The Architectural Association along with the School of Architecture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, will begin with their Visitor’s School in Santiago, Chile. They will host an intensive 10-day workshop that will be open to architecture students, architects and designers worldwide.
Dates: January 6-15, 2010
Location: Santiago, Chile
Friday, November 20, 2009
Architectural Association visiting Chile
Rhino OS X - New Build
There is a new build available, Wenatchee 2009-11-20, with many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Also included are:
Additions:
- You can now attach bitmap or procedure textures to many of the Toucan material settings.
- The Heightfield command is implemented.
- Pasted text will now be executed as Rhino commands.
- Some viewport commands, such as SetActiveViewport, have been implemented.
Changes:
- The trackpad preference panel now presents only the features available on the current hardware.
Most of the core functionality has been ported from Windows and is very stable. There is still much to do to port the rest of the functionality and refine the interface.
We don't expect the first commercial release to be ready for at least a year. Don't worry if the build you are using is going to expire. New versions will be available every few weeks. There will be a newer one available before the expiration date.
Dutch Architects Debate
A small group of the world's most prestigious design firms got together in Amsterdam early this week to brainstorm and debate the use of computational tools in building design. Since most of the attendees are heavy Rhino users (along with many other products), we were there to listen and learn how we can be more helpful.
Firms represented include:
- de Architecten Cie.
- Arup Amsterdam
- Information Based Architecture
- Mecanoo
- Meyer & van Schooten
- Octatube
- Roderik van der Weijden - Architect
- UN-Studio
The meeting was hosted by Jeroen Coenders at Arup Amsterdam and organized by Pim van Wylick for RhinoCentre. Pim is also the founder of The Form Foundation.
Advanced Grasshopper training in Pasadena, December 6th
Forward Design Office in Pasadena, California is offering a one-day Advanced Grasshopper workshop.
This course is geared to users who have an intermediate knowledge of Rhino modeling and a basic understanding of Grasshopper. This one-day advanced Grasshopper workshop will focus on developing strategies for dealing with complex data structures and list management through a series of well defined tutorials that deal with constraint based and associative modeling techniques.
Date: Sunday, December 6
Hours: 9:30am-5:30pm
Location: Forward Design Office
Cost: US$299
This workshop is open to professionals and students; laptops are required.
Details and registration, please contact Jeffrey Kim.
3D PDF from Rhino
SimLab Soft, released a new 3D PDF export plug-in for Rhino. The plug-in allows the designer to share his/her creation with clients without risking his original 3D design.
PanelingTools Tutorials
Glenn Wilcox, Assistant Professor in Architecture at the University of Michigan, has posted three PanelingTools Tutorials on their Generative Design Computing blog.
Appearances are deceiving
Designed in Rhino, Architect Thom Faulders’s perfectly flat deck only looks like its far corner has its own warped gravity.
Read more about it in Metropolis Magazine online.
Magics Bijoux for Rhino released!
Magics Bijoux incorporates many of the powerful functions from Materialise’s leading rapid prototyping software ‘Magics RP’, to provide an indispensible tool for the 3D printing of jewelry models. This easy-to-use software contains all of the essential and automated tools required, including a file fixing wizard, triangle reduction, surface smoothing, Boolean and platform optimization and analysis.
Magics Bijoux is also equipped with the ability to directly import from Rhino via a plug-in and to directly export slices to Solidscape, ensuring a smooth and efficient jewelry modeling process from start to finish.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
formTOobject Generative Design Workshop, Singapore
Join us at the formTOobject Generative Design workshop that will be held in conjunction with the Singapore Design Festival.
formTOobject is a four-day workshop in a studio setting. Its focus is generative design methods and fabrication of speculative objects and forms, and how those are used in product design, architecture, furniture, sculpture and interactive installations.
Workshop dates: November 23-26, 2009
Fee: S$600.00 Paid entry
Location: The City Hall, Level 4, Courtroom 20
To register, contact Jeffrey Hong.
modeLab Primers Released
Studio Mode has released a series of conceptual primers related to core data and geometry types as well as data manipulation on their newly redesigned website, modeLab. Each primer contains a concise concept and description within an example Grasshopper definition. More primers and related material are to be added. Check out their site and stay tuned.
Friday, November 13, 2009
“The Twist” bridge in Vlaardingen (The Netherlands)
“The Twist” bridge in Vlaardingen (The Netherlands)
The new crucial connection in the urban and recreational bicycle network calls for a strong identity in the area. By virtue of its location in a natural green setting on the edge of the city, the bridge is both tempting and surprising to its users. An expressive though subtle sculpture establishes the moment of ‘crossing’ and captures the qualities of the immediate landscape.
Andrew Tang, Project Architect at West 8, says: "After years of technical studies and design refinement, the bridge is finally realized and opened in May 2009. Using the original Rhino Model as a basis, the contractors were able to translate the design into final working drawings for the various components of the bridge. While I’ve used Rhino working on other prestigious projects such as the new Rotterdam Central Station, I sincerely feel that Bridge Vlaardingen really showcase the power and possibilities of Rhino."
