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

Don't miss the following presentations and conferences:

• 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

And as in every year, flexiCAD organizes a Rhino User Meeting at the trade show on Thursday evening:

• Rhino User Meeting
  Thursday 4 December, 17:00h
  Hall 6.1-E87 - flexiCAD booth

VisualARQ for Rhino Beta 4

VisualARQ for Rhino Beta 4 is now available.

See what's new in the latest Beta and download it here.

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.

AutoStereogram for Rhino - Free Plug-in

FlexiCAD just released a free AutoStereogram Plug-in for Rhino.

Details...

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.

Details...

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:

• Creating Surface Patterns Using Bump Maps Created in Photoshop as an input parameter in Rhino’s Grasshopper
• Paneling Tools
• Patterning and Facade Studies Using Adobe’s Illustrator Part 2
• Populating a Surface with Polygons Extruded to a Point
• Patterning and Facade Studies Using Adobe’s Illustrator

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...

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

Download them for free...

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.

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.

Contact Liz Dierbeck

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

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.

Details and evaluation download...

See Orca3D November 18-20 at METS (booth 04.408, Oost Hall/Hall 4) in Amsterdam.

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.

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.

Changes:

• EvaluateCurve component has an extra output for curve span length.
• Curve divisions components have been moved into a separate category.

Additions:

• CurveFrame component
• CurveHozirontalFrame component
• CurvePerpendicularFrame component

Details and download...

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.

Details and download...

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.

Details...

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

Details and download...

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.

Check out Sanghoon Yoon's blog