Monday, June 29, 2009
You're invited to the opening
Sunday, June 28, 2009
3D Modeling workshop in Dubai
- Workshop details:
Friday, Saturday and Sunday (uly 3, 4, 5)
Friday: 2 pm to 6 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 10 am to 2 pm - Instructor: Maher El-Khaldi is a Phd researcher and a class instructor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Design Computing group. He received a Master of Science in Design and Computation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2007. Maher taught Rhinoscripting at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture in collaboration with Rajaa Isaa, a Rhino programming developer, and Matt Swarts, Phd student at Gatech. Maher is also Computation Director at Shape Architecture Practice + Research.
- Fees: Professionals 1000 AED/ Students 500 AED.
- Location and address: http://www.shelter.ae/
- Further details and space registration: Click here and contact maher@shape-arc.com or saadia@shelter.ae.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Rhino OS X - New Build
There is a new build available, Wenatchee 2009-06-24, with many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes with the main focus on new 2-d functionality.
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.
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.
WF_094 Rhino Scripting Seminar in NYC
Workshops Factory is conducting a 4-week Rhino Scripting Seminar in New York City.
Dates: July 22-August 12 (Wednesday evenings)
Location: Studios GO
This class will offer the opportunity for architects and designers to begin to understand and use the algorithmic process as a tool for design by way of RhinoScript. Scripting is not considered a means to an end but rather a valuable tool used to make certain tasks less tedious and certain decisions more informed. More...
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:
Bongo 2.0 - WIP 2 available
You are invited to try Bongo 2.0, animation for Rhino. The second work-in-progress version is now available.
New 2.0 features include:
- Inverse Kinematics
- Improved timeline and keyframe editor
- Curve editor
- Multiple animations per file
SIGGRAPH 2009 - Booth 2030
From artists to engineers, from lone developers and designers to large, established companies, SIGGRAPH is the only conference and trade show that draws everyone from around the world and across the multiple disciplines who work in the computer graphics industry.
Come see us in Booth 2030.
Please visit us and our Rhino partners:
- Robert McNeel & Associates - Booth 2030
- Caustic Graphics - Booth 2026
- T-Splines, Inc - Booth 2028
- Lightspeed Design Group - Booth 2034
- Studica, Inc - Booth 2016
- Academic Superstore - Booth 2626
Date: August 4-6, 2009
There is a limited supply of free Exhibits Only passes available. Register online here and use code "rhino3d".
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Autodesk Inventor 2010 supports Rhino
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Crisis Modes: Protocols + Future Ecologies - NYC August 2009
More user stories from the Lyon User Meeting: La Philharmonie de Paris, skate parks and photos...
Two more speakers from the recent Rhino User Meeting Lyon have kindly shared their presentations:
- Gaetan Kohler (Hugh Dutton Associés) showed us how he used Grasshopper for the design of La Philharmonie de Paris (Ateliers Jean Nouvel). See the video here.
- Rolland Melet (Recreation Urbaine) showed incredible skate parks modeled in Rhino and other sports installations. See his presentation here.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Crisis Modes - a Grasshopper workshop in New York City
Crisis Modes is a one-week intensive design workshop being offered in New York City. The workshop will take place in a studio setting and will be devoted to exploring relational design strategies and digital design methodologies for speculative infrastructures. The format of the workshop will include daily intensive workshop sessions focusing primarily on Grasshopper. Read more...
Dates: August 17-21, 2009
Location: New York City
About Crisis Modes - a combination of talent and expertise from Michael Chen and Jason Lee of Crisis Fronts, and Ronnie Parsons and Gil Akos of Studio ModemodeLab.
Rhino Job in Indonesia - Shoe industry
Pou Chen Group is seeking a manager in Indonesia.
The position requires:
1) Older than 25.
2) Graduated from a senior high school.
3) At least 3 years experience of shoe modeling with Rhino.
4) With experience of communicating with customers independently has higher priority.
Apply the job or has any questions? Please email to GREEN_YI822@HOTMAIL.COM
ParaCloud offers online workshop for Rhino users
ParaCloud is offering a special online workshop for Rhino users interested in generative design and fabrication. Review methods for creating ribs with notching for laser cutting, unfold components for 3D printing and shop drawings, generative patterns and more. GEM is easy to learn. In less than two hours you'll be up to speed with the latest in generative design—without scripting of any kind. The workshop fee is $355 including a ParaCloud GEM license. The workshop is delivered via GoToMeeting in two sessions, scheduled according to availability.
ASGvis offers free webinars
A variety of webinars are being offered by ASGvis, from tips and tricks on using V-Ray to tech support and sneak peeks at new product features! Their experts are trained to provide the latest information to help you. Webinars are free! Upcoming dates:
- Texturing and Decals with V-Ray for Rhino Thursday, June 18, 2009, 1:30 PM-2:00 PM EDT
- Changing your approach to design with T-Splines and V-Ray Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 1:30 PM-2:30 PM EDT
- Large Scene Rendering with V-Ray for Rhino Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 1:30 PM-2:00 PM EDT
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Jewelry modeling tutorial 3-in-1 DVD bundle
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Driving Dimensions for Rhino
NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia, Jun 9, 2009 - LEDAS Ltd., an independent provider of variational design tools known as Driving Dimensions plug-ins for different CAD platforms, today announced the beta release of its new plug-in Driving Dimensions 0.1 for Rhino. With this plug-in, Rhino users get a powerful tool for bottom-up assembly design and kinematics simulation with assembly constraints compatible with the capabilities of mainstream MCAD software packages.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Aeroplane modeling with Rhino by Equation Models kits
In the recent Rhino User Meeting Lyon 2009, Géry Gueville from Equation Models kits made an incredible presentation and showed us the entire process how he manufactures aeroplane models, from the initial blueprints and surfaces to the final kit, including profile generation, curvature analysis, assemblies, CNC milling and visualization.
