RhinoFabStudio and ART - Certification Online Training

   

If you are an ART Authorized Rhino Trainer, welcome to the on-site Digital Fabrication to all Certified RhinoFabStudios. Please update your information on the following form.

Update information for your RhinoFabStudio.

If you are not an ART Authorized Rhino Trainer, join us in our Online ART Training next week. Your certification will allow you to stand apart from others offering Rhino training. Remember, becoming an ART is a prerequisite in applying to become a Certified RhinoFabStudio.

This may be the only class offered this year, so hurry!

See details, sign-up, and outline.

When? March 20-24, 2023

Time? 9 am-1 pm PDT
Where? Online live-stream via Zoom

See the ART Requirements for all Regions.

Register now!

Questions? Contact Lucia Miguel at lucia@mcneel.com

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Getting to know... Cake Houses: Modular Wooden Houses!

Cake Houses is a Czech startup looking to disrupt how small family houses are designed and assembled. They aim to drastically reduce design and construction times by using parametric design and CNC machines. In this way, they are trying to counter some of the biggest problems of the construction industry, like the complexity of working with multiple vendors and contractors. 

Thanks to Grasshopper and ShapeDiver, their customers can easily view and examine their designs in 3D  in an easy, fast, practical, and fun way. 

Read the complete article...

Webinar: Wacom + RhinoCAM (in Spanish) - May 27, 2021

Webinar: Wacom con RhinoCAM 2021
May 27 at 10:00 am CEST

Icreatia has organized a new webinar where you will learn how to combine modeling in Rhino with Wacom tablet and milling with RhinoCAM.

Complete info and registration (in Spanish)...

Creating A Trailer Tarpaulin Configurator w/ Rhino Grasshopper & ShapeDiver!

Planen Planen is revolutionizing the purchasing and manufacturing process of trailer tarpaulins. By incorporating parametric design, an online application, and CNC machines, this company new leads the B2B tarpaulin configurator space. The development was in charge of Vorhammer Computational Design in Germany.

In this video, ShapeDiver interviews Christian Stegmaier, Simon Vorhammer, and Amlis Botsch to learn more about this project, how it was built, and how it's becoming a game-changer in the tarpaulin marketplace. If you ever wondered what goes behind the scenes when creating a world-class online configurator powered by Grasshopper and ShapeDiver, then this is it.

BobCAM For Rhino

BobCAM for Rhino is the newest CAM software plugin for Rhino 6 or 7 users, created by BobCAD-CAM, Inc.

BobCAM’s powerful features and toolpath technology are now available in Rhino's native design environment. Providing more toolpath options and better workflow to create a toolpath, verify programs, and post to CNC equipment.

 BobCAM for Rhino Modules include:

• 3-5 Axis Milling
• 2 Axis for Turning
• Mill Turn
• Wire EDM
• Probing
• BobART
• NC Editor Professional
• Machine Simulation

Download a free demo here!

Check out the BobCAM for Rhino getting started videos!

Questions? Contact sales at sales@bobcad.com

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

Fly over water

 

Fly over water with Lift hydrofoil surfboards!

No wind? No waves? No problem. Check out Lift, a family-run business operating out of Puerto Rico dedicated to building hydrofoil surfboards, both powered and non-powered. Lift uses high-tech lithium battery packs and carbon fiber hydrofoils to surf over the water and make everyone feel that they are flying. 

Cofounder Nick Leason, an engineer and avid surfer, came up with the idea for the original eFoil. He applied the technology from smartphones, electric vehicles, and even drones into a board that would let its rider fly above any body of water without needing to be propelled by wind or waves. Nick and the designers use Rhino to develop the boards, hydrofoils, motors, and tools and use RhinoCAM for CNC operations.

Follow them on social media @liftfoils

Watch this video...

Questions? Contact Nick Leason at info@liftfoils.com 

Interested in becoming a RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio® (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer-controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

Controlmad Master Course in Parametric Design (Madrid, Spain)

Controlmad Master Course in Parametric Design

Madrid, Spain

March-June 2020

*Important: This edition has been postponed due to the COVID-19 situation. If you are interested in the new dates, please email formacion@controlmad.com.

