Rhino Files
Rhino®
files (*.3dm) provide NURBS and
analytic surfaces for free-form shapes. Curves are not supported. You
can open Rhino files that contain multiple bodies. Rhino multibody files
result in one SolidWorks part file. Rhino is integrated into SolidWorks
menus for actions such as Edit Feature
and Insert, Features,
Imported.
You can:
Open Rhino files, which is the same as importing
to a new part document.
Import Rhino files to a new or existing SolidWorks
part document.
Edit Rhino files in context and replace them with
other Rhino surfaces.
Edit Rhino files in the Rhino application. You
must have the Rhino application installed.
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To open Rhino files:
Click Open
(Standard toolbar) or File,
Open.
Select Rhino
Files (*.3dm) for Files of type,
and browse to a file.
Click Options
to specify whether surfaces and solids on hidden Rhino layers are imported
as features or suppressed features or ignored.
Click Open.
The surface appears in the graphics area
and as a Surface-Imported feature
in the FeatureManager design tree.
If the resulting surfaces
form a closed volume, the result in the FeatureManager design tree is
an imported solid instead of an imported surface.
To import Rhino files:
In a new or existing part document, click Insert, Features,
Rhino Imported.
In the dialog box, browse to a Rhino file and
click Open.
The surface appears in the graphics area
and as a Surface-Imported feature
in the FeatureManager design tree.
To edit Rhino files and replace them with other Rhino
files:
In the FeatureManager design tree, right-click
the Surface-Imported feature and
select Edit Source.
In the dialog box, browse to a Rhino file and
click Open.
See Editing
Imported Features for more information.
To edit Rhino files in Rhino:
In the FeatureManager design tree, right-click
the Surface-Imported feature and
select Edit In Rhino.
The Rhino application opens and SolidWorks
is disabled.
Edit in Rhino is available if the Rhino file contained
only one body when you first imported it into SolidWorks.
Edit the file, save it, and exit the Rhino application.
The geometry in the imported Rhino file updates
in SolidWorks.