Tutorial: Bringing Rhino 3D CAD Model to Blender 2.8

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This Tutorial pertains to bringing Rhino 3D model to Blender 2.8. Blender is a free and open-source 3D content creation and rendering program. It can be downloaded from www.blender.org\
This is a computer aided design (CAD) tutorial.

[@alancooke9357]

Blender 3.0 is very capable as an alternative renderer becos its fast and photorealistic now. Maybe a option for someone without vray or keyshort.

[@graemeh6345]

Thanks PC! Nice workflow. Take care

[@simpernchong]

Thank you too! And take care :)

[@a.p.5004]

thank you so much nobody is showing that so clearly ! Nice video!:)

[@simpernchong]

Glad it was helpful!

[@pepperpe6716]

Lovely tutorial, really appreciate your videos!!

[@simpernchong]

Thank you and have a lovely day :)

[@JesusJimenez-wn9vi]

What option did you open Blender in: General, VFX, Video Editing, etc.... This is my very first Blender rendering using my own Rhino design.
Awesome tutorial.

[@simpernchong]

I import the Rhino model in Blender's 'Layout ' environment. Thanks

[@skalany110]

I like your job. I think about switching to Blender from Rhino.

[@simpernchong]

Hi ... thanks for watching. Blender is good for rendering and visualisation. But it is not a true CAD program like Rhino. So , i would not use it for precision modelling work. Some of my clients have their work done in a CAD program such as Rhino, Creo and I assist them in using the CAD files for rendering and animation with Blender.

[@kaizer8280]

Thanks for sharing!

[@simpernchong]

Thanks for watching!

[@jonathanhutchinson5649]

Here's a problem though. Your object is in centimetres. When you export it to Blender, it will be in metres. So you will have to scale down by 10 for lights and physics to be accurate. If you're working with small objects in millimetres, it's even more problematic and you will have to zoom very close in. I think it will cause a lot of problems for modifiers too.

[@jonathanhutchinson5649]

Plus if you want to then export back, your object will be 10 too small.

[@simpernchong]

Thanks for the sharp observation. I did not show the step on setting unit in Blender.

[@jonathanhutchinson5649]

No problem. I’m still not sure of the best approach. Maybe to have a preset blender document for Rhino objects. Otherwise as I say there is a lot to change every time eg camera clipping. I feel that the fault lies with blender. I think there’s a gap for a very clear video on how to deal with this. And for example to use rigid/soft bodies accurately. The goal should be to get from a product scale object in Rhino to an object in blender that is nicely scaled for the camera, accurate scale lighting and mass.

[@jovannemarquis6623]

@@jonathanhutchinson5649 Have you found a way?

[@simpernchong]

@@jovannemarquis6623 Sorry for a late respone. As of this writing, Blender take any available measurement of the imported CAD models and assign them in metres.
For example, if the unit of the CAD model (within its original CAD program) is in millimetres, Blender will assign that value in metres. So if a 200 millimetres CAD model is imported into Blender, it will become 200 metres.
To correct that, we will need to scale down the object so that it corresponds to 200 millimetres again. To do that scale by 1/1000 in this situation, as 1 metre is 1000 millimetres.

[@tamgaming9861]

Fantastic video! Very good!!! Thank you for the work!

[@simpernchong]

Thanks for the comments.

[@thequixotryworkshop2424]

Hi. Thanks for the video. When I import my model, it is only a dot. Even if I scale it it stays a small dot… Don’t know why?

[@simpernchong]

Hmm.. could it be that the model was so big that its out of the viewport viewing. The dot being the center.

[@tamgaming9861]

cool cant wait to see it :-)

[@andyshamshul5819]

Hi mind asking , why after i import the file to blender , it wont change the colour like at set on Rhino? it turn out all grey

[@simpernchong]

Hmmm... without looking at the process I can't ascertain the differences in steps. So sorry that I am not of help here.

[@chocolatesnake3960]

can I import in Blender an object with the materials,from Rhino?

[@simpernchong]

Not that I know of. Only basic colour information will be imported.

[@Andrey.77.homemade]

Привет! Класс!!! +27