Monday, December 21, 2009

Rhino Assembly at University of Michigan Taubman College



Ann Arbor, MI, USA, and Novosibirsk, Russia, December 17, 2009 – The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and LEDAS Ltd., an independent provider of variational design tools, component technologies, and software development services for CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market, today announced that LGS 3D geometric constraint solver will be used for scientific research in the field of robotics.

Wesley McGee, a Researcher/Lecturer in Architectural CAD/CAM technologies at the University of Michigan Taubmann College of Architecture and Urban Planning explains: "My current work, along with Dave Pigram of Pratt Institute includes developing robotic scripting applications using Rhinoceros 3D software. We are very interested in LEDAS Rhino Assembly plug-in and the geometric constraint engine it based on. One area we are investigating is the development of kinematic simulation of our robotic workcell in Rhino. We currently use several competing products to handle this, but to have a system completely based in Rhino would provide a lot of freedom. While our scripts are currently very successful at generating robotic code, we still simulate using an offline simulation package. We believe using the LGS 3D engine we may be able to build an offline simulation plug-in for Rhino."

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Dutch Marine Industry user meeting












Representatives from the leading companies in the Dutch marine industry recently gathered to network and learn from each other how they're using Rhino in their current processes. Through the presentations and discussions that followed, participants learned how they can minimize hours with better integration of Rhino into their workflow of designing and manufacturing yachts and merchant ships.

RhinoCentre organized the event along with the help of TU-Delft University of Marine Technology. Organizers invited McNeel staff to listen in and join the discussion.

Firms represented include:

Monday, November 30, 2009

LinceoVR 3.2 for Rhino announced




LinceoVR 3.2 for Rhino has been recently announced. This is a free update for existing users.

New features include:

  • Real Time Raytracing. GPU Raytracing is here to bring the realism of LinceoVR real time rendering beyond more and more.
  • Texture Tracking. Texture Tracking is now available in LinceoVR camera matching mode! User can choose their own generic picture as the target to be tracked in their live videos and photos.
  • 3D Models Import Upgrade. Rhino 3DM file importing has been greatly fixed and improved.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

madCAM 4.2 shipping



madCAM 4.2 shipping

This is a free service release for existing madCAM 4.1 users.

Partial list of new functions in madCAM 4.2:

  • New technology for simultaneous 4-axis toolpath generation.
  • New Simultaneous 4+1 axis toolpath generator.
  • Simultaneous 4-axis machining from user defined stock models.
  • Multi threading for more calculation speed.

Details, videos and download...

Friday, November 20, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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 web site, 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

Monday, November 9, 2009

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. The Driving Dimensions plug-in 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.

Grasshopper primer, Spanish edition



Francisco Calvo – Katherine Cáceres from Tectónicas Digitales have translated the Grasshopper primer by Andrew Payne (Lift Architects) to Spanish.

Thursday, October 29, 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.
Everyone is invited to download and use the OS X version of Rhino while it is in development.

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.

Monday, October 26, 2009

RhinoDay Italia - 14th Nov 2009 - Università degli Studi di Padova

14 Novembre 2009 - RhinoDay: 6º incontro utilizzatori di Rhino

The 6th edition of the Italian User Meeting takes place this year on the 14th Nov at the Università degli Studi di Padova.

Don't miss the users' presentations and the opportunity to meet staff from McNeel and T-Splines.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Rhino User - Scott Schneider, New Deal Studios

Scott Schneider is a digital set designer and lead artist at New Deal Studios. A few of the films he has worked on include: The Aviator, Night at the Museum 2, The Dark Knight, Whiteout, Watchmen, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Iron Man, I Am Legend, Live Free or Die Hard, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Reign of Fire, The Scorpion King, The One, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Blade, The X Files, Alien: Resurrection, Men in Black, A Dangerous Woman, Jurassic Park, Edward Scissorhands and many more.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

ImportExtender for dental applications



CIMsystem has released a new Beta of the ImportExtender plug-in for Rhino. This add-on allows users open different file formats that come from different specific Dental CAD applications.

Monday, October 12, 2009

RhinoLabsTools Update (October 12, 2009)

The RhinoLabsTools plug-in has been updated to include a new ExplodeLinetype command, which will explode curves with non-continuous linetypes into their component parts.

