The tutorials for Rhino are really good. That is how I learnt it. The help page is not quite so good, but adequate. The chat group advice is prompt and excellent. The program itself is very intuitive (for me) and free if you have a Mac.
The way to break it down into components is using the layers command. Allocate every component to a layer or sub layer and you can hide them, move them etc.
Any other questions, let me know, but I suspect I will be asking you for advice once you have had a bit of a play.
rob
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Gardner Pomper <gardner@networknow.org> wrote:
I have been wanting to learn Rhino 3D to draw my "designs" since Rob mentioned he was using it, but I really havent gotten anywhere on that. My main psychological holdup is that I don't find anything about being able to make "components", so that I can pull the model apart and rearrange and reuse things. For example, I would really like to have independent components for each hull, the beams and the rig, so that I can just rearrange them to show the boat folded and also ready to sail. Does Rhino have this capability? If so, could you tell me what they call it, so that I can search for more info on it?- Gardner
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