Drafters with Rhino experience, job opportunity

Audubon Engineering is looking for drafters with Rhino Suite 3D experience to work on a Hurricane Restoration Team offshore 14/14 for a 6+ month contract beginning May 1st. Send qualified resume's to Chantel Laporte

Company Info:
Audubon
111 Veterans Blvd., Suite 1200
Metairie, LA 70005
United States
Phone: (504) 833-5669

Rhino job in the UK, automotive industry

Axon Automotive is looking for a skilled surfacer with an aesthetic understanding who can work with a talented engineering team to deliver a new groundbreaking vehicle. Some automotive experience is required. An understanding of exterior body surfaces is desirable. For additional details visit the web site or email a CV.

Contact: Kevin Lindsey
Axon Automotive
5-6 Raymond Close
Wollaston
Wellingborough NN29 7RG
United Kingdom

RhinoParametrics 1.0 Alpha

RhinoParametrics is a new plug-in for Rhino developed by RhinoParametrics SAS. It contains over 75 parametric objects and 140 new creation and editing functions.

Download now RhinoParametrics 1.0 Alpha...

madCAM 4.2 service release 2

There is a new madCAM 4.2 service release available from madCAMcnc.com.

Details and download...

Rhino Resurf case study

Rhino Resurf is a plugin for Rhino that can be used to fit untrimmed NURBS surfaces to scanned data.

Rhino Resurf was recently used for a project by 3Dtotal, a laser scanning service company in Portugal. In this architecture digitalizing project, they used RhinoResurf to post-process the scanned data. They created NURBS surfaces from the scanned point cloud with the precision of maximum tolerance = 0.01cm by using the RsPoints2Surf command in RhinoResurf. After texture mapping, they got a real 3D wall.

1. Photograph of the wall

2.Scanned data of the wall



3.NURBS surfaces created from the scanned point data (_RsPoint2Surf)

4.The textured wall based on the NURBS surfaces

You can download a trial of Rhino Resurf.

PanelingTools for Rhino New Release

A new release of PanelingTools plug-in for Rhino 4.0 (SR7) is available for download. In this release:

• New commands and options:
• Added ptOffsetGridByHeightfield command that offsets a paneling grid using an image heightfield.
• Added Bitmap option to ptShuffleGrid, ptGridSurfaceDomainVariable , ptPanelGridCustomVariable and ptPanel3DCustomVariable commands with history support


• Bug fixes:
• Fixed a bug ptGridSurfaceDomainVariable when changing methods option.
• Fix a bug in ptPanel3dCustomVariable. Sometimes start surface did not map.

APMM 2010 Conference, Boston

Association of Professional Model Makers 2010 Conference is your opportunity to learn, share, grow, and engage with others in the model making industry.

• APMM 2010 Conference
• Dates: March 26-29, 2010
• Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel Cambridge, Boston, MA

A Rhino Demo and Q&A session will be held on Saturday afternoon, March 27, at 1:00pm in Dawes A. Meet us at the Industry Expo Event on Saturday night. The Industry Expo Event is open to the public and admission is free.

PanelingTools New Release for Rhino 4.0 SR7

The new release of PanelingTools plug-in for Rhino 4.0 SR7 is now available. Download....

Important notes:

• To load this release, please make sure you have the latest Rhino 4.0 SR7.
• PanelingTools is also integrated with Rhino Mac version (installed with Rhino. No additional download in necessary).
• PanelingTools is now compiled for V5 WIP ( 32- and 64-bit ). There is a download link for the plug-in for V5 from the PanelingTools web site.
• Toolbars and reference manual are updated with each release.

