Rhino 9 for Mac plug-in
Parametric parts in Rhino, step by step
ParaTimeline lets you build a part as a list of steps (sketches, extrudes, holes, fillets, patterns) and edit any value or parameter later. The model rebuilds from that step on, and picked faces and edges, mates and fabrication-sheet dimensions follow it through the edit. It uses Grasshopper in the background as its solver, but you don't need to know Grasshopper to use it.
What it does
A timeline of steps
Every feature is a step in a list you can reorder, suppress, delete or roll back to, with a live editor for the selected step's values. Every edit is one Rhino undo step.
Parameters and configurations
Named values take expressions and units, such as thickness*2 + 1 or 10 mm + 1 in, and work in any feature value. Steps and mates can be suppressed by a condition, and configurations switch whole sets of parameter values at once.
Sketches with constraints and dimensions
Profiles are defined by driving dimensions measured from the origin or a body's edges, on world XY, the top or bottom of a body, or any flat face. Drawn geometry takes constraints and dimensions, Fusion and Inventor style.
Holes and patterns
Add simple, counterbore and countersink holes from a sketch's circles, through all or to a depth. Repeat holes, cuts and joins in a grid or around an axis.
Edits that keep their references
Faces and edges are named by the step that made them, so a fillet's edges, a sketch's face and a mate's faces are found again after you change something upstream.
Any Grasshopper component as a step
Run stock Grasshopper components such as loft, sweep, revolve and chamfer as timeline steps, bound to bodies, picked faces and edges, Rhino objects or parameters.
Multi-body parts and assemblies
Each body is its own object with a name, material and quantity. Place bodies as parts and mate their faces, cylinders or circular edges.
Fabrication and assembly sheets
Layouts with views and dimensions update with the model. You get part drawings per body and an assembly sheet with balloons and a parts list.
At a glance
- Runs on
- Rhino 9 for Mac
- Platform
- macOS
- Requires
- Grasshopper, included with Rhino
- Grasshopper knowledge
- Not needed
- Feature types
- Sketches, extrudes, holes, fillets, patterns, Grasshopper components
- Assemblies
- Placed parts with face, cylinder and circular-edge mates
- Drawings
- Part fabrication sheets and assembly sheets with balloons and parts list
Buy ParaTimeline
- ParaTimeline for Rhino 9 for Mac, and every update
- No licence key or account needed
14,99 $ US
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