T-Splines for Rhino

Translating Tools

"A client came to me with a head model for a robot that he wanted prototyped, and the problem was that it had been made in a polygon modeler with large facets....I ran it through the tsConvert command and a few seconds later - bingo! everything smooth!... The client's eyes nearly fell out of his head... (mine too...)"

Converting Polygon models to T-Splines

T-Splines can be easily used as a translator to convert subdivision surface and polygonal models into NURBS inside Rhino. Simply open the polygonal model as an .obj inside of Rhino and hit tsConvert.

Converting T-Splines to NURBS

T-Splines convert to NURBS whenever they are trimmed. This conversion is exact. To convert to NURBS without performing a trimming operation, right click on the tsConvert icon.

Convert NURBS to T-Splines

NURBS surfaces are automatically converted to T-Splines when a T-Spline operation such as merge or extrude is performed on the NURBS. This conversion is exact.

Mesh a T-Spline model

T-Spline models can be meshed using Rhino's mesh command or our optimized tsMesh command.