Modeling a Ski Cabin

Get started using Rhinoceros 7 for Windows for architectural modeling with our most recent project-based tutorial on modeling a Ski Cabin. 

• Introduction and Basics: start to 57 minutes
• Modeling the Cabin: 57 minutes to end.
• Download the Rhino 7 3DM files used in this tutorial. 
• See the Rhino 7 for Mac version of this tutorial here.

See additional tutorials for Rhino in Architecture here.

Questions? Please email Mary Ann Fugier, McNeel Tech Support and Training.

Lands Design 5.6 released! 8000 plant species and IFC support

Lands Design 5.6 version is now available to download! This new release includes two major features: 

• A fully upgraded and extensive Plant Database: It now contains more than 8000 species with botanical information and various displays. There are many improvements and modifications in the database core structure. 
• IFC Support: This new feature enhances your BIM workflow by exporting landscape models to IFC. Therefore, it enables you to open your Lands Design model and recognize its parameters in other BIM programs. More details.

Download Lands Design 5.6 here. 

Find out more details about this new version...

Introduction to Rendering with V-Ray for Rhino 7 course in English

 

We invite you to register for our new Introduction to Rendering with V-Ray for Rhino 7 course in English by Valeria Palacio. The Spanish version was launched a few weeks back. Check them both out here!

V-Ray is a tool that lets you create high-quality renderings with the option of creating and editing materials, lights, and geometries. This course is for designers who want to see their ideas come to life. In this introductory course, the user will learn the V-Ray interface and approach complex renderings, exploring this tool's various possibilities in product and space rendering.

Register now and give your models a realistic appearance!

Plus: Upon completion, you will receive a certificate of attendance.

Get started today!

Rhino3D.Education offers online courses in Rhino, Grasshopper, Computational Design, GhPython, PanelingTools, RhinoCAM, V-Ray, and more!

Check out Rhino3D.Education for the latest courses on Rhino, Grasshopper, and more!

Seanaptic - ANSYS Interface now available

Seanaptic is a plugin for Rhino that allows naval architects to model parametric ship structures with extreme efficiency.

The release of Seanaptic 7, now compatible with Rhino 7, has achieved a significant milestone by implementating the interfacing with ANSYS Mechanical and SpaceClaim. Full geometries of naval structures can now be directly exported to ANSYS for finite element analysis. Seanaptic pre-processes the geometry to ensure connected meshes of incredible quality while complete structural parameters of plates and beams are transferred directly to the FEA model, obtaining efficiencies never seen before.

What usually took weeks or even months can now be achieved in days or even hours. This golden bundle of Rhino, Seanaptic, and ANSYS will render traditional FEA pre-processing obsolete!

Request a trial on food4Rhino...

Exceeding clients expectations with digital tools - Australian Institute of Architects 2021 Report

The Australia Institute of Architects BIM and Beyond 2021 annual report highlights a shift from BIM as Objects to automating workflows that deliver better outcomes for clients. There is a lot of good information in this report, including the Design: From Object to Process article on page 24 by Daniel Guiffre, Tristan Morgan, and Andrei Smolik. New digital methods are tested on real-world projects using Rhino and Grasshopper to explore more efficient project delivery.

Getting to know... Indimise: 3D Printed Phone Cases!

3D printing has made it possible for anyone to design and create customized products with great ease and efficiency. And with the flexibility of Grasshopper and cloud applications like ShapeDiver, businesses of all sizes can now offer the possibility for non-technical users to get creative and design their own 3D printed products.

A great example is Indimise, a German company that allows anyone worldwide to 3D print their own smartphone case without the need for any technical experience, special CAD design software, or their 3D printer. 

In this interview, Sebastian Flügel, CEO and founder of Indimise, talks to ShapeDiver and gives us a glimpse into his company and story.

Read the complete interview and try their configurator...

Skopelab launches audio-reactive Christmas trees

Skopelab, specialists in Audio-Reactive Computational Design, is growing Christmas trees that move to the sound of seasonal greetings. Developed within Rhino and Grasshopper, the home-grown algorithm allows fine control of tree movement, bauble size, color, and color gradient effects.

At www.dancingwishes.com, clients can upload video, text and logos through a simple process, which are then integrated into the tree design. A unique webpage is then created for each client, accessed by link or by scanning the QR code at the tree base.