New features:

• ptExtractCenterGrid to generate a new center points of input grid.
• ptMeanGrid to generates intermediate grids. There is an option to create the surface that goes through mean grids.
• ptMeanSurfaces to generate intermediate mean surfaces. Input start and end surfaces are not matched in terms of direction or base UV point location. The algorithm divides the surface using surface UV directions, generate mean points and use points to create the mean surface.
• ptPanel3DCustomVariable: This is a first prototype that include the following features.
• It supports two methods for distributing variable patterns. The list based method take surfaces or polysurfaces, but the mean-based one take only untrimmed surfaces.
• Surfaces UV parameterization is not adjusted internally by the command. The user must ensure surfaces are matched (test input start and end surfaces with ptMeanSurface before running the command).
• Variation is defined by surface curvature, attractors or randomly.
• ptRemoveOverlapedPoints: This command takes point input (doesn't have to be part of a paneling grid) and remove duplicate overlapping points.
• Added an "Overlap" option to ptCloseGrid command. It is set to "1" by default to create a single seam for an open grid, but the user can now set it to any number. For example if Overlap=2, then it will create a double seam. There is also the "StartIndex" option to define what row/column index to duplicate. This is useful for wrapping patterns that expand over more than one unit length.

The following set of prototype commands are meant to help serialize, view, and export joint and connector data useful for FE and other analysis:

• ptSerializePoints: Add user data to point objects that consists of a serial number and data string (can include any text based string defined by the user).
• ptSerializeEdges: Add user data to curve objects that consists of a serial number, the serial number of the two end points that it is connecting and data string (can include any text based string defined by the user).
• ptTagSerializedData: Show points and edges serialize data in the form of a Dot or Text.
• ptExportPointsSerializeData: Export points data to a text file. There are options to add start and end strings, export the serial number, and to add new line.
• ptExportEdgesSerializeData: Export Edge data to a text file. There are options to add start and end strings, export the serial number, and to add new line.

Terminated commands:

• ptPanelCurve and ptPanelSurface commands were terminated because their functionality is available through other commands.

Fun stuff:

• There is an upcoming PanelingTools workshop during the AIA conference in June. See details...

RhinoDirect 0.2 Available

RhinoDirect from LEDAS Ltd. is a new plug-in that allows users to parametrically edit history-free 3D geometry in Rhinoceros. The second pre-release version is now available. Some of the new features include:

• geometric constraints and driving dimensions are now stored when users perform commands such as copy-and-paste and importing models from other 3DM files
• constraints and dimensions are no longer deleted when users modify geometry with Rhino commands, such as for holes, fillets, and Boolean operations
• the plug-in now correctly supports Rhino’s built-in history
• the plug-in can now parametrize arbitrary solid bodies composed of planar and cylindrical faces independently of their orientation with each other

Details, videos, and download...

Essential Mathematics for Computational Design

The first edition of "Essential Mathematics for Computational Design" is now available with free download.

Essential Mathematics uses Grasshopper to introduce design professionals to foundation mathematical concepts that are necessary for effective development of computational methods for 3D modeling and computer graphics.

"Digital Product" training at KIDP, Korea

The Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP) has organized a training course on "Digital Product" utilizing Rhino, 3D Max, Maya and other digital tools. This training is hosted by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy.

• Course: Digital Product
• Dates: March 15th 2010 ~ May 24th 2010
• Location: KIDP Korea Design Center - Gyeongi-Do, Korea
• Cost: KRW 300,000 - Reimbursement after successful completion of course - Requirement details in PDF
• To Register: Send email (ssun@kidp.or.kr) till March 11th, 5pm (documents required for application)
• Contact: KIDP +82-31-780-2178/2236, Email ssun@kidp.or.kr

Details and registration (Korean)...

MorphoLuminescence, user story

Designed by PROJECTiONE, MorphoLuminesence is a kinetic ceiling prototype, originally described as a simple surface in Rhino. The surface was triangulated into panels or petals using a combination of the PanelingTools plugin and manual modeling based on a specific tesselation logic.

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Rhino used in "Shutter Island" movie

Image courtesy of New Deal Studios

New Deal Studios Digital set designer and illustrator, Scott Schneider, recently completed work on the film, Shutter Island. Rhino was used to design the lighthouse and ward c exterior and interior miniatures and is an integral part of the New Deal Studios art department workflow.