Long time Rhino user and teacher, John Cantu has been a great resource for many Rhino users, providing a full range of rendering and animation services to the marine industry.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
John Cantu - user web site
Rhino OS X - New Build
There is a new build available, Wenatchee 2008-12-16, with the following:
New Features:
- A new menu, containing the most recently used commands, has been added to the drawing window context menu. The Repeat Last Command menu choice on the context menu now contains a menu of the most recent commands. Selecting the Repeat Last Command choice itself still executes the very last command.
- Import and Export 3DS have been added.
- The ExtractRenderMesh command has been added.
Changes:
- Text drawing has been rewritten and is much faster. This greatly improves Rhino's responsiveness when drawings (such as typical AutoCAD files) contain a lot of text.
- The bounding box for a text object now contains all the text. Clicking on any part of a text object selects the object.
- The Heightfield command does not work and has been disabled.
Bug fixes:
- The Flip / KeepAll dialog that is part of the Wirecut command now works correctly.
- The common menu choices File>Save, File>SaveAs, Edit>Copy, Edit>Cut, Edit>Paste, Edit>Delete had previously been implemented in a non-standard way. This prevented Cut / Copy / Paste from working in some dialogs. This may also be the reason some poorly written haxies crashed Rhino. These menu choices are now implemented using standard OS X techniques and may improve stability.
- Selecting a grouped set of objects with a left to right window selection now works.
- The Edit Layer dialog now correctly modifies the selected layer.
- Collapsing deeply nested layers in the layers dialog will no longer crash Rhino.
- Other crash bugs have been fixed.
Note: This release requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Digital Jewelry Designer Needed - NYC
DVatché is looking for a designer with expertise using Rhino with Matrix. They are a high-end jewelry company located in New York. Please, no students. Two years minimum experience required.
DVatché, Eclipse Jewelry Corporation
7 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212 764 6883
Fax: 212 719 2348
E-mail: affes@msn.com
Monday, December 8, 2008
3rd Conference Milling Technology in Architecture, Art and Design - TU Vienna
TU Vienna, 18 December 2008
The 3D Technology innovative project board of Vienna University of Technology is inviting any interested researcher or practicing expert to the 3rd Conference Milling Technology in Architecture, Art and Design.
The conference will bring together researchers, practicing experts and business representatives in the field of digital manufacturing and rapid prototyping. The major aim is to exchange experiences and ideas of state-of-the-art CAM-technologies with future possibilities to implement in architecture, art and design. In particular innovative applications of milling-technology will be discussed.
Admission free
Conference language: German and English
No registration required.
ParaCloud GEM
ParaCloud GEM (Generative Meshes) is a design tool for populating models with any mesh geometry. With a simple to use interface, ParaCloud GEM offers an easy way for generatively creating complex 3D mesh models.
The output meshes created with ParaCloud GEM can be further edited in Rhino.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Marc Fornes and Skylar Tibbits at MIND08
If you didn't get a chance to attend MIND08, you can watch the videos online.
Friday, December 5, 2008
SIGGRAPH Asia 2008
The first Asia ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques will be held in Singapore from 11th-13th December 2008.
Hayabusa Renderer for Rhino 1.0 demo will be held at AMD booth G01 by Applicraft Japan.
Authorized Rhino Resellers; Nosco Consultancy and FreeForm Solutions will be at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 to share with you the latest Rhino version 4 and solutions.
Click here for SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 details.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Grasshopper for Rhino - new minor version
Grasshopper 0.50099 for Rhino 4.0 is now available for download. This minor new release has a few new features and enhancements.
Friday, November 28, 2008
EuroMold 2008
December 3-6 - EuroMold, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
EuroMold is the World Fair for Moldmaking and Tooling, Design and Application Development.