Friday, October 9, 2009

RhinoScript Labs update (October 9, 2009)

RhinoScript is a scripting language based on Microsoft's VBScript language. The Labs version of RhinoScript contains additions and modifications to the version of RhinoScript included with Rhino 4.0 SR6.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

RhinoScript.org - updated


The RhinoScript.org site now features RhinoScript and Grasshopper script libraries, extensions to the gallery and user profiles.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Free Rhino Models



PanelingTools Updated



A new release of PanelingTools plug-in for Rhino 4.0 is available for download. New in this release:


  • Added new command ptGridSuffleGrid. The command changes grid distribution using base surface curvature or attractor points, vector or curves. It also supports random distribution.
  • Added new option to ptGridSurfaceDomainVariable to use attractor curves.
  • Added new option to ptGridSurfaceDomainVariable to attract towards or away from attractor points or curves.
  • Added history suppport to ptGridSurfaceDomainVariable command.
  • Rewrote the variable distribution algorithm. This fixed the bug of asymmetrical spacing when for example an attractor point is in the middle of a surface.
  • A new release of PanelingTools for Mac is coming soon.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Grasshopper workshop materials


Woo Jae Sung has just finished teaching Grasshopper workshops at Cornell architecture. He has uploaded his newest tutorial materials to his blog, hoping they will be helpful to all beginning Grasshopper users.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

ID job in Addison, TX

Point Innovation in Addison, TX has an opening for an industrial designer of aerospace, medical equipment, electronics, & consumer products who is skilled with Rhino.

Monday, September 7, 2009

xShoe4Rhino released!



xShoe4Rhino is a new plug-in for Rhinoceros developed to assist footwear, last and sole makers.

"Our product goal is to extend Rhino capabilities with a new and fully integrated footwear package. xShoe4Rhino offers solutions for footwear, last and sole makers. You will be able to work with any kind of data (points, STL scan data, wireframe, surfaces and solids) with no extra expensive modules."
Some of xShoe4Rhino features include:
  • Easily orient 2D/3D insole into a given axis
  • Wrapping
  • Reverse wrapping
  • Variable offset
  • 2D/3D Scale sizes
  • Morphing
  • Shrinkage

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

madCAM 4.1 service release available

madCAM 4.1 fixes a crash in some cases after installing Rhino service release 6.0.

Monday, August 17, 2009

LinceoVR for Rhino - New version


Seac02 has just released LinceoVR 3.1 for Rhino, their virtual reality software for product designers and architects. The new features include:

  • Real Time Animations
  • 3D Audio
  • Real Time Soft Shadows in Camera Matching mode
  • Batch rendering
  • Real Time de-interlacing Filter for camera Input
  • Custom Marker Creation Wizard

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Import Dental Models into Rhino



CIMSystems has released a beta version of ImportExtender for Rhino to import different file formats that come from different specific dental software: .c3s; .cdt; .st; .art; .cof; .xtl; .nmdl; and .scn.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Rhino/Grasshopper Study Session #4 - Tokyo



Rhino and Grasshopper Study Session #4 will be August 20 at Noiz Architects Tokyo office.

Friday, July 31, 2009

MachStudio direct export from Rhino



StudioGPU has released a free Rhino plug-in to directly export 3D models into MachStudio native GXB formats. These models can then be imported into MachStudio Pro where an artist can create and manipulate lights, materials, and HDR cameras in a real-time, non-linear workflow environment to achieve film quality results.

MachStudio Pro harnesses multi-threaded GPU (graphic card processor) computing to change the equation of time vs. quality. Frames that normally take 40 to 80 minutes each to render can be rendered in seconds at comparable quality.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

OSG Composer supports Rhino 3DM files

Simulation Lab Software announced support for Rhino 3DM files in their OSG Composer product. With OSG Composer, users can assemble an Open Scene Graph from many different 3D file formats and then export it to many different easy-to-share formats including osg, obj, 3d PDF, Collada, and Google Warehouse.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Concepts: Captured, Modelled and Produced

Hosted by Coventry University, School of Art & Design, as part of their Summer School Series, Roland DG (UK) Limited, Patrick Thorn & Co and Cadsoft Solutions Limited are supporting a free two day (August 5-6) reverse engineering and Prototyping/CNC training event.

If you want to see how digitising, laser scanning, prototyping solutions can integrate with Rhino, do not miss this event to get some free hands on experience and advice. Emphasis will be on using the captured data with Rhino's mesh and surface tools to construct clean geometry for prototyping and production.

When?: August 5-6.

Where?: Coventry University Summer School, Coventy, UK

Places are limited so please follow this link to see the agenda and to register.

 
Successful registrants will be informed if there is a place available. Admission confirmation and directions to the university will be supplied.

Registration closes Midnight Monday August 3rd.

Details...

