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...

Learn Rhino 6 - Free Online Course

* In English or Spanish * En Inglés o Español *

New to Rhino? Get to know Rhinoceros 6 and learn step by step the necessary tools to get started in the world of 3D modeling:

• This course is progressive and practical.
• You can start by recognizing the possibilities of the program and its interface.
• You will then go on to the basic handling of two-dimensional drawing of both regular geometric figures and the exploration of more complex and organic curves.
• Additionally, you can build surfaces and solids that will allow you to design and build the projects you have in mind.
• Finally, you will learn how to represent your projects with the basic tools of rendering, 2D drawing, and printing pages.

Go ahead and take advantage of this free course. Also, upon completion, you can obtain a certificate of attendance. 

Don't wait. Sign up now!!!

For English click here   -  Para Español, haga clic aquí 

AEC Tech 2020 Virtual Conference: October 16-19

AEC Tech 2020 is all virtual this year. 

All-day Masterclasses will offer an opportunity for attendees to learn a new skill or develop an existing skill. 

AEC Tech’s Hackathon is an event for all levels of programmers, developers, engineers, and others. Collaborate, network, build new relationships, and generate new ideas and processes for the AEC community. 

The Symposium will feature a full day of presentations and discussions from highly-acclaimed professionals within the industry.  

See the agenda here.   Register here. 

Sign up for a Masterclass with McNeel speakers:

• Rhino App Server - An API for remote solving GH definitions on Rhino.Compute
  Presented by Luis Fraguada, Developer, McNeel EU and Will Pearson, Developer, Robert McNeel & Associates 
• Rhino.Inside.Revit
  Presented by Ehsan Iran-Nejad, Developer, Robert McNeel & Associates and Scott Davidson Product Manager, Robert McNeel & Associates 

AR/VR for Rhino & Grasshopper User Group Meeting - October 8 at 7:30 PM CEST

Image courtesy of Heatherwick Studio

Join Simply Rhino UK, Heatherwick Studio and Epic Games for the next AR/VR for Rhino & Grasshopper UGM (October 8 at 7:30 PM CEST).

Heatherwick Studio has been working with game engines as part of their design workflow for years now and has developed custom design workflow and techniques that enable these processes. Silvia Rueda will provide insight into Heatherwick Studio’s use of Immersive Media, focusing on the role of landscape design and the use of Unreal within its design process and workflow.

David Weir-McCall will look at the many ways that people are utilizing the power of the Unreal Engine in the AEC to go beyond visualizations to help bridge the gap between ideas and reality. Looking at use-cases in the industry, explore the different integrated workflows with Rhino and Grasshopper and how they are being used to communicate ideas, design and build in real time, and link up to sensors to create fully functioning digital twins.

After the presentations, there will be a Q&A with the presenters.

Our presenters are:

• Silvia Rueda | Heatherwick Studio – Designer / Immersive media specialist
• Pablo Zamorano | Heatherwick Studio – Head of Geometry and Computational Design
• David Weir-McCall | Epic Games – Epic Games Enterprise team

Complete 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...

Grasshopper and Trotec Laser - Live webinar

 

This week, Trotec Laser Canada will be hosting a webinar with Andres Gonzalez from McNeel Miami - RhinoFabStudio, on Rhino and Grasshopper for the laser cutter!

The webinar is set for Thursday, October 1, at 12 pm (noon) EST (Miami time). 

To register...

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.

Darco's online Rhino training for October

Learn Rhino with Darco's online courses

Rhino Basics

By the end of this course, participants will have acquired the necessary knowledge to model, edit, and manipulate basic 3D elements and assemblies with Rhinoceros. (The course is taught in Spanish).

Date: October 5-9, 2020 

Time: 2 pm-6 pm (Mexico City time)

Price: USD$250.00 + Taxes

Register here!

Rhino Advanced

With this course, students will learn the use of advanced modeling methods, which allow the creation of complex and multi-component surfaces, and provides tools to diagnose and correct surfaces. Methods to personalize the use of the software and collaborative work will be presented. (The course is taught in Spanish).

Date: October 12-16, 2020

Time: 2 pm-6 pm (Mexico City time)

Price: USD$250 + Taxes

Register here!

Both courses are for professionals of architecture, design and fabrication, manufacturing, and 3D design. Students who complete the course will receive a course completion diploma.