Designed for both individuals to share their wishes with friends and family or for businesses to send their seasonal greetings to clients in an innovative way.

Enjoy!

Rhino to Twinmotion Video tutorial – An Introduction to Twinmotion Materials, Characters and Vegetation

SimplyRhino UK has been kind enough to share a new video tutorial on how to transfer your Rhino models and scenes to Twinmotion and apply materials, characters and vegetation.

Watch the full video tutorial here...

Enscape 3.2 offers dynamic real-time visualization and streamlined workflow with Rhino

Enscape, a leading provider of real-time visualization, 3D rendering, and virtual reality technology for the global AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) industry, recently released version 3.2. This latest update includes many new features that help architects and designers worldwide to transform Rhino models into immersive real-time 3D experiences, creating more vivid real-time visualizations and streamlining workflow.

Enscape 3.2 New Features

• Dynamic asset placement
  
  Users can select, place, and edit assets from the Asset Libraries into their designs via the Enscape rendering window. The Rhino model instantly reflects everything added to the rendering, offering a two-way asset placement. Users can rotate, scale, and delete an asset, and all changes will sync back to the project. Multi-asset placement is also now available to quickly populate scenes with assets such as trees, cars, and people, directly inside Enscape.
  
  
• Green building assets and materials
  
  Over 250 new assets, including 150 green building assets like wind turbines and solar panels, have been added, in addition to new materials such as organic bricks, recycled plastic, hay plastic, solar modules, solar roof tiles, and more.
  
  
• New materials and people assets
  
  
• Batch rendering of panoramas
  
  
• Panorama tours
  
  
• Upload management overhaul
  
  
• Ray-traced sun shadows in the real-time view
  
  
• Windows 11 support

Read more about Enscape 3.2...

Request a free student and educator license...

Try Enscape for free...

New landscape design plugin: Land Kit

LANDAU Design + Technology recently launched Land Kit,  a new Grasshopper plugin. It is beneficial for landscape design, but many applications exist for architects, ecologists, pattern makers, and more. 

Land Kit's customs tools make landscape design more efficient and intuitive while solving some of the trickier problems presented when using computational tools to design landscapes in 3D. 

Not only can it save time with a particular design, drafting, or modeling process, but it provides a platform to build your specific workflows. 

Land Kit is composed of three component libraries:

• Plant Kit is a powerful platform to make planting design more manageable and site-specific. Use analysis, data, and placement rules to guide the placement of individual plants while you focus on the big picture of the planting design and layout. By defining environments, areas, plants, and rules, Plant Kit help keep track of the complexity, helping to layout and visualize your planting design for output to CAD, Revit, or rendering in Rhino, Lumion, or Enscape.
• Use Topo Kit to create and change topographic features in the landscape. You can avoid the sticky problem of relying on elevated contours to generate and revise models. Design directly in 3D with the features that drive topography: walls, curbs, stairs, paths, spots, and maybe a contour or two. Analyze slope, elevation, or cut contours during the design process.
• Use the Paving Kit toolset to define simple paving zones with shapes. Add standard or custom patterns with paver dimensions and let Paving Kit draft repeat patterns, seams, coloration, and edge trimming. 

Download and begin using all of Land Kit's free core features. And check out the online learning resource CAMPUS.

Land Kit (Windows only): Now on food4Rhino...

New Grasshopper Component in Tekla with Rhino.Inside technology

The new Grasshopper Component in Tekla Structures uses the Rhino.Inside technology. This brings Tekla users the benefit of visual scripting in Grasshopper without each Tekla user needing to be exposed to the visual script itself. Furthermore, this provides developers a powerful new way of creating logic for custom components in Tekla using visual scripting.

Tekla's custom component is an intelligent object type in Tekla Structures that can be used for connections, reinforcement and other details as well as for larger parametric objects like sandwich walls or staircases.

Until now, new custom component types have been created by anyone using the Tekla Open API or using the custom component editor within Tekla. Now, new custom components can also be created with Grasshopper. The logic is provided by any Grasshopper definition that then creates objects in Tekla Structures.

