Artlantis with Rhino & MoI

Artlantis plug-in for Rhino 5

Since sometime earlier this year Artlantis has made available a plug in to import Rhino drawings.

So Rhino users can send their drawings to Artlantis, return to Rhino, make changes to the geometry, export a new Artlantis file and recover their previous work done in Artlantis.  The Artlantis export plug-in offers a direct transfer from Rhino to Artlantis without the need for intermediate file formats. The Artlantis .atl file format is cross platform; it can be read on both Macintosh and Windows.

Although Rhino is ‘related’ to MoI, Rhino plug-ins will only run inside of Rhino, they’re like small programs that are built to run inside of Rhino’s environment. They are very specific to Rhino and even a particular version of Rhino, so you can’t run Rhino plug-ins with MOI.

But you should be able to export from MoI to Artlantis currently though by using OBJ format – save out from MoI to an OBJ file, and then import that OBJ file into Artlantis.

Artlantis can recover the following from Rhino 3D models:

• Projects and linked geometry
• Smoothness of geometry
• Geolocalization and heliodon
• Lights
• Cameras and focals
• Shading colours and transparency
• UV Mapped textures
• Objects and layer names

As with all other available Artlantis plug-ins, users can update a project in the modeller without losing any of the data already entered into Artlantis.

About Rhinoceros

Rhino is a stand-alone, commercial NURBS-based 3D modelling software, developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. The software is commonly used for high end industrial design, architecture, marine design, jewellery design, automotive design, CAD/CAM, rapid prototyping, reverse engineering, product design as well as the multimedia and graphic design industries. Although I do not supply it, it is easy to find a reseller and plenty of information by simply googling it.

About Moment of Inspiration

MoI, like Rhino, is a NURBS-based 3D modelling software developed by Michael Gibson. It is a really simple to use package that can create shapes that would be a real head-ace to create in far more expensive packages. It will save in .3dm, IGES, SAT, STEP, OBJ, STL, 3DS, LWO, FBX, SKP, Illustrator, PDF, DXF. I have tested most of these and the conversion has always worked perfectly. So shapes that would be impossible to create in one package, can be created in MoI and then imported into your main software. For more information and links to three films click on the link below.

paulthecad.com/product/moment-of-inspiration/

About Artlantis

Artlantis is the top of the range package to turn your designs, whether architectural or mechanical into high quality photorealistic images. See the link below for lots of information.

paulthecad.com/product/artlantis/