Digital Sculptors introduces the only direct translator for Alias to import Rhino files. Rhino To Alias Plugin will import 3DM files to Alias. After three months of preview releases, the Rhino to Alias Release Final Version is available.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Grasshopper VB workshop materials
WooJae Sung recently taught a Grasshopper VB Scripting workshop at Harvard GSD. He has been kind enough to share his course work and has made it available for download on his site.
Available in English and Korean.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Shape To Fabrication photos and videos
With 200 participants from all over Europe (and some from US and Canada), the Shape To Fabrication 4 conference was a big success (some photos here).
Preceded by four days of intense workshops (here are some flicker photos and here are some nice videos featuring the Evolute workshop), London's premier architects, engineers, fabricators and contractors showcased amazing projects done in Rhino, including speakers from Populous, Aedas, Luca Biselli, Simmonds Studio, AKT, Arup, Buro Happold, Zaha Hadid Architects, Yolles, Amanda Levete Architects.
Software manufacturers:
- Chaos group presented the upcoming V-Ray for Rhino 1.5 (expected to be released Q1 2012), a new version that matches the functionality found at V-Ray 2.0 for 3D Max, including real time rendering.
- Giulio Piacentino introduced RhinoPython to the community.
- RhinoTerrain announced two new future modules for Rhino 5: RhinoCity and RhinoRoad.
- Evolute did a great demo on its Rhino plug-ins for geometry optimization and the new version 1.2.
- The SMART Form and SMART Move VIZ tools by Buro Happold on real-time analysis. Simulation tools for rapid design optimizations were also a hit.
- KUKA|prc (parametric robot control), a plug-in for Grasshopper that for the first time enables robot control from within architectural software, was presented by Sigrid & Johannes (Robots in Architecture Association).
- Francesc Salla from Asuni showed VisualARQ's new version.
- Symvol for Rhino, a new tool for volume based 3D design and modeling by Uformia, was simply a revolution.
- David Rutten explained the second solver available from within Galapagos which implements the Simulated Annealing algorithm (presentation here).
- And Daniel Piker made a great presentation about Kangaroo live physics engine with projects by students and commercial users.
HP explained how they see 3D printing in architecture through a very nice video at Span Architects.
At the closing session, the conference organizers announced a new Master program to be held at the South Bank University London.
Keep your eyes open for STF5 in 2012!
Monday, November 28, 2011
EuroMold Frankfurt
November 29-December 2 - EuroMold - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
EuroMold is the World Fair for Moldmaking and Tooling, Design and Application Development.
To see what's new in Rhino and a variety of plug-ins and hardware, visit our resellers and partners listed here.
Also, don't miss the presentation by Virtual Shape Research showing its modeling and analysis plug-ins for Rhino:
- "Fast, precise and affordable surface modeling for the design process" by Virtual Shape Research - Thursday December 1 at 2:30pm at the Design and Engineering Forum.
Engaging generative BIM workflows
"Generative tools such as Grasshopper are being utilized to explore architectural projects and influence design decisions with increasing popularity. Rapidly produced multitudes of options will not be utilized to full potential if entire design team assessments take days or weeks to fulfill. Maintaining and coordinating external documentation models is redundant and consuming work. To maximize the potential of these tools, teams must efficiently assess multiple objectives and criteria, to seek optimal solutions. Utilizing the generative information model as input to analysis and simulation tools (including structure, services, environmental, construction programming, and cost assessments) can facilitate superior design decisions."
Jon Mirtschin (GeometryGym) recently presented at IABSE-IASS London, LSAA Australasia, and Algode Tokio.
Read his technical paper on Engaging Generative BIM Workflows.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Bongo 2.0 Beta 7 Now Available
You are invited to try the Bongo 2.0 animation plug-in for Rhino 4.0. This is the seventh Beta version of Bongo 2.0 for Rhino 4.0 and 5.0.
The beta is open for all Rhino users!
Download Bongo 2.0 Beta 7 from here.
MadCAM 4.3 released!
MadCAM 4.3 is a free service release for existing madCAM 4.x users.
A partial list of new functions in madCAM 4.3:
A partial list of new functions in madCAM 4.3:
- Contour remachining: (Expert-level)
Automatic rest material contour machining calculated from previous cutter. This function works for 3-axis, 4-axis, and simultaneous 5-axis. - Axis of revolution: (4-axis and Expert-level)
New option for calculating towards or away from the axis of revolution. This makes it possible to cut the inside of a shape with 4-axis or 5-Axis tool paths. - Profiling: (4-axis and Expert-level)
New option for keeping the cutter perpendicular to curve when using 2D-profiling in 4-axis. - V-carving: (4-axis and Expert-level) New V-carving option when using From boundary Curves.
