Read Yanko Design's interview with Jonas Daehnert, phone and industrial designer.
Yanko Design is an online magazine dedicated to covering the best in international product design.
Friday, August 31, 2018
A conversation with concept phone designer Jonas Daehnert
Read Yanko Design's interview with Jonas Daehnert, phone and industrial designer.
Yanko Design is an online magazine dedicated to covering the best in international product design.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
New Rhino course in Portland, OR
Join us in welcoming one of our new Authorized Rhino Trainers, Gary Dawson of Gary Dawson Designs. He will be conducting a Level 1 Rhino course next month at Portland Jewelry Academy.
Dates: September 19-21
Location: Portland, OR
Price: US$750
The course consists of seven two-hour sessions. The first will be at Portland Jewelry
Academy, the following six will be held as webinars. The class is intended for beginning to intermediate Rhino
users, with a focus on modeling for jewelry. More...
If you have questions or would like to register, contact Jason Chandler or call (503)-444-5623.
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
ACADIA2018 workshops have been announced!
October
15-17, 2018
UNAM University Museum of Arts & Sciences
Mexico City
The ACADIA2018 Workshops have been announced and are now
online.
Choose from:
- Flexible Formwork for Concrete Curves (Rhino, Grasshopper)
- Recalibrating Architectural Design Optimization (Rhino, Grasshopper, DIVA, Ladybug, Karamba, Galapagos, etc)
- Holographic-Analog-Controlled (HACd) Machines: Working with hand-operated tools within mixed reality environments (Rhino, Grasshopper, Fologram)
Fractals Grasshopper plugin now available on food4Rhino
Now available on food4Rhino! Fractals is a free plugin for Grasshopper that helps you create three different types of mathematically generated fractals: L-System, Sunflower, and DLA.
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Grasshopper and ShapeDiver help create 3D printed prosthetics for kids!
The Project
As you'll see in the video, SuperGiz is a different type of prosthetic device. It wasn't meant to mimic an exact human hand but rather to be extremely useful in very specific situations, like playing basketball or eating. You'll also learn about one of the first kids, Hector, who is already using a SuperGiz prosthetic.
Hector and Israel
For years Hector's father Israel tried searching for viable alternatives that could help his son overcome a genetic challenge. Then he met the team of Autofabricantes and MediaLab Prado. After several iterations, they came up with the SuperGiz concept which they hope can help revolutionize the affordable prosthetic world for many families out there.
Last call for entries - Reshape
Reshape 18| Sensing Materialities Competition
Entries due August 31st
Through their online platform Reshape promotes research, design, and production of digital ideas, exploring implications and applications of technology and innovation. Reshape 18 | Sensing materialities is focused on customized garments or products, promoting healthy living for individuals in everyday life.
Annually Reshape launches a competition organized by Noumena in collaboration with IN(3D)USTRY From Needs to Solutions and Fira Barcelona to foster the use and adoption of additive and advanced manufacturing on wearable and product design. This year's forum is October 16-18.
Designers, makers, and artists are invited to submit their ideas and design proposals for the Reshape challenge.
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Droid now on food4Rhino
Droid allows control over conventional slicing features, such as infill, shell thickness and caps, within the Rhino and Grasshopper environment. Also, output and editing of paths are available once models are sliced into the Rhino and Grasshopper workspace, allowing full control and analysis.
Custom or edited paths can then be input back into Droid for Gcode preparation and generation.
With Droid, you can prepare and print models in a Plug and Play style with Droid components. Or opt for a more controlled and experimental manner with custom input and output print paths.
Droid can use various printing devices, from small desktop 3D printers to large robotic fabricators.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Reviving Tacoma's wooden dome
The renovation of the Tacoma Dome, in Tacoma, Washington, United States, is now underway. When measured by volume, the Tacoma Dome is the largest wooden dome arena in the world.
More than 25 million people have enjoyed world-class entertainment and events at the Tacoma Dome for the last 35 years. This summer, the dome will be enhanced with more than $30 million in capital improvements.
