Barcelona is full of modernist and organic architectural ornaments, which historically have been a source of inspiration for jewelry. On this occasion, I have been inspired by different architectural elements of the city to create a collection designed and modeled withSubDinRhinoceros 7. This has opened up a more complex and wide world of creation.
In this Webinar, we will explore some of the pieces in the collection, as well as the modeling techniques used to make them.
Chesco Díazstarted as an artisan jeweler in 1996 at the School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona. In 2002 he began modeling with Rhino for manufacturing, using milling technology.
In 2009 he began training in Rhinogold, both in institutions such as the JORGC, and the IGE, as well as in companies such as Tiffany's, Tous, Fossil, etc. Since 2012 he is an authorized Rhino trainer (ART) and along with that, he gives 3d modeling and 3d printing services. Since 2018 he is an official distributor of Gemvision Spain and distributor of Asiga 3d printers.
Currently, he continues to give training, experimenting, and developing his own jewelry lines inStudio Chesco.
Python is a modern programming language with a simple and clean syntax (the rules for writing codes) making it very accessible to beginners to both the language and to programming in general. It is also backed by one of the most active communities of users and developers. These have made Python arguably the most popular programming language now. You can find Python being used in so many different fields: 3D modelling, web programming, scientific computing, engineering, artificial intelligence, etc.
Thanks to Rhino and Grasshopper’s official support of Python, you can programmatically access its powerful 3D modeling environment, including all the essential features of its advanced NURBS engine. This opens many exciting new possibilities, ranging from very simple to highly sophisticated, such as:
Building simple scripts/tools that automate repetitive modelling tasks, boosting efficiency
Developing and customising tools and workflow specific to your team’s needs
Programming advanced design algorithms that are not possible with standard out-of-the-box tools
Using Python as a creative design tool
Interfacing Rhino and Grasshopper with other software programs or programming libraries.
Course content: The 3-day Level 2 online course will cover a handful of additional RhinoCommon features, and also go further beyond what Rhino/Grasshopper offers out-of-the-box, such as:
Writing programs that take advantage of the Grasshopper’s timer. This allows us to create exciting “dynamic” applications such as (interactive) simulation or animation (e.g. agent-based simulation)
Recursion and its application (e.g. Fractal geometry)
More object-oriented programming. Seeing how it is useful in writing large programs.
Dive deeper into the geometry part of RhinoCommon
Reading and writing text files
Programmatically interacting with the Rhino modelling environment (layers, objects, lights, et)
Additional topics requested from the participants (if time is available)
Course requirements: Basic knowledge of Rhino, Grasshopper, and basic understanding of Python (level 1) including:
Basics of Python program languages
Basics of object-oriented programming in Python (e.g. defining and using a class)
Basics of the RhinoCommon libraries (e.g. working with Point3d, Vector3d, Surface, Breps, etc…)
Online course fees: EUR 395,- (+VAT); full-time students and university teachers get a 50% discount (proof of status required). Please note that we will confirm your seat after your payment has cleared.
Max. number of participants: 25. If there is no quorum, the course will be canceled two weeks before.
Course language: English
Educational seats are limited. Sign up now by contacting McNeel Europe!
For the Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture the Institute for Computational Design and Construction at Stuttgart University invites applications for multiple open positions:
Research Associates (m/f/d): Doctoral Researchers (E13 TVL) to conduct doctoral research in the Cluster of Excellence to complete a PhD in the research area of integrative computational design and digital fabrication in architecture or integrative computational design at the intersection of architecture, social science, and advanced visualization.
Research Associates (m/f/d): Architect (E13 TVL) to contribute to the design of highly innovative timber building demonstrators of the Cluster of Excellence in direct collaboration with our research and industry partners, including permanent building projects and temporary pavilions.
Candidates are required to have an advanced architectural, technical, or computer science degree. Previous experience in at least one of the research areas (PhD positions) mentioned above or in architectural practice (Architect positions) is expected, as well as a high level of commitment and dedication. Very good English skills are essential.
