How to set up your robot

Everything you need to know about getting started with your new robot...

Watch this series of Grasshopper and KUKA tutorials by Karl Singline.

Rhino User Meeting in Paris

Knowledge? Inspiration? Networking?

You'll find all this and much more at the Rhino User Meeting in Paris, an event to create a multidisciplinary exchange network where attendees learn and gain inspiration from each other in the varied industries. 

With a focus on AEC and product design, keynote speakers will give attendees the opportunity to learn how Rhino, combined with plugins, has made it possible to convert ideas into real projects.

Presentations will be in the French language.

Sign up now. Seats are very limited!

Date: 20 June 2017

Place: E.N.S.A.P.L.V
École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette
144 Avenue de Flandre 
75019 Paris

More information (in French) and inscriptions…

Bioinspired Lamps Workshop

In the Bioinspired Lamps Workshop, organized by David Torreblanca and the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), the project's aim was to design lamps inspired by natural forms, specifically plants, through morphological experimentation with Rhino, digital fabrication technologies, and some analogous techniques. 

The whole process was supported by RhinoFabStudio. The project methodological sequence was the following: abstraction of the natural forms, product conceptualization, digital experimentation and fabrication.

David is a Chilean product designer based in Medellín, Colombia, with a Master's Degree in Product Design Technologies. He is currently associate professor and researcher in the Industrial Design career at UPB in Medellín, Colombia. 

If you aren't already, become a member at RhinoFabStudio's website to check out more pictures from their workshop! 

For more information please contact David Torreblanca.

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.

Howl in New York

"Bodies at night are different than people during the day. Summer nights are when NYC sheds its business attire for something more feral. Join us for a 10-day intensive design/build workshop that addresses the spaces that bodies occupy at night in Brooklyn's hipster paradise."

Using digital tools such as Rhino and Grasshopper, study how light and the body transform space at night from a passive to an active environment. Working with  +Farm,  Lot Radio, and local fabricators, engage in a collaborative process to study, develop digital modes, test concepts, and build a full scale installation, to be installed on Lot Radio's site in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Dates: August 12-20

More info...

Registration deadline: Friday, June 9th*

To register...

*Updated and extended date

Darlene Farris-LaBar - G3D 3D Printing Lab

Darlene Farris-LaBar is an artist and designer who cofounded the G3D 3D Printing Lab that is located in the Art + Design Department at East Stroudsburg University.

Darlene is a Professor of Art + Design at East Stroudsburg University, received her MFA from the School of Art and Design at SUNY, Purchase College, a BFA from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an MS in Digital Media Arts from the College of Technology in New York City.

In an attempt to shift her audience’s experience about the environment and transform the way they value it, she uses various technologies such as 3D modeling software Rhino and 3D printing to depict small plants and flowers indigenous to specific regions. The sculptures were designed as they appear in their natural state.

She cofounded the G3D 3D Printing Lab in 2013 and now has an operating lab fully equipped with FDM printers, PolyJet, Laser Cutter, CNC, 3D scanners and more!

For information please contact Darlene Farris-LaBar.

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.

New Zealand comes to Seattle

One of our long-time Rhino and Grasshopper users, David Trubridge, is coming to Seattle from New Zealand.

We noticed an article in The Seattle Times Pacific NW magazine last week featuring Heron Hall, some striking local architecture with David Trubridge's lights.

David will be in Seattle presenting a book he has in the works, 'Beauty Matters'.

May 25
5:30-7:30
4660 Ohio Ave S, Suite A
Seattle, WA

More information on this event...

Galeríafantasma by Laura Gomez - Medellín, Colombia

Laura Gómez is an Industrial designer born and raised in Medellín, Colombia. She has worked in New York where she acquired experience in art, design, and project managing. Her inspiration comes from her constant trips around North and South America, visiting art museums and fascinating places. This is how she became the founder of Galeríafantasma. 

Based in Medellín, Colombia and open to the public, Galeríafantasma is a design studio where tech-surrealism inspired objects are created. Merging art and functionality, these products recreate a Sci Fi environment in the comfort of your home. CÓSMICA is the inaugural collection. It consists of furniture inspired by the Space Age where planets, antennas, and satellites are the primary objects.


Laura uses Rhino though her design and fabrication process. She stated that "Rhino became [her] main tool in the design process, with the software [she] can recreate the spaces and environments [she] wants to materialize and have a very approximate idea on how harmonic the whole installation is going to be when brought to life." She uses Rhino for the engineering and production process too.
      
Follow Galeríafantasma's Instagram.

For information please contact Laura Gomez Giraldo.

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.

Webinar: CAM for Education, May 31

Join MecSoft and featured speakers for their CAM for Education webinar. 
Date: May 31, 2017
Time: 8am-9am PDT

Register here.

• Introduction
• CAM at South Dakota State University (SDSU), presented by Jessica Garcia Fritz & Franklin Parker of SDSU
• Overview and Demo of MecSoft's educational products
• Q&A

Meet the presenters:

Jessica Garcia Fritz is a full-time Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at SDSU where she teaches design studio, architectural history, and a building workshop. Her current research focuses on Gothic Vaulting and Timbrel Vaulting technologies. 

Franklin Parker is a double major (GIS & Architecture) undergraduate student at SDSU and works in the design/build shop on the campus where he oversees the operation of the school’s Techno CNC machining center. Franklin assists students and faculty on their design/build projects by performing 3D modeling in Rhino and preparing RhinoCAM toolpaths for machining. 

Don LaCourse is an Application Engineer with MecSoft Corporation. Don brings over 20 years of experience in CAD/CAM operations in both automotive and mold design applications.

Details and registration...

New jewelry video for Jewelry Best Practices Series

Solidscape Jewelry has published on YouTube a series of jewelry tutorials: the Jewelry Best Practices Series.

See their 7th and latest video: Booleans vs Grouping.

Rhino, a tiny part of Tumble Leaf

 Check out Rhino at 2m40s in the video about the making of Tumble Leaf.

Tumble Leaf Behind the Scenes...

Tumble Leaf is an Amazon Studios stop animated series for preschool-aged children. Created by animator Drew Hodges and stop-motion studio Bix Pix Entertainment.  The residents of the island of Tumble Leaf help preschoolers learn basic science lessons through playful examples.

Needle Watch by Arturo Tedeschi

Needle Watch (2017)
Design by Arturo Tedeschi
Software: Rhinoceros – Grasshopper

Arturo Tedeschi has been kind enough to share with us his concept design for a dress-watch done with Rhinoceros and Grasshopper.

"Who said that the output of an algorithm should necessarily be complex and intricate? The Needle Watch explores the possibilities given by the algorithmic-modeling in the field of product design, reaching a sophisticated minimalism which is usually the outcome of a traditional design approach. Inspired by 70’s -watches style, the algorithm manages a set of constraints mostly related to design-proportions and generates the main parts of the watch: case, grooved bezel, winding crown, bracelet. In particular, the seamless crown-guard details is totally created as an algorithmic output."

More info...

Scan&Solve Pro update

Intact Solutions posted an important update to Scan&Solve Pro.

A few of the important bug fixes are:

• Improvements in accuracy in simulation dominated by material in shear
• Corrections to torque load application
• Removal of numerical noise a certain resolutions with some geometries

Get the latest Scan&Solve Pro...