food4Rhino webinar: Flow – Crowd Simulation and Evacuation Planning in Grasshopper (Nov 27, 2024 at 5PM CET)

food4Rhino webinar: Flow – Crowd Simulation and Evacuation Planning in Grasshopper
Nov 27, 2024 at 5PM CET

Join us for a live webinar introducing Flow, a new Grasshopper plug-in designed for advanced crowd simulation and evacuation analysis.

Flow integrates seamlessly with Rhino, allowing designers and engineers to easily update their simulations by adjusting geometry directly in Rhino. Learn how Flow can help you simulate the movement of people in various scenarios, from routine pedestrian flow to emergency evacuations, while providing real-time feedback and optimization. Discover how Flow can enhance your design process, improve safety compliance, and streamline crowd management strategies.

This session will include a live demonstration, key features overview, and a Q&A with the developer.

Bio: Gianluca Casalnuovo is a computational designer, building engineer, and architect, currently based in Dubai, UAE, and working as Lead Computational Engineer at Zutari Middle East. With expertise in computational design, Gianluca focuses on integrating information to establish connections between behavior programming, form organization, and generated influences. He is skilled in 3D modeling and programming across platforms such as Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, and C#, with a strong passion for geometry, mathematics, and cutting-edge constructive-mechanical systems. After earning a master’s degree in Building Engineering-Architecture from Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Gianluca has worked with leading international firms, including Arup, Jacobs Engineering, and Maffeis Engineering, contributing to high-profile projects. His work spans parametric design, complex algorithm development, and automating design processes, helping streamline workflows and enhance efficiency.

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Black Friday Discounts on Online Courses - Rhino3D.Education

 It is that time of year, and Rhino3D Education has two fantastic Black Friday deals for you!

Enjoy the most significant discount of the year with our Black Friday sale!

Take advantage of a limited-time offer: enjoy 40% off our Micro-Minors! To redeem your discount, please use the coupon code BLACKFRIDAY40OFF at checkout. We offer three Micro-Minors in English and three in Spanish. 

Please select the Micro-Minor you are interested in from the options provided here. 

Also, enjoy 30% off each of our courses. Use the coupon code BLACKFRIDAY30OFF, to receive your discount.

This limited-time offer won’t last long! Explore our various courses here.

Courses will be available to stream for two years after purchase.

The offer expires on December 10, 2024.

Questions? Contact us

Getting to know… RE:Ukraine Villages: Rebuilding Ukraine with Grasshopper!

Explore how balbek bureau, an award-winning interior design and architecture practice from Kyiv, uses Grasshopper and ShapeDiver to preserve Ukraine’s cultural identity through the RE: Ukraine Villages project. This online configurator empowers users to design and rebuild traditional Ukrainian homes, honoring regional architectural heritage while addressing the challenges of post-war recovery.

While Grasshopper’s parametric modeling enabled the creation of over 200 million unique house configurations, streamlining complex workflows, ShapeDiver brought this vision online, delivering an intuitive, interactive tool accessible to experts and non-experts.

Discover how this project is combining innovation and tradition to shape the future of reconstruction and cultural preservation.

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Footwearise (December 2-3, 2024) - Barcelona

Footwearise
Barcelona

December 2-3, 2024

Footwearise, hosted by international innovation platform Footwearology, unites all companies that are striving towards a common goal: to produce footwear close to market, on demand, with options for customization, from renewable and regenerative materials, including feasible and profitable retail and end of life systems. The event includes an exhibition, conference and networking opportunities, as well as a curriculum of workshops and demos in the days after.

The focus is NOT just on 3D printing but also on knitting, molding and any other technology or software that aims to improve to way we design, manufacture, use and re-use shoes.

The first edition in September 2023 was completely sold out and a spin-off event in Portland (USA) in January 2024 was so successful that we are now expanding and using even more space in our beautiful location.

Footwearise is not a traditional tradeshow. Instead, we are focusing on sharing knowledge and making effective connections between exhibitors, speakers and visitors that speed up progress for the whole industry. The first edition of the event last year September led to a multitude of fruitful collaborations that we are proud to show this time!