Applications (including CV, statement of interest, portfolio/work samples and a list of computational skills with indicated proficiency) should be submitted as one PDF file (max. 10MB) to: mail@icd.uni-stuttgart.de. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. The final application deadline is the 10th of January 2023.
As the University of Stuttgart strives to improve gender equality amongst its researchers, applications by women are particularly encouraged. Individuals with disabilities will be preferably employed where qualifications are deemed equal. All research associates will be employed through the University of Stuttgart's central administration.
Since 2009, many third-party plugins have been developed to enable the interoperability between Autodesk's BIM software Revit and McNeel's Rhino/Grasshopper to various degrees of success in terms of ease of use, performance (speed), and extendibility. With the release of Rhino 7 and the Rhino.Inside technology, Revit and Rhino/Grasshopper work together more seamlessly than ever before (Rhino.Inside.Revit/ Grasshopper.Inside.Revit). This has opened up opportunities to combine both platforms' strengths in a flexible, efficient, and responsive way, but also means that almost the entire existing ecosystem of third-party plugins for Rhino/Grasshopper can be used in a shared workflow with Revit more conveniently. The Rhino.Inside technology also allows (third-party) developers to further push the limits by creating custom their own Grasshopper components (via C# and even Python) that can access the Revit API directly in the same runtime environment. Additionally, Rhino.Inside.Revit adds over 300 Revit-aware components to Grasshopper that can query, modify, analyze, and create native Revit elements.
In this context, Junghwo Park, BIM Specialist at Umdasch Group Ventures, will tutor a Rhino.Inside.Revit online workshop at McNeel Europe.
What you will learn: The workshop is aimed at Revit users who want to learn about Rhino/Grasshopper or at Rhino/Grasshopper users who wish to learn about Rhino.Inside.Revit. Further, it is aimed at BIM creators, coordinators, and managers interested in parametric BIM workflows.
Day 1
Overview
Units and Documents
Useful GH Plugins for your BIM workflows
Datum
Selections
Get & Set Parameters
Revit materials
Day 2
Create Revit Element (System families)
Create form
Create family (Loadable families)
SubD to Revit
Rename Levels
Rooms and Areas
Structural Analytical Model
Day 3
Design Options
Topography
MakeHatch
Work sets
Clash Detection
Parametric BIM Design
Tips and Tricks
Course requirements: Basic knowledge of Rhino, Grasshopper, and Revit.
Online course fees: EUR 395,- (+VAT); full-time students and university teachers get a 50% discount (proof of status required). Please note that we will confirm your seat after your payment has cleared.
Max. number of participants: 25. If there is no quorum, the course will be canceled two weeks before.
Course language: English
Educational seats are limited. Sign up now by contacting McNeel Europe!
The #glTF 2.0 format has become the standard format for 3D content. It is supported by widely used software (Blender, SolidWorks, Revit, Cinema4D, Maya, SketchUp, etc.) and 3D engines (Unreal Engine, Unity, Babylon.js, Three.js, etc.). Thanks to the ShapeDiver plugin for Grasshopper, you can now create glTF files via Grasshopper.
Edwin Hernandez has posted a newvideo tutorial in the ShapeDiver channel where he explains the glTF format, how to create glTF files with Grasshopper, and how and where to use these files (Facebook, SketchFab, Shopify, and even the metaverse!).
Solid Skins V1.0 will showcase the full process of making an engine-ready game character using Rhinoceros, Blender, and Unreal Engine 5 software chain. What differentiates this webinar from a typical character design webinar is its focus on hard-surface modeling, as opposed to mesh sculpting. Thus the knowledge gained will be easy to adapt to your existing product design or architectural design workflow.
You will be presented with a series of example files of a character at different stages of development, followed by a concise explanation from the tutor. After each teaching stage is completed, you will work on your own version of a character body part and practice applying the workflow to your design. These designs will then be textured and animated in Blender.
Finally, the design will be set up for and inserted into the Unreal Engine environment. The end goal is to have an animated hard-surface object playing out in real time in Unreal Engine 5.