Art exhibition by Rinus Roelofs in Spain
If you happen to be in Tudela (Navarra, Spain), don't miss the "Metamorfosis" exhibition by Rinus Roelofs.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Corian® 3D - Math series
Corian® 3D Math Series is made of 6 different panels, each inspired from a mathematic principle or the mathematician who gave his name to the principle.
Monday, November 9, 2009
SmartGeometry Open Platform - TU Delft
Nov 27-29 - SmartGeometry Open Platform - TU Delft (Holland)
This event will complement SmartGeometry's annual workshop and conference event, bringing many of SmartGeometry's experienced tutors to guide participants in exploring computational design through a variety of technologies. Click here to view the Event Poster.
The event will run in two parallel streams: one stream will feature training in Generative Components (GC) and Grasshopper, while the second will be a workshop where participants have the opportunity to propose and work on individual design projects using a variety of software platforms. Both streams will offer participants close interaction with tutors from practices and universities known for their accomplishments in computational design and analysis, and complex geometry.
Additionally, the stream featuring GC and Grasshopper will feature tutors from the companies behind each platform, Bentley and McNeel. Those working on individual projects will need to be proficient in their chosen platform but can draw on tutor's skills in various technologies -- for instance Processing, C++/OpenGL, RhinoScript -- as well as tutors' expertise in complex problems of geometry, structure, algorithms, and analysis. Participants will be able to change streams as it suits the development of their work.
In the evenings, participants can attend presentations demonstrating the latest projects and research in computational architecture and engineering.
Rhino and Orca3D at METS Amsterdam
Nov 17-19 - METS - Amsterdam (Holland)
METS is the biggest and best attended meeting place for leisure marine trade professionals in the world.
Come visit Design Systems & Technologies - NDAR Stand (04.408 French Pavillion) to learn more about Rhino, Orca3D, Hydrocomp and the latest technologies in the fields of yacht, workboat, ship design, production, operation and management. Don't miss the opportunity to meet the representatives from the above companies and from McNeel.
Rhino at Elmia Subcontractor exhibition
Nov 10-13 - Elmia Subcontractor - Jönköping (Sweden)
Visit Marinesoft (Booth B04-82) to learn more about Rhino, RhinoCAM, RhinoPhoto, T-Splines, reverse engineering tools, Datakit converters and Visualization.
For your your invitation card please pre-register at http://www.elmia.se/sv/subcontractor/For-massbesokare/Forregistrering/?code=F265891
RhinoScript workshop in Dubai, Dec 29-31
Dec 29-31 - RhinoScript workshop - Dubai, UAE
This workshop organized by Maher El-Khaldi (Shape Architecture Practice + Research) aims to highlight two of the main reasons why architects may choose to explore design solutions via scripting. These are automation and embedding of logic. Automation being the ability to delegate tasks to the computer (thus build a computerized product) and embedding of rules being the ability to express design intentions via a set of conditional statements. The above will be explored through RhinoScript.
Rhino Assembly 1.0 released!
Rhino Assembly is the first product from Driving Dimensions line for Rhinoceros. It is a powerful tool for bottom-up assembly design and kinematics simulation using geometric constraints and driving dimensions compatible with the capabilities of mainstream MCAD software packages.
With Rhino Assembly you can easily position your rigid 3D parts with respect to each other by specifying assembly constraints (fixation, concentricity, coincidence, parallelism, perpendicularity, tangency, rigid sets) and driving dimensions (distance and angle) between their faces and edges. Driving Dimensions plugin automatically satisfies all constraints and dimensions making a consistent assembly from existing parts. An assembled mechanism can then be animated by varying a parameter of one or more of of its driving dimensions. Assembly Manager tool allows easy navigation over all assembly constraints and driving dimensions imposed on geometric elements of a designed model.
For additional info and Evaluation version click here...
Grasshopper primer, Spanish edition
Francisco Calvo – Katherine Cáceres from Tectónicas Digitales have translated the Grasshopper primer by Andrew Payne (Lift Architects) to Spanish.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Rhino 4.0 SR7 Release Candidate 2 Available
Rhino 4.0 Service Release 7 Release Candidate 2 is available for download.
This is pre-release software. If you are not comfortable running pre-release software, please do not download this build.
This release candidate has been tested by our internal testing staff and is believed to be stable, reliable, and suitable for use in production. As with all release candidates, however, there may be problems that we didn't uncover in our own testing. We expect several thousand people to download and test this Service Release and report any problems they have.
When we are satisfied that there are no major problems with this release, we'll release the Service Release officially.
Please report any crashes you experience using the McNeel Error Reporting dialog box that will appear. Report any other problems to our support team.
New Features:
- Save: Option to save backup file has been added to the Files tab of Options.
- EditScript crash fixed.
- Import:FBX crash fixed.
- Import crash fixed.
- Installer improved to migrate per-user and per-machine user configurations.
- MatchSrf command crash fixed.
- Move command crash fixed.
- Open:SolidWorks: A problem opening read-only files (such as those downloaded from email or CD) has been fixed.
- Pan command crash fixed.
