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If using cloud technology helps that then we’ll take advantage of it, but we’re not looking at the cloud or software as a service as a platform that we’re going to port to any time soon. It doesn’t seem to be something that people are demanding immediately, I think people have ideas that it’s the solution for problems they have, particularly when working with large data sets or large work groups, and I certainly want to make sure we address those problems over time. Q: With other vendors increasingly focussing on the cloud, how are you approaching it?īM: We watch these things, there’s some interesting things going on there - from my perspective you think about it like porting to another development platform, it’s probably as much if not more work than it was to port to the Mac. Really we’re dealing with the feedback we’re getting from people, what they’re asking for, what their workflows are. We’re not particularly paying any attention to any other product in the terms of how it works. Q: Are there plans to increase Rhino’s 2D drawing output capabilities?īM: 2D drafting or drawing is always something that’s on our list of things to upgrade, so you will see some continued improvements there in Version 6, there’s quite a bit of work going on on that front. We’ll move that forward on to 6 as well as Version 6 being the development platform for Grasshopper 2 - some of that work has already started. We’re going to try and get that wrapped up for Version 5 so that there’s a stable version there as well. One of the things we’re trying to do is to provide a stable development platform for people who are developing for Grasshopper so that there’s not a situation where it’s a ‘moving target’.
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Q: Is Grasshopper 1 going to be a part of Rhino 6?īM: That’s the idea. Q: When is it likely to ship?īM: We’re pretty feature complete in terms of what we think we can get done reasonably for version one. Q: Will it be available in the Apple App Store?īM: Correct me if I’m wrong, but if we put something in the App Store we don’t get to provide a SDK or plug-in architecture, so my guess is that we’re not going to distribute it that way. Some of our products, particularly Grasshopper, is very much a Windows-based product and it will take quite a bit of time to get that untangled and ported, so that’s not going to be available first release either. Initially we’re probably not going to see any third-party products available for it right away, because not only is there a lot more work for us to port it, but it’s going to be a lot of work for third party developers. There are a lot of development tools for the third-party applications - there’s just no one-to-one correlation.
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So it’s been a bit of a chore to untangle a lot of Windows code. The tag line for the first 20 years was something like ‘Nurbs modelling for Windows’. Also, Rhino is a very deeply embedded Windows product we use a lot of Windows resources.