- madCAM License: Two new certificates for Entry + Remachining and 4-axis + remachining. You can buy each bundle or upgrade from the Entry level or 4-axis version.
SIGraDi presentation by Pablo C. Herrera
But that is not the whole story on how Rhino, RhinoScript, and Grasshopper came to be so widely embedded in Latin American architecture design education. For the rest of the story, see Professor Pablo C. Herrera's presentation to his colleagues at SIGraDi.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
T-Splines 3.3 new reverse engineering tools
T-Splines 3.3 for Rhino (to be released in late November) will contain new tools for reverse engineering. You can fit T-Splines surfaces to scanned data to get an editable, unified, watertight surface.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Opening night and exhibition at UHGBC
Parametric Systems - Theory + Practice is a new exhibition that opens this evening at Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston.
UHGBC Exhibition Opening Night–November 17, 2011
5:00 pm-8:00 pm
Exhibition dates: November 17, 2011-February 12, 2012
Hosted by: Materials Research Collaborative (MRC) / UHGBC
Location: Gerald D Hines College of Architecture - University of Houston
New RhinoGold+ page on Google+
RhinoGold+ also lets you actively participate with the Rhino Gold Team on RhinoGold's daily improvements.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
SYNTHESIS is hiring in LA
Requirements:
- B. Arch or M. Arch degree
- Excellent design sensibility, communication skills and personal initiative are desired.
- Expertise in Rhino, AutoCAD, and Illustrator are required.
- Proficiency in Grasshopper, Kangaroo, Hoopsnake, RhinoScript, VB or Python is a bonus.
- Experience with construction drawings and technical competency are valued.
- A perfect fit – They are looking to build a team – not fill holes. They want to know why your architectural and design interests and aspirations align with theirs and how.
- Must be a US Citizen or hold US working visa.
- Must be a Los Angeles resident.
Please send a CV, portfolio, and a cover letter which addresses the requirements listed above to studio@synthesis-dna.com
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Thinking about CAD Standards for Rhino 5?
Beyond setting standards for Rhino 5, their other aim was to increase the compatibility between AutoCAD and Rhino. While CAD standards are normally only focused on AutoCAD, the new HDA CAD standards have been designed to work with Rhino 5 as much as possible.
Since HDA works with a broad range of clients and consultants around the world, they feel that it is in everyone's best interest to share CAD standards. To that end, they have made the latest version of their CAD standards available to everyone.
They would be delighted to get your feedback.
Symposium and workshops - Melbourne, Nov 21-25
RMIT University is hosting the Designing the Dynamic symposium and workshops in Melbourne, Australia, November 21-25.
"Dynamic feedback is the computational design challenge of the hour – how to feed back the performance impact of real time design changes in designer’s dynamic digital and physical models – in real time."
The symposium (25 Nov) speakers include: Hugh Whitehead, Simon Watkins, Mike Xie/Jiwu Tang/Peter Felicetti, Tim Daddo, Kristoffer Josefsson, Andrew Maher, Mark Burry, Tom Kvan, Ben Doherty, Tim Black, and John Frazer.
The workshops (Nov 21-24) will cover a wide variety of related topics and software including Rhino, Grasshopper, Karamba, Kangaroo, Weaverbird, Digital Project, Matlab, SOLIDWORKS, Ansys, Flex PDE, and Comsol multi-physics.
There are only a few spaces available. Register now...
Friday, November 11, 2011
How did they make that?
The RhinoFabLab community is a great place to learn, teach, and share different methods of digital fabrication. Discussions cover both hardware and software at all phases of the design, fabrication, and building process.
RhinoFabLab is open to everyone and encourages discussing all the tools that can help you realize your Rhino designs.
Learn how this Munich tram station and many other projects were built.
'Grasshopper Geekery', a video
Who needs to to advertise when you have customers like Nikolas Weinstein Studios?
Nikolas Weinstein Studios is a glass sculpture studio in San Francisco with worldwide installations and a penchant for combining art and technology into site-specific glass installations.
We had heard rumors that they used Rhino and Grasshopper, so we asked them for more information. They came back with an entertaining video on how they use Grasshopper.
See the blog post and video ....
Online Grasshopper course in December
We're pleased to announce that we are now offering an Introduction to Grasshopper online course.
