How is a greeting card like shipbuilding?

Two shipbuilding degrees, a little inspiration and creativity, Rhino, and a laser printer: Lovepop cards! These intricate 3D pop-up greeting cards have an interesting history.

Best friends and founders Wombi Rose and John Wise studied together at Webb Institute. After college, they went their separate ways but met up again at Harvard Business School. On a graduate school trip to Vietnam they discovered a variation of origami, slices of paper measured and cut to a specific size, then assembled into a 3D sculpture.

Inspired, the two applied their shipbuilding skills in miniature and created Lovepop.

Each Lovepop card folds flat with a 2D picture on the front. On the inside is a 3D sculpture, which pops out of the card.

The card designs are entered in to Rhino. Prototypes are created, the card sculptures are laser cut, then assembled by hand.

Lovepop's business exploded when Rose and Wise landed a spot on ABC's Shark Tank. See the Shark Tank follow-up episode.

More details in Polished Magazine...

Construct3D at DUKE University

Construct3D 2017 at DUKE University aims to bring together educators from a broad range of educational contexts to exchange ideas and innovation. We are honored that they have invited RhinoFabStudio director and Rhino and Grasshopper trainer, Andres Gonzalez, to lead a workshop and a talk.

Don't miss this opportunity! 

Workshop

The Rhino Data Driven workshop is a preconference workshop with numerous real-life examples in that introduces participants to the logic and principles of parametric created 3D-Forms.

 

Location: Duke's Technology Engagement Center (TEC)
Date: May 5, 2017
Time: 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Register for conference: https://sites.duke.edu/construct3d/
And then sign up here: https://construct3d2017.sched.com/


Talk

The Data, Design, Code, Rhino talk is for designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms, like Grasshopper, a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s modeling tools. 

Location: JB Duke Hotel Ballroom A,B,C
Date: May 6, 2017
Time: 10:00 AM-10:30 AM
Register for conference: https://sites.duke.edu/construct3d/
And then sign up here: https://construct3d2017.sched.com/

Register now for the Workshop and the Talk! Spaces are limited!

For more information please contact Lizabeth Arum and Chip Bobbert.

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.

Level 2 Rhino 5 for Mac begins May 2nd

Image credit: Kyle Houchens, The Outside

Our Level 2 Rhino 5 for Mac online course begins next month on May 2nd. 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.

Sign up today!

Dates/Times:

• May 2-4 and May 9-11 (Tuesday-Thursday each week)
• Hours are 9am-1pm PDT each day
  Note: All times listed are Pacific Daylight Time time zone. Calculate your time zone.

Live training sessions let you 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. Videos will be available for streaming up to three months following the class. 

Register here...

MecSoft releases Rhino3DPRINT and Visual3DPRINT 2017

MecSoft Corp. announced Rhino3DPRINT and Visual3DPRINT 2017, the latest versions of their 3D printing solutions for Rhino and VisualCAD.

The 2017 release is a maintenance release with significant memory use improvements and performance enhancements. Also, this release fixes many of the bugs reported by customers and detected by internal testing.

Important features and capabilities of these 3D printing products:

• Create meshes from raw point clouds
• Stitch meshes to make them watertight and amenable to 3D printing
• Perform Boolean set operations on mesh geometry
• Decimate and smooth meshes for better 3D printing
• Create support geometry for holding up overhangs when printing
• Optimize the orientation of mesh geometry in the print volume
• Create nozzle paths and corresponding G-code for FDM/SLA printers

More information or download a free demo of Rhino3DPRINT or Visual3DPRINT ....

New release: V-Ray 3 for Rhino!

V-Ray 3.0 for Rhino! Now V-Ray is faster than ever to create great looking renderings in Rhino.

Features:

• Virtual reality—Render VR-ready content for popular virtual reality headsets.
• Section cuts—Create quick cutaways and section renderings with V-Ray Clipper.
• Aerial perspective—Add realistic atmospheric depth and haze.
• Denoiser—Automatically remove noise and cut rendering times by up to 50%.
• Grass and fur—Create realistic grass, fabrics, and carpet with V-Ray Fur.
• Twin-engine rendering architecture—With CPU or GPU acceleration, you can choose the fastest one for your hardware.
• Interactive rendering—Render as you design. See the results right away as you adjust lights, materials, and cameras.
• Global illumination—Render realistic rooms and interiors with V-Ray's powerful and fast global illumination.
• Real-world cameras—Work like a photographer with controls for exposure, white balance, and depth of field.
• Render elements—Render separate layers for more artistic control in your image editing software.
• Render nodes—Give V-Ray Swarm an added speed boost with cost-effective render node licenses. Render nodes are compatible across V-Ray 3 applications.

Price reduction! The new V-Ray 3 for Rhino license prices for licenses are now USD $695, EUR €500, GBP £430.

Sign up for the free webinar on April 19th.

More information....