Monday, July 27, 2009

Read and Write Rhino files in Pro/E

SYCODE launched fourteen file import and export plug-ins for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire including:

  • 3DM Import for Pro/ENGINEER – Rhinoceros 3DM file import plug-in
  • 3DM Export for Pro/ENGINEER – Rhinoceros 3DM file export plug-in
These plug-ins are designed to work with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and 5 Preproduction. All of the products are priced at $195 each and are available as fully functional 10-day/run trials. Each product comes with an installer and detailed documentation in the form of a compiled HTML help file which contains a step-by-step tutorial to get the end user started in the shortest possible time.

RhinoScript Labs update (July 27, 2009)

RhinoScript is a scripting language based on Microsoft's VBScript language.

With RhinoScript, you can quickly add functionality to Rhino, or automate a variety of repetitive tasks.

The Labs version of RhinoScript contains additions and modifications to the version of RhinoScript included with Rhino 4.0 SR6.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Grasshopper tools in C#




Grasshopper includes an impressive list of components, however, when design tasks become more advanced, you might need a custom component. With scripting components, the user can design their own custom components.

Giulio Piacentino, an architect based in the Netherlands, has been kind enough to share his custom C# components.

New Grasshopper Tutorial


Woo Jae Sung has been teaching Grasshopper workshops at Cornell architecture. He has uploaded his newest tutorial materials to his blog, hoping they will be helpful to all beginning Grasshopper users.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Form vs. Shape Advanced Training - now with video


Hydraulic Design's collection of three easy-to-follow advanced tutorials now includes video. This is the product to help bridge the gap between knowing what the tools are and how to apply them to make Rhino do what you want.

They include 'online' HTML and printable PDF versions (about 620 pages total) illustrated with over 2300 screenshots and over an hour of video clips.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Rhino 4.0 SR6 Release Candidate 2 Available

Rhino 4.0 Service Release 6 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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Starting Rhino on Vista Improved: previous releases of Rhino 4.0 sometimes would only start when run as Administrator. SR6 should start without administrator permissions.
  • Crashes Fixed in BooleanUnion, EdgeSrf, Flow, Installers, InterpCrvOnSrf, Loft, and PanelingTools.
  • Many other bugs have been fixed, too.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Shanghai Aquatic Sports Center and Grasshopper



The SASC – Shanghai Aquatic Sports Center was renamed by the mayor. Now it is called SOSC – Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. The SOSC includes a gymnasium, a natatorium and an outdoor diving stadium. It will be completed and in use in 2011.

Since most of the design was done using Grasshopper, ZHANG Yan has been posting progress reports on www.grasshopper3d.com. The façade and roof mockup are finished. For all the details, see:

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Autodesk Inventor 2010 supports Rhino


Autodesk has released a Rhino 3DM importer for Autodesk Inventor 2010 and Autodesk Inventor LT 2010. All versions of 3DM are supported.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Using Rhino with SpaceClaim



SpaceClaim posted details on the round-trip integration of Rhino and SpaceClaim.

Details and video...

Thursday, May 28, 2009

New Grasshopper community site growing quickly


The new Grasshopper community web site is only two weeks old and growing quickly:

  • ~12,000 visitors
  • ~1,000 members
  • 100+ discussions
  • 400 images
  • 40 videos
  • 5 events

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Grasshopper tutorial from Cornell


Woo Jae Sung has been teaching Grasshopper workshops at Cornell architecture. He has uploaded his newest tutorial materials to his blog, hoping they will be helpful to all beginning Grasshopper users.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Intro to Grasshopper in two parts



David Fano has posted an Introduction to Grasshopper in two parts on his blog, design.reform.

Custom Paneling in Rhino


Learn how to make custom paneling routines using existing 2D and 3D geometry and the PanelingTools plug-in for Rhino. You can download and try PanelingTools. They are free.

Monday, April 20, 2009

RhinoScript Labs Update (April 20, 2009)

RhinoScript is a scripting language based on Microsoft's VBScript language. With RhinoScript, you can quickly add functionality to Rhino, or automate repetitive tasks.

The Labs version of RhinoScript contains additions and modifications to the version of RhinoScript included with Rhino 4.0 SR5.

