1. Open your interior scene and then set Vray for rhino as the current rendering engine.

Tips: The scale of the objects is important, 1:1 is better.

2. In the Rhino command prompt, type visIESlight to create a light.

3. In the Light Properties window, click on Browse button to add an existing ies file you want to use.

4. Modify other parameters to meet your needs. It seems that the intensity of the light cannot change in this version. Done.

Useful links:

Download IES Viewer

Download IES Generator

Sample IES File

Add tabs:

Usage:

If you want to switch to new ui, just type the command: testfancytoolbars and open your default toolbar layout(*.tb) or the  file (*.rui) of  Automatic Generation. The program will convert the toolbars you tick into tabs Automatic, You can also drag other toolbars whatever you want to insert an existing tab.

Other Commands:

TestsetPascalColors

TestSetdrawColors

LayoutWorkspace

testFancyToolBars

TestToolbarOptions

TestsetViewportBackground

You can even change the tab/background/… colors to match your taste.

Do you have some ideas about this new user interface? For me, it looks ok.

This tutorial will teach you how to use rhinoceros to design a featured handle quickly.
Original Tutorial from Rhinotoday.com. This video may not be reprint or used without permission.

A degree 5 circle (you can know how to create this circle by the picture below), It’s funy though less use in actual application.

A rhino nurbs circle are degree 2:

A: a quarter circle  weight=sin(90/2)°

you can take 4 quarter circular arcs and piece them together to make a full circle as shown below.

B: 1/3 of a circle weight=sin(60/2)°

C: weight=sin(*) You can define a circular arc using a regular polygon of n sides.

update:

Leonardo: Is there a way to “join” the circular arcs to obtain a valid circle? I’ve tried with join command but I have a generic Nurbs curve.

Watch the Video Tutorial:

Download the 3d model.

In this tutorial I will show you how to render a chrome finish in Rhino.

1.You can use photoshop or hdrlightstudio to create your own enviorment bitmap like this.

2.Create a vray for rhino material and rename it to “Chrome”, click on Diffuse color, and set to black. Add a reflection layer. See picture below to set the reflection map.(click to enlarge)

3.Set the background to the enviorment map, otherwise it has nothing to reflect and will not show chrome color.

4.Render…Done!

1. Single-line fonts are the standard for laser cutting and CNC milling because they are more eficient to cut. Chris Chalmers provides a method of creating single-line labels by using pre-defined blocks instead of text.

How to:

1. Import the rhino file with the text blocks into your file. 
2. Run the script and it will simply turn the text you want to use into the appropriate block and place it.

(Right-click and save-as)

numbers.3dm

numbers-function.rvb

Read more…

2. Install a single-line font, and you can use the typical text tools to create the text.

Download the fonts  (Unzip the files you have downloaded, then put the font files into C:\Windows\Fonts)

Brief Intro:

1. Draw 1 curve;
2. Copy the curve and create a planar surface, and then calculated the centre of that surface;
3. Loft (Curve-Curve-Point), remember to select the ‘loose’ option;
4. Change the surface ‘s degree;
5. Split the entire surface with an isocurve;
6. Adjust the control point;
7. Split the surface with an isocurve;
8. ChangeDegree;
9. Match the 2 surfaces. Done.

* Start the PictureFrame command

* Locate the image you wish to use

* Place the plane.

Once the image is placed, you can  transform the plane(move/scale/rotate…) like any other objects in rhinoceros,  It seems that the PictureFrame is rather more convenient than BackgroundBitmap.

The PictureFrames  display in all viewport mode, even in wireframe mode.

adjust transparency & intensity

Sanghoon Yoon is a designer in Seoul. He has been kind enough to share many script and expertise on his blog sac3′s digital plastic.

You may be interested in  some of the topic.

* Grasshooper 
* RhinoScript
* HyperShot
* Other