V-Ray 2.0 for Rhino is Here!

CHAOS GROUP announces the launch of V-Ray 2.0 for Rhino. A new version up to 30x faster performance, with new V-Ray Express tools, and HDR Light Studio support. The upgrade to 2.0 is free for current holders of commercial V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino licenses.

What's New:

V-Ray RT® - Interactive responses and a streamlined scene composition with GPU ray tracing up to 30 times faster from directly inside the Rhino 5 viewport.

V-Ray Wrapper Material - Can be used to specify additional properties per material. You can now create true matte materials which show the background as opposed to the base material.

V-Ray Express - Users can easily access more than 200 materials and interchangeable lighting setups to create realistic studio scenes and illuminate models faster than ever.

HDR Light Studio Support - Live connection to HDR Light Studio with Light Paint feature accessed directly within Rhino, providing the most intuitive and creative way to light a design. 

V-Ray 2.0 for Rhino Key Features...

New ghPython with Node-in-Code™ and Multi-threading

Thanks to Steve and Giulio, a new version (0.6.0.3) of the ghPython scripting component for Grasshopper is available on food4Rhino

Major new features:.

• Node-in-Code™: almost every Grasshopper component is now callable in ghPython
• Multi-threading: now easy for ghPython scripts to execute on multiple threads

Download here...

Rhino Teacher Training at Gulfstream Middle

Learn how to use 3D CAD Modeling software to make your STEM classrooms come to life. Professional trainers from McNeel and RhinoFabStudio will introduce you to the main functions of Rhino and Grasshopper too at GSM's RhinoFabStudio.

• Date: February 6-7, 2013
• Time:   8:30am to 4:30pm 
• Location: Gulfstream Middle School
• Address: 120 SW 4th Ave. HALLANDALE BEACH, FL 33009
• Website or Map: http://www.gulfstreammiddle.com
• Proud sponsor: Type A Machines

The workshop is free for educators. Proof of status required.

Space is Limited. Register Now!

New to Rhino 5? Watch this before the class: Introduction to Rhino 5

To register, please contact Jessica Swanson

Do not forget to join RhinoFabStudio too. 

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Rhino 5 Service Release 7 Available

Rhino 5 Service Release 7 (SR7), built 7-Dec-2013, is now available.

Dozens of stability improvements and bug fixes are included in SR7.

Rhino will download Service Release Updates in the background and prompt you to install, or you can download manually.

Rhino and Grasshopper help save bees. You can too.

McGill University School of Architecture is encouraging both design and social responsibility. McGill University's architectural research students are designing the b-Shack,a highly innovative beehive observation and study center. The b-Shack is being designed in Rhino, fabricated and assembled by the students. The project simultaneously encourages this group of young students in architectural research to be responsible through the creation of a real world response to this plight of the bees.  It will provide promotional and infrastructural support to urban beekeeping communities, in particular, the non-profit Montreal’s collectives: Santropol Roulant and the McGill Apiary Association. The program will allow these groups of volunteer educators and amateur beekeepers to share their knowledge and interest in bees with the public, while engaging in bio resource engineering research initiatives focused on Colony Collapse Disorder. 

The b-Shack is raising $35,000 through a crowd funding campaign.

Details on the crowd funding and to contribute . . . 

New RhinoGold Training Website

Learn 3D jewelry design with RhinoGold.

Included are more than 30 tutorials, and guides, and more than 

20 hours of videos for free, and even more in the private 

registered user area.  

Get Started Now...

loop: a new approach to recursion with Grasshopper

loop is a simple component to iterate generative shapes with Grasshopper®.

For a better understanding of the loop capabilities, watch this video, get in touch with the Community at the Grasshopper site, or visit the blog.

loop, developed by Antonio Turiello, is available on the Food4Rhino site.

Rhino Teacher workshop in Belgium

The Université catholique de Louvain and McNeel Europe invite you to a free Rhino Teacher Workshop that will take place on January 15-16, 2014.

