Parametric Design—Beyond Conventional 3D Modeling

Please join the Inside/Outside speakers on August 8th and 9th, 2019. Each day includes a keynote talk from an emerging technology expert, industry and faculty presentations, and interactive workshops on scanning, print preparation, and applied case studies.

On Saturday, August 10th, we will host intensive Grasshopper/Parametric Design Training with Andrés Gonzalez, director RhinoFabStudio.

Grasshopper is the visual programming environment which is now included in Rhinoceros 6. Grasshopper scripts are represented by visual elements that progressively develop across the Grasshopper canvas. By creating visual Grasshopper scripts, designers explore and develop their models from concept to fabrication.

This workshop will concentrate on exploring parametric design methods and techniques with a strong focus on architectural geometry. It will start with fundamentals but will quickly address modeling geometry and data-driven design, data structures, and integrating digital fabrication tools.

Place: New York University Tandon School of Engineering

6 MetroTech Center
MakerSpace

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Date: Saturday, August 10th, 2019

Time: 9 AM to 5 PM (EDT)

For more information and to register...

Docofossor - Landscape modeling components for Grasshopper

Docofossor is a collection of landscape modeling components in 2.5D with distance functions.

Docofossor is used as a component library for Grasshopper. It is developed to model cut and fill operations by a robotic excavator in landscape architectural design. It allows a continues transformation of the topography by point, path, area, or surface on a digital terrain model (DTM).

Written in Python and free to use (MIT License).

Details and download on food4Rhino...

SectionTools New Release

A new version of the SectionTools plugin for Rhino 6 for Windows is now available, with the following updates:

• Fixed "stCreate" command when loading vertical sections from a file.
• Fixed "HatchPattern" option in "stCreate" command. It used to be omitted in some cases (when no hatch patterns were loaded in the document).
• Changed the "Dir" option names in "stCreate" command to use Horizontal, Vertical and Custom (instead of X-Axis, Y-Axis and Pick).
• Updated the manual and made the example model available to download.
• Other minor bug fixes.

Details and downloads...

Open position: Rhino developer at DesignConnected.com

DesignConnected.com is the developer of Connecter, the popular free digital asset manager. 

"We are looking for an experienced Rhino Plugin Developer for a long term collaboration. The goal is to build, support and further improve integration between Connecter and Rhino, similar to the ones we already offer for 3DS Max and Cinema 4D. That’s a feature that has been heavily requested by the community."

Job offer details at www.rhino3d.com/jobs

The Sparrow has landed - Discover this new productivity boosting plugin

Sparrow delivers a productivity boost by enhancing middle mouse button functionality and making 3D views manipulation more intuitive. It works as a standalone or inside other commands.

Main enhancement modes:

[ MMB Click]: Instantly focus the view on the specific area of any object under the cursor
[ MMB Hold]: Intuitive view manipulation based on point under the cursor (pivot)
[ Key Combos + MMB Click]: Customizable macro or Sparrow-specific function assignments for quick access with Ctrl, Alt, Shift and other key combinations

Download and details on food4Rhino...

Concrete Choreography by ETH Zurich / NCCR DFAB

A collaboration between Digital Building Technologies and the Origen Festival in Riom (Switzerland), the installation Concrete Choreography consists of nine, individually designed, 2.7m tall columns. Each column is concrete 3D printed at full height in 2.5 hours with the process developed at ETH Zurich, with the support of NCCR DFAB. 

Students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Digital Fabrication and Architecture explore the unique possibilities of layered extrusion printing, demonstrating the potential of computational design and digital fabrication for future concrete construction.

Project details...

Wind - Peter Donder's latest furniture project

A Swiss collector ordered a bench, and Belgian designer, Peter Donders, imagined Wind.

A 220cm long and 100cm wide, Wind is made entirely of birch wood. It is composed of 1265 sections over 85 layers which were combined into 220 numbered pieces before being assembled by hand.

From conception to completion in just 500 hours, this is the most ambitious of Peter's projects.

For more information about the project, contact peter@peterdonders.com.

Design NXT Week - Atlanta

Design NXT Week is the first conference in the southeast to focus on emerging technology in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries. It will be a groundbreaking, four-day, educational deep dive into the converging technologies shaping the process of designing, creating, and maintaining the built environment. Details and schedule are here.

