Designing for Timber online workshop for architects by Design-to-Production, February 1-3

Designing for Timber workshop by Design-to-Production

Date: February 1-3

Time: 3 times 2 hours, 19h30-21h30 CET

Tutors: Evy Slabbinck and Martin Antemann (both Design-to-Production)

With climate change in mind, timber construction is the future! Building in wood is sustainable, efficient, and lightweight–and has a lot of architectural qualities. Join this workshop and learn all about the material, its detailing and fabrication, and how all this influences the planning process. Design-to-Production shares their knowledge in an interactive practice-based manner. And with a holistic approach enables participants to develop in-depth knowledge and confidence to design innovative timber structures.

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New Rhino 7 videos by SimplyRhino UK - SubD, QuadRemesh, and Rendering/Denoiser/PBM rendering

SimplyRhino UK has been kind enough to share three videos with the content covered at its last UK User Group Meeting in December.

Rhino 7 – SubD Modelling in Rhino for Mac

A quick look at the new SubD modelling metaphor in Rhino 7. This is shown in Rhino for Mac but is equally relevant to Rhino for Windows. In this video, Phil Cook from Simply Rhino looks at three areas where a SubD workflow could have advantages over NURBS.

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Rhino 7 – Rendering, Denoiser and Physically Based Materials

In this short video, Phil Cook from Simply Rhino looks at Rendering improvements in Rhino 7. This includes the Cycles Raytrace Render and adding Denoiser elements with the new Package Manager in Rhino 7. Finally, the new Physically Based Materials are discussed.

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Rhino 7 – QuadRemesh – a quick introduction

QuadRemesh is a great new tool in Rhino 7 for reverse engineering and mesh retopology. In this short introductory video, Phil Cook from Simply Rhino runs through the basics of QuadRemesh and shows an example of how this can be helpful in reverse engineering.

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A Rhino promotion we couldn't resist

 

Sometimes people like us. Elite Modeling School seems to and made a YouTube video about it.

Honestly, we didn't pay this fellow.

What 3D Modeling Software Should I Use? 10 Reasons to Use Rhino as your CAD Software...

xNURBS Rhino plugin V5 released

 xNURBS announces the availability of Version 5. V5 includes several enhancements, e.g., producing better surfacing quality, exporting a set of C/RhinoCommon APIs etc. V4 customers can get a free upgrade to V5. The following is a short answer to Why xNURBS?.

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 simple 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.

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5 Things You Didn't Know You Can Do with Grasshopper!

Watch the latest ShapeDiver video and discover five things you didn't know you could do with Grasshopper and ShapeDiver (ft. Rooster, Squid, and OpenNest).

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Nemo for ship design is back in the water!

Nemo, the Grasshopper plugin for ship design, is back in the water! 

Nemo provides multiple tools to generate lines plan, compute hydrostatics, perform resistance prediction, extract structural data, produce 2D drawings, and exchange data with other external software. Nemo also includes free tools to create parametric shapes such as Naca profiles, hydrofoils, keels, rudders, blade propellers, and sail plans. 

Nemo is now available for purchase with commercial or educational licenses. 

The following license levels are provided to fit every need, depending on user activity : 

• Free (Designer) 
• Level 1 (Section + Hydrostatics + Visualization) 
• Level 1 + 2 (Section + Hydrostatics + Visualization + Resistance + Structure) 

 This new release brings Mac OS + Windows Support (Rhino 6 + 7), new Export components (MaatHydro + FineMarine), and new Structure tools.

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