The benefit for the Tekla user is that using the new Grasshopper Component they do not need to know visual scripting to use a Grasshopper definition. For the custom component developer, creating component logic with Grasshopper can be more straightforward especially when it comes to geometry.

Complete details...

Download the Grasshopper Component for Tekla Structures...

TOMKOD publishes a whole range of Rhino plugins

Developed with the user experience and simplicity in mind, TomKod released a range of tools to address the engineers' expressed needs. At a few dozen euros, the investment is cost-effective starting from the first use.

Following is the list of TomKod plugins currently available:

 

   Attribute Analysis - Get a 3D model's attribute analysis and stats

Draw UserTexts - Draw attribute values as text, with consistent positioning

Rhino Beam Tools - Export data to beam calculation software (Finite Element Method) BV STEEL® and RDM7®

Marine Weight Schedule - Compute a project's Bill Of Masses and Bill Of Materials

Selection Tools - Object selection tools

Tables - Create/Edit tables and import from Excel Spreadsheets

New features are still released regularly via updates or new products based on expressed needs.

The plugins are also downloadable from Rhino’s package manager.

Details...

 YouTube channel.... 

Re-Emerge Pavilion, a collaboration between AA [EmTech] and Hassell

Photography: Studio NAARO

Architectural Association (AA) Emergent Technologies & Design (EmTech) Post-Graduate Programme and Hassell in London have collaborated to create a new pavilion in Bedford Square.

EmTech Post-Graduate Programme at the Architectural Association has a long history in designing and creating structures and pavilions. This year’s pavilion is titled Re-Emerge and is the first time since the pandemic that the students could closely work together, fabricate and assemble a full-scale structure.

For this collaboration, Hassell gave the students the challenge to keep the project's carbon footprint to an absolute minimum and therefore only use reclaimed timber.

Xavier De Kestelier, Head of Design at Hassell, said, “The students really took on the challenge with both hands and decided early on to build the pavilion out of timber from reclaimed wooden pallets.”

The Re-Emerge pavilion explores new design and construction technologies that repurpose materials that have completed their first life cycle towards innovative structural formations. The project addresses themes of generative design, material computation, large-scale fabrication and assembly technologies, emphasizing the pavilion's ecological impact from the early phases of the design process onwards.

Re-emerge revives the tradition of building on Bedford Square as a collaboration between an academic programme at the AA and partners from the world of practice to test ideas at scale and imagine new possibilities.

Dr. Elif Erdine, Director of the EmTech Program, said, "This collaboration with Hassell demonstrates a successful illustration of how academia and practice can come together to discover novel solutions to complex spatial and material problems. With the support of our other sponsors, BuroHappold Engineering and One Click LCA, EmTech and Hassell explored new design and construction technologies for repurposing timber."

She added, "As designers, architects, and engineers, we share the responsibility to maintain a mindful approach towards our environment while designing and building. Our mutual insight into how construction waste can be a useful resource has originated this research into repurposing timber for an outdoor structure that is lightweight, emphasizing the project’s ecological impact from the early phases of the design process."

Complete details about the Re-Emerge Pavilion...

The EMTECH (Emergent Technologies and Design Programme) is a post-professional graduate degree at the Architectural Association open to graduates in architecture and engineering who wish to develop skills and pursue knowledge in architectural design science located in new production paradigms. EMTECH investigates new synergies of architecture and ecology through the critical intersection of computational design and fabrication. 

EMTECH Graduate programme 2022-23 registration now open...

Introduction to V-Ray for Rhino 7 Online Course

Rhino3D.Education offers online courses in Rhino, Grasshopper, Computational Design, GhPython, PanelingTools, RhinoCAM, V-Ray, and more!

We invite you to register for our new Introduction to Rendering with V-Ray for Rhino 7 course in Spanish by Valeria Palacio and also for the Work In Process (WIP) English version, which will be available by the end of the year, but you can get an early start now!

V-Ray is a tool that lets you create high-quality renderings with the option of creating and editing materials, lights, and geometries. This course is for designers who want to see their ideas come to life. In this introductory course, the user will learn the V-Ray interface and approach complex renderings, exploring this tool's various possibilities in product and space rendering.

Register now and give your models a realistic appearance!

Plus: Upon completion, you will receive a certificate of attendance.

Get started today!

