T Splines for Rhino v2 Build 20091120

T-Splines for Rhino helps designers easily create and edit
fluid, organic shapes for design and manufacturing. This
plugin, tightly integrated with Rhino 4, adds a suite of new
surfacing tools to help designers speed up their design
time, accomplish tasks that would be tedious or difficult in
Rhino, and translate between subdivision surface modeling
programs and Rhino.
T-Splines 2.0 for Rhino overview from T-Splines on Vimeo.
Product benefits

* Design faster: Speed up the design process and
decrease your design time. Replace slow and tedious
workflows with T-Splines' rapid surface creation tools.
* Meet customer requirements with ease: Easily create
models that meet aesthetic requirements and match customer
design specifications.
* Be more innovative: Create fluid and organic shapes
that cannot be modeled with other tools.
* Be more competitive: Cycle through more design
iterations in less time and respond faster to design bids.
* Create production-ready designs: T-Splines surfaces
are ready for analysis and manufacturing.
* Eliminate rework and clean-up: Create continuous and
gap-free models.

The reason I am excited about T-Splines is that itÆs
increasingly difficult to bid competitively for design jobs
in the past few years as off-shore design agencies have been
driving margins down.

A recent design project that would have typically been a
3 to 4 hour modeling job for me took only 20 minutes with
T-Splines. That means I could pump out 10 to 15 design
iterations in a day, and more quickly converge on the final
design with my client. With this speed I can underbid larger
companies and still make the same profit I made 5 years ago.
- Dan Falvey, tools4design

Product features

* New modeling technique: Polygonal or Box modeling is a
method where the designer pulls on, extrudes, and scales
basic shapes to quickly rough out a desired shape. As the
model becomes more refined, sections of the shape can be
subdivided to add more detail and control. T-Spines makes
this technique available for the first time in a NURBS
compatible method. Read more...
* Powerful surfacing tools: Using simple T-Splines
commands, itÆs easy to generate editable, non-rectangular
surfaces from curvesùsomething thatÆs not possible to do
using NURBS. Read more...
* High level of shape control: Keeping the number of
control points to a minimum (to facilitate a smooth surface)
is the first rule of modeling. T-Splines makes this easy to
do, by letting you insert single control points instead of a
whole row, as required in NURBS. Editing these points,
deleting sections of points, and adding local creases are
possible, too.
* Interoperability: Import polygonal models or .obj
files and convert them to T-Splines surfaces. T-Splines
surfaces are 100 percent directionally compatible with NURBS
and at any point in the design, you can convert your
T-Splines model to a NURBS model for downstream analysis or
manufacturing applications.