When: Tuesday, Aug 20, 2019, 5:00 PM 

to Saturday, Aug 24, 2019, 5:30 PM EDT

Where: The MET Atlanta, Atlanta, GA 30310

Symposium 

Tuesday, Aug 20, 2019, 5:00 PM - Thursday, Aug 22, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT

Masterclasses

Friday, Aug 23, 2019, 8:00 AM - Saturday, Aug 24, 2019, 2:30 PM EDT

Building.NET Integrations:

Instructor David Manns, CORE|Thornton Tomasetti

Rhino.Compute + rhino3dm: 

Instructors Dale Fugier and Travis Serio, Robert McNeel & Associates

and More!

Ladybug Tools 101 - Environmental Analysis

Ladybug Tools 101 - Environmental Analysis

In this new video course from ThinkParametric, you'll learn the basics of Ladybug Tools, a suite of varied plugins and tools designed for architects and engineers to make environmentally conscious design decisions. The skills taught in this course will allow you to gain awareness of climate conditions of your project early on in the design process to identify areas of opportunity and vulnerabilities to create more performative designs right from the start.  Enroll and watch today!

Exploring Forms with Grasshopper workshop, August 28-29

Exploring Forms with Grasshopper workshop

Robert McNeel & Associates, Seattle, WA

August 28-29, 2019

$495

Is it time for you to learn Grasshopper for Rhinoceros? Join us for this fast-paced two-day workshop. Andres Gonzalez Posada from McNeel Miami will be coming to our Seattle office to teach this class. You don't want to miss it!

Seats are limited. Sign up today!

Grasshopper is the visual programming environment which is now included in Rhinoceros 6. Grasshopper scripts are represented by visual elements that progressively develop across the Grasshopper canvas. By creating visual Grasshopper scripts, designers explore and build their models from concept to fabrication.

This workshop will introduce you to Grasshopper and take you to an intermediate level. It will provide you with a functional understanding of Grasshopper and parametric design. The workshop will cover:

• Understanding the interface
• Modeling geometry
• Data structures
• The logic of using trees 

A detailed class outline is available here.


Notes:
Basic working knowledge of Rhino 5 or 6 is required.
Our Seattle classroom is outfitted with computers for each attendee to use during the training; laptops are not necessary.

Details...

Inside/Outside symposium, Grasshopper workshop at NYU Tandon MakerSpace

Grasshopper Workshop 

Inside/Outside Symposium 

NYU Tandon Makerspace 

August 8-9, 2019

Inside/Outside is a two-day technical symposium that brings together two lenses for leveraging professional desktop 3D printing for professionals.

Inside focuses on medical uses and how to communicate and prototype around the very small. 

Outside focuses on built environments, working with scales greater than 1:1 and uses that to extend architectural models to communicate and develop ideas with the aid of desktop printers.

Each day includes a keynote talk from an emerging technology expert, industry and faculty presentations, and interactive workshops on scanning, print preparation, and applied case studies.

Location:
NYU Tandon MakerSpace
6 MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY, 11201

For more information and to register...

Robotic Manufacturing for Architecture in Peru

Revolutionize your designs by using robotic tools and new technologies. Come to our iRobotic manufacturing for architecture workshop!

Date: August 8-17, 2019
Location: Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Peru

Price: The AA Visiting School requires a fee of £695 per participant, which includes a £60 visiting membership fee.

For information and to sign up visit this link!  
Limited spaces! The deadline for applications is August 1, 2019.

For professionals and students of architecture, engineering, and design. 
#aavslima #lima #peru #rhino #kuka 

For more information please email fdunkelberg@dessin-technisch.com.

What is 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.

Ameba lightweight structures algorithm released

Like its namesake, the single-cell ameba or amoeba, the software app Ameba can change its shape in different environments.

Per your design requirements, apply different loading and boundary conditions to the initial design domain. During the computational process, the design domain will evolve into various shapes, and eventually reach an organic form that is structurally efficient.

Ameba is based on the BESO method, which provides topology optimization for 2D and 3D geometrical models.

You can learn more about Ameba in the YouTube video.

Download a free trial from food4Rhino!

