Andrew Cocke, a professor and designer practicing in Washington DC, New York, Taiwan, and China, has organized the group on Meetup. Meetup is an online community that enables offline local group meetings.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Rhino user meetings in Washington DC
Andrew Cocke, a professor and designer practicing in Washington DC, New York, Taiwan, and China, has organized the group on Meetup. Meetup is an online community that enables offline local group meetings.
Scan&Solve 2013 WIP = SnSMesh + SnSScript + Scan&Solve for Rhino
- Built-in support for SnSMesh and SnSScript
- Single SnS command to any solid geometry (polysurfaces, lightweght extrusions, meshes) within Rhino 5
- Real-time visualization of solution progress in the original SnS solver
- New alternative powerful solvers from Intel:
- DSS - a direct solver delivers speed by using more memory
- ISS - an iterative solver that may often improve performance
- Increased resolution to maximum of 500,000 elements
- Settings tab and additional controls
- Numerous performance improvements and bug fixes
This free WIP is available immediately to all licensed and evaluation users of Scan&Solve. The current version will operate until June 21, 2013.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Acoustics and aesthetics in Iowa
LMN Architects have added another performing arts facility to their portfolio. This one is the School of Music Building, University of Iowa: 700 seats, 946 unique acoustic panels.
The building's concert hall features a suspended acoustic ceiling canopy. Its intricate latticework provides strategic openings for the audio speakers, stage and house lighting, the fire sprinklers, while concealing the structural truss work.
For visualization, LMN fabricated a three-foot scale model, plus a few full-sized components, on the firm's 3-axis CNC mill.
Many consultants contributed to the design using different digital formats. The acoustical consultants used SketchUp. The lighting designers used Revit. The theater and audio/visual consultants saved their specifications as DWG files. All of these programs were compatible with Rhino and, using Rhino's Grasshopper plug-in, LMN was able to incorporate all the consultant's information.
The project resulted from the damage of the 2008 flood and is now expected to be completed in 2016.
Intersections 2013 AEC Symposium
Intersections 2013: Interoperable Workflow | Innovative Practice
May 31, 2013 - 9:00am-5:00pm
NYC College of Technology, New York, NY
Intersections 2013 is a symposium with lectures and panel discussions by industry leaders, educators, and innovators on the topics of:
- TOOLS: Identifying them, teaching them, and ensuring they play well together.
- INNOVATION: Finding the conditions and opportunities for innovation in both established firms and small start-ups alike.
- MAKING IT WORK: Translating innovative technology into high-impact practice using lessons from the field.
Free real-time viewport raytracing in Rhino 5 with Neon
Neon 1.0 Service Release 1 is now available as a free download for all Rhino
5 users. SR1 adds new features
and fixes several bugs with the initial release of Rhino. For more details, please visit:
Neon
is a real-time, fully ray-traced viewport plug-in for Rhino 5. Developed
in collaboration with Caustic
Professional, Neon adds a new working viewport mode called
"Raytraced with Neon” - there's almost no other UI - it just works.
Neon helps
a designer to quickly evaluate and establish the form, color, texture,
lighting, and material requirements of a scene, very early on, without
interruption. Real time high dynamic range reflections, transparency,
high quality sky-lighting, true procedural textures – all rendered in real
time, right into the Rhino viewport, as you work.
Neon
also supports the Caustic Series2 ray tracing accelerator boards (currently
on promo – about 30% off) to deliver up to 4x the performance.
And
best of all, Neon is free!
If
you haven’t already done so, sign up to http://v5.rhino3d.com and join the Neon group, download Neon
and start using it in Rhino 5 today!
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Rhino and V-Ray presentation in Vienna
Presentation Rhino/V-Ray for Rhino/Maya in Vienna
Invitation to "ThreeKC Autodesk Maya / Rhino / VRAY" presentation on Thursday 13 June 2013, 15:00 to 18:30 in the Austrian Social and Economic Museum, Vogelsanggasse 36, 1050 Vienna (Austria).
We invite you to the presentation of the new versions of Rhino, V-Ray for Rhino and Autodesk Maya and show the latest developments in the 3D area.
