We provide blog posts of short educational tutorials to learn Rhino. One example is a tutorial by Travis Serio of a heart-shaped ring. You can learn how to model a heart-shaped ring using SubD geometry in Rhino 7.
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Panther (jewelry plugin) now compatible with Rhino 7
Panther 1.7 is now available!
The new plugin version for Rhino 7 and Grasshopper is already available to download!
Current users are welcome to update today for free. It includes new SubD jewelry builders as well as full integration with newly implemented Rhino functionality.
Roar with Panther - Interactive Jewelry.
Timber WH-Arena and Timber Tower in Vienna
Nicolas Sterling from Sterling Presser Architects + Engineers has been kind enough to share one of his latest project done in Rhino/Grasshopper.
The Timber WH ARENA and Timber Tower design proposal for the WH-Arena competition in Vienna has made it to the second round.
The 20,000-seat WH-Arena timber concept is rooted
in nature in symbiosis with its environment. The project vision is to create a
new sustainable landmark for a large-scale arena that performs at all levels of
efficiency and flexibility. The dialogue
between the arena, the side buildings, and the public space creates a unique combination. The architectural objects play as much role as the outer space they generate. The timber structural
moiré skin is acting as the tree skin. The building maximizes natural, beautiful, and warm materials that connect us with nature and envisions a sustainable future.
The arena roof, the shape of a shallow saddle, consists of a triangular grillage of timber
strips structure as a Gridnet, a hybrid of a gridshell and a cablenet. This
composite construction, which optimizes the use of material while minimizing
embodied energy, while using a renewably sourced timber, creates a warm feel to the space with an enhanced acoustic performance. The roof spans about 160 m
lengthwise and about 130 m crosswise. The roof has photovoltaic panels on its
upper side and an uninterrupted continuously closed acoustic ceiling on its
underside, which is partially translucent to give the interior of the arena a
striking design effect.
The integrated architecture and facade
structure follows a subtle distribution to create an optical effect as one moves around the building. The roof, the façade elements, and the timber
gridshell are a unique parametric model to balance
structural performance and aesthetic and visual effect.
The project is great teamwork in collaboration
with:
- Thornton Tomasetti: Structure, facades, and acoustic
- A24 Landschaft: Landscape
- Transsolar: Energy, sustainability, environment design, MEP
- Kunz: Fire engineering
- Woo Architects: Arena experts
- Yann Kersalé. Lighting artist
- Ateliers de L’Éclairage: Lighting designer/engineers
- SOL: Renderings
- Xtrude.Berlin: 3D printing
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
ShapeDiver now supports Rhino 7!
After a big development push and a few weeks of coordinating, ShapeDiver is happy to launch its brand new Rhino 7 system (almost) in time!
Rhino 7 is packed with new features, and several of them come with brand new Grasshopper components that are compatible with the ShapeDiver Rhino 7 system. If you are excited about the new organic modeling possibilities offered by the SubD feature, try out the new SubD components in Grasshopper! Need to clean up or smooth some nasty meshes? The QuadRemesh component is there for you, producing clean quad meshes that will also help with the rendering performance in the ShapeDiver viewer.
At the moment, Rhino 7 is running on a brand new test system. The testing phase will extend until the release of the new platform in Spring 2021. If you want to test it right now, use the contact form on their website and request your account to be switched to the new Rhino 7 system.
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Bongo 3.0 WIP 6 now available
Bongo 2.0 users are encouraged to download and try this WIP release of the animation plugin for Rhino 7, Bongo 3.0.
New features:
- Improved dope sheet and keyframe table UI
- Improved connections springs
Bongo 3.0 WIP 6 is now available from here.
Enjoy!
Thursday, December 17, 2020
PanelingTools for Rhino 7 released
We've released PanelingTools for Rhino 7 in Windows and Mac! Check the release details...
The PanelingTools plugin for Rhino and Grasshopper by Robert McNeel & Associates is widely used by designers, architects, and building professionals. It supports intuitive design of paneling concepts as well as helps rationalize complex geometry into a format suitable for analysis and fabrication.
Point Clouds now supports Rhino 7
Veesus now has a Point Clouds for Rhino 7 plugin.
The Point Clouds plugin provides a way to load massive sizes of data into the native Rhino environment. The plugin also offers powerful point cloud manipulation tools such as slicing, clipping, smoothing, lighting, magnification, color ramp, and export.
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Randselva Bridge - the world’s biggest bridge designed and built without drawings
Sweco is the leading architecture and engineering consultancy company in the European market with comprehensive expertise for all types of projects.
In 2016 Sweco was in charge of designing the first drawing-less bridge in Norway. The successfully conducted project encouraged undertaking further challenges. Now, with PNC as a contractor, the company is designing and building a 634m long cantilever bridge without drawings. Krzysztof Wojslaw and Øystein Ulvestad showed at the Parametric Design Day 2020 in Oslo how parametric design supported creating an advanced 3D model and its further use.
And more recently, Gabriel Neves features the project on his youtube channel Ministry of Bridges.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Enscape 2.9.1 now supporting Rhino 7
Update to version 2.9.1 to experience all the new features Rhinoceros offers in combination with your Enscape license.
Monday, December 14, 2020
Mesh2Surface new release for Rhinoceros 7
With its intuitive straightforward user interface, Mesh2Surface helps the users to extract information from scan data into CAD surfaces quickly. Extract primitives, create 2D sketches and free form surfaces. All this with full control over your process.
Friday, December 11, 2020
Rendering and Materials in Rhino 7 Webinar with Brian James
Rhino3D.Education invites you to a Rendering and Materials in Rhino 7 Webinar with Brian James.
Brian James is part of the team at Robert McNeel & Associates where Rhinos grow. He provides technical support and training to users of Rhinoceros 3D and also teaches part-time in the Industrial Design department of the Rhode Island School of Design.
Brian will go over the new 'Rhino Render' in Rhino 7. Material creation and settings will be explained using the included material library as well as the provided template materials. Physically-based materials, texture mapping, emissive materials for lighting, and denoiser post effects will also be covered.
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Time: 11:00 a.m. (EST)
Open to the public with prior registration.
Questions? Contact Lucia Miguel at lucia@mcneel.com
Two open research positions at the Department of Experimental and Digital Design and Construction at the University of Kassel
The Department of Experimental and Digital Design and Construction at the University of Kassel (Prof. Philipp Eversmann) has two new positions for a DFG research project: Additive robotic assembly techniques for timber construction – Computational design and integrated structural joining methods. Become part of a young, dynamic research team exploring new ways of designing and building. The project investigates material-efficient design and digital fabrication processes for timber construction, focussing on topology optimization and robotic assembly methods.
Both research associates (75% EG 13 TV-H) will participate as a team in all aspects of the project, with one focusing more on theoretical and computational design and simulation and the other more on the robotic manufacturing processes.
Please send your CV, motivation letter, and portfolio to bewerbungen@uni-kassel.de, reference: 33644. Female applicants highly encouraged. The deadline is December 30, 2020.
Friday, December 4, 2020
Jevero (Footwear Pattern Engineering) new version
Jevero enables the most fluid and tight collaboration between pattern engineers, footwear developers, and shoe designers. Leveraging on the Rhino platform, this pattern engineering plugin lets you create pattern parts, develop sizes, and export to all sorts of cutting machines.
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