MeshWorks for Rhino is a plug-in for Rhino. It adds a variety of mesh manipulation commands to Rhino. Some of the useful commands are given below:
Hollow: This command hollows the mesh to a given wall thickness. Hollowing is particularly useful while preparing a model for Rapid Prototyping as it saves material, time and money while building a prototype.
Offset: This command offsets a mesh to either shrink or expand it.
PointsToMesh: This command creates a mesh from a set of points.
Stitch: This command knits loosely tied faces of a mesh and attempts to make a mesh water-tight.
FillHoles: This command adds faces to an existing mesh in order to fill any holes. The result is a water-tight mesh.
ExtractSolid: This command extracts a solid from a mesh.
ExtractPlanarSurfaces: This command extracts a planar trimmed NURBS surface from a mesh.
ExtractShells: This command extracts connected surfaces from a single mesh and creates a new mesh for each connected surface. This is useful while working on different parts of a mesh.
ExtractSurfaces: This command extracts surfaces of a mesh and creates a new mesh for each surface.
ExtractFeatures: This command extracts features of a mesh. This is useful to create a NURBS model from a polygon mesh.
ExtractBoundaries: This command extracts the boundaries of an open mesh.
SplitMesh: This command splits a mesh with a planar surface into two parts.
Smoothen: This command relaxes a mesh by removing sharp edges.
Decimate: This command reduces the number of faces of a mesh while maintaining continuity in the topology.
MeshWorks for Rhino adds a new menu to the existing Rhino menu containing all the added commands. Simply use this menu to manipulate meshes. MeshWorks for Rhino is licensed as shareware, the cost of the registered verison is $500 and full size of the download is 2.7 MB. You may download a free version of MeshWorks for Rhino by following download link at Free Download section of this page. MeshWorks for Rhino is developed or distributed by Floating Point Solutions Private Limited and is listed under cad cad graphics rhino 3d 2d reverse engineering.
