it doing that.
Steve
Steve,
I think that may have something to do with how the Simlab plugin is defining the lights.
It’s probably not using the original lighting in Rhino at all, but maybe it possible to use the Rhino lighting, I don’t know.
Note the first choice “Lights from file” is not available
I do not know if there is a way when the PDF file is exported to force it to use the original lighting.
It appears you can get a free trial of a the Rhino v5 plugin here:
https://www.simlab-soft.com/3d-plugins/3D-PDF-from-rhino-main.aspx#downloadOlder
Hi,
I have just been asked yet again by another client can they view my surfaces objects etc rhino file and get some dimensions from it ?
Different to seeing meshes and textures.
He doesnt want to install Rhino and he shouldnt have to, folk get put off.
Is there a viewer now I can point him to ?
(after many years of Rhino)
Do other CAD progs have such ?
Cheers
Steve
Hi Steve -
If he has a iPhone or iPad, there is iRhino that is actively being developed.
-wim
Here is a link to the iRhino app
Reading through the thread, it seems that you want a way for clients to view Rhino models which:
- is free to the client
- doesn’t require an install on the client’s machine
- Renders the same way Rhino would (including lighting etc.)
- allows pulling dimensions and similar functionality
If the apple solution immediately above doesn’t work, can you buy an extra Rhino license for your business and then, whenever you have a client like this, fire up an instance of Windows in Azure or your preferred host to install Rhino on and hand the keys to the client?