Check out Rhino3D.Education for the latest courses on Rhino, Grasshopper, and more!

Another use for Rhino: Book illustrations

John Miano used Rhino to do his illustrations in his new book, A Visual Tour of Battleship USS New Jersey. Most are 2D, but there are a few 3D models.

More book details on Amazon.com...

2Shapes for Rhino 2.0 Released

2Shapes for Rhino, the jewelry design plugin for Rhino, just got to version 2.0. Here are the top 10 new features:

• Pave and Prongs to set gems anywhere on your design while optimally giving your unique style.
• One-Click to STL & Integrations with 3D printers to point what needs changing for your design and fix it.
• Open from Cloud, bring any design from the 2Shapes Suite into Rhino, all your team's designs in one centralized place.
• Smart Profiles to create organic and smooth designs with ease, no matter the shape, size, or complexity.
• Report, Gems Map and Gems List. Automatically generate documents of your design, its gem distribution, and a full list.
• Assets Selector and Assets Editor to modify profiles and see how the changes dynamically affect your design.
• Improved outliner, get an overview of your design's elements, and edit them in an agile and intuitive way.
• With Cutters, select what gems need to be drilled, set the drill measurement, and run the boolean difference.
• Let your design sparkle with Gems by Network, draw the bounds and let 2Shapes automatically fill it with gems.
• Dedicated Render Studio for amazing images and animations. Easy to use rendering tools for jewelry designers.

Complete details about the new version...

Download 2Shapes for Rhino on food4Rhino...

RhinoCenter launches a new Academy Platform for Turkish users!

After working on this new project for many months, RhinoCenter (Authorized Rhino Reseller and Training Center in Turkey) is happy to announce the launch of their Academy platform. Their website now offers basic courses for Rhino, specific training on SubD, Grasshopper, and all in Turkish!

These initial courses are similar to intense on-site training but with lifetime access to follow at your own pace. Each course has its own final test which takes around 45 minutes and has a passing score of 70/100. Upon passing the test, students will receive a completion certificate.

At the end of the year, all certified students will have the chance to win a Rhino Level 1 Exam Certificate. A great opportunity to test knowledge and competency in Rhino software, 3D visualization and become a Certified Rhino Specialist.

Last but not least, all courses are listed with a 75% special discount until the end of the year and stay tuned because they will soon release the following new courses: Python, RhinoCAM, and V-Ray for Rhino.

For more information, visit academy.rhinocenter.net

Announced: Winner of the DigitalFUTURES Coding Award 2021!

We are excited to learn that Rajaa Issa, our developer of PanelingTools for Rhino and Grasshopper, has been given the DigitalFUTURES Coding Award 2021.

This award is given to a digital tool that revolutionizes architectural research, practice, or education by offering an advanced thinking paradigm and workflow. 

PanelingTools is widely used to rationalize freeform surfaces and create paneling solutions, from concept to fabrication. 

You can hear Rajaa in a video describing the history, concept, and development behind PanelingTools.

DigitalFUTURES is an educational initiative that organizes workshops, lectures, conferences, exhibitions, book publications, a peer-reviewed journal, and an international PhD program. While emphasizing the latest computational design and fabrication technologies, they also address education's broader ethical and social education issues by providing an ever-growing repository of knowledge accessible for everyone.

Rhino 7 to FELIX Online Render

FELIX Render is a clever cloud-based rendering software for architects and designers. It offers superior rendering quality, rich collaborative material and object libraries, wonderful tools to quickly populate your designs with furniture and vegetation, the comfort of a 100% non-destructive workflow, and fantastic lighting tools. It can handle huge projects from an old laptop. Its performance is almost entirely hardware-independent.

It's very affordable and since the cloud is based on sharing hardware resources, it's also environmentally friendly. 

Download the Rhino 7 to Felix Render Exporter on food4Rhino...

Parakeet plugin now supported on ShapeDiver

Parakeet3D is a collection of digital tools that expands Grasshopper's morphological repository for Patterns and Networks, allowing designers to go beyond old shapes and push the old boundaries to comply with modern design requirements. Designing with Parakeet is simple and straightforward. It's as simple as selecting a tile (grid), then selecting the method you want to use for pattern generation on that grid. And from his week on, it's now supported on ShapeDiver!

