Spatial System by Estrtucturas Arqué

The Spatial Systems app is a web application for the parametric design of spatial structures that allows you to generate different typologies and download them in the available formats (.ifc2x3, .dxf, .dwg, .3dm, .stl).

The app, now available in food4rhino as a user service, was created by Estructuras Arqué, a Spanish construction company. It came from the idea of applying the parametric architecture concept to the design and manufacturing of metal roofs and modular construction.

It brings together the best of cloud applications and IFC interoperability by providing easy access to structural design. With it, architects can quickly test various options and configure desired products according to the project requirements.

The parametric logic of this tool was built in Grasshopper and then uploaded to ShapeDiver for publishing online. The model was then embedded in the final web application with custom UI. The IFC export is powered by the Geometry Gym plugin for Grasshopper.

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Webinar: Jewelry Design and Fabrication with Wacom, Rhino, Panther and Formlabs (in Spanish) - November 11 at 5PM CET

Webinar: Diseño y Fabricación de Joyas con Rhino, Wacom, Panther y Formlabs

November 11 at 5PM CET

Icreatia invites you to a free webinar where you will learn how to design and build your jewelry with Wacom, Panther and Formlabs.

Details and registration (in Spanish)...

Darco's Rhino Online Training for November

 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 Rhino. The course is taught in Spanish.

Date: November 2-6, 2020 

Time: 2 pm-6 pm (Mexico City time)

Price: USD$250 + taxes

Register here!

Rhino Advanced

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

Date: November 9-13, 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.

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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 own 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!

The autumn edition starts on October 1st!

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

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Lands Design webinar

Lands Design Webinar

November 20, 2020

10:00-12:00 GMT

Join Asuni for an introduction to Lands Design modeling tools.

Take your landscape design projects from 2D to 3D using the Lands Design plugin. 

During this webinar session, uncover:

• BIM advantages of the program
• Terrain modeling and vegetation tools
• 2D Documentation tools 
• Hardscape tools
• Animation tools

Under the guidance of Asuni’s experts, learn how to develop a full landscape project - from drawing to 3D modeling and producing documentation with BIM technology.

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Wood pavilion project and architectural folly

Looking for a video with happy people, an excellent project (using Rhino, of course), an educational competition? This clip from 2019 makes you feel good.

The video starts by defining folly: An architectural object that is deliberately non-functional and instead examines its surroundings and enhances the natural landscape.

Students from the Auckland University school of architecture were winners in this Brick Bay Folly. Consequently, they got to fabricate their digital model, learning how to transfer a drawing into a build object physically.

Learn about this project and watch the video...

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 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!

The Autumn Edition starts on November 1st!

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

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Get Started | Enscape with Rhino

Realtime rendering is now at your fingertips! 

Get started with Enscape for Rhino and watch this short guide to help you integrate it into your workflow!

New plugin: GL Studio from General Lattice

Augmenting native Rhino functionality, General Lattice Studio expands user capabilities by democratizing the lattice design process providing powerful, intuitive latticing tools. Using 100% native CAD data (B-reps), GL Studio works inside Rhino and enables users to seamlessly integrate advanced lattice geometries into larger part files or assemblies with the ability to execute traditional downstream features.

The featured latticed car seat concept highlights the powerful workflow of pairing General Lattice Studio with Rhino’s SubD toolkit. Users can design, iterate, and render concepts without file conversion or any import/export processes through a completely integrated experience.

User manual, download and demo videos available here.

GL Studio (Beta) Objectives:

• Generate solid lattice bodies (BREP) that can be manipulated within Rhino
• Optimize workflow by enabling rapid iteration and exploration of multiple structures within the same design space
• Remove the pains of mesh errors and repairs by creating ready-to-print files from solid bodies
• Go directly from GL Studio to your slicer, by-passing the need for import/export to expensive mesh repair software

Details...

Did you miss the GL Studio webinar with food4Rhino? Watch it here!