Grasshopper tutorial: Weave Pattern

In this 10-minute Grasshopper tutorial, Parametric House shows you how to use Mesh+ and Weaverbird to model a weaving pattern on a NURBS surface.

First, you model a Surface in Rhino using Sweep1 and then use Mesh+ to model the pattern. Finally, the tutorial shows how to use Weaverbird to smooth the results and make the weaving pattern.

This is just one of a series of courses by Parametric House that you can enroll in.

Weave Pattern tutorial by Parametric House...

ROB|ARCH 2020 at Beijing: Call for Workshops

September 2020

Beijing, China

The ROB|ARCH 2020 Conference on Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art, and Design will take place in Beijing, China, in September 2020, and you are invited to present a workshop.

ROB|ARCH 2020 is cohosted by Tsinghua University, in cooperation with the Beijing Design Week.

ROB|ARCH is looking for high-end, hands-on workshops that appeal to both experienced robot users as well as interested beginners from a variety of backgrounds. The workshop should lead the participants along the fabrication workflow, from design to production.

 

Workshops can involve any kind of robot, from robotic arms to drones, autonomous vehicles, and completely new machines.

The three-day workshops are selected by a committee of the local hosts and the Association for Robots in Architecture.

Submission deadline: September 15, 2019

More information and to propose a workshop...

MAGIX-LOCK, the magic closure system

MAGIX-LOCK PROTOTYPES from imagodesign on Vimeo.

The MAGIX-LOCK closure system is a patented innovation taking advantage of the power of magnets. Instead of the normal attraction of magnets, the magnets are reversed and repel each other forcing the object to lock in place. Once the female and the male parts of the closure system are joined and locked, they can be released by applying force on the male part to unlock the system.

The preliminary design concept served as the first step in the production process of the prototypes. The analog sketches were transferred to the digital space and constructed precisely in 3D by using Rhinoceros. The first generation of prototypes in different variations was 3D printed based on the Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) and manually assembled with efficient Neodymium magnets. Based on the result of the first generation prototypes, the 3D models were further optimized in material thickness and fabrication tolerances in Rhinoceros. 

The second generation of the improved prototypes was cast using the Lost-wax technique, which better reflected the precise feel of the final materials and appearance. 

The current third generation of the prototypes has been completely re-engineered, improved in functionality, and constructed to be produced entirely with CNC milling, which is focusing on mass production. Rhinoceros has been an integral part of the design and construction process which served as a direct output for the final fabrication process (sketch-construction-production).

This simplicity of the MAGIX-LOCK functional design opens up a whole new line of closure systems, ranging from watches, jewelry, bags, helmets, and many more.

MAGIX-LOCK official website...

Designing orthotic footwear with Insole Designer and RhinoCAM

Headquartered in Italy, Duna Srl is a global company that produces off-the-shelf footwear products as well as custom orthotic footwear for clients with mobility handicaps. 

Duna has developed the Rhino plugin Insole Designer. This CAD program expedites the process of insole design using knowledge bases, templates, and specialized Rhino utilities. The result is a complete and accurate 3D NURBS polysurface model of the insoles ready to be housed inside the final shoe.

For CAM software, Duna uses RhinoCAM from MecSoft Corporation.

Insole Designer uses integrated insole databases and templates coupled with an assortment of specialized tools and utilities to create the prescribed insoles.

Insole Designer develops the complete contoured insole top and bottom, unlike other insole programs. The top fits the patient foot scan. The bottom and outer profiles fit Duna’s orthopedic shoe production. The result is a complete and custom fit while using minimal added insole material. 

You can read and see details in RhinoCAM Does Custom Orthotics in Italy! 

ICERM workshop: Illustrating Dynamics and Probability

A stable matching in the plane
Image credit: Alexander E. Holroyd
Picture based on research by Christopher Hoffman, Alexander Holroyd, and Yuval Peres

Illustrating Dynamics and Probability

ICERM (The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics)

November 11-15

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island

This workshop will focus on the theoretical insights developed via illustration, visualization, and computational experimentation in dynamical systems and probability theory. 