Architecture et formes complexes version 1.0
Architecture et formes complexes version 1.0
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette
25 June 2009
This event organized by Cadlantique and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette is a great opportunity to learn how top engineering and architecture companies are using the latest 3D technologies and construction techniques to bring the most complex shapes into reality.
Speakers include:
- Entreprise SETEC
- PAOLO CASCONE ingénieur/architecte
- Entreprise B+G Ingénierie
- Cabinet d'architecture ARCHITECTURE STUDIO
- DAVID RUTTEN architecte, concepteur du programme Grasshopper
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:
- New commands:
- ptGridSurfaceDomain. It divides a surface by its UV domain. Divide method can be byNumber, byArcLength or byCordLength. There are options to select base point and change UV directions. The command also supports history.
- ptPlanarLips to create variable offset of planar (unrolled) faces.
- ptChanegeGridDensity. Helps increase and decrease grid density in U and V directions.
- ptExtendGrid to extend a paneling grid by user-defined distance in U and V directions.
- New functionality:
- Added an option to ptDivideSurfaceUV to divide the surface by CordLength. The command already support dividing byNumber and ByArcLength.
- ptUnifiyFacesDirection (previously ptUnifyFacesNormal) has new options to adjust the faces U and V directions to match the base surface.
- It is now possible to project paneling edges/faces in a user-defined direction. Use "PanelShape=Projected" in ptPanelGrid command
- Bug fixes:
- Few bug fixes and refinements to ptUnroll commands.
- Fix and I/O crash bug.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
1st RhinoScript Workshop in Dubai, June 12-14
Intro to Architectural Scripting Workshop
Dubai - June, 12-14
When CAD systems started to offer scripting abilities, design processes took a different path, one where designers not only can automate modeling operations, but also devise rules and embed logic in their exploration of form.
This workshop is built around the concept of calculating/computing design. Participants will learn how to think in algorithmic terms and express their design ideas in procedures. We will cover basics of programming and build our skills through an array of short exercises of various levels. So if you have no programming experience, this is the place to start.
The main vehicle for the workshop will be RhinoScript. RhinoScript proved to be the best platform out there to explore design-programming for beginners and experts.
- Instructor: Maher El-Khaldi is a PhD researcher and a class instructor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Design Computing group. He received a Master of Science in Design and Computation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2007. Maher taught RhinoScripting at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture in collaboration with Rajaa Isaa, a Rhino programming developer, and Matt Swarts, Phd student at Gatech. Maher is also Computation Director at Shape Architecture Practice + Research.
- Fees: Professionals $500 / Students $350.
- Location and address: http://www.shelter.ae/
- Further details and space registration: Click here and contact maher@shape-arc.com or saadia@shelter.ae. See also http://shelter.ae/blog/.
LaN ON-SITE: BCN v2
In 2008, LaN’s first BCN workshop at IaaC / Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia drew participants from 12 countries to attend lectures and technical seminars furthering their understanding of digital design and fabrication in architecture. This year LaN extends the workshop with parallel intro sessions in all LAN ports–Barcelona / Boulder / Brooklyn / Bozeman (Aug 10-12). In 2009, you choose your modules.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
AIANY and Live Design Event, NYC
AIANY is hosting a free event next week featuring guest speakers from Live Architecture Network (LaN).
Live Design: Case Studies of a Parametric PracticeLaN approaches architectural development through interdisciplinary collaborations enabled by Digital Design + Fabrication. The speakers direct a global collaborative on digital design in architecture for academic and client-based projects.
Speakers: James Coleman, CarloMaria Ciampoli, Monika Wittig – LaN
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm ET
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Between Bleecker and W 3rd St), Main Lecture Hall (Lower Level)
Admission is free*. Seating is limited, you must RSVP to Erleen Hatfield in order to attend this event.
*Accredited for 1.5 AIA Professional Development Hours. This AIANY event has been made possible by the support of ABC-Imaging.
About AIANY
About LaN
Rhino 4 SR6 Release Candidate 1 available
Rhino 4 Service Release 6 Release Candidate 1 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.
- Crashes Fixed in Circle, BoxEdit, Rhino Shutdown, DimAngle, Intersect, Loft, Offset, SolidWorks Import, STEP Import, File Open, Paneling Tools, Polygon, Print, TextProperties, Rectangle, Reparameterize, SaveAs, ScaleEdge, SelBlockInstanceNamed, and ShortCurves.
- Many other bugs have been fixed, too.
Rhino Job in Vietnam
Jewelry 3D Services in Vietnam has a job opening for a jewelry designer and renderer.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Using Rhino with SpaceClaim
SpaceClaim posted details on the round-trip integration of Rhino and SpaceClaim.