HIGH-LOW: AA São Paulo workshop

HIGH-LOW: AA Design Workshop
Location: Escola São Paulo
Dates: 12-21 July 2011

Open to design professionals and students from all over the world, this studio-based summer workshop will include instruction in parametric modeling, environmental simulation, and digital fabrication. Attendees will use Rhino, Grasshopper, GECO, and Galapagos software programs and have access to a laser cutter, CNC milling, and rapid-prototyping machines.

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3D Print Mold for Plastic Injection

Visit RhinoFabLab to learn how to use your 3D printer to build molds for plastic injection. Paulo Kiefe of Creative Tools has been testing some new processes for printing molds ready for plastic injection on a Z Corp 3D printer.

Here is what Paulo has learned so far...

RhinoFabLab workshop in Chile

Dum-Dum Lab continues their parametric design workshop series, Responsive Skins. You are invited to participate in the next session which will be held in Concepción, Chile. More...

Dates: May 30-June 3
Location: Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile

Details and registration...

Univ of New Mexico is a new RhinoFabLab

We'd like to introduce you to the University of New Mexico, School of Architecture + Planning. Please join us in welcoming UNM/SA+P as a new Authorized RhinoFabLab.

Rhino Development Team member, Rajaa Issa, will visit SA+P on Thursday, May 19th to discuss parametric concepts in design as well as architectural plug-ins for Rhino, PanelingTools and SectionTools.


What is a RhinoFabLab?
A RhinoFabLab™ (fabrication laboratory) 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.

3D Digital Fabrication Certification in Medellín

3D Digital Fabrication Certification
Dates: May 16-August 1
Location: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín

In this certification program participants learn about new CAD/CAM technologies, focused on the relationship of design and digital fabrication. At the RhinoFabLab - UPB, participants will have the opportunity to have a hands-on experience with new machines, new software, and advanced techniques. Courses are focused on teaching design processes in industrial design and architecture using digital fabrication.

Topics include:

• 3D digital modeling
• Optimization in digital cutting processes
• New rapid manufacturing environments
• Parametric and generative processes - Grasshopper
• Digital Representation Project

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Dum-Dum Workshop Series 1, Chile

The Dum-Dum Workshop Series 1 (WS1) will be held in Temuco, Chile, the week of April 25-29, 2011.

While using Rhino and Grasshopper, learn how to develop Responsive Skins through the manipulation of generative design strategies. These skins are a new type of structure capable of adapting to different geometric and topological configurations over their environment. WS1 participants will also learn to develop mapping and diagramming tools, including environmental agents (solar radiation intensity, orientation, etc.) and human interaction patterns (pedestrian flows, levels of occupancy, etc).

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HIGH-LOW: AA São Paulo workshop

HIGH-LOW: AA Design Workshop

• Location: Escola São Paulo


• Dates: 12-21 July 2011

Open to design professionals and students from all over the world, this studio-based summer workshop will include instruction in parametric modeling, environmental simulation, and digital fabrication. Attendees will use Rhino, Grasshopper, GECO, and Galapagos software programs and have access to a laser cutter, CNC milling, and rapid-prototyping machines.

Details...

RhinoFabLab at Univ of Florida

We'd like to introduce you to the University of Florida School of Architecture. Please join us in welcoming UF/SoA as a new Authorized RhinoFabLab.

What is a RhinoFabLab?

A RhinoFabLab™ (fabrication laboratory) 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.

Authorized RhinoFabLab™ program launched

What is an Authorized RhinoFabLab?

An Authorized RhinoFabLab™ (fabrication laboratory) 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. A RhinoFabLab's primary mission is to share the world's digital fabrication expertise in their local community.

An Authorized RhinoFabLab also:

• Is recognized as a leading-edge provider of industrial grade digital design, analysis, and fabrication expertise.
• Has all of their events and activities published to a worldwide audience.
• Has worldwide access to the specialty experts in every aspect of digital design, analysis, and fabrication.
• Has direct access with many of the digital design, analysis, and fabrication product development teams.

Becoming an Authorized RhinoFabLab

All Rhino ARTs and ARTCs encouraged to apply. Details here...

Join the RhinoFabLab community

The RhinoFabLab community is a place to share, learn and teach different methods of fabrication for industrial designers, jewelers, architects, and engineers when Rhinoceros is involved in any phase of the design and manufacturing/construction process. It is also a great place to share information about digital fabrication hardware, digital models and Grasshopper definitions.

