![]() ![]() ![]() But everything in FormZ seemed to take several times more clicks to do relative to creating the same thing in Rhino.Īlso FormZ seemed to be much more of a closed world compared with Rhino. Rhino had some advantage for me because knowing AutoCad the commands were easier to figure out. I have to say that when Rhino was first released (pre-version-1 beta), I thought I had died and gone to heaven compared to FormZ. We used to have FormZ at the architecture school where I work, and I had used it a bit before I started here. Many design and architecture firms today expect at least some Rhino (and Grasshopper) proficiency. Play around with the technical display mode–you can customize it and I have a feeling you will like it for what you do. And the Windows version has an endless array of plugins. Personally, I think Rhino is much more Mac friendly than any other 3D modeling program on the market. The gumball in Rhino V5 makes that fairly easy to do. So, if you wanted to extrude polysurfaces and move faces/edges or split faces, you can do that in Rhino too. You can actually model in Rhino similar to the polygon modeling in programs like Maya and Form Z, but that’s not the program’s strength. A good workflow is to sketch something to create surfaces. Rhino derives its strength from its NURBS capabilities. This has actually been the case for the better part of a decade if not longer. Rhino is now taught and used in most architecture schools in the US and abroad. I shall be interested in hearing your own views in the upcoming months. My summary probably didn’t help, as there possibly is no right choice. ![]() And in a few years I’m hoping that Rhino will have Maxwell plug-in compatibility as well as lots of awesome features borrowed from the other packages (not to mention Grasshopper which looks to be amazing from the videos). However, it required paying an annual fee equivalent to what I was able to purchase Rhino outright. It seemed to take the best from both Rhino and FormZ and put it in an elegant and powerful package. ![]() Rhino feels more stable and less idiosyncratic.Īnother package I looked at (very briefly) was Fusion 360. I also got frustrated using FormZ in that actions which appeared to be straightforward would often fail with a cryptic error message. I just wish that the Rhino people would use FormZ for a while and be tempted to copy a few ideas from the usage. In short, my opinion is that FormZ lets you be creative more easily, while Rhino allows you to create do things more easily to a specification. Pushing/pulling a shape on the surface of another solid jumps to mind, as well as being able to have a solid with a cavity. Sadly there are so many concepts and features that FormZ has that I wish Rhino had. And this tends to be the important feature when I’m doing my designing. I never figured out a way in FormZ to create an arc tangental to two other curves. The thing which sold me on Rhino (apart from being ½ the price) was it gave me the ability to do accurate modelling – e.g. The new features in FormZ 8.5 gave some great abilities which appear to be missing from Rhino – however, I can’t imagine myself ever using those features in a real project. And FormZ developers seem much more Mac oriented. My opinion is that FormZ is more ‘fun’ to use and with more features (than the Mac version) with the interface being more Mac friendly and user friendly. I don’t have a detailed breakdown to give you (since I am a relative newcomer to both) but I shall share my general impressions. Note that I’m on a Mac, so can only speak for that platform’s options. I had been playing around with the demo version of FormZ for a while, and was about to purchase it when I discovered Rhino. I found myself making a similar decision just a few months back. ![]()
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