LMN tech studio just released Lyrebird which provides a tight connection between Grasshopper in Rhino and Revit.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Zoo 5 Service Release 8 available
Zoo 5 Service Release 8 contains two new features:
- License monitoring - Zoo 5 now allows users to monitor license usage from the convenience of their web browser. Just visit the status page, provided by your Zoo server, by entering http://<zoo_server_host_name>/status into your favorite web browser. For example, if your Zoo server's host name is zooserver.mycorp.com, then you would enter http://zooserver.mycorp.com/status into your web browser.
- Serial number exporting - Prior to Service Release 8, there was no way to export licensing information out of Zoo 5. Now, it is possible to export a comma-separated-value (csv) file that contains the serial numbers (not CD keys) of all licenses maintained by Zoo 5. This can be useful if you have difficulties in locating all of your product licenses. You can export the serial number and then email them to McNeel, who in turn can look up your misplaced license information.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Grasshopper Training - ITESM - Leon, Mexico
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This course is for design professionals who want to efficiently learn concepts and features of Grasshopper at an accelerated pace in an instructor-led hands-on environment. This workshop will provide students a functional understanding of Grasshopper concepts, necessary to obtain effective algorithmic and computational knowledge to model parametric 3D shapes for design studies and concept development. Participants should have basic knowledge of Rhino 5.
- Date: March 6,7,8, 2014
- Time: 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
- Place: ITESM - León, a certified RhinoFabStudio
- Instructor: Andrés Gonzalez worldwide RhinoFabStudio Director
For more information, please contact:
Iliana Gutiérrez Hernández - Coordinadora de Líderes Académicos - ITESM Campus León - Tel: 7109000 Ext-3004
What is a RhinoFabStudio?
A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.
Rhino and Grasshopper workshops in Lebanon
February 28 - March 2, 2014
Suite 101, Verdun Twins
Beirut, Lebanon
The Rhino Level 1 course organized by Built by Associative Data Research in Beirut is aimed at professionals, educators, and student architects, engineers, and designers who are interested in enhancing their creative capabilities, while at the same time increasing efficiency.
This introductory course will acquaint the participant with Rhino's surface modeling capabilities, model visualization, model data extraction, model translation from other CAD packages, and a variety of other crucial strategies for effective workflows. The course is particularly geared towards exposing Rhino’s capabilities in a production environment, where data fidelity, model translation, and output precision are involved.
Instructor: Luis E. Fraguada - Director of Research Built by Associative Data, Authorized Rhino Trainer
Parametric Design with Grasshopper - Level 1
March 5-8, 2014
Suite 101, Verdun Twins
Beirut, Lebanon
The workshop on Applied Parametric Design serves as an introduction and immersion into the world of associative design with McNeel’s Rhino and Grasshopper software. Rhino is an advanced NURBS modeler where we will learn about precision modeling, project workflow, and organization. Grasshopper is an associative modeling plug-in for Rhino that allows us to parametrically define the logic of our model to explore variations and optimized solutions. These two tools are a powerful combination for any architect, designer, engineer, professional, or student interested in exploring how parametric design can benefit their workflow.
Instructor: Luis E. Fraguada - Director of Research Built by Associative Data, Authorized Rhino Trainer
Friday, February 21, 2014
RhinoBIM beta 3.27.130 is now available
RhinoBIM beta 3.27.130 includes:
- Added new Australian database
- Added new Z shape type profiles
- Fixed bug selecting objects using stretch mode
- Fixed Rotate button disappears
- Fixed rotate real time only allowed 90 degrees
- IFC plug-in updated to latest IFC revision
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Design for Manufacturing Summit #5
DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING SUMMIT #5
Creating a leaner decentralized manufacturing ecosystem
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Dumbo*, New York
Design for Manufacturing Summit #5 will cover distributed manufacturing, Design for Cost, the product development process from concept to manufacturing and the latest in creative industrial design. The semi-annual Design for Manufacturing Summit brings together the thought leaders in the digital manufacturing revolution; industrial designers, engineers, manufacturers, and digital entrepreneurs.
Register now and save 50% with 'DFM'.
*Dumbo, an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn
*Dumbo, an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Rhino-DAY - Guadalajara, Mexico
RhinoFabStudio and Tecnológico de Monterrey-Guadalajara will host two days of workshops + two days of lectures on April 2-5, 2014.
Presenters will talk about their professional fields and how they use 3D modeling and design in real-life projects -- from jewelry to product design, furniture, and architecture. Join us and discover the principles of designing interactivity. Learn how to rationalize complex geometry into a format suitable for analysis and fabrication. Or discern validated environmental simulations directly to the conceptual design environments in Rhino and Grasshopper.
Important:
- The 2-day conference fee is $95, but if you are a student or a faculty member, you will receive a Rhino 5 EDU license with the registration (proof of status required, the regular educational license price is USD $195).
- To register for the conferences April 4 and 5, please go to: http://mcneelmiami.com/rhino_day_2014
- The 1-day workshops are also $95 each. Space is very limited so please register soon. There will be four workshops on April 2 and 4 different workshops on April 3.