Questions? Contact Alejandro del Razo.

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.

food4Rhino webinar series: General Lattice Studio (Oct 1-5 PM CEST)

 

General Lattice is hosting a webinar to demonstrate lattice workflow, applications, and the best modeling practices for their new plugin GL Studio.

Speaker: Co-founder and CINO of General Lattice, Marek Moffett has several years of additive manufacturing experience, specializing in the optimization of structures for manufacturability. Marek led the team that developed GL Studio and NVM methodology.

Watch it live on youtube...

Add the webinar to your calendar...

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...

Webinar/Demo: Augmented Reality in Design, September 24

Augmented Reality in Design

Thursday, September 24

12:00 PM (noon) Eastern

Join Fresco Design this Thursday for a one-hour talk on Augmented Reality (AR). It is an important tool in their design process, especially for remote collaboration and evaluation of product scale and motion. Join them for an interactive demo with Q&A as they share their journey using AR from concept design to its evolution into Immersive Commerce applications.

Registration on eventbrite is required. Register here.

V4Design - Horizon 2020 Research Showcase Event

October 1, 2020 

11:00 AM–12:30 PM CEST 

Hosted on Zoom by McNeel Europe

 

McNeel Europe is pleased to host the first public showcase event of the ongoing EU Horizon 2020 research project V4Design. McNeel is part of the research consortium that consists of various universities, research institutions, and companies from all over Europe, companies such as Herzog & de Meuron Digital Technologies, and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Architecture (AUTH). The event will demonstrate the latest prototype of a new user-driven 3D reconstruction plugin for Rhino from still image and video footage and find additional high-profile key testers in the field of the AEC, design, and game development industries. Participants will get unique insights into the past two years of the EU research project’s development and its current status. The enrolled key testers will have access to the plugin’s closed beta phase to test their use cases, and they will be mentioned in the project’s final publication.

For more information about the project, please visit: https://v4design.eu/

Event requirements: Experience in Rhino
Online event fees: Free
Max. number of participants: 100
Event language: English

Register here...

Three-week interdisciplinary Karamba3D online course by Karamba3D, November 2-20

Three-week interdisciplinary Karamba3D online course

 November 2-20, 2020

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 

11:00-14:00 CEST

 by Karamba3D hosted on the Microsoft Teams platform

The Karamba3D team invites architects, engineers, and designers to participate in a three-week interdisciplinary course focusing on parametric structures and design. Participants will be asked to develop a designed structural object within the parametric environment of Grasshopper. Led by Clemens Preisinger, Zeynep Aksöz, and Mathew Tam, the course will guide you through a series of tutorials in Karamba3D, design critiques, and review sessions.

 

What will you achieve by the end of the workshop?

• Learn the basics of using Karamba3D
• Design, develop and optimize a structure
• Set up a parametric structural system using beam elements
• Create basic animations from Rhino/Grasshopper
• Create an interactive cloud model

Course outline

The course begins on November 2nd and will last for three weeks. The final session and presentation will be on November 20th.

There are three sessions a week – Monday, Wednesday, and Friday – from 11:00-14:00 CEST.

Week 1

• Introductory lecture
• Basic setup with a cantilever beam
• Cross-section optimization with a simply supported beam
• Parametric truss with joints
• Grid-shells with eccentricities
• Develop a concept design
• Set up a parametric model
• Initial analysis in Karamba3D

Week 2

• Loads, load cases, and load combinations
• Interpreting results
• Eigenmodes and natural vibrations
• Second order theory analysis
• Stability and global buckling analysis
• Creating simple animations in Grasshopper/Rhino
• Further development of design ideas and 3D model
• Detailed analysis in Karamba3D

Week 3

• Optimization with Galapagos
• Multiobjective optimization
• Uploading a model to the cloud
• Optimization with the final structure
• Presentation
• Online exhibition

Course language and requirements

The course will be in English. No prior knowledge of Karamba3D is required for this course. General knowledge of Rhino and Grasshopper is highly recommended.

Course fee

Professionals (includes academic staff): 500 EUR +VAT (early bird) | 600 EUR +VAT

Students (max. 10 places): 250 EUR +VAT (early bird) | 300 EUR +VAT

Early bird rates until October 1, 2020. Maximum seats: 20. If there is no quorum, the course will be canceled on September 25th.