Join Andres Gonzalez from our McNeel Miami office as he takes you through some introductory tutorials. This course is for design professionals who are looking to efficiently learn concepts and features of Grasshopper at an accelerated pace in an instructor-led online environment.
The online course will meet for a total of four sessions. We will have a short orientation to cover the GoToTraining module. The Grasshopper training sessions will be split into three half-day sessions. Details are following:
- Orientation: Thursday, December 1 (9:00am-10:30am PST)
- Training: Monday-Wednesday, December 5, 6, 7 (9:00am-12:30pm PST)
- Cost: US$150.00 - Seats are limited; sign up early.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Marine trade shows in the Netherlands
NDAR, Rhino Authorized Reseller, will be exhibiting at the following marine trade shows.
Come visit NDAR's booth to see the latest developments of ShipConstructor, GHS, MAESTRO, ShipWeight, Rhino, Orca3D, RhinoParametrics, Rhinophoto and T-Splines.
Digital Crafting Symposium 2 in Copenhagen
Digital Crafting Symposium 2 - Consequences
Date: 25. Nov 2011 - 10.30h - 17.30h
Venue: Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation
Copenhagen - Denmark
Today digital technologies inform all levels of building practice. As a link between representation, design, analysis and production, digital technologies are both practical tools to optimize existing practice as well as speculative media to explore its future. By facilitating exchange and feedback between the different knowledge fields of design, engineering and crafts, digital technology holds the potential to effect new answers to the complex challenges of contemporary building practice.
The second Digital Crafting symposium will discuss the future perspectives for a new integrated digital practice. Inviting practitioners from the fields of architecture, engineering and theory to share their experiences and present recent work, the symposium aims to unfold new visions for thinking the links between design, analysis and fabrication. With a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, bottom up thinking and complex modeling we ask how the shared digital platform can create new material strategies for design.
Digital Crafting is hosted by CITA Centre for IT and Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation.
Design to Digital Fab Conference in NY
Digital design and fabrication technology are changing the way we build and how we design. Collaboration between the architect and fabricator is critical in delivering challenging projects that are inspiring the next era of design. The Architect's Newspaper and the Digital Fabrication Alliance have teamed up to bring you the Metals in Construction conference and Digital Fabrication workshops.
At the conference, you will hear from 15 experts in the field including a keynote by Patrik Schumacher, director of Zaha Hadid Architects. Thursday, 16 February 2012, at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium, 1221 6th Ave, NY
At the hands-on digital fabrication workshops, you will learn from some of the best in the world using Rhino, Grasshopper, and Python Scripting. Friday, 17 February 2012 at the Pratt Manhattan Campus, 144 W 14th St, NY
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
49 Design Jobs - Rhino skills needed.
Check out the design jobs posting on Core 77. There are 49 openings for designers with Rhino skills.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Composites and Architecture
Kreysler & Associates has a new blog to further innovation and inspiration in the world of digital fabrication and composite technology through the dispersal of information they find intriguing.
Friday, November 4, 2011
"Processos Generativos" workshops and conference in Portugal
Processos Generativos, Lisbon (Portugal)
Rhino workshop: 23-26 Nov
Grasshopper workshop: 28 Nov - 1 Dec
Conference: 21 Nov and 5 Dec
Organized by Rhino3DPortugal and Instituto Superior Técnico – ISTAR- Laboratório de Investigação em Arquitectura, this series of workshops and conferences are a contextualization of a new "modus operandi" where new technologies integrate in an architectural creative process.
New book: Form Follows Digitalism - Digitale Formfindung
Details, book preview and order (in German)...
Bongo 2.0 Beta 6 now available
You are invited to try the Bongo 2.0 animation plug-in for Rhino 4.0. This is the sixth Beta version of Bongo 2.0 for Rhino 4.0 and 5.
The beta is open for all Rhino users!
Download Bongo 2.0 Beta 6 from here.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Symvol For Rhino - Download today!
This is a free entry-level version for noncommercial use and suitable for the 3D printing DIY/maker community.
Download today!
Now available to preorder at a discounted price!
This is a fully-featured version suitable for professionals.
Coming soon!
Karamba parametric structural modeling
Karamba is integrated in Grasshopper and fully parametrizable.
Karamba provides accurate analysis of spatial trusses and frames.
Karamba comes with its own finite element analysis module.
Karamba is being developed by Clemens Preisinger in cooperation with the Structural Design Institute at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and Bollinger-Grohmann-Schneider ZTGmbH Vienna.
Comparison of bracing systems for high-rise buildings:
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