nPower Software announces the release of Power Solids 1.1 and Power Booleans 1.1 with support for Rhino 2.0 and 3.0.  Power Booleans supports polygonal and NURBS Booleans.  Power Solids extends Rhino to support additional Solids Modeling functionality. The powerful combination of Rhino with Power Solids provides a geometric modeling tool set equivalent or superior to those found in high end (and high priced) solids modeling products. Power Solids includes 3 new Rhino tools: Filleting Tool, Shelling Tool, and Boolean Tree Tool.

Filleting Tool includes the following features:

• Variable radius, constant radius, and constant distance tracing
• Fillet / Chamfer
• Circular, linear and blend curve fillet surface cross sections
• Handles difficult large radius, self-intersection and roll over cases
• Saves fillet data for easy modification / revision

Shelling Tool includes the following features:

• Solid offset with extension or rounding
• Shelling with extensions or rounding
• Handles many difficult self-intersection cases

Boolean Tree Tool includes the following features:

• Union, Difference, Intersection of solids & surfaces
• Merge overlapping surfaces to create solid
• Automatic filleting of intersection, operator, or operand edges
• Saves Boolean history to facilitate CSG tree editing

Power Booleans includes the following features:

• Union Difference, Intersection of solids, surfaces, and polygons
• High quality mesh generation with optional polygon reduction; produces quality STL files
• NURBS Booleans & polygonal Booleans

With the blended curve fillet, users have the option of generating an organic blend curve fillet. The picture below shows some examples of the different filleting options.  The image to the left is a circular fillet.  The ones to the right are blended curve fillets (one with a 1.5 radius, and the other with a 1.8 radius).  You can see that the blended curve cross section has a very smooth transition.

Below is an example of a blended fillet at a corner with 3 different radii.

Here's what some of our early customers are saying about Power Solids & Power Booleans:

Power Solids
Chris Bahry: "Thank-You for releasing such an excellent and functional plugin!"

Power Booleans
Jeffery Everet: "...I certainly want this software because it is an ESSENTIAL plug-in for Rhino."