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...

PAZ-BSS-Archicad-Grasshopper

PAZ-BSS-Archicad-Grasshopper
PAZ Academy (Parametric Academy Zurich)

PAZ's Building System Specialist Programme is a way of life. During five intense months, you'll be absorbing knowledge from experts and learning a new parametric BIM working methodology using Archicad and Grasshopper. Later on, and as part of PAZ NET, you will have the opportunity to continue growing as a professional, developing your own business, or starting a new office department as the main BSS hero.

During the whole programme, you'll be supported by their team, because private mentorship is the most powerful way to secure your future, solve any problem, and design what you currently can't imagine as possible.

Start today with Part I - Hello

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!

PAZ-BSS-Rhino.Inside.Revit

PAZ-BSS-Rhino.Inside.Revit

PAZ Academy (Parametric Academy Zurich)

PAZ's Building System Specialist Programme is a way of life. During five intense months, you'll be absorbing knowledge from experts and learning a new parametric BIM working methodology using Rhino.Inside.Revit. Later on, and as part of PAZ NET, you will have the opportunity to continue growing as a professional, developing your own business, or starting a new office department as the main BSS hero.

During the whole programme, you'll be supported by their team. Private mentorship is the most powerful way to secure your future, solve any problem, and design what you currently can't imagine as possible.

Start with Part I - Hello...

Parametric Design Webinar

Parametric Design Webinar

January 2022

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 uplift your parametric knowledge, you can choose Option 2.

• Option 1: General Webinar for Beginners - 8 Days / 16 hours in total: Start 17.01.2022
• Option 2: Intensive Webinar for Intermediates - 4 Days / 8 hours in total: Start 27.01.2022

Timezone: CET / Berlin Germany Time

Language: English

Participants receive a certificate of participation at the end of the webinar.

More information and registration...

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.

Rhino3D.Education - Holiday Bundles

 

Rhino3D.Education is offering Holiday Bundles this season! Take your Rhino training to the next level with our online bundled courses.

Rhino3D.Education offers online courses in Rhino, Grasshopper, computational design, GhPython, PanelingTools, RhinoCAM, V-Ray, and more! For the holidays, we've created these Bundles which consist of a group of courses on specific topics packaged together and offer a flexible and cost-effective solution. 

With our bundles, you save +50%. 

Our Holiday Bundles are:

Bundle #1 For Coders and Computational Designers

Bundle #2 For 3D Modeling, Organic Shapes, and Rendering

Bundle #3 For Fabricators 

Bundle #4 For 3D Space Modeling and Rendering

These Bundles are also offered in Spanish! 

Offer valid until January 7, 2021.

After purchase, you will have access to the courses of the bundle you picked for one whole year.

Questions? Contact Lucia Miguel at lucia@mcneel.com

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

VisualARQ BIM Design Student Contest 2022

Asuni is pleased to announce the second edition of the VisualARQ BIM Design student Contest.

This contest seeks to recognize emerging talent in AEC students. The competition is open to any student enrolled in an academic program (during the 2021–2022 academic year) associated with the AEC industry.

Competition entries will take advantage of VisualARQ tools to create innovative design spaces with no scale or project typology constraints.

The submission deadline is on 1st March 2022.

Winner projects will be awarded Rhino, VisualARQ, and Lands Design educational licenses.

Complete details...

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...

"Grasshopper Explained Series" video tutorials by White Lioness Technologies

White Lioness Technologies, as long-time fans of Rhino and Grasshopper, and developers of Packhunt.io (a cloud-native parametric platform and marketplace for digital services), are sharing their knowledge with the community through a series of video tutorials: Grasshopper Explained Series.

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...

Intro to Grasshopper - January 24-27, 2022 online

Join McNeel instructor Andres Gonzalez for a live and in-depth introduction to the Grasshopper visual programming tool in Rhinoceros 7. 

In this workshop, you will learn the basics of Grasshopper and push your skills to an intermediate level in just four days. The last 30 minutes of class will be reserved for live Q&A.

When: January 24-27, 2022, Monday-Thursday
Time: 9:00 AM-12:30 PM PST
Where: Online Classroom

Register here.

- Each class session will be recorded for your review and study.
- Grasshopper definitions are available for immediate download.
- Troubleshoot your classwork live with the instructor.
- An Intermediate Grasshopper online course will be offered in March.
- Instructor will be using Rhino 7 for Windows. Rhino 7 for Mac is ok to use.