A unique study program in the world that introduces you to parametric design and digital manufacturing in product design, architecture, landscape, digital fabrication... through the creation of physical and digital parametric models using as main tools Grasshopper for Rhino and our CNC machines (Computer Numerical Control).

The course is divided into five groups with several units. The aim of every unit is that students can learn new parametric tools based on Grasshopper.

• GROUP I - NURBS modeling (Rhino, Grasshopper)
• GROUP II - Digital Fabrication (visits to outstanding parametric buildings)
• GROUP III - Mesh modeling (Grasshopper for organic design, structural analysis, and form-finding)
• GROUP IV - Interoperability (Grasshopper and its connection with Arduino, sensors, data from the Internet, Python...)
• GROUP V - Thesis (individual work on the main interests of the student based on the previous units + V-Ray for rendering)

For parametric fabrication, the course uses a CNC 3 axis milling machine large size, 3D printers FDM and a Trotec Laser machine. Material prototyping is included in the course.

Complete details and registration...

Call for Projects - Digital Fabrication Showcase

To all our Certified RhinoFabStudios, ARTCs, and ARTs, we want to thank you and express our appreciation for all the work that you do.

We are creating a portfolio called Digital Fabrication Showcase that aims to include outstanding computational designed projects manufactured in these centers around the world. We would like to display your activities and developments in our digital design and manufacturing groups, blogs, and social networks. Your ideas as indicators of the 4th industrial revolution we are all experiencing, where technology, collaborative platforms, and talent come together to generate new models, products, and solutions.

If you are a Certified RhinoFabStudio, ARTC, or ART, please share with us your most remarkable projects so that we can include them in the portfolio. Use one or more of these templates per project. We must receive your proposals by December 15, 2019, to include your projects in the portfolio. You can download some template samples of PDF files already filled in with projects.

For more information and to send your PDFs to be included in
the portfolio, please contact Jackie Nasser and Lucia Miguel.

What is RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer-controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

To become a Certified RhinoFabStudio, visit this link!

Generative design & fabrication workshop in Cluj-Napoca Romania

The event is open to all design enthusiasts and especially for those who want to dive into parametric generation and fabrication fast by means of Grasshopper and Rhinoceros.

The aim is to present form generation and fabrication techniques assisted by algorithms. The workshop will introduce an entire flow, from start to finish, in generating and producing an architectural complex shape. Final physical prototyping will be achieved using a CNC laser machine.

The workshop is aimed at all professional fields (designers, architects, artists, engineers, etc.) and it is open to anyone with a passion for design, technology or the “maker” culture. Maximum number of participants is 15 and a minimum of 10.


Tutors

• Andrei Nejur - architect with 14 years of experience in architecture and education, researcher and expert in computational and generative design. Author of the Ivy for Grasshopper plugin.

• Adrian Bizau - fresh architect and specialist in computational design.

More information and registration here...

MAGIX-LOCK, the magic closure system

MAGIX-LOCK PROTOTYPES from imagodesign on Vimeo.

The MAGIX-LOCK closure system is a patented innovation taking advantage of the power of magnets. Instead of the normal attraction of magnets, the magnets are reversed and repel each other forcing the object to lock in place. Once the female and the male parts of the closure system are joined and locked, they can be released by applying force on the male part to unlock the system.

The preliminary design concept served as the first step in the production process of the prototypes. The analog sketches were transferred to the digital space and constructed precisely in 3D by using Rhinoceros. The first generation of prototypes in different variations was 3D printed based on the Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) and manually assembled with efficient Neodymium magnets. Based on the result of the first generation prototypes, the 3D models were further optimized in material thickness and fabrication tolerances in Rhinoceros. 

The second generation of the improved prototypes was cast using the Lost-wax technique, which better reflected the precise feel of the final materials and appearance. 