Learn how you can add 3D modeling to your design and design communication curriculum without burdening your students with yet another difficult software product. You'll be able to focus on teaching design while your students take advantage of the latest 3-D modeling technology.

Using Rhino, you will be guided through a series of hands-on exercises that highlight 3-D modeling concepts. You will also learn how Rhino is used to render models for visualization, translate 3-D models to CAM products for manufacturing or prototyping, and export 3D models into 2D CAD or graphics programs.

• When: January 15-16, 2014 (9h30-17h30)
• Where: Université catholique de Louvain in Tournai (Belgique)
  Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme (LOCI)
  Chaussée de Tournai, 7
  B-7520 Tournai (Ramegnies-Chin)
• Instructor: Vanessa Steeg, Rhino Training Specialist
• Program: Rhino Level 1 training
• Language: French
• Registration: this workshop is free of charge for educators. Contact jean-pierre.couwenbergh@uclouvain.be with a proof of educational status.
• Required software and material: bring your laptop with Rhino 5 installed (an Eval can be downloaded from www.rhino3d.com/eval) and a printed copy of the Level 1 training guide.

Info in French here...

Behind the Snow Queen at Victoria's Secret

Victoria's Secret has presented its annual catwalk fashion show since 1995, each year more of an extravaganza. This year there were 18 different pairs of angel wings, part of a recurring theme, but the buzz was the Snow Queen's 3D printed wings.

Designed by architect Bradley Rothenberg, the wings were 3D printed in the Shapeways factory in New York City. To precisely fit model Lindsay Ellingson, a 3D scan was made of her. Shapeways 3D printed the fractal snowflakes and organized the snowflakes into a garment. Adjustments were made where the snowflakes shifted from small textile-like to become larger structural snowflakes. Rhino and Maya were mainly used for this part of the project. Then for the appropriate sparkle and festivity, the snowflakes were festooned with millions of Swarovski crystals.

The fashion show will air on December 10th on CBS.

Interview with Bradley Rothenberg . . . 

Mechanical Rhinoceros Vicenza

Mechanical Rhinoceros Vicenza
Scuola Arte e Mestieri della Camera di Commercio di Vicenza (Italia)
Dec 13, 2013

Come join this free event where expert users will talk about how Rhino is being used in Mechanical Design and Engineering, including customization (Grasshopper, Python), manufacturing (robots, CAM), interaction with Kinect, Karamba GH add-on, rapid prototyping, etc.

Attendance is free, but due to limited space registration is needed (contact Edoardo Negrizzolo - negrizzolo@cpv.org).

Language of the presentations will be Italian.

Program and details (in Italian)...

Robots and alcohol. What is next?

Once again, Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and the Robots in Architecture team have found yet another interesting use for Rhino, Grasshopper, and a robot.

Watch the video...

Commonwealth Games’ Baton Designed with Rhino/Grasshopper

In the creation of The Commonwealth Games’ baton latticework, 

4c Design used Rhino and Grasshopper.  

The Queen's Baton is currently on its 190,000km, 288 day journey
around the 70 nations of the Commonwealth before its arrival in
Glasgow on 23 July 2014 for the opening ceremony of the Games.

Queen's Baton Design and Manufacturing...
Queen's Baton and Grasshopper...

Webinar: Successful Jewelry Modeling with Rhino 5

Novedge, LLC, Authorized Rhino Dealer, has just announced a new webinar in their line-up. Sign up today and reserve your spot!

Successful Jewelry Modeling with Rhino 5
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
11:00AM Pacific
Register here! - Space is limited; registration is required.

Join presenter, Maia Merav Holtzman, Authorized Rhino Trainer, for a presentation on jewelry modeling techniques and commands for Rhino 5. She will cover the step-by-step creation of a model for rapid prototyping and casting, using the precision modeling necessary to accurately follow a 2D dimensioned spec sheet for 3D production.

The webinar is free and will last about 1 hour, including the Q&A session.

Details...

