Creating an editable NURBS
surface from complex scan data can be a challenging proposition, especially
when the original scanned surface is irregular and not smooth in the
conventional sense. This White Paper by Simply Rhino shows one workflow that
allows an editable surface to be produced while maintaining the irregular
qualities of the target surface.
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Sandy Hook Elementary - recovering and rebuilding
Four years ago, December 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary was reeling from a shooting that killed 20 children and 8 adults. This week, Sandy Hook Elementary School reopened with a sunlit, cheerful, new school -- a school with security subtly built in the design.
The new school design is by Svigals + Partners, a New Haven-based architectural firm.
The architect referred to Sandy Hook's rolling landscape with a sinuous roofline and two-toned hardwood cladding in the building facade. Doug Lovegren of Svigals + Partners commented, "We did use Rhino to help us design the front wall which is curved and has a wavy top. We were having trouble playing with that form in Revit so we took it out to Rhino. We also used that to help us create our flattened elevations for that same wall."
For more details on achieving security in a beautiful environment, see the FastCo article....
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
RhinoVAULT 1.4 released
The BLOCK Research Group, at ETH Zurich, recently announced the
release of RhinoVAULT 1.4. The latest, freely available version comes with some
neat, new features. Besides many bug fixes, this plugin for Rhino features the following new tools:
- Enhanced and easy-to-use form diagram generation
- Define guide curves to control the form and force diagram
- Improved API to hack into RhinoVAULT for your project-specific application
- RhinoVAULT can also be used to design pretensioned cable net structures
If you want to know more about geometric approaches to form finding and fabrication of funicular structures, please check out Matthias Rippmann's recently published PhD thesis: Funicular Shell Design - Geometric Approaches to Form F.
We are happy that the tool could be useful for students and professionals around the world to realize some amazing projects. Knowing about your work is very helpful for the development of the software and in general amazingly motivating. So, please get in touch if you have exciting projects made with RhinoVAULT you want to share or if you are interested in collaborative work and workshops (rippmann@arch.ethz.ch).
Labels:
AEC,
architecture,
form finding,
funicular structures,
plugin,
Rhino 5,
RhinoVAULT,
structural
BIJORHCA PARIS, International Trade Show for the Jewelery Industry - September 2-5, Paris (France)
September 2-5, 2016
Paris Porte de Versailles - Pavilion 5, Booth # J31
Paris (France)
BIJORHCA PARIS is the only international trade show for jewelry, watches and technical supplies in France.
Come visit authorized Rhino reseller CADLINK and Formlabs, its partner in 3D printing for jewelry. Learn more about the solution RhinoGold + Form 2 and how it enables jewelry designers and craftsmen to create the most beautiful and intricate jewelry pieces.
Labels:
3D printing,
events,
jewelry,
RhinoGold,
trade show
Friday, August 26, 2016
New Grasshopper video by O'Reilly Press
Luis Fraguada and O'Reilly Media have published a series of training videos, Visual Programming in Rhino3D with Grasshopper.
Luis is a busy professional. At McNeel Europe he is a Rhino developer and an authorized trainer. Also, he is the Research Director for Built by Associate Data, an international design and architectural practice in Barcelona, and an instructor at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. He has even designed a custom 3D food printer.
For architects and designers who work with complex shapes and surfaces, Grasshopper is a visual programming tool to create rules and parameters that can be easily changed and updated.
You can check out several of the training videos for free. Try them ....
Labels:
Grasshopper tutorials,
training,
video tutorials
Architecture Challenge 2016
5-10 September 2016
Vienna, Austria
The
Angewandte Architecture Challenge (AAC16) is an architecture summer school
program collaborating with international experts and institutions. Architecture students interested in exploring integrated digital
design and fabrication will simultaneously design a full-scale built
project within the teaching environment of the Institute of Architecture at the
University of Applied Arts in Vienna - Die Angewandte.
The
AAC16 Program is a week-long, intense event. Software introduction
to Rhino / Grasshopper / Karamba / KUKA/prc will be followed by project design
development in groups and daily reviews. The KUKA industrial robot at the robot laboratory of the Robotic
Woodcraft research project will be used to fabricate selected projects, using a newly developed and innovative plastic
forming process entailing a new manufacturing process chain. The workshop will
close with a final presentation of the full-scale structure followed
by an exhibition.
