Lands Design inside Revit, a BIM landscape design solution for Revit

 

Asuni is glad to announce that Lands Design's powerful terrain modeling tools and Grasshopper components now work inside Revit. Thanks to the Rhino.Inside Revit integration, Lands Design objects can be recognized as BIM objects in Revit. 

The above video explains step by step how to integrate your Rhino landscape project in Revit.  

Find here the Grasshopper definitions to transfer Lands Design objects to Revit...

New release for BobCAM for Rhino

 

Version 2 of BobCAM for Rhino is now available to download. With the release of V2, their new 5-axis premium module is now available for all BobCAD-CAM’s product families.  

New toolpath technology and workflow reduces programming time and simplifies processes while expanding machining capabilities—the ultimate toolpath bundle for job shop manufacturers programming 3, 4, or 5-axis CNC machines.

“I am so excited for users to their hands-on BobCAD-CAM’s new products. Every customer will find enhancements and new features to get their NC programs to the machine faster and easier! There was a lot of focus on the usability, all the way up to new cutting strategies for shops who are pushing machines to their limits.” Greg Myers, Director, R&D, BobCAD-CAM, Inc., developer of BobCAM for Rhino.

New efficiency and improvements:

• Deburring. Automatically create toolpath to trim complex edges or apply chamfers/fillets to part feature edges when posting in 3, 4, or 5-axis.
• Probing. Simplify and automate the process of programming, simulating, and posting CNC probing cycles.
• Auto 3+2 Roughing. Index roughing for 5-axis using automatic, semi-automatic, or manual direction of approach.
• 3-5 Axis Conversion. Apply automatic 5-axis tilting for 3-axis tool paths.
• Turn Mill. Faster material removal for Mills and Mill-Turn Machines where both the stock and tool spin to increasing surface speed. Machine part profiles result in less chip consideration and faster cycle times.
• Multiaxis Machining. New finishing strategies added to what was previously called Multiaxis Roughing.  Now users can choose from roughing and finishing options with specific tool paths for wall and floor finishing.
• Multiblade. New advanced optimized operations for 5-axis machining of impellers and blisks.   Specific operations to rough and finish blades, hubs, and fillets.
• Port Machining. New advanced optimized operations specific for CNC port machining require minimal user input.

BobCAM for Rhino works on Rhino 6 or greater. It is localized in eight language packs: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Czech, Italian, and Portuguese. 

More information about the latest enhancements to BobCAM For Rhino...

Or call 877-262-2231

Announced: Winner of VisualARQ BIM Design Student Contest 2022

Asuni is pleased to announce the winner of the second edition of the VisualARQ BIM Design Student Contest 2022.

The winner of this year’s edition is Zhen Zixu, a fourth-year student at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, who presented a museum of traditional Chinese medicine, a project inspired by traditional Chinese medicine, history, and culture.

Zhen Zixu appreciates how VisualARQ helped build a complete workflow and emphasizes the connection with Grasshopper.

Check out the entire project...

Getting to know... Toggle: Reimagining rebar fabrication

Toggle is an American firm that is reimaging rebar fabrication with the help of robots and computational design tools such as Grasshopper and ShapeDiver.

In this interview, Daniel Blank and Andreas Thoma talk about how they got inspired to start this company after witnessing how wind turbines are built, how they got $100K in funding and basically hacked their way until they found Product-Market Fit, plus how COVID forced them to have a "work from anywhere" mentality. Finally, they have a word of advice to all new founders on navigating the intricate world of startups and funding rounds.

Read the complete interview...

NORMCUT: New nesting plugin focusing on waste minimization

NORMCUT demo from NORMCUT on Vimeo.

It’s easier than ever to use your offcuts in subtractive manufacturing with the new NORMCUT nesting plugin for Rhino! Useful filler parts will be automatically placed into the cutting plan’s leftover space that would otherwise be discarded as scrap. You can either create individual filler parts for yourself or use standardized parts that can be sold on their marketplace.

This plugin is NORMCUT’s answer to the catastrophic number of 25% average waste share in industrial cutting, which is not acceptable in the middle of a global climate, resource, and energy crisis. Learn more and become part of the movement!

Download NORMCUT plugin from food4Rhino...

Free Rhino Flow-RT Workshop

 

Rhino Flow-RT Workshop

March 31, 2022

11 AM ET  (1-hour workshop)

Please join Simerics, Inc. for a free Rhino Flow-RT workshop. Learn how you can use CFD embedded in Rhino to validate and improve your products and designs in real time.

Rhino Flow-RT Workshop content:

• Affordable CFD for Rhino Users.
• Rhino User Evolution.
• Customer Examples.
• Rhino Flow-RT CFD
• Special Rhino Flow-RT offer.
• Q & A

Register for Rhino Flow-RT workshop...

New Rhino book: "Modelação Clássica e por Subdivisão em Rhinoceros 7"

João Monteiro has published a new book (in Portuguese): Modelação Clássica e por Subdivisão em Rhinoceros 7.

809 pages with the basics, classic NURBS modeling, and a second part dedicated to the new SubD tools.

While the book focuses on 3D modeling of objects, it also includes an introduction on obtaining photorealistic images from them using the available tools in Rhinoceros, as well as importing and modifying models created in other CAD programs. Most of the proposed exercises are based on reference images, on which the models are built, being available to download through a link presented in the text. The book was written based on the Windows version of Rhinoceros, but Mac users can also use it.