Software

Karamba3D 1-year licenses for non-commercial use will be provided to the participants free of charge.

Participants should have a working license of Rhino. You can download a three-month trial from the Rhino website.

Registration... 

 

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...

Level 3 C# Scripting and Plugin Development for Rhino/Grasshopper online course, October 26-28 (McNeel Europe)

Level 3 C# Scripting and Plugin Development for Rhino/Grasshopper 

October 26–28, 2020

10 AM–5 PM CET

Hosted on Zoom by McNeel Europe 

McNeel Europe offers the first Level 3 course in C# Grasshopper scripting and Plugin Development for those who already have an intermediate understanding of C# programming, object-oriented programming and the basic geometries of RhinoCommon. This course will go more in-depth with the RhinoCommon library, beyond just geometry objects. You will also learn some fairly advanced concepts in the C# language, allowing you to tackle computationally intensive problems (e.g., simulations, complex geometry processing with a lot of data). The course provides a balanced mix between learning programming skills and algorithmic problem-solving for geometric design. 

The following topics will be covered within three days:

• Custom graphics display (custom colors, materials, styles, etc.)
• More in-depth topics about Rhino geometries (Curves, Surfaces, Meshes)
• Understanding and efficiently using Grasshopper data types
• Programmatically interacting with Rhino modeling environment from Grasshopper (e.g., Rhino objects, lights, layers) such as “baking” geometry
• Introduction to C# Delegates, treating functions/methods as objects
• Computational complexity: understanding code performance and scalability
• Spatial Data Structure: using RhinoCommon R-Trees to accelerate 3D searches, proximity checking, collision detection
• Parallel computation with the .NET Task Parallel Library
• Best practices organizing codes to maximize reusability and maintainability
• Using an external program libraries
• Discussion topics requested by participants (1-on-1 basis)

Course requirements: 

Intermediate understanding of the C# programming language, experience with Grasshopper plugin development. 

Online course fees:

EUR 395,- (+VAT); full-time students and university teachers get a 50% discount (proof of status required). After payment has cleared, your seat is confirmed.

Max. number of participants for each course: 25. If there is no quorum, the course will be canceled October 11.

Course language: English

Educational seats are limited. Sign up now by contacting McNeel Europe!

FunderMax Free Training

 

FunderMax is carrying out an initiative to offer free training to Ibero-American Architects during this special period that we are experiencing globally. They will invite a specialist who will give us an introductory dissertation on the subject in each meeting. Next, a Q&A time will be opened.

On September 17th the guest is the architect and professor Arturo De La Fuente, who will share with us the latest advances in architecture and algorithm-based designs. 

Date: September 17, 2020 

Time: 11:00 am (EST) 

Register here!

Questions? Contact Arturo de la Fuente.

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.

The food4Rhino webinar series: Pangolin (Steel Structural Modeling) - Thursday 17th September at 3 PM CEST

Introducing Pangolin for detailed steel structural modeling and analysis with Consteel. 

Bálint Harmat (Software Engineer) and Dr. József Szalai (CEO) will introduce Pangolin, which brings Consteel’s unique steel analysis and design capabilities to the Grasshopper ecosystem. 

With Pangolin you can model your whole structural steel model with such fine details such as eccentric link elements, dynamically created cold-formed sections with stiffeners, haunched I or H beams, load transfer surfaces, linearly changing surface loads, and more. In Consteel you can analyze the created models accurately considering such details, as the lateral restraint effect of purlins placed on top of beams with link elements, or the effects of stiffeners on cold-formed sections according to Eurocode standards. 

Date: Thursday 17th September at 3 PM CEST

Add the webinar to your calendar!

Join it on YouTube live!

CAD Games Workshop - PAZ Academy

We are very proud of these 11-year-old girls incorporating technology, design principles, and arts and crafts during a birthday party. They used Rhino and Grasshopper for designing a T-Shirt, developing their own ideas, and making it real!

PAZ - Parametric Academy Zurich spent four hours with these curious and talented kids teaching them the importance of geometry and having a great time.

First, they interacted as gamers with Rhino and Grasshopper. Then, they designed their patterns, discovering limitless possibilities and finding the best solution. Finally, they had a great time playing with colors and materials. They cut, removed, ironed, and enjoyed themselves.

