Stone setting and its 3-D model for Rapid Prototyping at RHINO-DAY - Guadalajara, Mexico

 Date: April 2, 2014

Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Cost: US $95

Course description:
This hands-on demonstration will cover basic stone setting and how to model jewelry for stone setting purpose. Also, we will discuss the difference between modeling for RP [Rapid Prototyping] and rendering.

Note: PJ-Chen is an ART, Authorized Rhino Trainer and works full time as a professor at SCAD.

** Bring your own Laptop with Rhino 5 installed ** 

Join us also for the 2-day Master Lectures April 4-5
Please go to: http://mcneelmiami.com/rhino_day_2014

Location:
Rhino-DAY - Tec de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara (map)
Av. General Ramon Corona # 2514 - Zapopan
Guadalajara, 45201
Mexico

To Register:
e-mail: Jackie Nasser
phone: +(305) 513 4445
http://mcneelmiami.com/inc/sdetail/1747

Translating water into a 3D form

The province of South Tyrol in Italy has drinkable, high-quality, and mineral-rich tap water. But still, the local population buys water in plastic bottles.

To entice the local population to consume tap water and as a part of the 2013 Bologna Water Design at Cersaie, Italian designer, Andreas Trenker of the Free University of Bolzano designed a series of localized water carafes.

Using five characteristics of the different water sources—sea level, temperature, water hardness, conductivity, and pH—Trenker used Rhino to generate the shapes and translate them to a 3D form. The molds were then machined to make the carafes with Rhino and RhinoCAM.

More design process details in MecSoft blog . . . 

A new organization to accelerate digital fabrication

Streamlining Design to Fabrication

The Digital Fabrication Network (dFab Net) is a new community of fabricators and manufacturers; hardware and software suppliers; and academics, designers, and researchers, working together to improve design to fabrication.

Digital fabrication advancements are transforming industries at all levels. Designers have more and more sophisticated digital design tools. Yet design to digital fabrication remains slow and expensive.

“Design-to-fabrication problems are too complex to tackle alone,” said Bill Kreysler, President of dFab Net. “Finally there is an organization bringing everyone together to work on these issues.”

The organization’s diverse membership encourages innovation through cross-industry collaboration. Members can learn about processes and technology from many unrelated industries.

You are invited to join the world’s innovators who are embracing technology to change the game of design to manufacturing.

 Become a member today... 

Contact:
Digital Fabrication Network
Attn: Melissa Kroskey,S.E., Executive Director
101 West American Canyon Road, #508-278
American Canyon, CA 94503
(858) 527-9340
www.dfabnet.org

DATA BODIES Grasshopper workshop, Paris (France)

“Data by itself has no meaning. It fills databases. This data must be examined in order to become meaningful. Humans must interact with it. Information arises when humans examine the data. Knowledge is created when information is transformed through human social interactions.” 

Richard Gayle via spacecollective

DATA BODIES Grasshopper workshop
Paris, France
May 9-11, 2014

The space in which we live can be monitored in many aspects and appears to be to be a gradient of data in continuous evolution and change. One of the major advantages of parametric tools is to inform the design processes with accurate, specific and variable, in space and time, data streams.

DATA BODIES is a Grasshopper workshop that will focus on its nature as an information processor and how it can manipulate data, streaming inputs from various sources and using data feeds to inform geometry or data structures from the very simple up to more complex ones. The aim is to understand information and data articulation as a spatial and architectural operation. Results may range from pure data communication protocols, dataviz or data-driven geometries, depending on the skill levels and aspirations of each participant. The brief is also open to the suggestions and opportunities that may rise during the workflow.

Rhino 5, Grasshopper, gHowl, MeshEdit, WeaverBird, Firefly, Lunchbox will be used during the workshop.

TUTOR: Andrea Graziano, Co-de-iT
CURATOR: Francesco Cingolani, superbelleville coworking

Details and registration...