The following new functions have been added to the Labs version of RhinoScript:

AddPlanarMesh - Creates a planar mesh from a closed, planar curve.
BoxMorphObject - Bounding box morphs an object.
ClosedCurveOrientation - Returns the orientation of a closed, planar curve.
CurrentDetail - Returns or changes the current detail view in a page layout view.
CurveNormalizedParameter - Converts a normalized curve parameter to a curve parameter.
CurveParameter - Converts a curve parameter to a normalized curve parameter.
DetailNames - Returns the detail views of a page layout view.
DimStyleLengthFactor - Returns or changes the length factor of a dimension style.
DimStylePrefix - Returns or changes the prefix of a dimension style..
DimStyleSuffix - Returns or changes the suffix of a dimension style..
DivideCurveEquidistant - Divides a curve such that the linear distance between the points is equal.
ExtrudeCurveTapered - Extrudes a curve to a taper.
GetMeshFaces - Prompts the user to pick, or select, one or more mesh faces.
GetMeshVertices - Prompts the user to pick, or select, one or more mesh vertices.
IntersectSpheres - Calculates the intersection of two spheres.
IsDetail - Verifies that a detail view is on a page layout view.
IsLayout - Verifies that a view is a page layout view.
IsLayoutObject - Verifies that an object resides in either layout or model space.
IsPointOnMesh - Verifies that a point is on a mesh.
Layer State Methods - Several new layer state methods were added.
LineCylinderIntersection - Calculates the intersection of a line and a cylinder.
LineSphereIntersection - Calculates the intersection of a line and a sphere.
MakeCurveNonPeriodic - Makes a periodic curve non-periodic.
MakeSurfaceNonPeriodic - Makes a periodic surface non-periodic
MeshVertexFaces - Returns the mesh faces that share a mesh vertex.
ObjectLayout - Returns or changes the layout or model space of an object.
PlaneSphereIntersection - Calculates the intersection of a plane and a sphere.
ProjectCurveToMesh - Projects one or more curves onto one or more meshes.
ProjectPointToMesh - Projects one or more points onto one or more meshes.
RemoveCurveKnot - Deletes a knot from a curve.
RemoveSurfaceKnot - Deletes a knot-line from a surface.
ResetMaterial - Resets a material to Rhino's default material.
ReverseSurface - Reverses the direction of a surface object.
ShootRay - Shoots a ray at a collection of surfaces.
SurfaceNormalizedParameter - Converts a normalized surface parameter to a surface parameter.
SurfaceParameter - Converts a surface parameter to a normalized surface parameter.



Tuesday, April 7, 2009

RhinoMembrane tutorials


Johannes Linhard coauthor of RhinoMembrane has made available 5 tutorials on how to use RhinoMembrane on http://www.membranes24.com/

Friday, April 3, 2009

Magnetic Grasshopper


Daniel Piker has posted a Grasshopper definition for displacement by magnet attractors based on real physics. It allows you to set multiple ‘attractors’ which interact realistically just like electric charges, magnets, heat flows or ideal fluids. Sliders control whether each point is a source, sink, vortex or a combination of these.


Thursday, April 2, 2009

Rhino Job - Abilene, TX



Indivijual Custom Eyewear needs freelance help to design eyeglass frames. They also need help taking rough sketches of frames to finished CAD designs for milling.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The Grasshopper Primer - Second Edition



This new revision is a much more comprehensive guide than the first edition, at almost 160 pages with over 70 new pages dedicated to creating your own customized scripting components.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

PanelingTools New Release for Rhino 4.0 SR5

A new release of PanelingTools plug-in for Rhino 4.0 SR5 is available for download.

New Commands:

  • ptSerializeObjects. Adds serializing tag or name to objects (points, curves, surfaces, etc) relative to:
    • Selection order.
    • World coordinates.
    • User-defined direction.
    • Reference surface.
  • ptExtrudeEdges. Extrude paneling edges normal to a base surface or by a user-defined direction.
  • ptOffsetEdges. Offset paneling edges using base surface.
  • ptFinEdges. Fin paneling edges using base surface.

Added features:
  • Added "Connect" option to offset points command to draw connecting lines.
  • Added the ability to define more than one polyline in the 2d pattern manager per pattern.
  • Labels for faces and edges have now a new prefix which is layer name.
  • Changed the name of command ptRemoveOverlap to pCleanOverlap.
  • Added overlap tolerance to ptCleanOverlap command that:
    • Deletes grid points that are within tolerance in the u direction.
    • Moves points within tolerance in v direction to overlap.

Bug fixes:
  • Fix out of memory bug when reading older files. This was due to a bug in the file I/O of previous release. You may loose saved data when you open older data (such as patterns), but reading the file shouldn't cause an out of memory bug. If it does, load protect against PanelingTools (use PluginManager) before opening the file.
  • Fix preview bugs in the 2d pattern manager.
  • Fix a bug when loading PT scripting file for Monkey (.synaxml).