To see what's new in Rhino, including RhinoLab's new technology and a variety of new plugins and hardware, visit our resellers and partners:
- flexiCAD Hall 6.1 - E87
- FILOU Hall 8.0 - B111
- Visual-Dream Hall 6.1 - E65/E67
- CIMsystem Hall 8.0 - C155
- iCapp RhinoReverse Hall 6.1 - E75
- DataCAD Hall 6.0 - C36
- RSI Hall 8.0 - F19
- Seac02 Hall 6.0 – D16
- Roland DG Hall 6.0 - B130
- Solidscape Hall 6.0 - B02
- SpaceClaim Hall 8.0 - J11
- Einfache Stereodarstellung in CAD-Systemen
Wednesday December 3, 13:00h
Halle 6.1, D88, Virtual Reality Forum
Dipl.-Ing. Michael Meyer - Schnelle Designentscheidungen mit Hayabusa GPU und HDRI Umgebungen
Wednesday December 3, 17:00h
Hall: to be announced
Ioannis Zonitsas - Kinderleicht: Digitalisierte Oberflächen in CAD-Flächen umwandeln mit RhinoReverse
Friday December 5, 11:40h
Halle 6.1, design + engineering forum
Dr. Jörg Danzberg - Generatives Modellieren und Rhinoceros 5.0 Neuigkeiten
Saturday December 6, 14:30h
Halle 6.1, design + engineering forum
Dipl.-Ing. Michael Meyer - Interaktives Echtzeit-Rendering- und Modeling mit der Software Hayabusa und Rhinoceros
Saturday December 6, 15:30h
Hall: to be announced
Ioannis Zonitsas
- Rhino User Meeting
Thursday 4 December, 17:00h
Hall 6.1-E87 - flexiCAD booth
Monday, November 24, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Designed in Rhino - the HÅG FUTU
HÅG, Norway's biggest office chair producer, just released their new chair, the HÅG FUTU.
Leif Isachen at KODE Design, the chief designer on the project, worked in Rhino for almost one year, from early sketches, through all the design phases up to manufacturing.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Datakit Import, Export Rhino Plug In - New Bundles
Datakit releases an import and/or export “all-in-One” Rhino Plug-in bundles of CAD data exchange solution. The new bundle pricing is comparable to old single converter pricing.
The import bundle includes 9 solutions for reading native or neutral files from Acis, CATIA V4, CATIA V5, Inventor, JT, NX, Parasolid, Pro/E or Solid Edge into Rhino 4.0.
The export bundle enables Rhino 4.0 to write CATIA V4 and/or V5 files.
Bundles under maintenance are guaranteed to be compatible with new versions of the native or neutral files.
Paneling Tools for Rhino Tutorial, etc.
Zach Downey, an Architectural Designer at SHoP architects in New York City, has been kind enough to share his Rhino expertise on his blog, designalyze. Recent posts include:
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
MicroScribe "End of Life" Announcement
Today, Immersion Corporation announced that they have decided to end of life the MicroScribe product line, and all associated 3rd party products. This announcement applies to all hardware, software and accessories. The last day to order any kind of MicroScribe product directly from Immersion will be December 24th, 2008.
Please see their Press Release for additional details...
Monday, November 17, 2008
New free video tutorials from Simply Rhino UK
Simply Rhino UK has posted the following free video tutorials:
- Point Cloud to 3D Contoured Terrain
- Adding Break Lines & Draping Photographic Images Over the Landscape
- Creating Stepped 3D Contours from 2D Data
- Architectural Organic Tower Creation - Envelope & Floor Plates with History
- Adding a Lift Core with Structural Openings on Each Floor
Friday, November 14, 2008
PanelingTools for Rhino 4.0 Updated
A new release of PanelingTools plug-in for Rhino 4.0 is available for download. New in this release:
- Fixed divide surface by direct distance bug for closed surfaces.
- Added the ability to select a base point to start dividing a surface from in ptGridSurfaceDirectDistance command.
- Added u & v optional parameters of base location to PT scripting functions "DivideSurfaceByDirectDistance" and "GridByDirectDistanceOnSurface".
- Added ptTriangulatePoints command to create a mesh using Delaunay Triangulation algorithm.
- Added ptGroupSimilarPanels that groups similar curves. It is based mainly on number of curves segments and their length. It also test area for planar curves.
- Added labeling for 3d custom panels.
- Fixed shift defaults values in 2D and 3D pattern managers.
- Fixed divide surface by distance preview bug.
- Added new animated short tutorials to the wiki page.
- Updated menu, toolbars and PT for monkey.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Display Design Job - Chicago
Artisan, a creative staffing firm in Chicago, is searching for a freelance 3D rendering artist. Our client has a retail design project (POP displays, environmental graphics, etc) and they need someone who can work with them onsite, on an ongoing basis.