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Video tutorial by Agata Kycia: Learn Technical Drawings using Layouts in Rhino

 

Learn Technical Drawings using Layouts in Rhino 3D:

Generating 2D Drawings from 3D Models

Tutor: Agata Kycia

Easy-to-follow video tutorials

In this beginner-friendly course, you’ll learn how to create and extract technical drawings from 3D models in Rhinoceros, an essential skill for effective communication in design, architecture, and engineering. The course will cover everything you need to know about setting up scales, dimensions, annotations, lineweights, and linetypes to transform your 3D models into clear and professional technical drawings.

The course is led by Agata Kycia, an architect and researcher with over 14 years of experience in Rhinoceros. Agata specializes in computational design, digital fabrication, and material science. She earned her doctorate from TU Berlin for research on self-shaping textiles and currently teaches CAD and generative design at the International University.

You will learn: 

• Create a 3D model of a bottle and use Rhino’s Layouts to extract various 2D drawings, including plans, sections, elevations, and perspective views
• Divide complex 3D models into smaller parts to create detailed cutaway sections and exploded-view drawings, ideal for explaining intricate designs
• Gain valuable skills in generating clear 2D drawings for effective communication of your ideas, whether you’re working in architecture, design, engineering, or as a hobbyist

Requirements: No prior experience with Rhinoceros is necessary as this class is designed for beginners. For the course, you can use Rhino versions 6, 7, and 8.

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Webinar: Simulation for Buildings & Cities: The Latest in the Rhino® & Grasshopper Ecosystem (Dec 3, 2024 at 3PM CET/9AM ET)

Webinar: Simulation for Buildings & Cities: The Latest in the Rhino® & Grasshopper Ecosystem
Dec 3, 2024 at 3PM CET/9AM ET

Rhino® & Grasshopper have become standard tools for the AEC computational designer. With recent advances in AI integration and API access for third-party tools, join this webinar to learn about the latest plug-ins and workflows for urban microclimate, building, and system simulation.

Our guest presenters (Jeroen Janssen from Thornton Tomasetti, Joel Lopez from LINK Arkitektur and Richard Szoeke-Schuller from Simscale) will showcase how they have developed bespoke simulation tools and workflows including:

• Microclimate simulation in Rhino®.
• Outdoor thermal comfort workflows for evaluating heat and cold stress.
• How they have used third-party tools like Speckle, BIM, and data visualization to augment their team knowledge, skills, and processes.

About SimScale

SimScale is the world’s first cloud-native SaaS engineering simulation platform, giving engineers and designers immediate access to digital prototyping early in the design stage, throughout the entire R&D cycle, and across the entire enterprise. By providing instant access to a single fluid, thermal, and structural simulation tool built on the latest cloud computing technology, SimScale has moved high-fidelity physics simulation technology from a complex and cost-prohibitive desktop application to a user-friendly web application, accessible to any designer and engineer in the world.

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Grasshopper Level 3 online course, December 2-4 2024 (McNeel Europe)

 

Grasshopper Level 3 

Online Workshop

Tutor: Ping-Hsiang Chen

2-4 December 2024

10:00 am-5:00 pm CET (Barcelona)

Hosted on Zoom by McNeel Europe

The upcoming Grasshopper Level 3 Course is for professionals seeking to broaden their understanding of Grasshopper in the design and production process. For three days, participants will have the opportunity to delve into advanced techniques in design and production under the guidance of Ping- Hsiang Chen, a former senior architect at Zaha Hadid with over 10 years of computational design experience. This course focuses on geometric manipulation, data-driven analytical approaches, advanced geometry creation with feedback loops, collaboration in data-driven workflows, and automation in Grasshopper.

