It's hard to argue with Rhino's Make2D on that front it's just way more flexible to have vector lines when making a drawing. What Sketchup does not do is produce clean, vector-based linework to manipulate later on in Illustrator.

With a rendering program like V-Ray, shadows can be realistic and soft, but the geolocation is not nearly as intuitive, and quick shadows are in general much more cumbersome than the few steps involved with Sketchup.

Even with a relatively large model, Sketchup can produce shadows immediately, and will let users drag the time and date sliders to study how the sun will change the geometry of cast shadows throughout the day and year. FBX failed, the file genetated waas very big and when opened in Maya and Rhino, the geometry was missing and a bit muddled.Īny suggestion to prepare the models to export from eithert software is welcome.In last week's post about Flux, I mentioned my own affinity towards the geolocation and shadow features in Sketchup. dea worked best for me so far, but havent try. Now exporting from SketchUp to RHINO is a different matter, and. fbx - if the was reduced the same amount in RHINO. The file generated was way bigger than the. fbx there is a slider to determine how to export this file from RHINO. The downside is that there is a need for an extension to open it in SketchUp. ( I might be wrong, but I think it’s equivalent to meshing and reducing the mesh before exporting from RHINO). fbx: seems to work well, especially because it seems to me that when exporting from RHINO it automatically meshes the poly-surfaces together and there is a slider to determine the level of polygons/compression. fbx generated from the same RHINO file, but surprisingly when re-saved as. dae: Imports well…the file generated is bigger than the. obj: I found that OBJ is only working well, but doesn’t keep the groups, so I tend to use the following formats instead. skp: It sounds like the obvious choice, but for me, it doesn’t seem to work as well as the other formats below. I collaborate with people using RHINO, so I experimented a bit with different formats. I would like to share some of my experience with importing 3D models from RHINO and I am asking for more tips on this.

Rhino to skp