Requirements:
Experience with lighting, applying textures, creating reflective surfaces such as glass or metal along with the background environments behind the featured product. Must be well experienced with Rhino.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Heath Satow - new installation
Long-time Rhino user and frequent newsgroup contributor, Heath Satow, installed five sculptures November 5th in Palm Desert CA, near the other Satow sculpture in Palm Desert, the lizard sculpture.
Check out photos of the installation and the final project.
"I started designs on the "Tumbling Weed" project about four years ago, right after the Rhino V4 beta came out that allowed us to bend and flow polysurfaces. This project made heavy use of that feature, and I'm not sure I could have or would have attempted this particular design without those tools." - Heath Satow
Check out photos of the installation and the final project.
"I started designs on the "Tumbling Weed" project about four years ago, right after the Rhino V4 beta came out that allowed us to bend and flow polysurfaces. This project made heavy use of that feature, and I'm not sure I could have or would have attempted this particular design without those tools." - Heath Satow
Orca3D for Rhino - service release
The Advanced Technology Center at DRS C3 Systems, Inc. today posted a new service release for Orca3D, a marine design and analysis plugin for Rhino 4.This service release includes new features, enhanced features, and bug fixes.
Orca3D includes tools for hull modeling and fairing, as well as hydrostatics, stability, speed and power analysis, and weight and cost tracking.
See Orca3D November 18-20 at METS (booth 04.408, Oost Hall/Hall 4) in Amsterdam.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Rhino Tech Tips Blog
In case you missed it, Vanessa has been posting tech tips on the Rhino Tech Tips blog.
If you have tips or ideas please e-mail them to Vanessa.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Grasshopper for Rhino - new minor version
Grasshopper 0.50092 for Rhino 4.0 is now available to download. This minor new release has a huge list of new features and enhancements, including:
Fixes:
- Setting a Graph back to None did not cause an update. This is fixed.
- Graph mapper objects with no graphs failed to read back in. This is fixed.
- Transformations that do not maintain similarity now properly deform non-deformable geometry types (circles, arcs and boxes become NURBS curves and BReps respectively). This is fixed.
- Orient transformation had a bug which resulted in erroneous mappings for some input cases. This is fixed.
- EvaluateCurve component has an extra output for curve span length.
- Curve divisions components have been moved into a separate category.
- CurveFrame component
- CurveHozirontalFrame component
- CurvePerpendicularFrame component
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Rhino OS X - New Build
There is a new build available, Wenatchee 2008-11-05, with the following:
Changes:
- The menu shortcuts for showing/hiding the Object Snaps Panel and tool palettes have been changed to accomodate European ISO keyboards.
New Features:
- Two mouse gestures and four laptop trackpad gestures have been added. See this post for more details.
- New commands: ToggleOsnapPanel, ToggleOsnapPanelUnderCursor, ToggleActiveToolPalettes, ToggleMainToolPalette, ShowMainToolPalette, ShowActiveToolPalettes
Bug fixes:
- The last executed command is now saved properly so Repeat Last Command works correctly.
- Fixed crash bug when importing DWG files.
Note: This release requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Tobias Schwinn's blog
Circle packing in Grasshopper using vb.net
Tobias Schwinn from Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in London has been kind enough to share his Grasshopper and RhinoScript expertise as well as many sources of inspiration. For example, check out the Robert Lang TEDTalk.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Architectural 3D modeling job in Berlin
RHWL Architects is seeking an architect with at least 2 years of experience to work on a project with high complexity. Please send Tim Laubinger an E-mail with examples of your work.
Grasshopper for Rhino - new version
Grasshopper 0.50090 for Rhino 4.0 is now available to download. This major new release has a huge list of new features and enhancements, including:
- Reworked interface icons and display modes
- Reworked Graph Mapper interface
- Improved Graph Editor dialog
- New Gradient Control
- Automatic data casting from Colour to Points and Vectors added
- New mutable code lines in VB and C# script components which allows for custom type definitions and custom procedures
- New curve components (Shatter, Trim with BRep, Split with BRep, Trim with Region)
- New Surface components (Rail Revolve, Copy UV Trim, Retrim)
- New Mesh components (BRep mesher, Surface mesher, Mesh settings)
- New Graph types (Parabola, Sine summation, Sinc, Square Root)
- Merge Definition menu item has been reincarnated
- 3D text tags are now available from the panels
- Invariant culture is now used everywhere (I think) so all floating point numbers should be entered using the point decimal symbol
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Another blog for RhinoScript and Grasshopper
Sanghoon Yoon, Korean industrial designer and Rhino trainer, has posted some fun RhinoScript and Grasshopper examples in his "sac3's digital plastic" blog. There are some tips and short video tutorials too.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Two more Grasshopper tutorials
LIFT Architects has posted two new Grasshopper tutorials on their site this month:
Thursday, October 30, 2008
RhinoScript and Grasshopper Resources
Live Architecture Network (LaN) is focused on digital design and fabrication. They have posted many amazing RhinoScript and Grasshopper examples on their blog.
