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Required Technical Skills with Award of Certified Rhino Specialist

Successful award of the Level 1 and Level 2 testing certifies that the tester has demonstrated a reasonable understanding of the following Rhinoceros concepts.

Certified Rhino Level 1 Specialists

  • Understand the features of the Rhino user interface
  • Customize the Rhino modeling environment with user preferences
  • Create basic graphic objects—lines, circles, arcs, curves, solids, and surfaces
  • Model with precision using coordinate input, object snaps, and SmartTrack™ tools
  • Modify curves and surfaces with edit commands and gumball
  • Create, manipulate, save, and restore custom construction planes
  • Apply control point editing to modify curves and surfaces
  • Analyze a model for properties like area, volume, and centroids
  • Display any portion of the Rhino model
  • Export and import models to and from various file formats
  • Render the model using Rhino Render
  • Dimension and annotate model with text and hatching
  • Setup layouts to arrange views of model on paper for printing

Certified Rhino Level 2 Specialists

  • Customize toolbars and toolbar collections
  • Create simple macros and command aliases
  • Apply advanced object snaps to modeling tasks
  • Apply distance and angle constraints
  • Construct and modify curves that will be used in surface building using control point editing methods
  • Evaluate curves for curvature continuity
  • Build surfaces with a range of strategies
  • Rebuild surfaces and curves
  • Control surface curvature continuity
  • Create surfaces and features using custom construction planes
  • Visualize, evaluate, and analyze models utilizing shading features
  • Wrap text around an object or on a surface
  • Map planar curves to a surface
  • Generate 3-D models from 2-D drawings and scanned images
  • Clean up imported files and export clean files
  • Apply advanced features of the Rhino renderer
rhino/rhinotestingproficiencies.txt · Last modified: 2025/06/13 by stevefuchs