Roland Reyer presents the new version of Autodesk Maya 2014, Carlos Pérez (McNeel Europe) presents Rhino 5 and food4Rhino, Matus Nedecký (flying architecture) and Fabio Palvelli (3D Dreaming) show V-Ray for Rhino and rendering services for architecture. We also show the new Wacom Cintiq 22 HD touch.
There are 2 events, the first at 15:00 and the second at 18:30. Places are limited to 30 people each.
As a special event you can attend between the 2 events a basic coffee seminar "Coffee - from the plant to the cup" at the Coffee Museum.
Program:
- 15:00-15:45h: Presentation software Autodesk Maya 2014 (group 1)
- 15:45-16:00h: Tour "100 years of life and living in Vienna / Dr Carl Auer von Welsbach in the Agricultural Museum (Group 1)
- 16:00-16:45h: Presentation software Rhino 5.0 and VRAY (group 1)
- 17:00-18:15h: Basic coffee seminar "Coffee - from the plant to the cup" with Mr Edmund Mayr
- 18:30-19:15h: Presentation software Autodesk Maya 2014 (Group 2)
- 19:15-19:30h: Tour "100 years of life and living in Vienna / Dr Carl Auer von Welsbach in the Agricultural Museum (Group 1)
- 19:30:20:15h: Presentation software Rhino 5.0 and VRAY (Group 2)
- 20:15-22:00h: Finger found, drinks and "Come Together"
Participation is FREE, but due to the limited number of places registration is required. To register to the event, we ask you to select the following options:
Online Registration 15:00
Online Registration 18:30
or by email: office@kkkc.at
or Tel: 01-545 78 25
The Rhino and V-Ray for Rhino presentations will be in English.
Rob|Arch 2014: Second Call for Workshop Proposals
Workshops: 14.-16.05.2014 / Conference: 17.-18.05.2014
Rob|Arch has been initiated by the Association for Robots in Architecture as a new conference series on the use of robotic fabrication in architecture, art, and design, closely linking industry with cutting-edge research institutions. In December 2012 the conference was hosted by its founders in Vienna, Austria. In 2014 the conference travels to North America, hosted by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, with Wes McGee and Monica Ponce de Leon as conference chair.
Continuing with the previous theme of international collaboration, the conference seeks to bring together artists, designers, fabricators, and industry leaders for the purpose of advancing the discourse surrounding robotic fabrication. Following on the success of Rob|Arch 2012, the conference will again present a series of workshops held at select research institutions on the east coast of the United States, aimed at exposing the advanced capabilities of applied robotic research. Following the workshops, the conference will span two days at the University of Michigan Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, about an hour outside of Detroit, the origin of robotics in North America. The internationally renowned publishing house Springer Wien/New York will publish and market the proceedings of the conference worldwide.
For the 2014 event, we are extending a call for workshop proposals. The conference invites proposals by institutions and individuals for workshops related to robotic programming and fabrication until 15th of June, 2013.
Additional robot capacities by the workshop hosts, University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University, and/or industry partners can be made available to the chosen proposals. A total budget of 15.000USD is available to financially support the workshops.
Visit http://call.robarch2014.org for details.
New plug-in: Rhino Open Projects
Rhino Open Projects is a collection of tools for Rhino 5 developed by the Laboratory of Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering (Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Padova) for a variety of research projects such as biomedical (including dental), veterinary sciences, reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, cultural heritage, the geometric products specification, the naval field, ophthalmic optics and others.
The Rhino Open Projects tools are now available for academic and commercial purposes. Currently there are three plug-ins available:
- AdvMesh: allows mesh operations such as curvature analysis based on fitting methods, add noise to a mesh, fit a quadratic function on a set of points, simple mesh editing tools that allow to add and remove vertices and faces.
- AdvSurf: estimates the lines of curvature of a surface.
- LensDesign: developed for progressive addition lens design, analysis and data exchange for manufacturing process.
Monday, May 20, 2013
ID Jobs at Bose
Bose is looking for several world-class industrial designers to join their team. They are hiring for multiple positions. These positions are located at the Bose Design Center in Framingham, MA, about 30 minutes from Boston.
