RhinoResurf for Rhino is a reverse engineering plug-in for Rhinoceros® 4.0 and 5.0. This plug-in gives Rhino the ability to reconstruct the geometry represented by NURB surface of an object from a mesh or point cloud which describes it.
Features of RhinoResurf:
NURBS fitting with specified tolerance.
Controllable surface smoothness.
G1 continuity transition.
Powerful ability to fit large scale point cloud/mesh to a single face.
Fully automated nurbs surfaces generation.
Free-form nurbs surface modeling from polygon mesh(.obj mesh).
Command: RsFaceFromPolygon . RhinoResurf for Rhino can model free-form NURBS surface from polygon mesh (E.G .obj file format mesh), the continuity of the NURBS surface reach exact G1 everywhere.
Command: RsPoints2Surf . RhinoResurf for Rhino can drape a surface over a point cloud with specified tolerance. Draping a surface is similar to laying a piece of cloth over an object. The surface is deformed to take the shape of the object along the drape direction. The drape direction is calculated automatically.
Trimmed surface created from point cloud: In this video, we show how to use three comands(RsPoints2Surf, InterpCrvOnSrf, Trim) to fit a trimmed surface to point cloud.
Command: RsMesh2Surf . RhinoResurf for Rhino can convert an open mesh model to a single NURB surface with specified tolerance. The mesh is allowed to have interior holes in the model.
RhinoResurf for Rhino is designed to be extremely user friendly and easy to understand. You load it manually at the first time and it automatically loads itself into the Rhino environment later. Once loaded it adds new commands to Rhino's existing commands and a new submenu called "Resurf" to the Rhino menu containing these newly added commands.