Getting Started

Activating the Panel

Click the option wheel in the Rhino Panel Dock and select Beam Panel to activate it in Rhino.

All data will be saved in the Rhino document and is available again when the file is reopened.

Panel

Via the Rhino panel is possible to assign properties and parameters to objects and families, manage families in the document, set project folders and more.

Compatible Geometry

BEAM can export only manifold and valid Rhino geometry.

  • Surfaces

  • Polysurfaces

  • Sub-D

  • Meshes

  • Points

  • Lines

  • Polylines

  • Nurbscurves

  • Polycurves

  • Circles

  • Ellipses

  • Arcs

  • Elliptical Arcs

Sub-D export is native from version 1.7. In previous versions, to export Sub-D objects in Rhino 7, convert them to nurbs first.

Start assigning properties to Rhino objects and creating families and parameters.

PropertiesFamiliesParameters

Rhino Tools

BEAM for Rhino includes the following tools:

BEAMBLOCSRAY

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