They are looking for industrial design graduates with 0-2 years of work experience. Creative, passionate, out-of-the-box thinkers. Consulting experience or internship work (if a recent grad). Thrive on exploring possibilities and building to see ideas through. Exceptional sketching and rapid visualization skills (in paper, wacom, cardboard, masking tape, and rubber bands). Conceptual engineering abilities to design assemblies/mechanisms for prototypes. 3D modeling skills in Rhino, Solidworks, or other 3D package. Visualize and render in Keyshot or Modo. Proficient using AdobeSuite (Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign). Knowledgeable about production processes and materials.
Friday, May 17, 2013
May 18th - 20th NYC design event
David Trubridge returns to the event, having just returned from the Milan Design Fair, where he exhibited 'The Elements', an installation of hanging sculptural forms with Swarovski crystals, acrylic, and anodized aluminum.
At WantedDesign David is launching his new light, Manuka.
DesignX starts tomorrow
DesignX - ICFF 2013
May 18-21
Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York, NY
DesignX starts tomorrow! Join the DesignX meetup and attend the launch party. Limited seats are still available in the Grasshopper workshop. If you haven't registered yet, sign up today!
- Intro to Parametric Design: Visual Programming with Grasshopper
- 3D Printed Fabrics: Modeling Interlocking Elements with Rhino
- Intro to Physical Computing for Designers (Arduino)
- Interactive Modeling: Responsive Design with Firefly
- Hands-on Desktop Prototyping for Designers
Grasshopper to CATIA - Technical Notes
LMN Tech Studio has been kind enough to share their research and experience on their blog.
Details on this topic and many others...
Thursday, May 16, 2013
iRhino 3D 1.4 now available
Share your insight and inspiration
On the iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch
Pan, zoom, and rotate with a tap or drag of your finger. The handy navigator lets you scroll through thumbnails, so you can quickly jump to any model you want. Load Rhino models from web sites, Google Docs, Dropbox, email attachments, or from iTunes. Save views as images for mark-up and emailing.
New in version 1.4
- New View Navigation Mode: Look/Move (in addition to the classic Orbit/Zoom) - found in Settings.
- Thumb joysticks make it easy to get inside models and look around - found in Settings.
- Now requires iOS 5.1 or higher.
- Various optimizations and bug fixes.
Android controller for Rhino/Grasshopper
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| Control Grasshopper with your Android device. |
The app requires the following installations on your PC:
- Rhino
- Grasshopper plugin for Rhino
- gHowl plugin for Grasshopper
View Rhino files on Android devices
3DM View is a new Android application from AMC Bridge for viewing Rhino's 3DM models on your mobile device.
RoboFold workshops: King Kong and Godzilla
Workshop: Folding - design and simulation
London, May 29th-30th
The RoboFold Folding Simulation and Design workshop is a two-day intensive workshop, exploring folding techniques in design and fabrication. You will simulate in Kangaroo and the King Kong plug-in for Grasshopper. Designs are realised with the CraftROBO vinyl cutter. Spaces are still available!
Workshop: Robotic simulation
London, June 27th-28th 2013
Godzilla is a new free Grasshopper plug-in for simple and intuitive robotic simulation. Also, there is an optional small device to generate the actual control code.
Godzilla competition: The best use of the Godzilla software gets a free place for next workshop. Judged on creativity and practicality.
Rhino 5, Grasshopper and V-Ray event in Stuttgart
Softwarebox GmbH invites you to a free Rhino 5, Grasshopper and V-Ray for Rhino event in region Stuttgart, where Peter Mehrtens (Grasshopper expert and Rhino trainer) and Gerrit Corsmeyer (Rendering expert) will show you (in German) the latest in modeling, computational design and photorealistic rendering:
- Date: 6/6/2013
- Starting: 2 pm
- Location: MEILENWERK Region Stuttgart
- Free registration (in German): www.softwarebox.de/termine
RhinoTerrain and RhinoCity events
RhinoTerrain 2.0 and RhinoCity will be announced soon. To see a sneak preview of these new plug-ins for geo-modeling, civil engineering and urban planning, don't miss the following events:
- May 23-24 - Rencontres Nationales de l’Ingénierie Publique - Nice (France)
- June 11-13 - Les rencontres de SIG-la-Lettre - Paris (France)
- October 8-10 - Intergeo - Essen (Germany)
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Algomad 2013 – Focus on Sagrada Familia
Algomad2013 – Focus on Sagrada Familia will take place from July 3 - 6, 2013, at the ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering. The seminar will focus on the design, fabrication, and construction work developed using parametric and generative computational methods at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia. These problems will be used to teach the digital design methods that are the core of the seminar.
