Rhino passé, I didn't thought so: the latest release 4.0 made it very up to date. Although it is in fact a nurbs modeller it is very suited  for modelling non-organic stuff.  As being a more or less Autocad-clone (at least 1.0 was) it was always more related to CAD-modelling, with dimensioning and layout tools. IMHO it is a very versatile program, which can be used for many purposes. I haven't used Modo, so I can't give you an opinion about that, but saying that Rhino is passé is a little bit out of the blue.

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Bopper.

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