To be an effective designer today, you need tools to quickly develop your designs and accurately communicate them to everyone in the product research, development, marketing, and manufacturing or construction process.

Rhino provides the tools to accurately model and document your designs ready for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing or construction.

Next Limit Technologies has created a plug-in interface between it´s advanced light simulator Maxwell Render™ and Rhino 3D.  The latest version of the plug-in, for Rhino4 has received excellent feedback.

Impressive features include:

• Complete Maxwell Render Scene creation, management, and rendering without ever leaving the Rhinoceros environment.
• Support for the built-in Rhino Animation Tools.
• Modeless, dockable tool-window inside Maxwell material editor and implementation of an Interactive Color Temperature picker, enable/disable all textures, Material delete/ undelete, pack and go and more.
• Maxwell Material and MXM browsers with fully resizable Material thumbnails, drag-and-drop functionality and more.

Carlos Perez from McNeel Europe said: “The ease of use of Maxwell Render, which works exactly like a camera, and the impressive quality of the lighting, makes it an ideal complement for Rhino users, whether they are jewelers, architects or car designers.” He added: “Next Limit’s team is very sensitive to its users’ requests and has an excellent technical support service. Without doubt Next Limit is one of our partners most in tune with the McNeel philosophy.”