Wynn Mustin - designer behind STONEDALONE

Learn how Wynn Mustin, the designer behind STONEDALONE, used Rhino and 3D printing to create the Cassiopeia Ring.

Wynn is a 3D Printing Engineer at Shapeways, located in New York. Shapeways is the world’s leading 3D printing community, service, and marketplace for consumers, empowering everyone to bring amazing products to life. By giving anyone the ability to quickly and affordably turn ideas from digital designs into real products, Shapeways is changing how products are made and by whom. Shapeways produces roughly 3,000 unique products every day and over 1 million unique products annually.

Check out how Wynn created the Cassiopeia Ring. 

Follow Shapeways on social media: Twitter and Facebook.

For information please contact Wynn Mustin.

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.

Have you registered for the webinar?

Have you registered?

The Digital Patterning with ExactFlat and Rhino webinar is Thursday, July 27. We'll begin at 9 AM Pacific Time.

Register here.

Join Mark Jewel and Luke Niwranski of ExactFlat for an overview of digital patterning and the ExactFlat plugin for Rhino for Windows. They will show how ExactFlat works to flatten products like a backpack, fire bowl, and other examples.

This webinar is for anyone designing in 3D and needing to “flatten” the model into an accurate 2D cut design. This is especially important in the automotive, furniture, accessories, and marine industries.

Details...

Internship position available at BMW Group in Munich

The BMW Group (Munich, Germany) has an open internship in Design Form-finding. 

Candidates are required to have a degree in Automotive Design, Product Design, Architecture or Mechanical Engineering, and advanced skills in Rhino and Grasshopper, and also in programming languages C#, RhinoPython, and RhinoScript. 

Complete details (in German)...

ROB|ARCH 2018: Call for Workshops (deadline: September 8, 2017)

ROB|ARCH 2018 

Conference and Workshops

September 10–15, 2018

ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

The ROB|ARCH 2018 conference and workshops will take place at ETH Zurich and are proudly hosted by the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication, a cross-disciplinary research network leading the development and integration of digital technologies within architecture. The conference will provide an ideal setting for a series of interdisciplinary workshops pushing the boundaries of state-of-the-art robotic fabrication.

The ROB|ARCH workshops provide hands-on experience with the most current robotic technologies, offer a unique platform for dissemination of new knowledge, and provide an opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders to share and exchange expertise, explore methods, compare techniques, and create new connections.

ROB|ARCH 2018 now welcomes proposals for workshops. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for two-day or three-day workshops to be held on September 10-12, 2018 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Workshop proposals with strong cross-disciplinary trajectories that actively integrate experts from multiple fields are highly encouraged.

Deadline for submissions: September 8, 2017.

More info and submission guidelines...

Webinar: Digital Patterning with ExactFlat and Rhino

Webinar: Digital Patterning with ExactFlat and Rhino

Date: Thursday, July 27, 2017

Time: 9 AM-11 AM PDT

Register here.

Join Mark Jewel and Luke Niwranski of ExactFlat for an overview of digital patterning and the ExactFlat plugin for Rhino for Windows. They will show how ExactFlat works to flatten products like a backpack, fire bowl, and other examples.

This webinar is for anyone designing in 3D and needing to “flatten” the model into an accurate 2D cut design. This is especially important in the automotive, furniture, accessories, and marine industries.

Details...

The Punishment - an installation by artist Filipe Vilas-Boas and architect Paul Coudamy



The Punishment, an installation in which a robot executes a preventive punishment for its possible future disobedience, was shown at Futur en Seine digital festival in Paris last month.

The piece is the work of artist Filipe Vilas-Boas and architect Paul Coudamy.

Paul has kindly let us know that in this project "Grasshopper was used to align the robot to the table and to the block of paper as well as to create the font and program the writing phase. It offered an invaluable help to avoid all collisions."

More information...

On-Demand Rhino Training

On-Demand Rhino 102 and Rhino Visual Tips Training by McNeel Miami

Begin your Rhino training anytime-anywhere with Vimeo On-Demand access to previously recorded, live classes! 


Now you can stream Rhino Visual Tips 5, 18 chapters with instructions on how to set up the Rhino software interface, how to use the drawing, editing, modeling, and transforming tools including the new Gumball tools and more!

Our On-Demand classes consist of the class recordings from our McNeel Miami Online classes. No need to travel or wait for a certain date... you may begin today!

Classes include:

• Rhino Visual Tips

• Rhino 102 in Spanish

Questions? Contact Lucia Miguel. 

Note: After purchase, classes may be rented and streamed for a six-month period. 

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 Tool Designer plugin for Rhinoceros by Division Engineering

Division Engineering has released Minute! Flute Designer, a new tool designer plugin for Rhinoceros.

Features:

• Free Curved Work Profile, Free Curved Core Profile, and Variable Helix Angle are acceptable at flute design. 
• Dressed Wheel Shape Calculator.
• Dedicated Flute Profile Editor.
• Good NURBS Envelope Surface can be exported.

Details are here.

Facades+ AM Austin, July 18

Facades+ AM

July 18, 2017

Austin, TX

This month, for the first time Facades+AM is coming to Austin.
Sign up today!

The day's program includes three sessions covering issues unique to the region, including innovative building skins, high performance facades, and the future face of Austin. These well rounded, expert dialogues will inform and inspire.

The Facades+ conference series is a robust dialogue encompassing all things building skin—bridging the profession, industry, academia, operations, and ownership. The best of the Facades+ is distilled into a 2-day event into a quick-take morning forum with a strong local flair. 

Agenda:

• Digital Design and Fabrication Frontiers
• Made in Texas: Collaboration between Architect and Engineer
• Austin’s Changing Skyline

Who should attend: AIA members, architects, architecture students and faculty, building envelope specialists, construction professionals, developers,

engineers, manufacturers, materials specialists

Register here. 

NVIDIA Quadro Card Tests with Rhino 6 WIP

SimplyRhino has been testing the real world performance advantage of the new Rhino v6 WIP display pipeline with four up-to-date NVIDIA cards, using a large and highly detailed model of an industrial truck.

If you are interested in reading the report, sign up here to download the full report PDF.

3D carvings for woodworkers' workbenchs

Bainbridge Island Artisan Resource Network is a Seattle community facility for artisans to share resources, education, and workspace. To help out this group, Tim Celeski designed a new workbench for the hand tool woodworkers.

The space required nine benches built on a budget. Tim added the challenge to make each workbench unique. So, in Rhino, he designed a unique 3D carved leg vise for each bench. He then used a CNC to carve each vise chop. The CNC sped up the carving and the precision work.

Watch this video introduction to see how they were made:

3D Carving a Woodworking Workbench Vise Chop with a CNC...