Free online Rhino training (in Spanish)

La Tienda del CAD invites you to take part in a free online Rhino Training:

• When: Oct 4, 10-14h (GMT+1)
• Program
• Language: Spanish

Register soon, seats are limited.

Details and registration (in Spanish)...

Valenza jewelry fair

Valenza Gioielli

Valenza, Italy

October 1-4, 2011

Smart3D will be exhibiting at Valenza Gioielli October 1 to 4 in Valenza, Italy.

BAMBOO Support Generator, the new plug-in for rapid prototyping for Rhino, will be presented, as well as StoneSetting and NetworkPave tools.

Rhino import plug-in for Alias

Rajeev Nairbeen is working on a Rhino to Alias direct translator. It is still in active development.

Please ask all the Alias users that you know to download the plug-in and give it a try. He would be delighted to get their feedback.

Details and download...

How to publish in 3D



CableGuy cable winder and clip
for Apple earphones

Dutch designer Michiel Cornelissen has been working with Rhino since he was with Philips Design — where he was the first designer to use it — and it continues to be his main tool in his own design consultancy, Michiel Cornelissen Ontwerp.

Rhino and the 3D printing company Shapeways are now enabling Michiel to publish his own range of jewelry, housewares, and Apple accessories with minimal investments, reaching a worldwide audience.

I Encuentro de Joyería 3D para Diseñadores y Fabricantes Españoles

I Encuentro de Joyería 3D para Diseñadores y Fabricantes Españoles
Madrid - Spain
Sep 23, 2011

This is the first meeting for Jewelry 3D designers and manufacturers. It includes presentations and workshops by experts in the field and it's totally free.

Details (in Spanish)...

PanelingTools new release for Rhino 5 Beta

A new release of PanelingTools plug-in is now available for Rhino 5 Beta. You can find download links and documentation at PanelingTools download page.

New in this release:

• Added mesh module support to paneling variable custom 3D components. It is now possible to select a list of mesh modules or two meshes and calculate mean modules.
• Fixed a bad geometry bug when paneling surfaces with singularity.
• Added support to generate mean curves with local bounding space.
• Added the ability to define bounding space when creating variable mean surfaces.
• Added support for local bounding space for 3D variable modeling.
• Added support to create notches in ptFinEdges and ptExtrudeEdges commands.
• Fixed labeling objects UI bug.
• Fixed crash bug when creating singular panels.
• Fixed a bug related to applying variable patterns to diamond grids.
• Added ptTriangulateFaces command.
• Added GetPanelingGrid function to scripting to capture a paneling grid and turn into two dimensional array of points.