Learn more here ...

How to build a wood kayak using Rhino and Grasshopper

In this video, Brian Ottrogge of the Grunblau Design Studio shows his techniques to build a kayak by building a scale model.

Looking for a few more tutorials?

Interested in learning Computational Design? Try Parametric Camp.

For the past two years, Harvard GSD professor Jose Luis García del Castillo y López has been creating content on his new YouTube channel ParametricCamp, doing weekly live streams, recording tutorials, and publishing comprehensive series on Computational Design such as Introduction to Parametric Modeling with Grasshopper, Learning C# for Designers, or the ongoing Advanced Development in Grasshopper. All for free!

Learn more here... 

 

Grasshopper: A Modeling Software Redefining The Design Process (by Parametric Architecture)

"Grasshopper was created in a perspective to extend in those area where Rhino could not! It is a versatile plugin that takes design complexities to a new-found level by exceeding the limit beyond Rhino. Although, Rhino is a strong software tool in itself that has the capability of editing, analysing, and dealing with some of the most intense of architectural design and detailing."

Read here the complete article by Parametric Architecture...

xNURBS Rhino plugin API Package (C, RhinoCommon, Rhinoscript and Grasshopper)

xNURBS announces the availability of API Package. Users can now run xNURBS inside the code they develop or run xNURBS without showing the xNURBS UI. The API package includes the C/C++ APIs and the .NET APIs (i.e., RhinoCommon, Rhino.Python, Rhinoscript, and Grasshopper). The APIs are a subset of the fully-fledged APIs from XN Kernel.

The API package is freely available to customers with a xNURBS Rhino plugin license key.

Key features of xNURBS:

• Unlimited capacities for solving NURBS: Its optimization algorithm can solve virtually any NURBS surface in a matter of milliseconds (regardless of how complex the constraints are).
• High-quality surfaces: For a given set of constraints, xNURBS’ optimization algorithm uses an energy-minimization method to generate the smoothest NURBS surface among all possible solutions. The generated surface quality is outstanding.
• xNURBS is one super powerful NURBS tool that fixes virtually all surfacing issues for existing CAD software.
• Easy-to-use: It uses one straightforward UI for all kinds of NURBS modeling.
• Super robust: xNURBS is rock solid and works flawlessly.
• Native CAD surfaces: xNURBS is based on NURBS, i.e., the native CAD surfaces, which can be directly used for any CAD modeling operations without any geometry translation.

Details and download...

Four Ideas For Customizing Everyday Products with 3D Printing (& Grasshopper)!

As 3D printing becomes more and more accessible to everyone, its opening new opportunities to innovate in different industries. With 3D printing, you can create (almost) anything: from a large house to a small object that you can use in your everyday life.

In this video tutorial, Edwin Hernandez, Lead Computational Designer at ShapeDiver, shares 4 Ideas For Customizing Everyday Products with 3D Printing (& Grasshopper)! So let's dive straight in!

Read the article...

Falko, a finite element analysis tool for Rhino, now available

Falko is a finite element analysis plugin for Rhino by ixRay.

You can use both the Rhino UI or Grasshopper components to create FEA models.  FEA attributes and loads are assigned to layers, tessellation, and intersection of NURBS curves, surfaces, and meshes are done by the pre-processor. 

Features include linear, non-linear, buckling, earthquake with spectrum response. 

Falko has been developed with Grasshopper and parametric modeling in mind, but Grasshopper knowledge is not needed. 

Download your free trial license.

Available on food4Rhino...

RhinoRobot 4 is released

 

RhinoRobot 4 is out now with new features and enhancements, glTF export for simulation visualisation on any platform, including AR/VR devices.

Version 4 new features:

• Double linear axis
• Floating license option (internet connection necessary)
• 5x faster collision detection
• External axis movement filtering

Check it out on food4rhino, kinematiq.net and via the PackageManager in Rhino 7...

Enscape 3.1 with NVIDIA DLSS support and a new material library

Enscape, a 3D real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin for Rhino, is now available with new features that enable 3D renderings to be quicker and easier and provide fully immersive experiences for designers and their clients.

New Material Library

Designers can choose from over 200 predefined high-quality materials, such as wood, fabric, brick, and tile. These materials can also be imported into the Enscape Material Editor, where various elements can be edited to get the look and feel desired for projects.