V-Ray for Rhino - new service release
ASGvis today announced Service Release 1.5 for V-Ray for Rhino. This release includes a Toon material, expanded render channels, extra light options, and several bug fixes.Rhino OS X - New Build
There is a new build available, Wenatchee 2008-10-29, with the following:
Changes:
- The Object Snaps dialog has been rewritten.
New Features:
- The Object Snaps panel and tool button palettes can be invoked by mouse buttons and hidden automatically.
Bug fixes:
- The Point osnap works on the first point of a curve while the curve is being drawn.
- SAT export works again.
Note: This release requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
New Authorized Rhino Training Centers
We are pleased to announce three new Authorized Rhino Training Centers (ARTCs) in North America. They are:
- The Falkner Institute
San Diego, CA - Magnetic Visions
Brooklyn, NY - MecSoft Corporation
Irvine, CA
Monday, October 27, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
P.O.P. - quickly
Sketch to product in just days
Point of purchase displays (P.O.P.) are one of the most cost-effective ways to increase sales and brand awareness. Marka Diseño y Producción, based in Bogotá, Colombia, has been using Rhino to quickly develop their designs and produce their products. Since each job is custom, turn-around time is very important. So they have developed a digital process where they can start from the basic sketch and ship the finished product in just a matter of days.
Marka’s designs have attracted so much attention and so many purchases, they have expanded beyond their local market and are now creating P.O.P. products for most other Latin American countries and many major brands.
Here are some examples...
Rhino OS X - New Build
There is a new build available, Wenatchee 2008-10-21, with the following changes:
Bug fixes:
- Zooming a viewport with the scroll wheel works again.
- The Command Options dialogs were reworked. This fixed the OrientOnSrf command and the "between" command option when selecting points.
- The Contour command is available again.
- Some crash bugs have been fixed.
- The problem of white bands when rendering may be fixed. Since the banding was an intermittent problem, it is difficult to know if it is completely fixed..
Note: This release requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
RhinoCAM 2.0 - DE Editor's Pick
Desktop Engineering Editor's Pick: MecSoft's RhinoCAM 2.0 Handles 3D CAD/CAM Projects
"So, anyway, based on what I saw in the user community and knowing that VisualMILL has an excellent reputation, I recommend you see for yourself by registering for and downloading the RhinoCAM demo from the links in today's Pick of the Week write-up. If you're not ready for that, there are also a bunch of links to demos, case studies, testimonials, and so forth. RhinoCAM seems like a hot one. The price is right. So check it out." - Anthony J. Lockwood, Editor at Large
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
RhinoScript training at McNeel Europe - Barcelona
McNeel Europe is now offering RhinoScript training on a regular basis in its Barcelona offices with Luis Fraguada as the instructor.
In this intensive 3-day workshop you will learn how to extend Rhino’s functionalities and your user experience through creating and executing scripts. This class covers the basics of Visual Basic Script [vbScript], the main scripting language used within the Rhino environment. Participants will learn about using variables, arrays, conditional statements, looping, and custom functions to exploit the scripting functionality embedded into Rhino.
The first classes will take place on November 10-12. Classes are in English and space is limited. And as always, there are a few seats reserved for educators.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Engineering Analysis and Simulation
NAFEMS 2020 in Hampton, Virginia, October 29-31, 2008 will bring together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies. The goal is to provide attendees with the best “food for thought and action” to deploy CAE over the next several years.
Learn more about how Rhino and T-Splines are used in CAE. In his keynote, Tom Hughes from the University of Texas will be discussing Isogeometric Analysis: Progress and Challenges.
More RhinoScripting Resources
Juergen Weiss, Architect, the founder of ReThink Architecture, a design studio and collaborative research forum, is hosting a wiki library of Rhinoscript functions, which should help everybody to develop their script faster and more efficiently.
