LANDAU has just announced the release of Land Kit 1.3 with several improvements, new features, and new workflow. Are you a Rhino for Mac user? Great news! Their design tools and templates for landscape designers are now available in Rhino 8 for Mac, too.
Yacht 3D Modeling with Rhino – Level 2
The second course of a three-part on-demand video-based series dedicated to Yacht Modeling with Rhinoceros, this course will take you from an intermediate to an advanced level. After taking the course, you will be ready for a real-world experience.
Following is a meeting report for those who could not attend and those who were there and would enjoy a reminder of the presentations. Our thanks to Luca Biselli for his help with the write-up of this meeting.
Takeaways/learning from Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting | November 2023
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As 3D modeling and design become increasingly complex, many designers and engineers turn to cloud-based solutions to streamline their workflows and collaborate more effectively with colleagues, clients, and other stakeholders.
If you are thinking of or currently working on a project that requires running parametric CAD models on the cloud, read the following article. It explores the differences between using Rhino Compute and ShapeDiver through five common use cases.
Read ShapeDiver's full article...
Unleashing Rhino's Power Anywhere, Anytime! Rhino Anywhere revolutionizes Rhino by enabling users to stream a Rhino Instance to the cloud, facilitating complex computations and customized interfaces.
A team of 10 AEC tech professionals developed Rhino Anywhere over 25+ hours during the AEC Tech Hackathon at Thornton Tomasetti’s Offices in New York. Drawing inspiration from pixel streaming technology, the objective was to make Rhino accessible to diverse audiences by designing unique interfaces.
Through Rhino Anywhere, Rhino’s interface can be customized and streamed over an internet connection while maintaining Rhino’s processing power. Imagine large, colorful buttons for children to engage with 3D design, inspiring creativity and learning. Further, the tool allows for custom interfaces catering to individuals with limited hand or arm articulation, fostering inclusivity. Overcoming challenges, the team exemplified the potential to reshape design tools, emphasizing adaptability, creativity, and accessibility in the 3D world.
Jevero, the pattern-making plugin for Rhino, has recently introduced a series of exciting new features.
As part of the three updates/year schedule, this update encompasses various enhancements in both Jevero and JeveroCost, offering users a fresh set of tools to improve pattern-making and cost calculation.
One of the main topics is the compatibility with the new Rhino 8 release.
Un-tutorials. What? It's an educational series based on TV episode logic, not the typical tutorial pattern. Showing a real-case scenario using Rhino, Giuseppe and Beatrice talk through their process of designing a ring, a real-life scenario.
They go through the briefing in Episode 1 to create the first sketches in pencil and paper. Then, they move on to Rhino to model the outer shell of the ring and the curves used as guides for the stone placement.
Episode 2 shows the same workflow (getting the curves and placing the stones) in the Grasshopper parametric environment.
In Episode 3, Giuseppe and Beatrice refine the Grasshopper definition, placing and orienting the actual stones to get to a finished product, ending the video with a few renderings.
Like that TV series you watch, there is more to come later.
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The Haidari project in Greece is a testament to the power of Rhino's tools in reshaping urban environments and embracing the future of urban design. As cities worldwide grapple with the challenges of the 21st century, Haidari stands at the forefront, a shining example of how Rhino's capabilities extend beyond software, influencing positive change in the very fabric of our cities.
In the early 1960s, a 23-year-old audacious McGill University architectural student submitted his master's thesis, a novel, mixed-use community, to the Montreal Expo 67. The result was Habitat 67, and the architect gained international renown. The architect was Moshe Safdie.
Moshe Safdie designed the 1000-unit high-quality housing for a dense Montreal urban environment. One of the first mixed-use concepts for the time, Habitat 67 incorporated residential units, office spaces, hotels, schools, museums, and more into its self-contained community. This practice is now commonplace, but at the time, it represented a radical departure from prevailing architectural practices. Another novel idea was the prefabricated apartments, which were assembled on-site. And each apartment included a roof garden and natural lighting.
Despite being a landmark in architectural history and inspiring countless architects, Habitat 67 is primarily considered an unfinished dream. The built Habitat was scaled back to 158 residences, less than half the original size.
What if Habitat 67 had completed the original design? Now you can find out. The creative agency Neoscape, in collaboration with Safdie Architects, has illustrated the original project digitally.
Using Unreal Engine 5, The Hillside Sample Project is a virtual recreation of Moshe Safdie's original vision for Habitat 67, made with Unreal Engine and RealityCapture.
The model was built in Rhino and 3ds Max using basic materials and then imported into Unreal Engine 5 using Datasmith.
The model is available for anyone to explore via the Hillside Sample Project.
Learn more details and explore the walkthrough...
In this interview, ShapeDiver covers the fundamental aspects of WASP's journey, including the company's origins and its team, as well as the practical applications of their technology across various industries. It also explores the functionalities of their online configurators, including their capabilities for users to export G-code compatible with DeltaWASP printers. The decision to use Grasshopper and ShapeDiver sheds light on how these tools enhance the user experience and open up new design possibilities.
Accelerating Sustainability in Fashion, Clothing & Textiles is a thirty-four-chapter book that collates leading-edge research and industry best practices to provide a ‘one-stop shop’ exploring the complex and interconnected issues surrounding sustainability in fashion, clothing, and textiles. The practical and digestible chapters include innovative examples and perspectives from different regions of the globe, addressing topics from policies to supply chain issues and materials innovation.
Chapter 31, Fashion Ex Machina: Human–Machine Collaboration to Support Sustainability through Customized Design and Production, written by Elizabeth Bigger et al., discusses transitions toward sustainable bespoke production for Industry 5.0, agile fashion system requirements, emerging processes, and human-machine collaboration.
Elizabeth’s work with generative garment design for sustainability is discussed using Grasshopper in Rhino. Parametric fashion patterns created in Grasshopper then use the generative evolutionary solver Galapagos for multi-objective optimization of the garment design. The fashion industry is a wicked problem because of the interdependent factors of garment design and production that create significant climate problems (6-10% of global emissions). Using Galapagos for multi-objective optimization solves many interdependent sustainable design issues at once in the design phase.
The book was edited by Professor Martin Charter, Dr. Bernice Pan, and Professor Sandy Black and is available from Rutledge Publishing UK.
In this webinar, Junghwo Park will present the dynamic and instant data interpolation using Rhino and Grasshopper between various BIM applications, such as VisualARQ, Autodesk Revit, Inventor, Solidworks, and Tekla Structure. Participants will encounter various use cases in which highly segmented construction data are exchanged from the design phase to the realization phase and how the graphical and non-graphical data is federated as structured information. This sounds like nothing different than our daily struggles. However, the parametric BIM pipeline will help to revise the multi-disciplinary BIM coordination seamlessly and instantly.
About the speaker:
Notilus plugins are tailored to meet the needs of the maritime industry. Trusted by industry leaders, these tools empower you to expedite your design processes, reduce errors, and bring your projects to life faster.
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