Intro to Brazil online course begins December 9th

Intro to Brazil 2.0 for Rhinoceros® 5 Online Course

December 9-12, 2013

Unlock the power of Brazil, our advanced rendering plug-in for Rhinoceros 5. Discover who uses Brazil and why. Learn how to create and assign materials, as well as how to use libraries. Discover decals and the details of assigning, positioning, and removing them. Explore lighting and lighting types, including the Luma server. See how to use environmental controls like ground plane and sun. Lastly, output your rendering for superb quality and efficiency. Click here for the class outline.

Dates: Monday-Thursday, December 9-12
Hours: 9:00am - 1:00pm (PST)
Price: US$175.00 per person
Seats are limited; sign up today!

About the instructor...
Sergio Martinez is a digital artist who has been working with different modeling and rendering products since the 1990s. He has been teaching Rhino for more than ten years in different design markets including jewelry, product design, and clothing accessories, specializing in Fantasy and Sci-Fi outfits. He also has been creating training videos for the www.Rhino3D.TV and www.GJD3D.com communities.

Note: This online class will consist of an orientation on Monday, December 9th and will be followed by three half-days of Brazil training. All sessions will be recorded and made available for later viewing. If you cannot attend the class during the posted hours (Pacific time zone) you may still register and watch the class videos at your convenience.

Register...

ALGODeQ International Programming Competition

 

ALGODeQ: ALGOrithmic Design Quest

 

This international competition is a call for methods and forms that inspire hope and dreams through new technology, creative logic, and aesthetic intuition. Its purpose is to encourage the development of new design methods for better architecture and better cities. This competition will recognize computer programs that make outstanding contributions to algorithmic design, and outstanding works of architecture created by means of such programs.
The competition consists of two categories:

• QP Category: For original computer programs created by the applicant that embody algorithmic design.
• QA Category: For outstanding works of actually built architecture, designed by using an original computer program that embodies algorithmic design.

More about ALGODeQ:
The Quest...
The Guidelines...
Registration...

Important Dates:

• November 4, 2013 - Competition Announced
• December 9, 2013 - End of inquiry period... get your questions in now!
• December 23, 2013 - Application period starts
• February 3, 2014 - Registration Deadline
• March 31, 2014 - First Stage Application deadline

Details...

The Essential Mathematics - Third Edition

We are pleased to announce the release of the third edition of the “Essential Mathematics for Computational Design”. The text introduces to design professionals the foundation mathematical concepts that are necessary for effective development of computational methods for 3-D modeling and parametric design. Included are more than 70 Grasshopper samples and tutorials.

Download...

3-D Printing the Rhino Model

Join us for a Webinar on November 26
Space is limited - Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

Kyle Houchens, owner of The Outside Digital Art and Design, will discuss how to prepare Rhino models for 3-D printing.

Kyle will cover what it means for your model to be "watertight". He will also show several techniques to fix or repair models that is are not watertight or that have bad surfaces.

This is a live presentation. It will last approximately one hour, and questions will be taken at the end.

This webinar is for anyone interested in learning how to prepare Rhino models for 3-D printing. It will also present techniques for efficient modeling when the goal is 3-D printing.

If you can not make it, no problem. This webinar will be recorded and posted here by November 27, 2013.

Please email Mary Fugier if you have any questions.

Title:	3-D Printing the Rhino Model
Date:	Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Time:	9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements

PC-based attendees - Required: Windows® 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Mac®-based attendees - Required: Mac OS® X 10.6 or newer

Mobile attendees - Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet

TEC de Monterrey - Guadalajara is a new RhinoFabStudio

Please join us in welcoming TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY - Campus Guadalajara as a new Authorized RhinoFabStudio.They are a higher education institution that educates students to become responsible citizens who trigger the development of their communities. They  promote in their students humanistic values, an international perspective, and an entrepreneurial culture.  Tecnológico de Monterrey is present throughout Mexico with 31 campuses and in several other countries through their own sites and liaison offices.

 
What is a RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

Change moods, change clothing colors -- there's an app for that!

Photography: Oscar Carmona

Barcelona-based textiles and technology design studio, Jorge & Esther, with the help of Rhino, have combined fashion and technology to create a mini clothing collection that playfully adapts to changes in your life.