New Panorama Gallery

It is easy to share and group multiple 360 panorama images simultaneously, entirely through the web browser, to create a personalized experience when presenting designs. Clients can navigate a project from a web link or even a QR code and visualize multiple rooms or compare different design options.

NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) Support

Users can now enjoy improved real-time performance of walkthroughs and higher frame rates with much lower GPU requirements. The deep learning-based upscaling technique renders internally at a lower resolution but outputs a clean and sharp high-resolution image for high-quality videos and high-performance virtual reality walkthroughs. DLSS is available to users with an NVIDIA RTX graphics card.

With Enscape 3.1, users will also enjoy:

• An improved Material Editor
• Simplified assets
• Ray-traced sun shadows

Rhino users can try Enscape 3.1 for free for 14 days...

Learn more about Enscape for Rhino...

Learn more about Enscape 3.1...

Exporting Data from Rhino to Twinmotion

In this Simply Rhino UK video tutorial, senior Trainer Phil Cook takes a look at exporting data from Rhino to Twinmotion using the new Datasmith Rhino Exporter.

Improved Rhino to Twinmotion workflow

The new Direct Link, which also uses the Datasmith file format, makes it very easy to have Rhino and Twinmotion open together and push design changes in Rhino to Twinmotion for evaluation.

Watch the video tutorial...

Unconventional Ways You Can Use Grasshopper As A Prototyping Tool

While Grasshopper has been developed primarily as a parametric modeling tool, its robust API and embedded features allow it to be used as a powerful software prototyping environment. If you’re handy with a little C# or Python, Grasshopper can become a sandbox for creative coding!

Read the complete article...

Parameterization of Structural Calculations and BIM Models

Parameterization of Structural Calculations and BIM Models
Online Course in Spanish
Construsoft

In this online course, you'll learn different working methodologies and use tools such as Grasshopper, Karamba, Tekla Structures, and Pangolin. These tools will allow you to automate the design and calculation process to obtain the best structural solution possible. From some initial conditions and through the use of genetic algorithms and visual programming, you'll be able to process thousands of possible solutions to obtain the most optimal one.

More information and registration...

Rhino Nature released

Rhino Nature is an advanced scattering tool for Rhinoceros modeling software. It provides a fully-fledged and feature-rich solution for creating millions of objects within the Rhino environment and viewing them without a frame drop.

Rhino Nature maintains scene fit while supplying a bunch of options to precisely steer the creation of single elements to achieve desired results.

Don’t wait! Make your life easier by spreading debris, grasses, bushes, trees, cars, people, or any other objects across your scenes, making your presentations or renderings more lifelike and photoreal than ever before. 
To contact the developer: support@rhinonature.com

Find out more about this plugin...

SARS-CoV 2 infection process rendering with Rhinoceros

Modeled with Rhino and rendered with V-Ray for Rhino by Ing. Luca Borro 

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play a key role in many biological processes and are intriguing targets for drug discovery campaigns. Furthermore, advancements in experimental and computational techniques are leading to a growth of data accessibility and an increased need for the analysis of PPIs. In this respect, visualization tools are essential instruments to represent and analyze biomolecular interactions.

"The first step to prepare the figure was to identify the ideal size of the figure components, such as the diameter of the viral capsid and the length of the spike protein. In the cryo-EM structure of the SARS-CoV (Neuman et al., 2006), the diameter of the viral particle ranges from 82 to 94 nm, excluding spike proteins. Based on this evidence, we used Rhinoceros (McNeel), a 3D CAD software, to model a spherical viral particle with a diameter of 88 nm. The length of the spike protein was measured on the electron microscopy images reported in the same paper after properly resizing them based on the 88 nm of virion capsid measurement: the longitudinal size was established to be about 12.40 nm. The Image scaling was then processed in Rhinoceros software (Rhino 7) using Scale in all dimension function."

Read the whole scientific article and how they used Rhino...

Rhino.Inside.Revit version 1.0 released

 

Rhino.Inside®.Revit version 1.0 has been released. Rhino.Inside.Revit combines the best of Rhino, Grasshopper and Revit® into one application. Use the new Element Tracking feature, which allows Grasshopper to fully control Revit elements across multiple Revit projects and between sessions. 

