Inside Adam Savage's Cave

Adam Savage from Mythbusters playing with Rhino and a Trotec Laser

In case you missed this recent video on Tested.. "Adam equips his workshop with an old friend and powerful tool: the laser cutter. We learn how Adam used laser cutters in his model-making days and see a demonstration of the process of designing and cutting a simple object."

Thanks Adam for the very kind words about Rhino!

NOVA Shoe by Zaha Hadid

Yes, it is a shoe!

So how do you design and make a shoe like this? Dezeen investigated. Read the story and watch the video here...

Or, just buy your own pair here...

Robotic 3D printing with "Undo"

Suspended depositions

As Dezeen reported this week, Brian Harms, a masters student at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-arc) in Los Angeles, with a team of colleagues has developed a method of using a robotic arm to 3D print objects in a tank of gel, allowing free-form printing without the need for support structures and potentially adding an "undo" function to remove errors.

More details...

Primate: Leap Motion for Grasshopper

Primate is the first plugin to integrate Leap Motion with parametric design in Grasshopper.

The component library includes:

• Component for counting fingers
• Component for counting hands
• Component for tracking a pointing finger
• Component that tracks the direction of an extended hand
• Component that tracks a palm and the vector normal to a palm
• Component that mimics the sphere described by a cupped hand

Each component pulls in a slightly different piece of data from the movement of your hands in realtime. The direction of the fingers and palm, as points and vectors and even spherical or other 3-dimensional data become parameters in Grasshopper.  These components give you the power to feed this data into geometric algorithms for your own programming or design.

Download from food4Rhino...

Face editing now in Scan&Solve 2013 WIP

Scan&Solve 2013 for Rhino WIP now includes a new frequently requested feature:  interactive face editing of restrained and loaded faces.  Not satisfied with the faces that are loaded or restrained? Running multiple "what if" scenarios has never been easier. You can continue using Scan&Solve 2013 WIP right now at no additional cost. This WIP is available immediately to all licensed and evaluation users of Scan&Solve. The current version will operate until August 8, 2013.

Scan&Solve 2013 for Rhino completely automates basic structural simulation of Rhino solids. Unlike other analysis tools, no preprocessing (meshing, simplification, healing, translating, etc.) is needed.

Face editing video...

Download Scan&Solve 2013 for Rhino WIP...

Pencil vase designed with Rhino

Aleksandar Dimitrov of AD-3D, designed a new vase that is fabricated by 3D printing. The Pencil Vase uses 3 hexagonal pencils to turn any glass, coffee cup, or soup bowl into a beautiful minimalist style vase.

All one needs for assembly is a set of 3 standard hexagonal pencils with erasers to avoid sliding on glossy surfaces. Pencil vase is made of laser sintered polyamide, flexible and yet strong enough to support 1-3 small flowers. The inspiration for this design is to provide comfort and gentle flower care with a compact hi-tech 3D printed corner piece and everyday materials.

Purchase a 3D printed Pencil Vase...

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