On completion of this course, participants will learn:

• Gain better control over complex geometries
• Integrate advanced techniques in geometry creation through the implementation of feedback loops
• Automate design processes and create custom extended functions
• Foster collaboration within data-driven workflows for optimized outcomes

Day 1

• Complex Geometry Modelling Overview
• Volumetric Modeling Techniques using Mesh and SubD
• Advanced Geometry Modification Methods
• Iterative Modelling
• Branch Structure and Fractals

Day 2

• Introduction to physics-based modeling
• Form Finding with Goals and Forces
• Understanding Constraints and Element Interaction
• Encode Material Behavior into Geometries
• An Overview of Generative Design
• Single and Multi-objective Optimization with Evolutionary Algorithms

Day 3

• Data Visualization
• Creation of a Web-based Viewer for Data Sharing and Visualization
• Code Reusability and Custom Function
• Collaborative Workflow Introduction
• Grasshopper Players
• Q&A Session and Course Recap

Course requirements: Experience using Grasshopper in a professional context or at an intermediate level. Software requirement: Rhino 8

Online course fees for each course: EUR 395,- (+VAT); full-time students and university teachers get a 50% discount (proof of status required). Please note that we will confirm your seat after your payment has cleared.

Maximum number of participants for each course: 25. If there is no quorum, the course will be canceled 15 days before.

Course language: English

Educational seats are limited. Sign up now by contacting Verena!

Rhino User Webinar: A Music Video Made with Grasshopper

Rhino User Webinar
A Music Video Made with Grasshopper
20 November 2024 at 6:00 pm (CET)

In this webinar, Simon Aulis Kallioinen will demonstrate the process of creating the music video for his song “Nutritious Soil.” The video was made using Grasshopper and is entirely based on line graphics. It utilizes skeleton tracking data from a Kinect and heavily relies on MIDI data from the actual recording of the song to trigger the graphics and events. 

The webinar will provide an overview of the Grasshopper script, as well as delve into techniques relevant to creating animations in Grasshopper, such as triggering events from timecode, creating smooth transitions, and incorporating data from external formats -such as MIDI data- into time cues in Grasshopper.

About the speaker:

• Simon Aulis Kallioinen is an architect at FOJAB in Stockholm, Sweden. He primarily focuses on analysis tools, computational design, and carbon footprint calculations, using Grasshopper as his main tool. He is also a passionate musician and songwriter under the alias Simon Aulis, with the piano as his primary instrument.
  YouTube: Simon Aulis Music
  Instagram: simonaulis

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Getting to know… Vivobarefoot: The Scan-to-Production Footwear Revolution!

In footwear design, innovation often means moving beyond traditional approaches, a path that Pete Davis, Computational Systems Lead at Vivobarefoot, knows well. With a background in professional breakdancing, Davis has introduced a fresh perspective to Vivobarefoot's BIOME innovation lab, leading the development of the VivoBiome line. Using advanced tools like 3D scanning, AI, and parametric modeling, Vivobarefoot is reimagining custom-fit footwear. In his recent interview with ShapeDiver, Davis shares insights into the digital tools and strategies driving this transformation, illustrating the potential of computational design in creating more tailored, sustainable shoes.

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Rhino Kaffeeklatsch in Graz - November 7, 2024

Come join 3D Base and McNeel Europe for a Rhino Kaffeeklatsch in Graz on November 7, 2024, from 3 to 6PM.

An informal gathering of Rhino and Grasshopper users in the fields of AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction) and Design.

Location:

Regus - Graz, Smart City
Business Lounge, 1st Floor
Waagner-Biro-Straße 47/1
8020 Graz

Date & Time:

November 7, 2024
15:00 - 18:00

Agenda:

15:00 - Welcome
15:10 - 17:10 - Presentations
17:10 - 18:00 - Open Discussion + Networking

Speakers & Topics:

15:10 - 15:40 - Carlos Pérez Albà (McNeel Europe) on What's New at McNeel
15:40 - 16:10 - Extended Functions in Revit through Rhino.Inside by Arch. Armin Ibounigg from ai-d architektur
16:10 - 16:40 - Dipl. Ing. (FH) Petrus Gartler from PERZ+GARTLER
16:40 - 17:10 - Arch. Martin Pomberger from architecture_nomad

Language: German and English

Included: Kaffee & Kuchen

We look forward to your participation!

Free registration here...