IMS 2012, September 27-30

India Manufacturing Show 2012 is India's premier manufacturing trade show. IMS 2012 will be held September 27-30, 2012, in Bengaluru, India.

Exhibitors from all manufacturing industries are represented, including:

• Aerospace engineering
• Auto and components
• Automation and robotics
• Electronics and assembly
• Energy and environment
• Industrial engineering
• Infrastructure
• Metallurgy and mining

Rhino reseller and Authorized Training Site, CE-N:LAB will show Rhino in their Booth 1A26.

Details...

Rhino 5 public beta - new build

Rhino 5 is now very stable and ready to put into production. 

Timid owners of Rhino 4.0 are now invited to download and use the Rhino 5 beta. We still have a few tune-ups and minor bugs to fix. Plus, the documentation, translations, and marketing materials need to be finished.

Meanwhile, don't wait to try Rhino 5.

New Rhino 5 public beta builds are available almost every week. Rhino 5 automatically downloads and notifies you of updates when they are ready.

64-bit Windows Supported:

The 64-bit version of Rhino 5 allows you to open and edit models that are much larger than you could in Rhino 4.0. The 32- and 64-bit versions of Rhino 5 can be installed and run on the same computer at the same time.

Backward Compatible:

Rhino 4.0 Plug-ins will load and run in the 32-bit version of Rhino 5. Plug-ins will need to be recompiled for the 64-bit version of Rhino by the plug-in developers. Until they're ready, you may need to run the 32- and 64-bit versions of Rhino 5 side by side.

Rhino 4.0 and 5 can be run on the same computer without a problem. Also, you can SaveAs 4.0 files from Rhino 5.

System Requirements:

• Windows XP (32-bit), Windows Vista (32- or 64-bit) or, Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit)
• Rhino 4.0
• 500MB of disk space
• 2GB RAM (4-16GB recommended for 64-bit systems and very large models)

Download now...

Generative Furniture Design (GFD3D) launched

Generative Furniture Design (GFD3D) is a community of like-minded furniture designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms with Grasshopper. GFD3D is the place to learn, teach and share new methods of digital furniture design and fabrication.

Grasshopper is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3D modeling tools. Unlike RhinoScript, Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring.

You are invited to join...

iRhino 1.3 - new version available

iRhino 3D
Share your insight and inspiration

On the iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch
There is nothing like showing your designs and ideas in 3D. Pan, zoom, and rotate with a tap or drag of your finger. The handy navigator lets you scroll through thumbnails, so you can quickly jump to any model you want. Load Rhino models from web sites, Google Docs, Dropbox, email attachments, or from iTunes. Save views as images for mark-up and emailing.

New in version 1.3

• Retina display support
• Layer visibility control
• Background color control
• Larger thumbnail previews
  
• iOS 4.2 or above is required
• Minor bug fixes

Details...

Weekly CAD tips at cadjunkie

Film designer Scott Schneider is posting weekly tips at cadjunkie. The tutorial series "Rhino's Tip O' the Horn" are about 3 to 5 minutes each, so check them out:

Rhino's Tip O' the Horn . . . 

RhinoPiping 0.9.11

RhinoPiping is a new plugin, developed by NAVINN Software, that allows creating piping networks in a 3D environment and forwarding information to people working in engineering offices, purchasing, subcontracting, manufacturing, assembly, and testing.

RhinoPiping 0.9.11 has been released. See the release notes and download the beta version.

New book for Jewelry designers

Logis3D just announced a new book addressed to Jewelry designers: "Progettare la gioielleria in 3D con Rhinoceros"

With more than 300 pages and 40 step by step tutorials, this book teaches advanced modeling and editing techniques, rendering and also how to introduce Grasshopper into your workflow.

More details (in Italian) and book preview...

VSR Shape Modeling update

Virtual Shape Research (VSR) announces the availability of the service releases Shape Modeling 1.1.1 and Realtime Renderer 3.1.1. Both releases are free for existing customers and work with the 1.1 resp. 3.1 license.

For more information please visit http://www.virtualshape.com/en/news

Recent Robot news

The news was a bit slow in the past months, as Robots in Architecture was busy organizing the upcoming ROB|ARCH 2012 conference. Here’s what happened recently:

Red Bull Arch

On June 1st, artists C. Neugebauer and M. Köhldorfer unveiled their huge 17x23m aluminum arch sculpture for the Red Bull Circuit in Spielberg/Austria. The robotic fabrication of the 83 positive foam molds was done using a customized version of KUKA|prc on a KUKA KR150-2 robot, which the artists purchased from the automotive industry for this particular project. The Association helped them set up the robot, customized KUKA|prc for their particular needs, and developed a workflow for efficiently producing all parts of the arch. Neugebauer and Köhldorfer will look at that project in-depth at our ROB|ARCH conference in December.

KUKA|prc new release

We are proud to announce a new version of KUKA|prc based on a fully rewritten robot engine, opening up a huge range of new possibilities. First and foremost, KUKA|prc is no longer limited to linear toolpaths, as needed, e.g., for milling, but can work with a wide variety of motion commands with adjustable speeds: linear motions, Point-to-point motions, and direct axis commands. Correctly using these specialized movement commands can greatly optimize robotic jobs. More...

More Robot News...

Don't miss the Robot workshop at eCAADe 2012 in Prague (Czech Republic)...