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Grasshopper video tutorials

Brian James has posted some video tutorials to help you get started with Grasshopper.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Grasshopper VB Scripting Primer

Dr Patrick Janssen, Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore, is developing a Grasshopper VB Scripting Primer for his students. He has been kind enough to share it, but he is looking for your feedback on how it can be improved.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Structural Modeling and Analysis Tools


Jon Mirtschin is exploring new techniques and developing new tools for designing and analyzing structures. For example, one tool links Rhino and Grasshopper with structural analysis programs to explore shape and form.

Check out his blog and try some of his tools...

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

LinceoVR 3.0 for Rhino



Linceo VR 3.0 is real time rendering software with instantaneous camera matching for immediate contextualization of 3D models in the real world. LinceoVR 3.0 uses state-of-the-art lighting techniques to generate and display – in real time – exceptionally realistic images in computer graphics, using HDRI and OPENEXR lighting and Ambient Occlusion for realistic shadows.

Friday, March 6, 2009

RhinoScript Labs Update




The Labs version of RhinoScript contains additions and modifications to the version of RhinoScript included with Rhino 4.0 SR5.

RhinoScript is a scripting tool based on Microsoft's VBScript language. With RhinoScript, you can quickly add functionality to Rhino, or automate repetitive tasks.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Parametrics in Rhino?




Gijs de Zwart has posted an excellent example of how to use Grasshopper to parametrically drive design alternatives. You will find a detailed explanation, videos, and sample files on the RhinoCentre blog.

Friday, February 27, 2009

New Grasshopper tutorial


Woo Jae Sung, a Masters of Architecture student at Cornell, has posted a new Grasshopper tutorial.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Fun with Grasshopper

Daniel Piker has been having fun with a Cellular Automata Heightfield (and other things) in Grasshopper.

Friday, February 6, 2009

RhinoScript Labs update




RhinoScript is a scripting language based on Microsoft's VBScript language. With RhinoScript, you can quickly add functionality to Rhino, or automate repetitive tasks.The Labs version of RhinoScript contains additions and modifications to the version of RhinoScript included with Rhino 4.0 SR5.



Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Escape from Berkeley?


Rhino user, Jack McCornack is looking to change the way we fill up our tanks. And if he figures out how to get up to a hundred miles per gallon he could win the 10 million dollar Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE.

Sponsored by Mother Earth News, Jack with his now famous car, Max, has already won the Escape from Berkeley (by any non-petroleum means necessary) last October.

Josh Zepps from Brink on Discovery's Science Channel tracked down Jack to learn more about how a guy in his garage in Southern Oregon is taking on the automotive giants for the industry's biggest prize.

Monday, January 26, 2009

New Grasshopper Primer


Andy Payne, LIFT architects, has just published the first edition of the 75-page manual he has been working on to help people get a basic understanding of Grasshopper.

You can download the pdf and the source files from his web site www.liftarchitects.com.

Friday, January 16, 2009

3DPaintBrush adds Rhino 3DM support



The latest version of 3DPaintBrush now directly imports Rhino's native 3DM files.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

ArrayCrvPLUS - new version

Jarek Bieda has just posted version 2.0 of ArrayCrvPLUS for Rhino 4.0 SR4.

ArrayCrvPLUS enables new ways to distribute items along path curves or path curves on surfaces ( polysurfaces, meshes ). It will array any number of items along any number of curve paths. Parameters can be adjusted with preview functionality. In addition, while arraying curves or points, ArrayCrvPLUS can automatically create Loft/Sweep1 surfaces or InterpolatedCurves based on created array of profile items.

Grasshopper fabrication project


Zach Downey, a Digital Design Specialist at SHoP architects in New York City, has just posted the details on how he did another fun project for fabricating a panelized surface using Grasshopper in Rhino.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

New Rhino Tutorials

Drafting and Modeling Company Inc. has just released their new Rhino tutorials.

New Paneling Gallery Page

Check the new Paneling Gallery page where users may share their projects and experiments using PanelingTools.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Using VB.NET in Grasshopper


Rajaa has posted six examples of how to use VB.NET in Grasshopper, each with increasing difficulty starting from simple expression all the way to using functions. Mutiple methods are used for some of them to show various ways to get same result.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Required reading...


Essentials of Interactive Computer Graphics should be required reading for every undergraduate computer graphics student. This computer graphics text provides the student with conceptual and practical insights into how to approach building a majority of the interactive graphics applications.

Steve Baer is a member of the Rhino core development team.