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T-Splines for Rhino beta announced

April 4, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

T-SPLINES™ INTRODUCES NEXT GENERATION SURFACE MODELING TO RHINOCEROS®

-- T-Splines for Rhino 4.0 gives designers optimal surface modeling control and full industry standard compatibility--

Provo, UT – April 4, 2007 – T-Splines, Inc. today announced the beta release of T-Splines for Rhino 4, giving designers the flexibility of subdivision surfaces with the precision of NURBS. The beta product is available as a free download for a limited time at www.tsplines.com .

“T-Splines for Rhino brings the free-form modeling capabilities traditionally found in animation modeling packages to the precise and easy-to-use environment of Rhino,” said Matt Sederberg, co-founder and CEO of T-Splines, Inc. “Our tight integration with Rhino allows designers to quickly build their models in T-Splines and still take advantage of the many improvements in Rhino 4.”

T-Spline models are easy to edit, having on average 50% less control points than the identical NURBS model. Featured T-Splines workflows new to Rhino include subdivision surface box modeling, creating a single surface from a complex network of curves, and merging non-touching surfaces together into a single surface. The plugin also comes with a built-in translator to convert polygonal mesh files into T-Splines and NURBS.

Designers using the T-Splines product can expect the following benefits:

• Modeling control. T-Splines introduces unsurpassed control to surface modeling, allowing designers to more quickly create complex surfaces and manipulate them with ease, yielding reductions in modeling workflow times of 20-30%.
• Compatibility. 100% loss-less conversion of T-Splines surfaces to NURBS, as well as conversion of polygonal meshes to T-Splines, ensures full industry compatibility and seamless integration in your design process.
• Value. T-Splines combine modeling methods in one application that were previously only available separately.
• Surface quality. T-Splines surfaces of any level of complexity are gap free and curvature continuous throughout, making them ideal for downstream detail design, analysis and manufacturing. are watertight by default and very easy to smooth, making them ideal for offsetting and manufacturing.

About T-Splines

T-Splines, Inc. provides flexible, powerful 3D surface modeling tools for industrial designers, CAD professionals, and animators. T-Spline models represent complex objects with a uniquely small number of control points, making them easy to edit, optimize, and animate. Founded in 2004 and based in Provo, UT, the company develops and markets end-user plugins and software development libraries based on its next-generation, NURBS-compatible technology.

Note to Editor:

Workflow videos and case studies are available at www.tsplines.com/rhino/
T-Splines for Rhino beta can be downloaded at www.tsplines.com/download_rhino/

Company Contact:

Matthew Sederberg
T-Splines
801.841.1234
matt@tsplines.com