The dome structure and new upgraded seating layout were modeled in Rhino for 3D-review and visualization. The model walk-through is a short clip by DIG showing the model build-up.
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| Model walk-through in a time-lapse rendering |
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
SudoHopper3D Teacher's Guide
To help you learn Grasshopper, McNeel Miami has created SudoHopper3D, a card game to improve the overall understanding of parametric thinking. SudoHopper3D playfully takes you on a journey through mathematics, algorithms, and basic coding.
Level 1 provides the players with 32 assignments to write definitions. To help educators facilitate learning for their students, we have provided a Teacher's Guide that works as a "cheat sheet" and has the definitions for all assignments.
Download the Teacher's Guide to get access to all Level 1 definitions here!
The card game consists of 126 cards for Level 1. Players have the option to download the free PDF file that comes with all the cards needed for playing SudoHopper3D. Or they can order the physical cards online from here.
Level 1 provides the players with 32 assignments to write definitions. To help educators facilitate learning for their students, we have provided a Teacher's Guide that works as a "cheat sheet" and has the definitions for all assignments.
The card game consists of 126 cards for Level 1. Players have the option to download the free PDF file that comes with all the cards needed for playing SudoHopper3D. Or they can order the physical cards online from here.
We also recommend that players rent the Level 1 videos from our Vimeo On Demand page. These videos will show you different ways to write the definition to solve each assignment. The videos are available in either English or Spanish.
Check out this video of students playing SudoHopper3D!
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.
Monday, August 20, 2018
Optimizing multiple design variables with Karamba
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| Analysis of principal stresses and deformations of a cantilevered beam |
Architects Patricio Llordella and Juan Fostel and engineer Jorge Farez recently collaborated on the design of a single-family home in Hudson, Argentina.
They used parametric modeling to study the combination of the structural and architectural parameters. Karamba was paired with Zirkel, an in-house developed multiple objective optimization tool, to develop the design to meet the architectural and structural design needs.
Friday, August 17, 2018
3D printing and concrete
He is printing the concrete framework using complex geometries and creating lightweight, prefabricated concrete slabs.
Thursday, August 16, 2018
New HVAC plugin: Ironbug beta
Ladybug Tools has introduced a new HVAC plugin, Ironbug. These HVAC components in Ironbug broaden the current Honeybee energy modeling’s ability. Ironbug now brings the OpenStudio’s full HVAC modeling capability to Grasshopper.
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture by Snøhetta
King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
King Abdulaziz for World Culture contains diverse cultural facilities, including an auditorium, cinema, library, exhibition hall, museum, and archive.
With every steel element having a unique length and shape, Rhino with Grasshopper and Python scripting proved valuable in the project.
Scan&Solve for Rhino 6 released
Scan&Solve
Pro for Rhino 6 has been released!Scan&Solve
Pro allows structural simulation of bonded assemblies consisting of any collection of solid geometry (polysurfaces, extrusions, meshes) within Rhino 6. It also supports advanced material models such as wood and bonded orthotropic composites. Now offering perpetual licenses in addition to affordable subscription licenses!Friday, August 10, 2018
"Instancia" wins at the XII Salón del Agua in Colombia
Congratulations to Ramón Galvis Centurión for his artwork Instancia which won first place within 158 participating works in the category Other Visual Manifestations at the XII Salón del Agua in Cúcuta, Colombia.
Instancia is an artwork which captures the significant moment in the flow of a dynamic body of water. It helps give form to the intangible and movement within a static object.
The piece was designed using Rhino, Grasshopper, and Bowerbird. It was manufactured with special laser cutting machines to ensure that the pieces that made up the waffle structure were cut precisely and accurately. It was designed to be displayed suspended from the ceiling or exhibited raised 1.2 meters above the floor.
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.
Marine Design Workshop: Orca3D + ExpressMarine at McNeel Europe (Barcelona)
Marine Design Workshop: Orca3D + ExpressMarine by Stéphane Dardel
October 22-24, 2018
10.00h-18.00h
McNeel Europe S.L.