The current third generation of the prototypes has been completely re-engineered, improved in functionality, and constructed to be produced entirely with CNC milling, which is focusing on mass production. Rhinoceros has been an integral part of the design and construction process which served as a direct output for the final fabrication process (sketch-construction-production).

This simplicity of the MAGIX-LOCK functional design opens up a whole new line of closure systems, ranging from watches, jewelry, bags, helmets, and many more.

MAGIX-LOCK official website...

Workshop: Digital Design and Fabrication of Timber Plate Structures

Digital Design and Fabrication of Timber Plate Structures

August 15, 2019

University of Sydney

Date: Thursday, August 15, 2019
Location: University of Sydney, The School of Architecture, Design and Planning
148 City Rd, Darlington, NSW 2008
Workshop: 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Public Lecture: 6:30 PM–7:30 PM

This two-hour continuing professional development course and one-hour public lecture will introduce computational design strategies for cutting-edge timber building technologies, including digital fabrication of integral timber joints and closed-loop digital design workflow for timber plate structures.

Traditional wood joinery techniques have been successfully employed for hundreds of years in the construction of tall timber structures. Due to a resurgence in mass timber construction and a proliferation of CNC fabrication machinery, these integral joints are again an economical and performative way to construct timber buildings.

Appropriately designed, integral joints introduce many structural and constructability benefits. These include greater control over part tolerances and mechanical behaviors, self-aligning and self-locking features for faster assembly, and reduced part production cost through optimization of material use and CNC fabrication time.

Such benefits can only be realized with a high degree of coordination between the designer, fabricator, and builder. In this course, participants develop the skills required to achieve such coordination and deliver cutting-edge, digitally-integrated timber buildings.

Oslo's Technical Museum Foyer

Reception desk. Photo by Oliver T. Edwards.

Siemen Cuypers was one of the designers on this fun project, the Technical Museum Foyer. It’s the recently opened reception and shop of the technical museum in Oslo.

Using Rhino to create the structures, Siemen Cuypers did the 3D-modeling and CNC file preparation, and part of the CNC production. He provided assembly guides for Artisan Tech, the skilled people assembling, installing, and finishing the structures.

Cog reception desk

See more illustrations, details, and photos, including a moose for your shoes.

The Central Plaza Rayong

Central Plaza Rayong in Rayong, Thailand, by Synthesis Design

Situated just south of Bangkok, Central Plaza Rayong's shopping mall attracts passers-by with its bright, vibrant facade.

Using Grasshopper, the Synthesis Design designers developed the series of surfaces for the shopping building facade. The facade is a series of undulating 2D CNC plasma cut aluminum profiles. Mirrored and nested, the waves appear to shapeshift as one drives by.

A few more details...

Minor in Creative Code for Design

CENTRO is an institution of higher education located in Mexico City and dedicated to professional creativity. Join their Minor in Creative Code for Design and learn to use tools such as Processing, Rhino, and Grasshopper for the creation of 2D patterns and 3D objects, as well as generative design for the production of graphics, objects, and spaces.

Participants will create printed and manufactured objects with digital manufacturing technologies such as CNCs, 3D printers, laser cutting. 

The minor consists of two semesters. Register now!

Dates: 
First Semester: January 28-June 5
Second Semester: August 12-November 27

Time: Monday and Wednesday from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Place: Av. Constituyentes 455, Mexico City

Fee: 120,000 pesos, total cost. Divided into two semesters.

For more information please contact Rosa Piqueras Calero.

What is a RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

Streamlining original furniture design and production

Oakland-based MU Form designs, fabricates, and distributes furniture products for the modern home and business. MU Form strives to produce original pieces, often incorporating many curves and flowing surfaces. So, the primary material MU Form works with is high-quality bent ply, one of the most widely used materials in the industry due to its ability to create a variety of shapes for chairs, stools, and tables.

Formerly, MU Form shipped a physical prototype model to a factory overseas to reverse engineer the model by using a router duplicator to create a wood mold. The process included much trial and error and lacked efficiency in fine-tuning the curvatures and surfaces.