The temple’s technical team is committed to the Algomad organization and will serve as supporters and guides throughout the workshops. Sagrada Familia will be open to the attendees for guided tours so they can see for themselves the design and construction work developed at the temple. The workshops will take place at ELISAVA’s beautiful facilities on Barcelona's world-famous Las Ramblas.
The seminar leaders will not try to speculate on the how the tools under discussion will be used but will instruct in the operation and possible applications in the architecture, engineering and design fields.
The program includes workshops and conferences.
The workshops and conferences will be held in Spanish.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Rhino jobs for industrial designers
Are you an industrial designer looking for a new job? These companies are hiring:
- ACCO Brands - Industrial Designer
Redwood City, CA - Ammunition Group - Designers, Packaging
San Francisco, CA - Hasbro - Senior Designer (Sesame Street Job)
Pawtucket, RI - ITO Design - Industrial Design Intern
Nürnberg, Germany - TOMY International - Designer (Boys Toys)
Chicago, IL - Exponents - Industrial Design Intern, Entry Level
Toronto, ON - Motorola - Senior Industrial Designer
Chicago, IL
Monday, May 13, 2013
Lands Design WIP 5
Lands Design for Rhino is a software for designing gardens, green spaces, and landscapes that runs in the Rhino environment.
Lands Design provides tools for producing technical drawings in 2D and 3D of the green space to work with, and realistic images and virtual tours through the project to perform.
Lands Design is ideal for landscape architects, urban planners, town council technicians, constructors, designers and draftsmen, environment departments, nurserymen, gardeners…
What's new in WIP 5:
- improved joins between branches in the nXt plants
- new Conceptual plant blocks
- now, the Google Earth Import command also creates a textured mesh, in addition to the scanned curves
- new cut and fill option to add a path to an existing Terrain
- in the Terrain properties, new option to lock the X and Y cell size values of the grid
- new option to define custom folders for the urban furniture blocks browser
DYNAMIC FIELDS Workshop and Conference, Bucharest (Romania)
Parametrica [Digi Fab School] from Bucharest, Romania, invites you to DYNAMIC FIELDS Workshop and Conference (15-28 July 2013) to participate in the digital design build project, seeking to create an inventive collaborative environment. The workshop is part of a series of PARAMETRICA events, promoting computational design thinking and exploring the new possibilities of parametric design.
Key lecturer and Jury: Patrik Schumacher (Zaha Hadid Architects)
Workshop Concept (15th – 27th July 2013):
The future of structures lies in their ability to utilize and respond to the energy which exists in the environment surrounding them.
In this 14-day workshop the various energy fields which exist in a given environment (wind, water, sun, sand etc.) will be identified, analyzed and then simulated, after which experimental structures will be generated and fabricated such that their performance will act as a continuous real-time response to these environmental parameters.
Conference Concept (28th July 2013):
During this day we will present the final workshop projects and our special guest, Patrik Schumacher will explore the subject of computational design thinking and parametric architecture.
Objectives:
The workshop objectives are two-fold. In the first phase the workshop focuses on the identification and analysis of resources inherent to the environmental context, thus developing a better understanding of their nature as well as optimized methods of use or response. In the next phase, the objective is to generate structures which through either means of fabrication or material properties can respond to, or utilize the environmental energy sources.
Friday, May 10, 2013
BrickDesign for Rhino 5
BrickDesign for Rhino 5 is the first software that allows architects and engineers to fully exploit the design potential inherent in the novel and innovative robotic fabrication processes.
Robotic Fabrication
Computer controlled fabrication allows the realization of highly informed building elements in an economic and efficient process. Applied to brickwork the robot allows to individually position each brick, thus, enabling to map patterns or images on a facade, or realizing complex wall geometries.
Functionality
- intuitive design of a large set of “small”, discrete elements
- fully parametric data model
- create design variants fast and easy
- integration of user defined details
- expandability through scripting interface
- complete integration into design and planning process
- automatic generation of basic fabrication data
RhinoNC and DentalShaper roadshow
Want to learn more about CIMsystem's Rhino plug-ins for CAM (RhinoNC, Bamboo, Electrodex), Dental (DentalShaper, Sum3D) and Nesting (Mosaix)?