- Save:OBJ crash fixed.
- Section: A failure with planar object bounding boxes has been fixed.
- Split command crash fixed.
- Split command crash fixed.
- Split crash fixed.
- Unweld crash fixed.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Parametric Design Workshop with Grasshopper, New York City
Studio Mode's modeLab is pleased to announce it will offer a Parametric Design Workshop utilizing Grasshopper. This workshop will be a two-day design workshop to be held in New York City, December 5 and 6.
Details and registration information are available on the modeLab site.
Mr. Terrible
"Mr. Terrible" - image by Neil Rabinowitz
Delta Marine, long-time Rhino users, was recently written up in Composites Technology magazine for their innovative use of composites in the design and construction of Mr. Terrible. Read the article online:
Lakewood Guitars
Lakewood Guitars was founded in 1986 by Martin Seeliger with one purpose in mind – to build very special instruments for their customers.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Rhino OS X - New Build
There is a new build available, Wenatchee 2009-10-24, with many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Also included are:
Additions:
- Viewport properties are implemented.
- Setting Wallpaper in a viewport is implemented.
- The Rhino Help menu now has a "Mac Rhino Support Forum..." item to provide easy access to the Mac Rhino support forum.
- Printing from a render image window is much improved.
- Rhino notifies the user when it is in the background and a long-running command completes (like a render or Make2D). Rhino uses Growl if it is available, otherwise it uses a Dock notification.
Changes:
- The main drawing window was revised to more efficiently use screen space.
- The command options dialog is now smaller and uses less screen space.
Most of the core functionality has been ported from Windows and is very stable. There is still much to do to port the rest of the functionality and refine the interface.
We don't expect the first commercial release to be ready for at least a year. Don't worry if the build you are using is going to expire. New versions will be available every few weeks. There will be a newer one available before the expiration date.
T-Splines for Rhino Training
T-Splines has posted the new training schedule for this fall.
One-day classes:
- Nov 10: Seattle, Washington
- Nov 17: London, United Kingdom
- Dec 3: Provo, Utah
VisualARQ 1.0 is shipping!
VisualARQ 1.0 is shipping!
Designed for architects, planners and interior designers, VisualARQ (developed by Asuni CAD) is a Rhino plugin for creating and editing architectural models. It adds parametric 3D objects like walls, columns, doors, windows and stairs that are suitable for 3D modeling and 2D documentation.
As a fully integrated plugin for Rhino, VisualARQ offers a set of architectural tools that make the design and documentation process faster and easier and a feature-based editor that allows you to easily create and edit smart/custom architectural objects.
VisualARQ integrates intuitively in the architectural design workflow with the shortest learning curve and at a very affordable price.
VisualARQ 1.0 features include:
- A set of architectural tools to streamline the design process, including a powerful feature based editor to easily create and edit parametric architectural objects.
- User friendly wizards, dialogs and toolbars.
- Customization options for VisualARQ objects.
- Tools to create 2D documentation, including sections, opening elevations, schedule tables and area calculation.
- A Floor Manager and other useful tools to work with multi-story models.
- A library of standard architectural objects and structural profiles.
- Savanna3D: A library of over 1000 detailed Rhino blocks with various collections of commonly used objects.
- Support for any render engine that works with Rhino 4.0.
- VisualARQ 1.0 is available in 6 languages (English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Czech).
Pricing:
- Commercial license: US$/€495.
- Introductory offer (until 1st January 2010): US$/€395.
- Educational license (for students and teachers): US$/€195.
- Lab license (for schools): US$/€675.
Availability:
- VisualARQ 1.0 is available worldwide and delivered as a physical product.
- To purchase VisualARQ 1.0 or download an Evaluation version, visit http://www.visualarq.com/.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Vehicular modeling webinar featuring Kyle Houchens
T-Splines is hosting a free 45-minute webinar to learn how to unlock the power of T-Splines for Rhino on Wednesday, November 4, at 12:00 PM EST.
Authorized T-Splines trainer, Kyle Houchens, owner of The Outside Digital Art and Design, will show how to use T-Splines for free-form car designs, and Matt Sederberg, T-Splines co-founder, will introduce powerful time-saving tools and tips from newly released T-Splines 2.2.
Authorized T-Splines trainer, Kyle Houchens, owner of The Outside Digital Art and Design, will show how to use T-Splines for free-form car designs, and Matt Sederberg, T-Splines co-founder, will introduce powerful time-saving tools and tips from newly released T-Splines 2.2.
Monday, October 26, 2009
New book "Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands"
Following the Conference and Digital Hinterlands Exhibition held at Arup's Phase 2 Gallery, Ruairi Glynn is pleased to announce the publication of Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands.
The book covers a spectrum of London’s leading graduates and young practices, featuring projects from the Architectural Association, Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), University of Westminster and Royal College of Art, and case studies and interviews with architects including Amanda Levete Architects, Plasma Studio, JDS Architects, sixteen* (makers), Horhizon, marcosandmarjan, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Philip Beesley, David Greene, Samantha Hardingham, Usman Haque and Neil Spiller.
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