Questions? Email Mary Ann Fugier, mary@mcneel.com

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...

Free Rhino7 Webinar (Turkish)

Free Rhino 7 Webinar in Turkish

December 9, 2021 at 19:00 (TSI) / 17:00 (CET)

In this RhinoCenter / McNeel Europe joint webinar, CAT Tasarım owner and teacher Can Aysan present Rhino 7's new tools and workflows, and will talk about the different industries in Turkey using Rhino.

The webinar will start with a short presentation done by Carla Sologuren from McNeel Europe. Then, Mustafa Dülger, founder of RhinoCenter, will talk about the activities and plans for the next year. We will continue with Can Aysan's demonstration, and we'll close with a live Q&A.

We invite you to set a reminder and join our webinar to learn more about the most significant upgrade in McNeel's history. Don't miss the chance to ask any questions!

Information in Turkish and link to join...

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...

ShapeDiver Open Beta Invitation

ShapeDiver's new platform is (almost) ready! 

In collaboration with the CORE team, they've developed a major update to their infrastructure to support lots of new features and improve the performance and flexibility of the data flow through their servers.

You can now take part, explore some new features and give ShapeDiver your feedback, comments, and bug reports ahead of the public release.

Complete details about the new platform...

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!

Black Friday at Rhino3D.Education

This Black Friday, we are offering something BIG at Rhino3D.Education!

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

This Black Friday, we are offering ALL of our courses found at Rhino3D.Education, including all English and all Spanish courses, for only $79.95.

Check out the entire list of courses here! Don't miss out on these never-before-seen prices. Purchase the Black Friday Bundle now, and enjoy it for one whole year.

Offer valid from November 19-December 6, 2021.

After purchase, you will have access to ALL our courses for one whole year.

Questions? Contact Lucia Miguel at lucia@mcneel.com

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

Parametric Design Webinar

Parametric Design Webinar
December 13-16 and 20-23, 2021

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 uplift your parametric knowledge, then you can choose option 2.

• Option 1: General Webinar for Beginners - 8 Days / 16 hours in total. Starts: December 13, 2021
• Option 2: Intensive Webinar for Intermediates - 4 Days / 8 hours in total. Starts: December 20, 2021

Timezone: CET / Berlin Germany Time

Language: English

Participants will receive a certificate of participation at the end of the webinar.

More information and registrations...

food4Rhino webinar: Parametric Building and Façade Design with Rhino.Inside BricsCAD BIM (part 2) - November 23, 2021 at 1PM CET

food4Rhino webinar: Parametric Building and Façade Design with Rhino.Inside BricsCAD BIM (part 2)

Tuesday, November 23, 2021, at 1 PM CET

Explore the power of parametric design with Grasshopper natively in BricsCAD BIM using Rhino.Inside. Discover a fundamentally different approach to BIM, where design decisions come first, and the laborious tasks of manipulating BIM data and the level of detail are automated by AI. Extend this unique BIM workflow with Grasshopper, the industry-leading solution for parametric design. The combination of BricsCAD’s powerful AI algorithms with Grasshopper’s parametric design workflow expands the possibilities of design and geometry manipulation to new horizons.

This webinar will teach you how to design facades and complex building structures, experiment with various design options instantly using parametric algorithms. We will also demonstrate how any designer can leverage powerful algorithms on any geometry using Grasshopper-based components in BricsCAD BIM. Prepare scripts in advance and apply instantly to simple shapes, making parametric design accessible to a wider range of users.

Speaker: Sagar R. Thorat. An architectural engineer, researcher and BIM Technologist with over 13 years of experience in the AEC and Product Manufacturing Industry ranging from material fabrication technologies, marine, bespoke building envelopes to large-scale mixed-use building projects in APAC, EU, and USA. He earned his master’s degree in Architectural Engineering from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. As a BIM Mentor, he has implemented BIM & VDC technologies in multiple organizations across the AECO Industry globally. His special interest lies in openBIM, computational design, and the integrations of 4D and 5D VDC technologies.

Rhino.Inside BricsCAD BIM download on food4Rhino... 

Watch it live on YouTube... 

Add the webinar to your calendar...

Grasshopper webinar "GH Live - Modellazione Algoritmica" (in Italian) - December 4-5, 2021

Grasshopper webinar 

GH Live - Modellazione Algoritmica

December 4-5, 2021 - 14-19h CET

2 days + mentoring

GH Live - Modellazione Algoritmica is a two-day webinar (in Italian) that provides a zero-to-hero learning experience focused on a deep understanding of algorithmic modeling with Rhino and Grasshopper. 