Meet CIMsystem's expert team at any of these events around the globe:
- May 23-25 - Amici di Brugg, Rimini, Italy
- Jun 09-12 - SinoDent, Beijing, China
- Jun 19-20 - wfb, Siegen, Germany
- Sep 16-19 - Dental Expo, Moscow, Russian Federation
- Oct 11-13 - Expolab, Sao Paulo, Brasil
- Oct 17-19 - Expodental, Milan, Italy
- Oct 23-26 - Dentech, Shanghai, China
- Oct 25-26 - Colloquium Dental, Brescia, Italy
- Dec 03-06 - EuroMold. Frankfurt, Germany
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Rhino Python weekend workshop in Boston
Rhino 5 comes with the ability to script your ideas in Python. Python makes algorithmic design faster, easier and more accessible than ever before.
In this 2-day weekend workshop you will be introduced to algorithmic design for those with no programming experience. You will have the tools to work through geometric ideas in a whole new way.
In this 2-day weekend workshop you will be introduced to algorithmic design for those with no programming experience. You will have the tools to work through geometric ideas in a whole new way.
For more information and to register, visit www.pointcrowd.com
.Are you sure? Have you checked?
Are you checking your designs early and often?
There is no reason not to. The simulation and analysis tools for Rhino 5 keep getting better.
Scan&Solve™ has always provided finite elements in Rhino without meshing. Now they are offering two additional extensions to their tools.
First is SnSMesh. This version of Scan&Solve™ allows users to perform stress simulation on mesh geometry within Rhino. This version has the same functionality as the latest edition of Scan&Solve™ but works directly on closed meshes created in Rhino or imported from other applications that can export .stl, .wrl, .ply, and other mesh formats recognized by Rhino. That means you can directly analyze any part that you can 3-D scan. No need to first reverse engineer.
Second is SnSScript. This scriptable version of Scan&Solve™ allows users to automate simulation processes that otherwise require user interaction. In the scriptable version, most of the functionality of the original Scan&Solve™ plug-in is exposed for calls from RhinoScript, including simulation setup, simulation computation, and solution visualization and querying.
New Release of PanelingTools for Rhino 5 and Grasshopper
The new release of PanelingTools for Rhino 5 and Grasshopper is now available for download.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
DYNAMIC FIELDS Workshop and Conference
Parametrica [Digi Fab School] from Bucharest, Romania, invites you to DYNAMIC FIELDS Workshop and Conference (15-28 July 2013) to participate in the digital design build project, seeking to create an inventive collaborative environment.
The workshop is part of a series of PARAMETRICA events, promoting computational design thinking and exploring the new possibilities of parametric design. The workshop is aimed at: students, postgraduates, architects, interior, product and urban designers, engineers, anybody interested.
One more week for Regent Street Windows Project
The Regent Street Windows Project connects fashion, architecture, and culture to create a series of unique window displays in London. Six teams of architects and retailers are on display till May 15th.
Art meets 3D Printing
Art meets 3D Printing with Type A Machines
Xylem is a product of the collaboration between designer Bryan Allen and sculptor Stephanie Smith. It is based on the translation of natural forms through analog to digital 2D representation and analysis into a re-physicalized 3D form. The final form evokes the Xylem layer of tree cells: reducing structure and enclosure to a minimum while still maintaining form.
Using a Type A Series 1 printer in conjunction with Rhino 5 design software, the form was fabricated as 44 individually PLA printed panels. For 2 months straight the printer ran non-stop without failure producing all the compete components with registration numbers for placement. The parts were assembled on site by the artists.
Make sure to drop by
Type A Machine booth at Maker Faire Bay Area
at the San
Mateo County Event Center on May 18th and 19th where you can get a closer look at this project.The Type A Machines
team will also provide demos of their latest new product developments, to give
you an exciting glimpse of innovative techniques for 3D printing.
Also, do not forget to
join the Type A Machines group at www.RhinoFabLab.com
too.
For more information, please contact:
Sara Bonomi,
Marketing
(415)378-5370
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