This fact has not escaped McNeel Associates CEO Bob McNeel or the company’s lead on business development, Scott Davidson. The question is, will iRhino 3D remain a handy portable viewing and mark-up tool, or play a wider, more creative role in conceptual design? One only has to look at Shapr3D, the excellent Spaces by Cerulean Labs ( read our review) and SketchUp for iPad ( read our review) to see how the iPad has become a viable laptop replacement for creatives. Today’s reality is that the iPad is now powerful enough to run design-based desktop applications. If you go back to around 2010, you’ll find that iRhino 3D also started life as a navigator/viewer.Ī lot has changed since then. We have already seen some great AEC application developments for the iPad, but historically, these have been mainly for the consumption of AEC data – via Autodesk BIM 360, Graphisoft BIMx and so on - rather than the creation of designs. Today, with desktop-class Apple silicon, the iPad continues to provide portability, along with long battery life and pretty decent pen input. It started life back in 2010 as a giant iPhone that didn’t make calls (unless they were via VoIP), but went on to finally cement a tablet market that had previously failed to attract many customers. With a thriving ecosystem on Windows, Mac and in the cloud, the product has now gone mobile In the AEC sector, McNeel Associates is a familiar and much-loved brand, along with its product Rhino.
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