Urban Dunes project

Urban Dunes is a project that envisions a solution to reduce the heat island effect for an extreme climate such as Abu Dhabi’s, where the harsh conditions felt across significant months of the year reduce the feasibility of normal external activities. 

The Italian design firm Barberio Colella Architetti, with architect Angelo Figliola, has designed a 3D printed structure using Rhino and Grasshopper.  The structure embeds architectural elements from Abu Dhabi's and Emirates’ traditional architecture, such as elegant vaulted spaces, vernacular shading devices (mashrabiyya), and cold-water basins and waterfalls. The vault is composed of several stereotomic blocks made of desert sand made solid by using the binder jetting technology. The vault permits to avoid the overheating of the urban space thanks to the shell's high thermal mass. 

The project has won the honorary mention at the Cool Abu Dhabi Challenge. 

Congratulations to the whole team!

Desktop vs. cloud computation time explained

What happens behind the scenes when you interact with a Grasshopper model on ShapeDiver? What’s the difference versus doing the same on your desktop? 

When working with parametric models, many users expect the same swift interaction from ShapeDiver as they experience in Rhino on their desktops. While this is completely understandable, there are many additional steps between the initial parameter change and the final delivery of the solution to your browser.

ShapeDiver's latest article explains in detail each of these steps and provides some insights on their strategies to improve the response times of your ShapeDiver models.

Read the complete article here...

11th Hour Racing Team designs innovative boat for The Ocean Race

 

Rhino user Guillaume Verdier is designing a new IMOCA 60. Guillaume is one of yacht racing’s most prolific designers with America’s Cup winners and Ultime record-breakers. And he was involved in the design of four of the last five Vendée Globe winners. How's that for credentials?

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PointOneStudio: Why Rhino?

  

Why Rhino if you are an architect, engineer, or IT developer?  

Junghwo Park is the principal at PointOneStudio in Korea, currently working as a BIM specialist at Umdsch Group Ventures in Austria. On his YouTube channel, he talks about why architects, engineers, and IT developers should use Rhino. 

He also runs the Parametric-Culture.com website with his partner in Korea, working and researching on:   

• Writing architectural design application books for parametric BIM
• Introducing information and know-how on computational design and BIM through his blog and YouTube channel 
• Using plugins of Rhino and Grasshopper to develop various BIM design approaches 
• OpenBIM technical research for application 
• BIM education and consulting in architectural design

Check out some of his video tutorials: 

• How to create custom Revit region with Rhino
• SOFiSTiK FEA Analysis with Rhino 6
• SOFiSTiK Mesh Optimization with Grasshopper
• SOFiSTiK Grasshopper with Rhino.Inside

More videos on the PointOneStudio YouTube channel...

Professional AEC model making course with Rhino

There's a new course available on Architectural Models: Digital File Prep with Rhino.

Get an expert's take on how professionals approach the model-building process. Instructor Olivia Morgan takes you through each step of the workflow, showing you how to use Rhino to design a digital file of a building for the physical fabrication of a scale model.

Olivia Morgan is the owner and founder of Model Space.

Olivia has had a passion for building models her whole life. At Model Space, she leverages this passion, as well as her industry expertise, to build physical and digital models for architects, contractors, engineers, designers, and inventors.

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Gravity Sketch Import Plugin now available in food4rhino!

The Gravity Sketch Import Plugin allows you to import Gravity Sketch files directly into Rhino, reproducing the entire session with native-like Rhino geometry:

• Preserve the layer structure and colors used in Gravity Sketch
• Continue the workflow, manipulate control points and surfaces just as you would with any other Rhino file

Gravity Sketch is an intuitive 3D design platform for cross-disciplinary teams to create from the initial ideation stages of collaboration and review in an entirely new way. 

The tool has a wide variety of NURBS and SubD tools accessible in Virtual Reality with the use of motion-tracked controllers and supporting tablets (Wacom and iPad). 

More information and download...