This book targets industrial design students, design professors, design practitioners, and others interested in industrial design (product design). It offers a guide or roadmap by providing: Design Templates, 7 Historic timelines, 50 Schemas, 100 Drawings, and Illustrations. Rhino (NURBS and SubD) was used to develop and illustrate all the 3D CAD concepts in the book, featured on pages 2, 7, 11, 57, 87, 101, 180, 206, and 207.
The book is available for purchase from the following links:
In this webinar edition, Footwearology will take us into the future, explaining how we will see a shift in how footwear designers, developers, and engineers will work.
Footwearology is a renowned research and training institute for footwear professionals. They provide various courses in Rhino and Grasshopper, specializing in the footwear industry.
They will transition from using 3D modeling software for designing separate shoes, to using it for the creation of automated design systems that allow them to work much smarter and with much better results. They will demonstrate various options, both from a technical, biomechanical, and aesthetical perspective, and discuss the future skill sets that will be required for footwear development teams.
Nicoline van Enteris one of the founders of Footwearology. She is a world-renowned technology forecaster and visionary thinker, working on developing full systems and workflows for digital design and manufacturing of footwear.
Luis Buginis a highly experienced computational designer from Brazil. He joined the team of Footwearology last summer, researching data-driven design applications and additive manufacturing technologies for mass customization of footwear.
NDAR’s marine software solutions rely strongly on Rhino's CAD platform, including specialized plugins Orca3D and ExpressMarine, both of which undergo continuous development. Meet the NDAR crew on Booth 05.553 to learn about new workflow, strategies, implementation schemes, and processes and get advice for naval architecture and shipbuilding software solutions.
Making an appointment in advance is highly recommended.
LIRA-SAPR software is a leading software in the Commonwealth of Independent States markets. LIRA-SAPR allows users to quickly analyze structures with different complex geometry (high-rise buildings, large-span structures, towers, masts, silos, coverings of various shapes, etc.). With over 30 countries worldwide, LIRA-SAPR is well-known as one of the best tools available for professional engineers for structural analysis and design.
LIRA-SAPR has been used in many projects, including significantly complex ones:
- Protective shell of a nuclear reactor for nuclear power plant - Hydroelectric power plant - Indoor ice arena - Government institution in Georgia - Different hotel complexes (Alliance Palace, Hilton Complex) - Evolution Tower and other unique objects
Nowadays, the traditional methods for model creation are too slow for structural analysis. Architects change their models almost daily and structural engineers should analyze various variants as quickly as possible. So, many choose parametric structural design instead of classical ways of model generation.
The possibilities are endless with the Grasshopper - LIRA-SAPR Live Link. This tool enables you to simulate buildings and structures of arbitrary shape parametrically. The developed plugin converts a Rhino model into an analysis model. It also allows you to perform static, dynamic, and design analysis. With the help of this link, you can also check different structural solutions and select the best one. This advantage becomes very important when the framework is often modified, and changes can be quickly and efficiently analyzed with FEA.
CrossGems is a professional jewelry software that allows you to design any complex model easily and quickly without having technical CAD knowledge.
Core and Features
All objects are linked in real time to automatically adapt when edited, allowing you to delete or modify Boolean operations or any of the 100+ CrossGems tools and keeping the parametric history in all cases. Additionally, this feature applies to Rhino gumballs, allowing you to reset transformations (move, scale, and rotate) applied to model parts and restore deleted document objects at any time, including SubD objects and Meshes, while maintaining compatibility with Rhino's Record History function.
It can also be used as a traditional modeler without the parametric system, adding the modeled objects as normal Rhino geometry.
For the most advanced users, all the tools in Rhino are also available in Grasshopper, making it one of the most versatile software in the Rhino world.
Interface
CrossGems can be run with its own interface, simplifying the workflow and as a Rhino plugin while keeping all the parametric features for users used to Rhino UI. The Command History Panel, available in Rhino and CrossGems UI, is the visible part of this system that allows the user to interact with and manage all the model components.
Rendering
It also includes a rendering material library with over 300 materials and grounds for the integrated physics-based render Cycles.