Thanks to the Birthday Party-Team! 

More information about the process and workshops...

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...

The food4Rhino webinar series: PedSim (Pedestrian Simulation in Grasshopper) - Thursday, September 10 at 2:30 PM CEST

PedSim is the pedestrian simulation plugin for Grasshopper.

In PedSim, People move from Start Gate to Destination Gate, following the best route, avoiding obstacles and other People. If they see a Target of their Interest, they will go to that Target, stay awhile and reroute to the Destination Gate.

Peng Wang (Designer and Software Developer) will demonstrate the functions and basic modeling process of PedSim, and new features in PedSim Pro, with examples and case studies.

PedSim has been available to download since 2017. It has accumulated 7000 downloads. The users are designers, researchers, and educators all over the world. 

PedSim is an elegant solution to pedestrian simulation software. Thanks to the power of Grasshopper and Rhino, PedSim doesn’t have an independent UI. The program is minimal and very flexible. To a new user, it also has a learning curve. This webinar will talk about PedSim’s functionality, touch on its inner workings, and answer some questions. It will help users use PedSim to its full extent. PedSim has evolved into a more powerful product–PedSim Pro. This webinar will briefly talk about some key improvements using examples.

Date: Thursday, September 10 at 2:30 PM CEST

Add the webinar to your calendar!

Join it on YouTube live!

Parametric Design Webinar (Rhino + Grasshopper), October 5-15

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?

This Parametric Design Webinar will provide you with the necessary knowledge and ability to use Grasshopper, a free visual programming plugin in Rhinoceros.

If you already know Grasshopper and would like to increase your parametric knowledge, you can choose option 2.

Option 1: General Webinar for Beginners – 8 Days / 16 hours total: Starts October 10, 2020

Option 2: Intensive Webinar for Intermediates – 4 Days / 8 hours total: Starts October 12, 2020

Time Zone: CET / Berlin, Germany time

Webinar Link: The webinar invitation link will be sent to all participants after registration via private email.

Details and registration...

FABRICATE 2020 (Sep 9-12, 2020) – Live Stream via Video On Demand

FABRICATE 2020 is a four-day peer-reviewed online conference with supporting events and publication running 9-12 Sept 2020

About this event

Founded in 2011 at The Bartlett, UCL FABRICATE is an international triennial event in its fourth iteration. Originally planned to be held in-person at UCL Here East in April 2020, the event, structured into four themes, is now running over four consecutive days as pre-recorded webinars and live Q&A. Each conference session will be broadcast twice daily to cater to both East and West audiences. Including twenty presentations in total, one theme per day, the FABRICATE 2020 daily themes are:

• Bio-Materiality
• Synthesising design and production
• Optimisation for a Changing World
• Polemical Performative Practice

FABRICATE 2020 will be hosted by the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University on Zoom with interactive access for all existing tickets holders, presenters, partners, and hosts. The event will also be live-streamed via Cornell’s Video On Demand platform for non-ticket holders who register through Eventbrite. You receive a password-protected link to join 24 hours before the start of the event.

For full details on the East and West schedules, please visit: http://www.fabricate.org/

Free download of 2020 and 2011-2017 conference publications here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/series-fabricate

Free registration here...

Darco's online Rhino training for September

Learn Rhino with Darco's online courses

Rhino Basics

By the end of this course, participants will have acquired the necessary knowledge to model, edit, and manipulate basic 3D elements and assemblies with Rhinoceros. (The course is taught in Spanish).

Date: September 14-15 and September 17-18, 2020 

Time: 9 am-2 pm (Mexico City)

Price: USD$250.00 + Taxes

Register here!

Rhino Advanced

With this course, students will learn the use of advanced modeling methods, which allow the creation of complex and multi-component surfaces, and provides tools to diagnose and correct surfaces. Methods to personalize the use of the software and collaborative work will be presented. (The course is taught in Spanish).

Date: September 21-25, 2020

Time: 9 am-1 pm (Mexico City)

Price: USD$250 + Taxes

Register here!

Both courses are for professionals of architecture, design and fabrication, manufacturing, and 3D design. Students who complete the course will receive a course completion diploma.

Questions? Contact Alejandro del Razo.

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.