Lüme is a daily wear collection made of simple black garments. The uniqueness are the tiny, flexible LEDs embedded in the fabric. They shine out through the detailing in the fabric layers in a soft glow, changing as you wish.

You control the built-in LEDs by a smartphone app. Depending on the event, location, or mood, you can change the LED colors to match another garment or accessory. Or change colors in time to the beat of music. Or just adjust the clothing color according to the weather.

Elizabeth and Luis Fraguada, the designers, used Rhino for the drawing of the digitally fabricated (laser cut) pieces where the illumination occurs. They now use Rhino extensively for the garment pattern drafting and archiving.

Jorge & Ester are currently taking orders for custom pieces from interested clients. Plans are to eventually produce small runs (approximately 100 pieces of each garment) of the current collection of three pieces:  jacket, tunic, and open-backed dress. The laser cut piece within each garment can be customized to another pattern, such as polka dots, flowers, lines, etc.

More information on the Lüme collection ...

Woodpecker for timber fabrication

Woodpecker, developed by designtoproduction, is a plug-in for Grasshopper that enables users to extend their parametric models seamlessly into fabrication.

It offers a number of GH components that can turn input geometry into fabrication data in BTL (Building Transfer Language) format, a free standard for timber fabrication that offers a wide range of timber processings, including 5-axis contours. It is notably not machine-specific, can be read by LignoCam and other CAM softwares and is usually created by timber-specific CAD softwares such as cadwork or SEMA.

Download Woodpecker now from food4Rhino...

RhinoCAM 2014 + Rhino 5 = What's New Webinar

MecSoft will be releasing RhinoCAM 2014 soon! This includes lots of new features and enhancements to MILL and ART as well as new modules for TURN and NEST.  Join us for a free webinar to see how MecSoft's integrated CAM software for Rhino just got better!

When: Friday, November 22, 2013, 8:00 am (Pacific Time)

Register now...

deCode Grasshopper, Kuala Lumpur

 

deCode Grasshopper (de-fə-ˈni-shən)

Organized by McNeel Asia, Kuala Lumpur

Explore Grasshopper definitions, read, understand and create your own definitions. Go beyond Rhino with Grasshopper parametric modeling capability and experience how Grasshopper can turn your ideas into reality.

 

Date: 15 November 2013 (Friday)

Time: 7.30pm ~ 10.30pm
Venue: Starbucks TTDi, Kuala Lumpur

Free Admission – Seats are limited - Pre-registration is required.

To register, contact WK Lim.

 

*Bring your laptop/notebook computer with Rhino 5 and Grasshopper installed.

Details...

SimpleMat - material editor for V-Ray for Rhino

SimpleMat, developed by Riccardo Gatti, is the simplest and fastest material editor for V-Ray for Rhino:

Download it now from food4Rhino...

Helping kids with motor deficits - Utalca, Chile

The objective is to create a space for conducting multimodal training activities especially touch, proprioceptive and vestibular. The configuration of the surface should allow kids to perform activities graded from simple movements to complex sequences of movements requiring the action of the whole body; satisfying a need and providing a space for recreation, play, and development of the locomotor system and sensory integration.

Based on sections, which generate peaks and depressions, Francisco Javier Lara Bastidas, an architectural student from Universidad de Talca in Chile, constructed a three-dimensional field called "Manto Topográfico" (Topographic Mantle). He was able to develop his project thanks to Rhino and Grasshopper which where used to model, measure, classify, optimize and organize the materials, so he could deliver his digital parametric designed structure.

For more details (in Spanish), please click here.
 

New EvoluteTools PRO features

EvoluteTools PRO is being used by the industry's most reputable companies to turn high-end, breathtaking freeform designs into cost effective, real world structures faithful to the initial design intent. Award winning designs like KREOD, the highly prestigious Eiffel Tower Pavilions, the Baku Funicular stations, the Beaublanc Stadium or the CCV are just a few of the many projects made possible with EvoluteTools PRO.