Materials and grounds are assigned with a single click, displaying the object weights in real-time while using any tool or simply selecting objects in the document. Furthermore, CrossGems will automatically swap materials when changing display modes to achieve the best quality for every situation.
Compatibility
CrossGems is capable of importing and converting gems from other software, such as RhinoGold and Matrix, as well as importing Panther files while maintaining 100% parametric history.
About CrossBytes 3D
CrossBytes' background goes back to the origins of RhinoGold, developing from RhinoGold 3 to RhinoGold 6.5 for more than ten years. Finally, the company was acquired by a multinational. At this point, CrossByte created Panther 3D, the world's first parametric jewelry software from Rhino and Grasshopper. CrossGems is its evolution in every respect.
"Throughout all these years we have learned thanks to listening to users and we can say that we have built a program with jewelers and for jewelers within the reach of anyone and we intend to continue doing so, so if you have any requests, doubts, or suggestions feel free to email us at hello@crossbytes3d.com."
Organized by ParametricArchitecture (PA) and DesignMorphine (DM)
Computational Design: NEXT, an online learning platform, is now a full-fledged online conference. ParametricArchitecture, one of the leading media platforms concentrating on computational design and its different subsets, will host the event, including conversations, dialogues, tutorials, and mentoring to a worldwide audience via thought-provoking and relevant speeches. During the two-day conference, Computational Design: NEXT 12 will bring together pioneers and professionals from all industries to meet and discuss new emerging technologies in art, architecture, design, and manufacturing.
At the recent 2022 ACADIA Conference Hybrids & Haecceities at the University of Pennsylvania, one of our software developers, Rajaa Issa, received its Teaching Award of Excellence.
This award recognizes innovative teaching in digital design in architecture, mainly teaching approaches that other educators can adopt.
Rajaa noted that she was repeatedly pulled aside by women thanking her for paving a path for other women to follow.
Rajaa Issa is a multi-talented developer, researcher, and educator in computational design in architecture. As a software developer at Robert McNeel & Associates, she builds solid modeling and surface editing tools to support the architectural design and fabrication processes. Rajaa is the developer of PanelingTools, one of the earliest tools for concept paneling and complex surface rationalization. She is an Adjunct Professor at the NewSchool of Architecture & Design, where she established a new program in computational design methodologies. Her teaching method builds a solid foundational knowledge in mathematics, algorithms, and fabrication to bridge the gap between intuitive and algorithmic thinking among creative designers. She has authored a series of publications on parametric and computational design essentials, which are popular among both students and professionals. As a firm believer in inclusion and the accessibility of knowledge, she has made all of her work accessible.
You can read more about the ACADIA awards on their awards page.
ACADIA, or the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, is an international network of digital design researchers and professionals. They facilitate critical investigations into the role of computation in architecture, planning, and building science, encouraging innovation in design creativity, sustainability, and education.
Our friends from Gravity Sketch have organized AROUND, a global design festival meant to provide a space for the creative community to get inspired and learn from each other around 3D workflows.
They have an impressive line of speakers, some of them showing the workflow Rhino-Gravity Sketch (check the agenda).
During the breaks, visit the McNeel virtual booth to learn more about SubD, "ask me anything", "new in Rhino WIP", etc.
Learn parametric design without prior coding experience in just eight weeks
Krzysztof Wojslaw from LearnGrasshopper will guide you through the transformation from an "old-school" engineer with zero programming experience to an engineer of the future who can automate manual tasks and have much more fun at work.
Krzysztof Wojslaw, the training author, will answer all questions connected to the learning platform and how to start with Grasshopper completely from scratch.
The conference will provide numerous article presentations,
panel discussions, and keynotes related to Rhino and Grasshopper. Here are some of the papers that will be presented:
The 2Shapes team is happy to announce 2Shapes Design 4 for Rhino, the newest version of the jewelry design plugin for Rhino. Developed by the industry leaders that made RhinoGold and Clayoo, this new version gathers all the experience learned over the years, solving the needs of jewelry design professionals.
2Shapes 4 for Rhino includes many improvements and new features that make it one of the most powerful programs on the market today.