Roger de Flor, 32-34 bajos
08018 Barcelona (Spain)
Join us for a 3-day Orca3D + ExpressMarine workshop, co-organized by McNeel Europe and Nick Danese Applied Research, at McNeel Europe’s Barcelona offices, October 22-24.
Orca3D is a naval architecture plugin for hull design, hydrostatics intact stability, performance prediction, and weight tracking.
ExpressMarine, now in its version 2, enables ship designers to build up parametric 3D models of marine structures rapidly. The main advantage of the plugin is a dramatic reduction of modeling time, but more fundamentally, it allows the development of the 3D structural model very early in the design process.
In this three-day workshop participants acquire an in-depth understanding of the scopes of Orca3D and ExpressMarine. They go through hands-on exercises, from initial hull design, foundations of fairing techniques, hull fairness assessment, hydrostatics, and stability checks, to creating a parametric structural model with ExpressMarine. Discover the synergy offered by these complementary plugins, for example through the automatic update of the structural model from an updated Orca3D hull form.
Day 1
- Orca3D properties
- Rhino refresher: modeling aids, Gumball, geometry edition
- Hull assistants
- Foundations of modeling and fairing techniques
- NURBS theory
- Point control
- Surface analysis
Day 2
- Hydrostatic calculations
- Stability with criteria verification
- Performance prediction
- Weight tracking
- Orca3D to ExpressMarine
- ExpressMarine modeling environment and GUI
- Modeling: Start from scratch
Day 3
- Shell node
- Stiffeners
- Cutouts and openings
- Custom objects
- Outputs
- Interface to ShipWeight
Course Requirements: Although open to all, the course is more directly intended for ship designers/ naval architects, professional and academic.
Reasonable proficiency with Rhino is expected from participants.
Any modern PC running Rhino 6 will be ok in the context of the training workshop.
Software Licenses: Orca3D and ExpressMarine licenses can be provided free for the duration of the training.
Course Fee: EUR 795 (+VAT). Full-time students and university teachers (proof of status required) will get a 50% discount. Please note that your seat is only confirmed once the payment is cleared.
Maximum Number of Participants: 10 participants. If there is no quorum, the course will be canceled 15 days before.
Language: English
Friday, August 3, 2018
Innochain international conference "Expanding information modelling for a new material age" - Copenhagen (Denmark) - November 8-9, 2018
Innochain announces the international conference Expanding information modelling for a new material age.
It will take place in Copenhagen on November 8-9, 2018, at the Danish Architecture Centre in the new BLOX building by OMA.
The conference is organized in collaboration with the Danish BLOXHUB organization and aims to create a forum for transdisciplinary and entrepreneur driven research.
The conference asks:
- What’s at stake when advanced computation and fabrication enter architecture?
- How can research advance practice?
- What are the models for embedded research?
The conference uses open formats to foster debate and exchange. Keynotes from leading industry innovators will shape and guide the discussion.
A central part of the conference is ten presentations of innovative projects, that showcase results from new types of collaborations between “research in practice” and “research in academia”. Innochain invites individuals and teams to submit proposals. Selected presentations and conference content will be invited to develop extended papers and content for the Innochain book “Expanding information modelling for a new material age” published by UCL press.
Conference Call (deadline August 19)
Information modelling challenges the way we think, design and build architecture. By creating a shared digital platform, a new hybrid practice emerges in which otherwise separate tools and methodologies of design, analysis, and fabrication can intersect. Current design practice is invested in the prototyping of these new methodologies. Across the building industry and in research there is a collective push for understanding how this new digital chain can be structured, what are productive exchanges and how a new sense of feedback can lead to smarter design solutions.
The future of the information model is at stake. Expanding simple BIM with more complex requirements to engage and capitalize on analysis, to steer multi objective design spaces and to interface and control fabrication necessitates new kinds of representations that can handle data-rich design inquiries, enable collaboration and manage the complex and cyclical nature of feedback.
Basic Data
2-day conference November 8-9, 2018, BLOX, Danish Architectural Centre.
1-day Bloxhub pre-conference workshop: November 7, 2018, BLOXHUB space.
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