Lectures by international experts will accompany the workshop. Ideal participants are architecture students with a bias in digital design and fabrication. Basic use of Rhino and Grasshopper is required. Knowledge of Karamba is a plus, but not required.
Lectures by international experts will accompany the workshop. Ideal participants are architecture students with a bias in digital design and fabrication. Basic use of Rhino and Grasshopper is required. Knowledge of Karamba is a plus, but not required.
Labels:
architecture,
digital fabrication,
Grasshopper,
Karamba3D,
KUKA,
Rhino,
robotic fabrication,
students,
workshops
Workshop: Translate | Re-active Structures
3-7
October 2016
Rome –
Italy
In an environment where everything is fluid, spaces cannot remain passive. Architects, engineers, and designers have to face
new and increasingly complex challenges related to new social behaviors,
digital landscapes, and climate changes. Inspired by biological
organisms’ structural alterations in response to environmental stimuli we are
keen on introducing similar behaviors in built structures. Advanced computation
technologies and physical computing offer a completely new way to think and
approach design, architecture, and urban planning, a way more coherent with
our rapidly evolving habitat. We aim to investigate human-space interaction
as a new design paradigm for physical spaces.
Using Rhino, Grasshopper, and some other plugins,
this workshop will focus on generative design to explore structural behaviors. Introducing physical computing and Internet of things logic, it experiments with user-structure interaction.
Labels:
architecture,
biodigital,
Grasshopper,
organic modeling,
workshops
Thursday, August 18, 2016
New Book: Rhino 5.0 for Jewelry by Dana Buscaglia
Dana Buscaglia, jeweler, Fashion Institute of Technology instructor and Authorized Rhino Trainer, has been hard at work. She's just published a new book for jewelry design using Rhino 5 for Windows. Enjoy 600+ pages of step-by-step Rhino tutorials. Exercises are for students and professionals alike.
The book is divided into two sections:
- Creation of 2D drawings and layouts
- Modeling of jewelry-specific 3D objects
Open source tools from The Proving Ground
The Proving Ground recently completed The Things We Make, an eight-week program of summer prototyping with a group of talented, student interns.
Together they created tools to "highlight the potential for leveraging data and computation for a better built environment". They've made the tools open source in hopes that the design community will use the samples and incorporate them into their existing workflows.
Read here how they incorporated Rhino and Grasshopper into the tools.
Labels:
analysis,
architecture,
BIM,
computational design,
data driven design,
Grasshopper,
open source,
Rhino 5 for Windows
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Scan&Solve beta released
The Scan&Solve Pro beta for performing structural simulation is now released. The Scan&Solve WIP has graduated to become a beta.
Try now while it is free for all Rhino users. Download....
To learn more try the introductory free webinar on August 16th. The webinar will demonstrate how bonded assemblies of components may be simulated using multiple materials. The webinar covers the basics of setting up simulations, selecting materials, applying boundary conditions, and interpreting results. Advanced topics include specifying orientation for orthotropic materials, mixing restraint types, and editing the material database.
What: Webinar debuting the beta release of Scan&Solve Pro
When: August 16, Tuesday, 11 am CST
Friday, August 12, 2016
Another bridge, another design style
Rhino and Grasshopper are often used for bridge design, from the curves of a Paris pedestrian bridge to the straight lines of this London bridge.
Knight Architects is a British firm specializing in bridge design. With the engineering firm AKT II, Knight designed this footbridge as a part of the Merchant Square development at Paddington in west London.
The footbridge's five-blade steel deck opens and closes like a fan, using a hydraulically operated hinged mechanism and counterweights.
The footbridge is an understatement when closed and drama when it opens.
ArchDaily's clip showing the bridge in action ....
Details on the bridge design ....
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Designing curves in a Paris pedestrian footbridge
ThinkParametric's Design Playground has published Using Grasshopper and Tekla to Construct a Pedestrian Footbridge in Paris.
It's a complete breakdown of the workflow and strategy used in the design and construction of a footbridge by DVVD Architects at ZAC Claude Bernard. Azhar Khan shares how he and his Elioth team acted as consultants, walking through the process and problems to build the footbridge.