Construsoft is a leading supplier and developer of BIM (Building Information Modeling) software and related services. Their portfolio includes products and applications that provide an accurate, detailed, and data-rich 3D environment for the design and construction industry.
They were interested in creating a free online application that would allow them to showcase their knowledge for calculating and optimizing the design of metal structures. They knew Grasshopper was a powerful tool to build such an application, but they needed a way to host these files online and make them available to anyone via a web browser. Recently, they found out that ShapeDiver could give them these capabilities and even allow them to use third-party plugins such as Karamba3D and Geometry Gym.
In this interview, ShapeDiver talks with Construsoft's team and discusses the topics surrounding this powerful online tool called Optinave.
This new Simply RhinoV-Ray video tutorial shows you how to simply create, adjust, and render an architectural scene using V-Ray 6 for Rhino and Rhino 7.
Rhino and Lands Design will be presented at the ASLA 2022 Conference, November 11-14, the world's biggest gathering of landscape architects with more than 6000 attendees yearly.
The presentation by McNeel Europe and Asuni will introduce parametric landscape design, including environmental analysis and optimization. The session;s content will focus on the algorithmic design generation and analysis of Lands Design landscape objects (LIM) in Grasshopper. The analysis will include CO2 sequestration, shading, and solar radiation (Ladybug Tools) of trees, as well as optimization processes based on analysis results.
The Complete Rhino Guide For Beginners illustrates the foundation of design and modeling within the Rhino 3D environment, taking students from beginner to intermediate level in the principal functions and methods in Rhino and Grasshopper while creating a beautiful architecture project.
Course Introduction
The Complete Rhino Guide is a series created by registered architect and founder of the I Am The Studio platform—Brandon Aaron Gibbs, AIA—to give designers a comprehensive creative+technical foundation with modeling and design in Rhino.
New designers in Rhino often get lost in modeling after a few steps because they lack the foundation and a creative approach to applying modeling techniques. In this beginner’s course, students will be immersed in the technique and design within the Rhino 3D world, learning about the various geometries, functions, drafting, and parametric capabilities to start Rhino projects. Students will then develop an architectural project with Voronoi parametric surfaces to be documented in orthographic views—rendering the project in the latest V-Ray.
New or intermediate students in Rhino will appreciate the up-to-date skills in Rhino and Rhino plugins from this course, where they will get key insights and workflows to manage and create beautiful designs in the Rhino environment.
We're pleased to announce that our Digital Footwear Modeling in Rhino 7 online course is now available in English.It's still a WIP (work in progress), and new chapters will be added weekly, so for a limited time, take advantage of our WIP introductory price and get 50% off!
The course is designed for beginners, so join us and discover the foundations of footwear design and 3D modeling and let your ideas emerge digitally. With this training, you will acquire the necessary skills to design any shoe and learn to use Rhino commands to focus on the development of virtual prototyping and skillfully use the tools provided by the program.
Enroll now while the course is still a WIP and save 50%!
The Body Architecture studio online workshop(November 12, 2022-January 7, 2023) explores designing unique wearables for different natural and artificial environments and how the human body and its prostheses react and adapt to these future trends.
Course Introduction
Throughout history, the human body and technology coevolved, generating forms of deep symbiosis that materialized in a vast web of artifacts and prostheses that mediate between individuals and the environment. Ultimately, all wearable products, medical devices, tools, and means of transportation, and the city itself can be interpreted as an extension of our physical bodies. These technological prostheses increase the chances of survival and expand the human experience.
In the future, abrupt changes in the climate and the ecological crisis will rapidly change the environments in which people live. As a result, we can expect even more extreme conditions, with changes in the atmosphere’s composition, expanding desertification, and flooding of vast territories.
It is possible that in the future, our array of prostheses and body extensions will have to be redesigned to adapt to such fast-changing conditions.
The Body Architecture studio workshop aims to anticipate such needs and develop a design agenda that explores and describes emerging opportunities. Projects will speculate on transformations of natural and artificial environments and how the human body and its prostheses react and adapt to such trends in climatic change. The projects will eventually propose the design of a specific wearable artifact or a vision of a more radical transformation of the human body.