- For the list of workshops on April 2 and to register, please go to: Dhttp://mcneelmiami.com/april_2nd_courses
- For the list of workshops on April 3 and to register, please go to: http://www.mcneelmiami.com/april_3rd_courses
Take advantage of these incredible prices!!!.
You can register for any of the workshops or lectures by clicking here.
Rhino used in extremes: both old and new architecture
The Corbin building restoration was given an 2013 Award of Merit in Adaptive Reuse and Historic Preservation by the New York AIA.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
AA Visiting School Los Angeles, June 16-27
AA Visiting School Los Angeles
June 16-27, 2014
The AA Visiting School Los Angeles is now accepting applications! Registration is open to students and professionals alike, who are interested in participating in a 10 day design charrette focused on exploring the legacy of experimental housing in LA through the lens of contemporary design methodologies.
Expect to explore computational design strategies, implement digital fabrication processes, work with a global network of like-minded designers, researchers, and educators, and experience the iconic legacy of LA's mid-century modernist homes.
RhinoGold & 3D Printing in Miami
Join CAD BLU at one of their upcoming RhinoGold+Solidscape seminars in Miami. They will present two group sessions on how you can use jewelry design software and a 3D wax printer to grow your business.
Date: Wednesday, February 19
Choose from Morning or Afternoon session:
Morning: 9:30AM - 11:30AM
Afternoon: 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Location: Hyatt Regency Miami
400 SE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33131
Note, each two-hour session will cover the same material. Reserve the time slot that works best for you.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Intermediate Grasshopper class starts next week
Intermediate Grasshopper - Online Training
February 18-219 am-1 pm Pacific Time
US$215 per person
Join instructor Andres Gonzalez as he explores the intermediate concepts of generative modeling in Rhino 5 using the Grasshopper add-on. He will apply these concepts to Grasshopper intermediate design and development numerous in numerous real-life examples with you.
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. This course requires Intro to Grasshopper training or equivalent. More....
Thursday, February 6, 2014
HAL 5 for ABB, KUKA, and Universal Robots
Announcing the release of the new version of the HAL Robot Programming & Control plugin for Grasshopper.
HAL 5, compatible with Rhino 4 and 5 and 0.9x or above Grasshopper versions, is proposing an extremely versatile set of tools (+600 functionalities, subdivided in 154 components), offering you the possibility to simulate, program and monitor ABB, KUKA, and Universal Robots machines*.
This version is proposing a new highly flexible workflow based on toolpath objects, allowing you to use all the powerful tools that HAL embeds independent from the complex robot process. It is then possible to combine, edit, and organize complex operations on massive amounts of objects with only a few clicks, while keeping a clean and lossless structure of machine movements. These new objects also generate an advanced and customizable representation of the robot process, including the target orientations, approximation zones, interpolation attributes, position names, Digital Output values and channels, mechanical tools simulation and parts manipulation, stocks of material preview, etc.
With HAL 5, it is also possible to optimize the size of your programs by choosing the declaration syntax used in the post-processor in ABB RAPID, KUKA KRL, and Universal Robots URSCRIPT. Advanced programming and IO management functionalities have also been translated in these three languages so you can switch from a language to another by a simple right-click on any component.
In addition to these new global updates, some advanced functionalities have been added or improved for ABB robots: The HAL to ABB Controller component, allowing for program uploading. Realtime control and data streaming have been entirely redesigned to reach a minimal communication latency (approx. 30ms) and have new multithreaded monitoring features to analyze joint positions, TCP position, digital IO values, and program execution in real-time.
As an educational and research-oriented package, HAL 0.05 is extensively documented: right-click on any component to instantly access a selection of comprehensive annotated examples or to start a tutorial search on YouTube.
HAL 5, developed by Thibault Schwartz, is available on food4Rhino and the HAL web site.
Mr.Comfy building performance data visualization
Mr.Comfy is a Grasshopper component, written in Python, for designers to interactively visualize thermal and climate-based daylight building simulation results data in Rhino design models.
Instead of using charts or tabular data, the energy consumption, comfort, and any other available performance report variables are directly displayed through color-coded surfaces (and numeric values) where they occur—in the individual spaces of a design.
Mr.Comfy 0.2 (daylight covisualization) has been recently released. According to Max C Doelling, "Comapping is really the word here, because the new component is not really designed to run on its own and without accompanying thermal input (though you can of course hide the thermal display if you want). This is not really a coding rationale, but the idea behind the new tool is to do things differently from stand-alone daylight mapping aps, since you’re probably using Mr.Comfy to primarily look at thermal data in the first place and might want to see a quick daylight overlay when appropriate. In the 0.2 release, most of the daylight time inputs are therefore slaved to the thermal component inputs, with overrides exposed where appropriate."
"Mr.Comfy basically plays well with DIVA, too, and probably will work with upcoming Honeybee/Ladybug releases, so we're getting a little ecosystem of those kind of tools going here."
Monday, February 3, 2014
4×4 Architecture workshop at Medaarch (Salerno, Italy)
Medaarch (Mediterranean Academy of Architecture) is glad to announce the 4x4 Architecture workshop (Feb 8 - March 9 in Cava de Tirreni, Salerno), dealing with Rhino, Grasshopper, RhinoCAM and 3D printing.