Recently, MU Form started outsourcing its 3D model making services to Artec in Palo Alto, California, changing its workflow process to:

• The furniture designer develops the physical prototype of a furniture piece. 
• The prototype is 3D scanned with Artec Eva to reverse engineer the piece.
• The raw point data is used to create contours in Rhino to accurately model every nuance in curvatures and radii.
• The 3D model is emailed to the factory which creates an accurate CNC metal mold directly from the file. 

The result is a final model that has been minimally altered to remove the prototype’s defects. The time for creating a mold has gone from 60-90 days to 20 days, and savings are estimated to reach 10-15%.

More details on the prototype process...

Parametric Furniture design - Cali, Colombia

Motsi Parametric Design is a company that specializes in the production of parametric furniture and lightning in Colombia. Their latest initiative has been to create a line that offers pieces with a high degree of original and organic design.  They wanted to achieve a level of innovation that escapes the typical right angles, to generate free forms inspired by nature while innovating how a table is perceived by combining the morphological beauty of Colombian nature with the technical advantages of parametric design and digital production.

With Rhino and Grasshopper they have been able to experiment with the different possibilities of segmentation and sizing of the tables. These digital tools have enabled them to separate the vectors of each serial plane, and proceed to cut them in a CNC machine.

To see more of their work follow Motsi Parametric Design on Facebook and Instagram: @motsi.design

For more information, please contact Fabian Cardona at  +57 318 4001784
or email motsi.parametric@gmail.com.

What is a RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication Workshop

Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication Workshop (beginner + intermediate)

Date: November 16-21

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Course fee: USD 439,- (early bird first ten applications), regular USD 519,-

Max. number of participants: 30

Language: English

ParametricSupport and ThinkParametric will tutor a parametric design and digital fabrication workshop this fall in Mexico City.

The workshop introduces freeform modeling using Rhino and visual programming with Grasshopper. Participants will model/ program a spatial structure and generate 2D documentation and fabrication files. A CNC-milling machine is available to produce construction elements for assembly.

Please bring your laptop with Rhinoceros and Grasshopper installed.

Sign up here...

Grasshopper Workshop in Mexico by Darco and McNeel Miami

Darco is a digital architecture consulting company. They provide solutions for architecture, engineering, design, modeling and animation for professional development. 

Darco (CDMX, México) invites you to join their Grasshopper Workshop in October led by RhinoFabStudio Director and Rhino and Grasshopper specialist, Andres Gonzalez! 

The workshop is for architects, product designers, jewelers, and designers in general. Participants will be able to create their own definitions in order to speed up the design in their respective areas of work. Also, exciting topics like “Data Tree” will be presented.

Basic knowledge of Rhino is required for this course.

Location: Ejército Nacional 373- 403, Col Granada,
Del. Miguel Hidalgo CDMX, México

Date: October 16-17, 2017

Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Fee: $5,750 MN + IVA

Register here!

For more information and to register please contact Claudia Perez.

What is a RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

Digital Design and Fabrication of Timber Plate Structures

Digital Design and Fabrication of Timber Plate Structures

In this one-day continuing professional development course, Joe Gattas, Kim Baber (UQ Brisbane), and Christopher Robeller (DTC Kaiserslautern) will introduce computational design strategies for cutting-edge timber building technologies, including digital fabrication of integral timber joints and end-to-end digital design workflows for timber plate structures. This includes:

• An introduction to engineered wood products (EWPs), mass timber structures, and CNC timber manufacturing
• Parametric design of integral mechanical joints for various types of timber constructions
• The design workflow for a simple structure using 2D parts and joints

An example will use the Rhino/Grasshopper Digital Fabrication Toolbox. We recommend that the participants in the workshop have a basic understanding of Rhino and Grasshopper. 

Date: July 23, 2018

Venue: University of Queensland, Centre for Future Timber Structures, Brisbane

More information...

Registration...