Rhino Training - Mexico
Prof. Jose de Jesus Lopez is also an industry advisor
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM for its acronym in Spanish), campus Leon, received the certification as Rhino Authorized Training Center (ARTC). Monterrey Tech (in short) is one of the largest and most important, private, and coeducational multi-campus universities in Latin America with more than 91,000 students and 33 campuses in 25 cities throughout Mexico.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Industrial Design Intern w/Rhino skills
Bose in Framingham, MA (near Boston) has an opening for a student intern with Rhino modeling skills and an eye for rendering “photogenic photorealism”...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
T-Splines 2.0 WIP 9 available
T-Splines 2.0 WIP 9 for Rhino is now available, featuring new subdivide face command, bug fixes, and polished commands.
Another blog for architecture
Bojana Vuksanovic, Peter Guthrie, and Pierre Forissier's new blog, [n]Codon, shows off some fun projects using Rhino, Grasshopper, and PanelingTools.
Monday, October 13, 2008
RP cost estimating in Rhino
Print3D is a rapid prototyping bureau that offers an offline method of pricing and ordering parts from within Rhino. Print3D for Rhino adds a new menu item called 'Print3D' in Rhino's 'File' menu.
Grasshopper for Rhino - new version
Grasshopper 0.5 for Rhino 4.0 is now available to download.
This major new release has a huge list of new features and enhancements, including:
- C# and VB.NET scripting components.
- BarGraph component for real time visualization for large amounts of numbers.
- Fibonacci sequence component.
- Jitter component.
- More Interval(2D) components.
- Rotate plane component.
- Circle/Arc center and radius extractor.
- Explode curve component.
- Rectangle and Polygon components.
- Plane surface component.
- Flip surface component.
- Curve region union component.
- Mass addition, Mean (average) and Truncate components for dealing with large amounts of numbers.
- Mathematical intersection components (Ray-plane, Plane-curve, Ray- Surface, Curve-ray etc.).
- More options for the Loft component (Loose, Tight, Rebuild etc.).
- Curve Perpendicular frames component now provides true 'zero-twisting- frames'.
- New file format (see this wiki page for details)
- Component search popup dialog. Double click on the canvas (on an empty spot) and start typing.
- Better help topics for some components.
- Memory footprint has been reduced significantly.
- Enhanced notes.
- Bug fixes.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Grasshopper came in second
Matthew Hutchinson's second place design was completely developed in Grasshopper.
Rhino OS X - New Build
There is a new build available, Wenatchee 2008-10-08, with the following changes:
New Features:
- Windows Rhino Service Release 4 changes have been merged into the Mac version.
Bug fixes:
- Typing Space in the Command Options dialogs will now complete command options.
- BlendSrf works again.
- Closing a file when control points are turned on no longer crashes.
- The installer no longer lets you install Mac Rhino on an OS X 10.4 system.
- This release of Mac Rhino requires 10.5 (Leopard) to run.
Note: This release requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
RHIKNOWBOT
RHIKNOWBOT is a knowledge-based and component-based parametric modeling technology based on Rhino for constructing detail models of building facades, roofs and other exterior building assemblies. It is especially useful in the early stages of design and helps designers evaluate alternative design solutions and output such solutions for presentational purposes.
Its capacities are:
Its capacities are:
- Automate the process of digital construction of building facades, roofs and other exterior building assemblies.
- Embed a number of excellent design components for ready use and provide a mechanism for users to continuously build up such a component library.
- Generate design variations in a very short time frame.
- Output 3D detail models for presentational purposes: 3D printings and renderings.
- Output data for further analytical studies and future reuses in new projects.
TurboCAD supports Rhino 3DM
TurboCAD v15.2 with its new Rhino 3DM import/export file filter was just released.
Modo support Rhino 3DM
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Qube! render farm management enhanced
Qube!'s interface for Rhino provides an easy way to submit, prioritize and manage renders.
RhinoCAM 2.0 Shipping
A major new version of RhinoCAM is now shipping. Major enhancements include:
- New advanced 3 Axis toolpath methods such as 3D Offset pocketing and 3D Offset profiling
- High speed machining transitions in 3 Axis finishing methods
- Shop documentation
- Features on 3D part can be selected as machining geometry without having to explicitly create curves
- All 3 Axis toolpath methods now machine only visible geometry. Users can turn off the visibility of geometry using the layer manager if it is desired to exclude them from being considered during toolpath computations
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