Grasshopper to/from Excel tutorial

Damien Alomar has been kind enough to post a nice tutorial on his new blog, Liquid Tectonics, on how to connect Grasshopper and Excel.

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Rhino OS X - New Build

There is a new build available, Wenatchee 2009-01-28, with many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

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Bombardier's Street Machine

In the January 2009 edition of Develop 3D Magazine learn more about how Bombardier developed the Can-Am Spyder, their first on-road vehicle.

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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.

Project nears completion

An iconic four-story mixed use building, part of the £22m invested in the upgrade of the Haymarket Metro station, is close to completion in the center of Newcastle.

“Even the domed roof, a shape chosen not just because of its appearance but because it possesses inherent strength, presented a host of technical issues we needed to overcome,” explained Alastair Bell, Director, Reid Judd Brown Architecture. “One of our architectural engineers, Luca Biselli, is a recognized expert in the use of the very latest 3D modeling software technology called Rhino and has been able to design the highly complex roof which only a few years ago would have been technically impossible to achieve."

Details in Public Sector Building Magazine...

3DPaintBrush adds Rhino 3DM support

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

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Grasshopper video tutorials

Here are two more Grasshopper video tutorials:

• Basic Introduction to GH in English and Spanish
• Surface Box and Box Morph by Zach Downey in English and Spanish

Enjoy!

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.

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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.

New Rhino Tutorials

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

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New Paneling Gallery Page

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

Rhinophoto 1.0 - Shipping

Rhinophoto is a photogrammetry plugin for Rhino that provides automatic accurate 3D digitizing from a set of photographs.

• Contactless digitalizing
• Fully automatic, a one-button process
• No special equipment needed
• Works with most digital cameras, and also includes camera calibration software
• Accuracy between 5/1,000 and 5/10,000 according to the camera
• No part size limitation

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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.

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Rhino OS X - New Build

There is a new build available, Wenatchee 2009-01-07, with many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

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Rhino Training for Marine Designers

Rhino Modeling for Marine Designers is a six-week online course instructed by Cliff Estes. Begin by learning to work with curves, then surfaces, and finally move into fairing a simple chine hull, followed by a simple sailing schooner hull. Finish with a self-directed project of modeling a complete hull/deck/superstructure of your own design.

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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.

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