Students will acquire the ability to generate complex geometries through accurate control of mathematical and geometrical parameters. The training is intended for students and professionals without any previous experience in algorithmic modeling. 

Tutors: Arturo Tedeschi and Maurizio Degni.

Main topics:

• Introduction to Rhinoceros
• Algorithmic modeling with Grasshopper: user interface, components, workflow, basic operations
• List management
• Surface parameterization
• Numerical sequences, vectors, and geometric transformations. Image sampler, Graph mapper
• Introduction to Data Tree
• Attractors
• 3D Patterns
• Single and multiple attractors applied to a skyscraper’s façade
• Ladybug
• Dendro (volumetric modeling)

The course includes a 3-hour live collective mentoring session (date to be defined) where tutors will share experiences and useful information for career guidance and professional growth, answering questions of common interest in the field of advanced design. Participants will have the opportunity to participate live.

Registrants will be able to watch the recorded lessons anytime.

Complete details and registration...

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...

food4Rhino webinar: Procedural Compute (part 4) "Urban Comfort Simulation in the Cloud"

food4Rhino webinar: Procedural Compute (part 4)

Urban Comfort Simulation in the Cloud

November 11, 2021, at 5PM CET

Procedural Compute is a cloud platform for the utilization of computational resources. The system is tailored for handling multiphysics simulation jobs used in the AEC industry. Compute is developed to seamlessly integrate with Grasshopper to keep the simulation workflow as efficient as possible.

Urban comfort metrics such as Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) are often used to assess the quality of an outdoor space. The comfort metrics are usually expressed as experienced temperature and depend on several environmental factors, such as wind speed, mean radiant temperature, air temperature, and relative humidity. While air temperature and relative humidity can be obtained from a weather file, both wind speed and mean radiant temperature must be simulated. Both simulations are quite computationally heavy, especially if done annually.

In this webinar, you will be guided through an urban comfort simulation setup with UTCI. You'll use Compute to run the CFD and MRT simulations and combine the results of the simulations in the UTCI calculation. We will take the viewers through a Grasshopper canvas that sets up the case and computes the urban comfort around a project from the Architecture Studio 3XN. The project is situated at the harbourfront in Aarhus, Denmark.

Speaker: Christian Kongsgaard is an architectural engineer focused on computational environmental design and streamlining building performance simulations. He is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at Procedural.

Procedural Compute download on food4Rhino...

Add the webinar to your calendar and watch it on youtube live...

*All food4Rhino webinars are recorded and available on our dedicated playlist.

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

"ETFE Cushion Form-Finding & Patterning" free webinar by IxRay

IxRay has organized a free webinar on November 4, 2021, at 15h CET about ETFE Cushion Form-Finding & Patterning.

Learn more about Form-Finding ETFE Multi-Layer cushions, with control of chamber pressure and layer prestress. Patterning and compensation, hard edge compensation and welding compensation by cut & flatten de-inflated model. 

Software used: Rhino 7, Grasshopper, Falko, and ixCube 4-10

Reserve your place by emailing info@ixray-ltd.com (Subject: Webinar on ETFE Cushions)...

Gravity Sketch "AROUND 2021"

 

Gravity Sketch invites you to join AROUND 2021 (November 4-5), its inaugural annual conference where the industrial design community is getting together to change the dialogue AROUND the “Design Process”. 

Join industry leaders like Adidas, Volkswagen, and Scott Robertson, who will share their unique journeys into adopting digital 3D workflow.

Also, the following speakers will be talking about their Gravity Sketch to Rhino workflow:

• Molly Lindgren - Finding New Ways
• Noah Sussman - Gravity Sketching Luxury Eyewear

Registrants will have the opportunity to have 15-minute portfolio review sessions with the speakers.

Register for free...

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.

Europort 2021: 2-5 November 2021 - Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

 

Europort 2021
2-5 November 2021
Rotterdam Ahoy - The Netherlands

Rivers and seas are filled with challenges and opportunities. Be part of the journey of the maritime transition by exploring the power of technology, and engineer, build and maintain sustainable (relation)ships today and tomorrow. 

Visit NDAR booth (6502) to learn the latest news about Orca3D, ExpressMarine and Rhino, among others.

Booking an appointment in advance is recommended:
E-mail: ndar@ndar.com, or telephone: +33 4 92 91 13 24

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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. 

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