Topics from complex dynamics: 

• Dynamical moduli spaces and their dynamically-defined subvarieties
• Degenerations of dynamical systems as one moves toward the boundary of moduli space
• The structure of algebraic data coming from a family of dynamical systems

Topics from classical dynamical systems: 

• Flows on hyperbolic spaces and Lorentz attractors
• Simple physical systems like billiards in two and three-dimensional domains
• Flows on moduli spaces

In probability theory, the workshop features random walks and continuous-time random processes like Brownian motion, SLE, and scaling limits of discrete systems.

See details, speaker lineup, and more events...

Shape changing Pufferfish V2.5 with 280 components

This plugin set of 280 components focuses on Tweens, Blends, Morphs, Averages, Transformations, and Interpolations—shape changing. Pufferfish mainly uses parameters and factors for inputs for more custom control over operations like tweens and grids, as opposed to Grasshopper's usual division count inputs.

Download the free Pufferifish from food4rhino...

 

Grasshopper tutorial: Voronoi Pattern

In this 15-minute Grasshopper Voronoi Pattern tutorial, you will learn to produce a Voronoi Pattern based on sunflower seed distribution.

The technique uses the Maelstrom component to twist a series of straight lines to produce the Voronoi cells. It's not the actual Fibonacci sequence but it's a quick trick you can use to produce a pattern similar to it.

This is just one of a series of courses by Parametric House that you can enroll in.

Voronoi Pattern tutorial by Parametric House...

Formlabs Roadshow 2019 (London)

Formlabs is traveling to industry hubs across the world to celebrate the capabilities of 3D printing in digital manufacturing. This time they're bringing together local innovators to discuss how leveraging 3D printing is creating new business opportunities.

The Formlabs Roadshow is hitting London on Wednesday, July 17th and Simply Rhino is pleased to announce that the will be hosting two events at the Goldsmith's Centre.

Morning Session | Jewellery Focus | 09:30-12:00
This session is suitable for jewellers using all 3D CAD software options, including 3Design, Matrix, Rhino, and ZBrush.

Afternoon Session | Engineering & Design Focus | 13:00-16:00
This session is suitable for engineering and design studios using SOLIDWORKS, Creo, Fusion 360, Onshape, NX, CATIA, Rhino, ZBrush, or other CAD tools.

More information and registration here...

Exploring the Grasshopper/Archicad connection

Watch a Graphisoft demo of the updated Rhino/Grasshopper/Archicad connection in this presentation from the recent Reimagine 2019 conference.

Using sunlight analysis, Grasshopper and Archicad are used to create a shading pattern. It's an excellent example of an automated, easy-to-use workflow for designing detailed repeating patterns and geometric shapes. 

Watch the presentation from Archicad's Reimagine 2019...

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Parametric Design Workshops in August (Berlin)

LAVA Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (Berlin)

Beginner course August 17-18, 24-25, 2019

Intermediate August 24-25, 2019

Are you interested in gaining parametric competency to push your design skills to the next level?

Are you ready to learn a very exciting and powerful tool that will take your ideas and concepts to a whole new realm?

These Parametric Design Workshops (Beginners and Advanced) by Wassef Dabboussi will provide you with the necessary knowledge and ability to use Grasshopper, a free visual programming plugin in Rhinoceros. The workshop will also include a hands-on parametric project.

• Option 1: General Workshop for Beginners - 16 hours: Starts August 17, 2019
• Option 2: Intensive Workshop for Intermediates - 8 hours: Starts August 24, 2019

More information and registration...

Grasshopper UK UGM London - July 23, 2019

Grasshopper UK UGM

Heatherwick Studio, London

July 23, 2019

Join SimplyRhino UK and McNeel at Heatherwick Studio for this special Grasshopper User Group meeting with updates from the team at McNeel, including details on Rhino.Inside, SubD, Rhino 7 WIP, and more. 

Heatherwick will kick off proceedings with a presentation before we move on to McNeel and then Q&A with you and the development team.

Complete details and free registration...

WAR Workshop | Summer Workshop in Murcia, Spain

Arquitecturas que Respiran: Visual Programming Applied to Projects 

July 22-25, 2019

Cámara de Comercio de Cartagena

Murcia, Spain

Grasshopper summer workshop in Spanish for architects and architecture students.
Sponsored by the UIMP Menéndez Pelayo International University.

Learn how to design algorithms, plan and explain processes, translate processes into programming languages, incorporate external data into your design, explore the limits of coding, and much more.

Complete details and registration...