Version 1.0 has no expiration date. Feel free to distribute the plugin across your teams. 

Learn how to upgrade your workflow...

5 Things To AVOID When Uploading Grasshopper Models To ShapeDiver!

Grasshopper scripts can be very powerful and even more so if you decide to host them online on ShapeDiver and build web applications with them. However, if you are new to ShapeDiver, you might not know the tips and tricks for optimizing your models and might even run into problems while uploading.

Read the full article...

RoomSurveyor plugin now supported on ShapeDiver

RoomSurveyor is a plugin developed by Filipe Brandão. It implements iterative triangulation algorithms to assist users in surveying rooms, either orthogonal or non-orthogonal, and automating the drawing of the as-is survey. If you want to explore what the plugin can do, how it works, and what problem led to its creation, read the full article by clicking on the link below.

RoomSurveyor plugin now supported on ShapeDiver...

2D Technical Drafting with Rhino 7, new course! (English and Spanish)

 

New course on Rhino3D.Education, the community to learn and enrich your knowledge in Rhino.

We are very excited to publish our new 2D Technical Drafting with Rhino 7, now available in Spanish! We launched the English version a few weeks back. (Check it out here!) 

With more than 16k users, the Rhino3D.Education platform offers online courses in Rhino, Grasshopper, Computational Design, GhPython, PanelingTools, RhinoCAM, and more. You will find classes in both English and Spanish. Check out all our courses here!

As a gift, we have generated 250 coupon codes to use for this new course, 2D Technical Drafting with Rhino in Spanish by Andres Gonzalez. The retail price is US $29.95, but if you enroll now and use the code: DIBUJO2D_50_R7 you will get 50% OFF!

Also, upon completion, you will obtain a certificate of attendance. This course is available for both students/teachers and commercial users.

The coupon is available for the first 250 users or expires on October 30th, 2021 (whichever comes first). 

Hope you enjoy this new course!

Check out Rhino3D.Education for the latest courses on Rhino, Grasshopper, and more!

Rhino Flow RT CFD is now available

Rhino Flow RT enables Rhinos users to calculate and view computation fluid dynamics in real-time. Simerics is looking for beta testers for its early release program.

Rhino Flow RT provides one workflow within Rhino to enables accurate virtual testing for multi-purpose (MP) applications involving single-phase or multiphase flow, velocity, pressure, and additional physics.  It is all based on the popular Simerics-MP engine and can be used for marine, aerospace, automotive, and architectural applications.

Join the Rhino Flow RT Early Release Program...

Enscape Educational program

Enscape’s real-time rendering features can help students to achieve so much more in their design projects. From creating lifelike design experiences to supporting effective diagnosis and experimentation, the tool gives you the ability to speed up your design process and envision better designs.

With Enscape and its Rhino plugin, you can integrate real-time rendering and VR into your workflow, helping to improve and speed up the entire design process significantly.

Enscape offers free educational licenses to both students and classrooms. To learn more about Enscape and obtain your free real-time rendering license, visit the Enscape Educational website.

And see the amazing projects done by students using Rhino and Enscape!

Give your design workflow a boost with real-time rendering!

DEBB: FACADES IN MINUTES

Denvelops® and SEEDstudio have launched the first two components of their DEBB plugin specialized in the Denvelops construction system for double skin architectural facades and cladding.

The parametric tool component is used to develop various rectangular flat facades with different patterns. The 4-color component will allow you to define its color in patterns of one, two, three, or four colors. So, with these tools, you have hundreds of options to generate different facades. 

Download DEBB: FACADES IN MINUTES on food4Rhino...

Check out the new course (in Spanish) by Generative Ways. Learn how to use these new components efficiently...

Getting to know...YŪ by YOU Jewelry!

Read Shapediver's interview with Julius, Max, and Paul. They are the minds behind YŪ by YOU, an innovative German jewelry brand that uses computational design to turn any name into a unique wearable jewelry piece.

"The very first version of the algorithm was written in processing and not Grasshopper. Julius spent an entire semester abroad in the United States, where he gained enough knowledge of Grasshopper to develop the YŪ algorithm and design further." 

Read the complete interview...