Buy now the online version on Amazon...

Building the Liberty ACE Sportscar 2022

Pete Larsen had a vision of building a modern-day interpretation of the 1940 and 50’s streamlined mid-engine sportscar. The result is a fun exciting vehicle with a unique driving experience. Find out what it took to complete the project...

Grasshopper Knowledge | Packhunt.io

Are you interested in expanding your Grasshopper knowledge?

Packhunt.io has created a video series called Grasshopper Explained with snackable tips and tricks that will help you save time and keep your models clean!

Join its community by subscribing to the video channel today!

Rendering and visualization with Rhino and Weviz Studio

Weviz Studio is a new generation of visualization software. Thanks to real-time technology, rendering is now instantaneous! 

Reviewing your designs, validating them, creating smashing 3D presentations and videos is now as easy as a game! Discover the easiest-to-use and most realistic real-time software, especially for design and manufacturing industries.

Easy import from Rhino: Weviz supports 3DM format and many others natively! Drag and drop your 3D projects on Weviz Studio.

Details and download...

Timber gridshell classrooms with Grasshopper: Design, optimization and construction

The students from UPC School MPDA Master's in Parametric Design Architecture 1, which is taught online and at the ETSAV architecture school, have accomplished during the Studio 2 course the design and construction of two timber structures for hosting open-air classrooms in two different schools.

The students followed a program of continuous reviews by international experts on structural design, timber construction, computational geometry, and membrane design. The international group of students solved all the design, structural analysis, numerical fabrication, and construction processes within the Rhinoceros/Grasshopper framework, and finally built it during the face-to-face phase in Barcelona.

Amid several toolsets, the students profusely used Kangaroo 2 for the form finding, and then Kiwi!3D, Karamba3D, and Beaver for the structural analysis.

The Master Parametric Design in Architecture provides a computational design framework for the creation and optimization of lightweight structures with a low ecological footprint. The construction of the classrooms is part of the subject of development of innovation projects in which it is sought to integrate computational geometry, technological efficiency, sustainability and economic viability in real projects that can have a positive impact.

The built classrooms are designed with digital tools aiming to reduce the energy and weight of structures by means of an intensive use of geometry, and are manufactured using numerically controlled machines that allow for fast, efficient and prefabricated production.

The Zollinger open classroom, built at the CanCuní, is a lightweight gridshell of short pieces of birch plywood. The system is loosely based on the traditional Zollinger system which consists of the reciprocal transfer of loads in a short beam system. The challenge is to design and calibrate the required stiffness of a simply manufactured joint to avoid the cost and time of a bracing system.

The 3way open classroom, built at the ETSAV, is an ultra-thin gridshell of long and wide birch plywood 12mm planks. The system is based on the coupling of three families of pseudo-geodesic curves on a common surface that can be built from completely straight and planar planks without any waste. The simple 1D manufacturing technology relies solely on the exact positioning of the holes.

Students: Jorge Adrian Martorell ,Christian Merhej, Rudy Riachy , Alberto Sadun , Marc Serra , Alex Solà, Aitor Vadillo , Luis Ángel Garcia, Khalifa Alkhazriji , Ángel Barrón, Dalia Ezzeddine, Danny Vallejo , Ehsan Naguib, Weston Porter.

International experts: Julian Lienhard , Bending-active, STR.ucture / Universität Kassel, Dragos Naicu, timber gridshells, Anna Bauer, Structural analysis, Kiwi!3D / TUM, Ángel Antequera, Load cases and Wind, CODA /Modularem, Alberto Pugnale, Timber construction, University Melbourne, Almudena Majano, Timber engineering, ETSAM, Antonio Lara, Timber Engineering, ETSAM, Ton Miserachs, Membrane patterning, TP Arquitectura i construcció textil

Academic direction: Gerard Bertomeu, Pep Tornabell, Ramon Sastre, Enrique Soriano (partners at CODA and teachers at Barcelonatech and UPC School)

Acknowledgments: Special thanks to Can Cuní and to ETSAV UPC Architecture school for their support and workshops, Somnis a mida, Camping el Llac, Serge Ferrari for sponsoring the material, Gabarró Hermanos (timber logistics using UPM plywood), Manxa Bricolatge (Hardware), and always thankful to Daniel Piker for the use of Kangaroo.

Photo Credit: Andres Flajszer 

RhinoCAM 2022 announced

MecSoft, the developer of CAM software solutions, has released RhinoCAM 2022. RhinoCAM 2022 is the latest version of MecSoft’s fully integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) plugin for Rhino 6 and 7. 

Release highlights include:

• New saw machining operation
• Enhanced adaptive roughing module
• Upgraded and improved 4-axis machining methods
• Milling tool holder definition for display and collision checks
• Integration of post and G-code in the operation tree in the part file
• Programmable post-processors employing the Python programming language
• Expanded RhinoCAM SDK for automating machining
• Other productivity and user interface enhancements
• Additional enhancements to the G-Code editor and profile nesting modules

For more details, see What’s New in RhinoCAM 2022. Also, you can request your free demo software download of RhinoCAM 2022.