

ANd remember in Rhino, if you want to do something just start typing what you want to do and most of the times there will be a command named that way or very similarly.Rhino is the 3D-modeling software used for mathematically precise modeling of products ranging from jewelry and furniture to architecture. It is a useful command to have in your list. In this case I chose to move the point vertically and this is the result. We then set the distance we want the central point to move and select in which directions we want the movement to happen.

The radius will determine till what extend the moving process will affect (the points outside the radius will not be moved). Then we type SOFTMOVE, click on the point we want to move more and select a radius. Select the surface and press F10 (pressing F10 in Rhino activates the control points of selected objects) and select its control points. Imagine you have a flat surface created with the PATCH command. To quickly show you what SOFTMOVE does I'll use a simple patch. because I remembered the Soft Selection function in 3Ds, and SOFTMOVE came as an option. Luckily in RHino, if you don't know a command you guess and sometimes you get the right one. I had some Linework of the Roads and needed to turn it into 3D lines.

I needed to do something similar while modelling a site in Rhino. The red areas would be displaced 100% while the "colder" the color the lesser the objects would move. See this image borrowed from this website. The closer the points are the more they will be displaced, the further the lesser. That is done by using the Soft Selection Method. In 3D Studio, Soft Selection is used to move points depending on the distance they are from a central selection point. The Softmove Rhino Command allows us to do something similar as the Soft Selection from 3DS.
