XirusCAD
Overview
XirusCAD®
Subdivision, bridges, Y-branches, smooth surface patches, star point creation with G2 or higher continuity and much more.
XirusCAD® provides a new, intuitive CAD solution for organic and freeform modelling.
XirusCAD® simulates immediate responsiveness to a broad range of geometrical parameters that are key for complex 3D modeling such as:
- direct control of tangents
- direct control of curvature
- direct access to the digital object through interpolating control points
- watertight junctions with immediate smoothness control
- subdivision and local refinement with controllable smoothness
- more localized control than NURBS and fewer parameters
XirusCAD® provides:
- Local refinability wherever you want and whenever you need as with subdivision
- Flexibility and ease-of-use of polygons but with fewer parameters and exact precision
- Smoothness and organic shape design as with NURBS
Key Features
| Feature/Property | XirusCAD | NURBS | Subdivision | Polygons |
| Direct Surface Control |  |
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| Decoupled control of tangents, curvature & surface points | |
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| Watertight junctions | |
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| Watertight junctions with direct smoothness control | |
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| G0, G1 or G2 junctions between arbitary parameter lines | |
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| Smooth junctions between different topologies | |
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| Watertight junctions between different number of control points | |
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| Subdivision and local refinement | |
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| Select and manipulate entire or partial parameter lines | |
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| Select and manipulate faces | |
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| Maximally localized surface control (2x2 neighbourhood) | |
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| Interpolating control points | |
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| Organic smooth modelling | |
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| Direct control of 'kinkness', 'sharpness' and smoothness of corners | |
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| Exact conic sections, spherers, circles, torus, ellipsoids, arcs | |
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| Exact transcendental curves (helix, cycloid, etc.) | |
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| Surfaces of revolution, lofting, sweeping | |
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| Convert to polygones (quads & triangles) | |
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| Exact conversion to NURBS | |
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| Arbiatary topology | |
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Technical Details
XirusCAD® is currently available for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.
Rhino 6.10 or Rhino 5 (64-bit): XirusCAD® is currently developed for Rhino 6 and Rhino 5. Note that for Rhino 6 compatibility, version 6.10 or higher needs to be installed (6.9 and previous are not compatible with XirusCAD). If you have Rhino 6 already installed and it says it’s up to date, you can manually install the update by downloading the installer from https://www.rhino3d.com/.
The same XirusCAD license key works for both Rhino 6 and 5.
Hardware
Note: Apple hardware is supported via Bootcamp or virtualization.
- 8 GB of RAM memory (16 GB recommended).
- 100 MB of disk space.
- OpenGL 4.1 capable video card is recommended.
- No more than 63 CPU Cores
- Multiple-button mouse with scroll wheel is recommended.
Operating systems
- Windows 10 (recommended).
- Windows 8, 8.1
- Windows 7
Internet connection
- Internet connection is recommended for installation, activation and update, but it is not required. All those steps can be performed offline.