BSS - Building System Specialist Online Program (Rhino.Inside.Revit)

Rhino.Inside.Revit

PAZ Academy (Parametric Academy Zurich)

BSS is a unique, personalized 4-month Certificate Program that lifts you over your Revit BIM limitations to become a professional computational designer in your field! 

BSS focuses on the powerful plugin Rhino.Inside.Revit with numerous interoperability connections.

You'll learn the theory, gain technological understanding, build your scripts, improve your algorithmic logic, create parametric BIM Models in Revit, and acquire a broad perspective look. Design with data, systems, code, AI, and animation while keeping your freedom and flexibility to design better buildings!

Be part of our PAZ NET in a challenging and exciting BSS PAZ Platform.

The autumn edition starts on October 1st!

Details and registration...

BSS - Building System Specialist Online Program (Archicad + Grasshopper)

Archicad + Grasshopper

PAZ Academy (Parametric Academy Zurich)

BSS is a unique and personalized 4-month Certificate Program that lifts you over your Archicad BIM limitations to become a professional computational designer.

BSS focuses on the powerful connection between Archicad + Grasshopper and the new GDL Visual Baby: Param-O. 

You'll learn the theory, gain technological understanding, build your scripts, improve your algorithmic logic, create parametric BIM Models in Archicad, and acquire a broad perspective look. Design with data, systems, code, use AI, and animation while keeping your freedom and the flexibility to design better buildings!

Be part of the PAZ NET in the challenging and exciting BSS PAZ Platform.

The Autumn Edition starts on October 1st!

Details and registration...

What VR headset is best for you?

In case you have missed it, our friends from Gravity Sketch posted an article recently on the Rhino forum about their recommended VR hardware.

Read the post...

Also, check the
F1 Surface Model Design Challenge, where a 3D sketch was done in Gravity Sketch VR, and the goal is to take the sketch and create the surfaces in Rhino with NURBS or SubD.

Preparing the Geometry for CFD Process using Rhino

Cloud Towing Tank has been kind enough to share an article about "Preparing the Geometry for CFD Process using Rhino":

"In order to conduct a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation of a ship, high quality surface geometry is needed in order to generate the computational grid. The geometry needs to be watertight, without manifolds, and it needs to accurately represent the real vessel. For us, Rhino has always been and continues to be the main tool for adjusting the input geometry we receive from our clients. This is mainly due to the quality of the STL files that it produces, which is the input format for our simulations. In this example, we used Rhino to prepare ship geometry for a CFD study on the influence of rudders on overall propulsion power."

Read the complete article here...

How does parametric design work?

Are you struggling to understand the concept of parametric design? Kaushik LS wrote this post last February with a 4-minute explanation.

He stresses that parametric design is about designing the process, not the finished product. 

Kaushik LS is an architect, computational designer, and visual FX artist.

See his explanation on how this new design method works...

ShapeDiver and Swarm Merge!

While ShapeDiver started its business around eCommerce applications, Swarm was built with a focus on AEC workflows. Together, ShapeDiver and Swarm will offer a large and powerful cloud-native, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for building applications based on parametric models.

In the short term, the investment will give ShapeDiver more resources to increase the speed of their release cycle for new features in the plugins, viewer, and platform.

On a slightly larger scale, they’ll be merging the Swarm platform and apps into ShapeDiver within the first half of 2021, adding all of its unique features and capabilities to ShapeDiver and combining the strengths of both products and teams into an even more powerful, stable and useful product.

More information...