Ever-growing, robust and versatile, the Rhino plug-in now packs new features for your delight: 64 bit compatibility, cylinder fitting, developable lofting, panel repetition maximization and node axis optimization are just a few of the most requested functions available now.

• EvoluteTools PRO - Developable Lofting
  Lofting of developable strip surfaces between pairs of curves.
   
• EvoluteTools PRO - Panel fitting
  Approximation of surfaces with simplified surface types, e.g. cylinders, cones, and many more. Very extensive options exist.
   
• EvoluteTools PRO - Panel repetition maximization
  Clustering of flat panels (triangles, quads, ...), allowing to lower the number of unique panels, parts, etc.
    
• EvoluteTools PRO - Mesh statistics
  Evaluating diverse criteria related to the buildability and cost of surfaces panelised using flat panels, e.g.: Angles between panels, corner angles of panels, node torsion, edge lengths, distance from a reference surface, (un)planarity of panels, etc. This module can easily be customised according to our customer's requirements.

Complete details here...

Rhino events in Vienna

ThreeKC has organized a series of Rhino events in Vienna during the next weeks:

• Nov 15 - "Rhino basic/get in touch with Rhino" Training
• Nov 20 - "3D Modeling and Rendering with Rhino & V-Ray and more"
• Dec 3 - “Product & Industrial Design” day

Follow the links to register...

 

Welcome to Brazil and Neon rendering

Join us for a webinar on November 20

Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now!

James Carruthers of Hydraulic Design will show the basic principles of setting up your rendering scene in Brazil and Neon.

Jim will use HDR images for the quick setup of outdoor and 'studio' images in Brazil and Neon, and look at some of the features that are only available in Brazil.

This webinar is for anyone interested in the high-quality rendering capabilities Brazil and Brazil in conjunction with Neon bring to Rhino 5.  Learn how to approach rendering using Brazil, with and without Neon.

Presentation will take approximately 1 hour and questions will be taken at the end.

If you can not make it, no problem.
This webinar will be recorded and posted here by November 22, 2013.

Please email Mary Fugier if you have any questions.

Title:  Welcome to Brazil and Neon Rendering
Date:  Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Time:  9:00 am - 11:00 am PST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

System requirements:

PC-based attendees - Required: Windows® 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Mac®-based attendees - Required: Mac OS® X 10.6 or newer

Mobile attendees - Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet

Rendering jewelry with Brazil

Join us for a webinar on November 14

Space is limited - Reserve your webinar seat now!

Join us for a presentation on rendering jewelry with the Brazil rendering plug-in for Rhino 5.

In this one hour presentation, Sergio Martinez of McNeel Miami will demonstrate how to set up and render a jewelry project in Rhino 5 using the Brazil for Rhino plug-in.

Attendees will be introduced to the basic workflow of jewelry rendering including Environment setup, Materials and Render Settings.

Presentation will be approximately one hour with time for Q&A at the end.

If you can not make it, no problem. This webinar will be recorded and posted here by November 16, 2013.

Please email Mary Fugier if you have any questions.

Title:  Rendering Jewelry with Brazil
Date:  Thursday, November 14, 2013
Time:  9:00 am - 10:30 am PST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

System requirements

PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Mac®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.6 or newer

Mobile attendees
Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet

4th Rhino User Meeting TU Graz report

The 4th Rhino Day at the TU Graz took place on the 16th October 2013 with great success and an amazing international audience.

3D Base has been kind enough to write a brief report with photos.

Read the original report in German...
Or read the "google translated" version in English...

4th Parametric Design Workshop Leipzig

4th Parametric Design Workshop Leipzig
Dec 5-9, 2013 

The workshop will be concerned with the development and optimisation of a building using Rhino and Grasshopper based tools, such as Karamba and iterative and or evolutionary methods are to be used for system optimisation.

Limited rapid prototyping tools will be available for physical modelmaking (laser cutter, 3D plotter, CNC milling).

Work in groups with people from Leipzig's School of Architecture and international experts and students! Architects, Designers, Engineers and other interested parties welcome.

Solid working knowledge of Rhino and Grasshopper required. No scripting skills necessary.

Details and registration...