RhinoFabLab is open to everyone and encourages discussions about any Rhino compatible software and hardware that helps you realize your ideas.

Andres Gonzalez, in the McNeel Miami office, is your host.

Visit www.RhinoFabLab.com

Fab Boot Camp at FabLab Barcelona (Jan 10-14)

Fab Boot Camp at FabLab Barcelona
Jan 10-14

One week crash course in Fab Lab tools and processes by the gurus of the Fab Lab network. For new Fab Lab managers, teachers, and people who want a fast training course.

The Boot Camp is a short duration workshop on Fab Lab management, processes and project development. The goal of Boot Camps is to offer short term training for future Lab Managers, fabricators and creators around the world. The Boot Camp is developed by the Fab Labs in the worldwide network, provided with equipment and tutors dedicated (almost) 24/7 for an intense workshop on Digital Fabrication.

Details and registration...

See also this nice wiki with Digital Fabrication links...

Parametric Design Workshop - Celaya, Mexico

This three-day Parametric Design Workshop is primarily for architects and designers interested in learning parametric design and creating generative algorithms to implement in their various design processes. The course will cover basic concepts and tackle design projects through the development of algorithmic tools using Rhino and Grasshopper.

Register...

Dates: October 29-31, 2010
Location: Universidad de Celaya, Celaya, Mexico

2nd Rhino Day TU Graz - Ffnal program

3D Base invites you to the 2nd Rhino Day at the TU Graz on the 20th October 2010, which will take place at the Inffeldgasse 25/D from 13:30 to 18:00h.

Block 1 - 13:30 - 15:30h:

• Inside Rhinoceros.
  Carlos Pérez von McNeel Europe
• R(e)thinking Academic Series. Evolution of flat-panel tessellation for free-form surfaces.
  Prof. Emmanuel Ruffo Calderon Dominguez von R(e)thinking Architecture
• Rhinoceros 3D als Softwareumgebung für die digitale Produktion geometrisch anspruchsvoller Architekturentwürfe.
  Dipl.-Ing. Martin Reis von TU-Wien Institut für Diskrete Mathematik und Geometrie
• Der Einsatz von Rhinoceros 3D in der Architekturlehre.
  Dipl. Ing. Christian Freissling von Institut für Architektur und Medien TU Graz

Kaffepause: 15:30 bis 16:00h

Block 2 - 16:00 - 18:00h:

• Modellierung eines Katamaranes sowie schwimmender Ferienhäuser mit Rhinoceros 3D.
  Armin Ibounigg von Ai-design
• Modellierungsprozeß einer Ameise im FabLab des Ars Electronica Centers Linz: Skizze, Freiformmodellierung bis 3D-Druck.
  Clemens Mock von Ars Electronica Linz
• Einsatz von Rhinoceros 3D im Rahmen eines Glas-Design-Projektes.
  Mag. David Stelzer von HTBL - Graz, Ortweinschule Fachsparte Produktdesign & Präsentation
• Rhinoceros 3D und Grashopper für Kinder.
  Dipl. Ing. Christian Freissling von Institut für Architektur und Medien TU Graz

This is a free event. If you want to attend, please contact Gerald Sodl, Telefon 03123 39961.

Come help with a new installation for Sukkah City

Marc Fornes :: THEVERYMANY is looking for highly motivated helpers to join its team for the assembly of their Sukkah City project on Union Square.

If interested please contact THEVERYMANY.
The extremely light structure - relying on double curvature for its strength - will be made of very thin stripes of walnut veneer. Computational protocol developed in rhino.Python!
Sukkah as sum of its parts:
49,722 holes
25,000 rivets
10,420 text
5,257 unique parts
120 hours of CNC
60 sheets of walnut veneer

CNC cutting - in progress... opening on Union Square, NYC on September 19th.

More details…

FESPA MEXICO 2010 is going on now

See Rhino and the new PCX Router at FESPA MEXICO 2010, going on now through August 28th in Mexico City. Visit Stand B and see what's new.

Location: Centro Banamex Mexico, D.F.

Dates: August 26-28, 2010

Organizers: PRECIX Mexico

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Material Resonance workshop in St Louis

Image courtesy of LIFT Architects.

Material Resonance will be a four-day, intensive workshop focused on practical application of RhinoScripting or Grasshopper. The workshop will train participants in CNC fabrication using MasterCAM and the Washington University DIL fabrication lab. There will also be demos of the new plug-ins Firefly and Kangaroo.

