Overview

Programming Guide

API Reference

Rhino3D Reader

The Rhino3D Reader provides full access to the Assembly, B-rep and View & PMI Data stored within a particular Rhino file. A file does not need to have a particular extension to be read correctly by HOOPS Exchange however the file extensions of Rhino3D files that you can expect to be loaded by HOOPS Exchange are:

Our readers are updated to the latest released version within 90 days of the release of the authoring software. You can see the exact version supported in the current release here.

Assembly

Incremental load is not supported by our Rhino reader. Datum planes and construction geometry are also supported and accessed through the assembly tree.

B-rep

The Rhino B-rep is pretty simple and only supports geometry in NURBS form. The only types of surface and curve geometry that can be found in a Rhino3D B-rep is:

Visualization

The visualization data for this format is generated by the HOOPS Exchange tessellation engine.

Views

This concept is not supported by Rhino3D.

PMI

This concept is not supported by Rhino3D.