The asymmetrical bridge twists from beginning to end. As the bridge's cross-section is continuously changing, each deck member is unique.
Elioth set up a Grasshopper model to represent the bridge's primary elements. Starting with the architect's Rhino model, they took the geometry to produce a simple model of the bridge's primary steel structure.
Labels:
bridges,
Galapagos,
Grasshopper,
parametric design,
Tekla
DIVA 4.0 for Grasshopper video tutorials
Solemma has recently announced their new DIVA 4.0 for Grasshopper video tutorial series. Fourteen tutorials, totaling over 5 hours of instruction, take users from the very basics of how to set up a RADIANCE visualization or a single-zone EnergyPlus model in DIVA 4.0/Archsim to quite advanced dynamic shading analyses, multi-zone models and even a fully integrated daylighting thermal simulation using DAYSIM/EnergyPlus.
Labels:
daylight simulation,
DIVA,
Grasshopper,
Grasshopper tutorials,
lighting,
Rhino 5 for Windows
Friday, August 5, 2016
Iris - WebGL Exporter, new version
Iris is a free Work In Progress file export plugin for Rhino 5 x64 for Windows, Rhino 5.1 for Mac OS X, and Rhino WIP (Windows and OS X). Iris generates a JSON document that is parsable and viewable through WebGL in a modern web browser. The objectives for the plugin include:
- A fast and easy way for Rhino users to distribute their designs with the least amount of dependencies possible.
- Conversion of as many Rhino Object Types and Features as possible in a static scene.
Many changes happened under the hood to decouple the Iris Web Application Logic from the UI logic. This will make it easier to develop alternative UIs if you are so inclined. In the future a few different example UIs will show how it can be done.
Labels:
export,
food4Rhino,
Iris,
plugin,
rendering,
Rhino 5,
Rhino 5 for Mac,
visualization,
WebGL
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Level 2 Rhino 5 for Mac begins next week
Our Level 2 Rhino 5 for Mac online course begins next week on August 9th. Kyle Houchens will be our instructor for this course. Kyle is a very talented industrial designer, skilled instructor, an Authorized Rhino Trainer, the owner of the The Outside Digital Design and a McNeel Technician.
Dates/Times:
- August 9-11 and August 16-18 (Tuesday-Thursday each week)
- Hours are 9:00am - 1:00pm each day
Note: All times listed are Pacific time zone. Calculate your time zone.
For a sample of Kyle's online Level 2 training, see this video. Password: Test
Live training sessions let you to ask questions and interact with the class and instructor. In our usual format, all sessions will be recorded and posted for your study and review. If you cannot make a session, you will be able to catch up at your convenience.
Live training sessions let you to ask questions and interact with the class and instructor. In our usual format, all sessions will be recorded and posted for your study and review. If you cannot make a session, you will be able to catch up at your convenience.
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Digital fabrication workshop at IED
Register for the Rhino D+O+F - Design Optimization & Fabrication workshop, organized by IED Madrid.
Course Description
In this class, you'll learn to create and edit accurate free-form 3D NURBS models. This fast-moving class covers most of Rhino's functionality, including the most advanced surfacing commands. Also, this workshop will give students a functional understanding of Grasshopper and Parametric design. This will allow them to build on this understanding into more advanced projects of their own. The class also covers information on fabrication techniques with RP or laser machines and optimization and fabrication using RhinoCAM for CNC machines.
Details...
Space is limited!!!
Instructors:
- Andres Gonzalez, worldwide director RhinoFabStudio.
- Ignacio Prieto, Professor of Architecture at IED
- Daniel GarcÃa, Fab Lab IED Madrid manager
- Lorena Schmitzberger Sánchez, Trotec Spain
Date: 12-16 September 2016
Time: 10:00 to 14:00 & 15:00 to 19:00 h. [ 10 am-2 pm & 3 pm-7 pm ]
Location: IED - Madrid, Spain
For more details or to register contact: Ignacio Prieto - Daniel GarcÃa or call 914 480-444
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.
Labels:
3D modeling,
3D printing,
CNC,
digital fabrication,
DOF,
Fab Lab,
Grasshopper,
laser cutting,
Rhino 5,
RhinoCAM,
RhinoFabStudio,
workshops
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