Dates: August 9-12, 2010

Location: Washington University, Sam Fox School, St. Louis, MO

Instructors:

Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY (VB Scripting/Python )

Andy Payne / LIFT Architects (Grasshopper)

Kenneth Tracy / Associated Fabrication (MasterCAM)

The workshop is for professionals and students with a working knowledge in Rhino. Prior experience with Grasshopper or Rhino VB scripting is not necessary. The workshop will start from first principles and cover topics from tessellation, components, and connections to part organization, nesting, and labeling.

For more information and to register click here.

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Fabrication Laboratory exhibition and workshops, Barcelona

Fabrication Laboratory
Disseny HUB Barcelona (DHUB)
June 15, 2010 - May 29, 2011

New scenarios in 3D design and production

Fabrication Laboratory, organised by the DHUB, consists of not one but a series of activities (exhibitions, real-time fabrication laboratories, workshops, lectures, etc.) that offer a comprehensive overview of 3D digital manufacturing technologies, a new reality in constant evolution that is producing a fundamental transformation of design and production processes.

The exhibition format of the Fabrication Laboratory is an open infrastructure, allowing its initial form to be changed and expanded as new content is produced. As a result, the laboratory will gradually consolidate a process of ongoing analysis of the new scenario in production.

The objects developed using new technological tools (such as CNC software and machines) and the ability to individually customize mass production (mass customization), together with open source design systems (interactive algorithms), are calling into question the future of the traditional model/series approach of industrial design.

Digital fabrication technologies offer new opportunities for design professionals in the 21st century and are ushering in a more flexible project methodology capable of adapting to meet different and changing needs.

The impact of this new technological paradigm is felt in every phase of the production process, from concept to materialization, from distribution to consumption. Moreover, it is paving the way to the promise of participation, personalization, and the practicability of the unique piece.

More details here...

Workshops details (in Spanish)...

LaN summer workshop Barcelona

LaN announces its third On Site Barcelona workshop August 23rd through 29th at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC): Live Parameters.

One of the key elements in any associative design model is the data to which it responds. The ‘Live Parameters’ workshop will investigate several modes for interacting with real time, real life data using a combination of existing data libraries and prefabricated sensory nodes. The workshop will use the 22@ Innovation District in Barcelona, Spain, as a data source as well as a test bed for spatial configurations generated from the recorded data. Participants will engage these topics through Grasshopper, a generative modeling tool for McNeel’s Rhino. The workshop will work with the Fab Lab BCN for prototyping and fabrication.

LaN Directors Monika Wittig and Luis Fraguada will direct the week long seminar on associative design and production.

Details and space registration...

Digital Design Workshop in Tallinn (Estonia)

The workshop Digital Design - Parametric and Form Finding Strategies in Contemporary Design is offered to professionals and students, in every design field, who want to learn the latest digital technologies for design. The workshop will focus on four main areas: Solid/FreeForm Modeling, Parametric Design, Generative Design, and Digital Fabrication.

Solid/FreeForm modeling will present the Rhino environment and tools. Parametric and Generative Design will investigate the power of Associative Modeling using Grasshopper. Digital Fabrication will introduce the process to export data from Grasshopper and surface outline from Rhino for production.

• Where: Mainor Business School - Design Institute, Tallinn (Estonia)
• When: 12 - 23 July 2010 (40 hours)
• Fees: professionals 480 EUR, students 250 EUR
• Language: English
• More information: http://www.mk.ee/?pg=4&uid=8968
• Contact: Anne Saagpakk
• Instructor: Arch. Francesco De Luca

DHUB FAB Workshops, Barcelona

June 2010/May 2011 - Workshops DHUB FAB, Disseny Hub Barcelona

As part of the exhibition Laboratori de Fabricació, the DHUB FAB, in collaboration with McNeel Europe and latiendadelcad, offers a series of free 3D modeling workshops with Rhino.

More info and registration details (in Spanish)...

EXPO Publicitas, Mexico

EXPOPUBLICITAS - El evento será una excelente plataforma de negocios donde se dará cita, toda la oferte y demanda del sector publicitario, en 16,000 m cuadrados donde 500 empresas líderes presentaran sus productos. Los invitamos a ver Rhino, RhinoNEST y Grasshopper en conjunto con nuestros Lasers.

• May 26-28, 10:00 am-8:00 pm
• CENTRO BANAMEX, MEXICO, D.F.
• RhinoFabLab

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