rhino3dm plan or RhinoCommon plan

[JaakkoArokoskiRF]

Hey! This project seems awesome, but am I a little confused. Is it possible that this project will possibly be integrated into the Rhino program itself or will it remain separate? Because this would be too good to be true.

I would be interested to know if RhinoCommon will ever be built for:

• .NET Standard 2.0 - 2.1 or
• .NET core 3.1 or
• .NET 6?

So I realized this isn’t going to happen during Rhino 7, but is there going to be a change for Rhino 8 or for Rhino 9?

[fraguada]

Hi @JaakkoArokoskiRF As the readme states:

rhino3dm is a set of libraries based on the OpenNURBS geometry library with a "RhinoCommon" style. This provides the ability to access and manipulate geometry through .NET, Python or JavaScript applications independent of Rhino.

rhino3dm is made for reading, writing, and manipulating 3dm files and geometry outside of Rhino. The library does not include most of the core functionality of Rhino itself, for example, surface creation tools like loft, sweep, etc. That isn't the goal of this library. RhinoCommon is a separate but compatible library that includes access to the core functionality of Rhino, but can only be used within Rhino. Within Rhino, you get access to both rhino3dm and RhinoCommon as one SDK. Outside of Rhino, you can use rhino3dm.

RhinoCommon is being built in might be built for .NET 6 for Rhino 8 and Rhino3dm is currently built for .NET 4.5 and .NET Standard 2.0.

@sbaer @pearswj did I miss anything?

[sbaer]

I wouldn't go as far as stating that RhinoCommon will be .NET 6 based in Rhino 8. We are still evaluating our options.