While primed with software and design techniques, participants will form small groups to develop their projects. Research into historical, contemporary, and fictional case studies is highly encouraged, spanning from any gear developed through human history to adapt to aggressive environments to contemporary sportswear and tools for space and deep water exploration to science-fictional examples of body transformation and extension.
The Body Architecture studio workshop is flexible to encourage different time scales and degrees of speculation, from short-term ones, such as enquiring which type of wearable artifacts will be needed in the pandemic and post-pandemic world or the future of sports activities—to more radical and visionary ones, such as flooded worlds where people will have to live underwater, or outer space exploration.
In this webinar, LINK IO, the computational design department in LINK Arkitektur, will present how they connect multidisciplinary design and engineering tools through Rhino and Grasshopper. We will get a sneak peek into LINK EP*, an in-house Rhino/Grasshopper plugin that serves as the backbone of the toolbox.
The toolbox leverages other tools on the market such as Speckle, OneClick LCA, and others. The overview of the structure will define how to make these different systems interact with each other. Afterward, a live demo of the toolbox will be presented.
*working title LINK Early Phase
About the presenters:
#Mathias Sønderskov Schaltz Mathias is a trained hybrid architect and engineer who works on the technical parts of the design, in particular with facades, daylight, and master plans. As an expert in daylight simulations and computational design, he tries to bring typical late-phase knowledge into early-phase sketching. #Fabian Sellberg Fabian Sellberg is an architect with a background as a backend developer focused on data-driven design and early-phase LCA studies. He is currently working with computational design and developing the internal and external tools used at Link Arkitektur.
Learn how Rodrigo Aranha Lopes, a Brazilian architect and surfer living in Portugal, created this award-winning project that aims to change surfboard manufacturing with the help of parametric design, cloud computing, and subtractive manufacturing.
In collaboration with Cosentino, McNeel Europe is organizing for the first time in the Middle East a Rhino User Meeting. The event will take place during the Dubai Design Week on November 10, 2022.
If you are an architect, engineer, product designer, urban planner, landscape designer, 3D modeler, educator, or student, join us and learn more about state-of-the-art 3D design, analysis, optimization, engineering, and fabrication.
Get inspired by industry experts who will share their more recent projects and workflow with the audience, and don’t miss the chance to meet other Rhino and Grasshopper users like you.
At the beginning of the structural design process, there are two common approaches to defining geometries: Create complex and parametric geometries directly using Rhino and Grasshopper or leverage the power of Rhino.Inside to transfer geometry directly from Revit.
Now, with CondorShell, engineers can easily export geometry and data from Rhino and Grasshopper to SAFE V20.3.0, making the structural analysis and design much faster. With CondorShell, engineers can create workflows to automate design tasks in the design of foundations and the design of slabs in CSI SAFE.
CondorShell is a Grasshopper-based component just released by Artificial Intelligence Optimization Software, LLC (AIOS). CondorShell 1.0.0 is available to download beginning October 10.
CondorShell comes in two versions: Basic and Pro. There is extensive documentation as well as short videos and examples that illustrate the use of every single CondorShell component. Both versions will help you establish more efficient workflows, saving valuable time during design.
CondorShell Basic: Available using the PackageManager in Rhino, this free version features 20 components that support the creation of your SAFE model. See the 1-minute video tutorial, How to Install CondorShell Free Limited Version.
CondorShell Pro: To experience the full capabilities of CondorShell, users can upgrade to the paid version which provides 54 additional components that facilitate the creation of complex geometries in your SAFE model. To activate the Pro version, follow the installation instructions in the 3-minute video tutorial, Installing CondorShell.
Disrupt is the first of its kind Business of Architecture Symposium looking to bring major architecture practices under one roof to discuss how they strategize for growth and success.
These are the experts behind top architecture practices. Their everyday decisions help build the world's most admired megastructures. If you want to learn about the business you want to learn from them.
The Rhino and Grasshopper community is welcome to join the event.
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