Solid Skins V1.0 Webinar by DesignMorphine (January 22, 2023)

Solid Skins V1.0 Webinar by DesignMorphine

January 22, 2023

Solid Skins V1.0 will showcase the full process of making an engine-ready game character using Rhinoceros, Blender, and Unreal Engine 5 software chain. What differentiates this webinar from a typical character design webinar is its focus on hard-surface modeling, as opposed to mesh sculpting. Thus the knowledge gained will be easy to adapt to your existing product design or architectural design workflow. 

You will be presented with a series of example files of a character at different stages of development, followed by a concise explanation from the tutor. After each teaching stage is completed, you will work on your own version of a character body part and practice applying the workflow to your design. These designs will then be textured and animated in Blender. 

Finally, the design will be set up for and inserted into the Unreal Engine environment. The end goal is to have an animated hard-surface object playing out in real time in Unreal Engine 5.

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Rhino User Webinar: From Shoes to System: The Future of Digital Design for Footwear, November 24 at 4 PM CET

 

 Rhino User Webinar

From Shoes to Systems: The Future of Digital Design for Footwear
November 24 at 4 PM CET

In this webinar edition, Footwearology will take us into the future, explaining how we will see a shift in how footwear designers, developers, and engineers will work.

Footwearology is a renowned research and training institute for footwear professionals. They provide various courses in Rhino and Grasshopper, specializing in the footwear industry.

They will transition from using 3D modeling software for designing separate shoes to using it for the creation of automated design systems that allow them to work much smarter and with much better results. They will demonstrate various options, both from a technical, biomechanical, and aesthetical perspective and discuss the future skill sets that will be required for footwear development teams.

Nicoline van Enter is one of the founders of Footwearology. She is a world-renowned technology forecaster and visionary thinker, working on developing full systems and workflows for digital design and manufacturing of footwear.

Luis Bugin is a highly experienced computational designer. He joined the team of Footwearology last summer, researching data-driven design applications and additive manufacturing technologies for mass customization of footwear.

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Take the 1st step to becoming Engineer 4.0

Learn parametric design without prior coding experience in just eight weeks

Krzysztof Wojslaw from LearnGrasshopper will guide you through the transformation from an "old-school" engineer with zero programming experience to an engineer of the future who can automate manual tasks and have much more fun at work.

Monday 14.11.2022 at 21.00 CET

Live Q&A session 

Krzysztof Wojslaw, the training author, will answer all questions connected to the learning platform and how to start with Grasshopper completely from scratch.

More info about the training program: GrasshopperFundamentals.com

Complete Rhino Guide For Beginners course launched by 'I Am The Studio'

The Complete Rhino Guide For Beginners illustrates the foundation of design and modeling within the Rhino 3D environment, taking students from beginner to intermediate level in the principal functions and methods in Rhino and Grasshopper while creating a beautiful architecture project.

Course Introduction

The Complete Rhino Guide is a series created by registered architect and founder of the I Am The Studio platform—Brandon Aaron Gibbs, AIA—to give designers a comprehensive creative+technical foundation with modeling and design in Rhino.

New designers in Rhino often get lost in modeling after a few steps because they lack the foundation and a creative approach to applying modeling techniques. In this beginner’s course, students will be immersed in the technique and design within the Rhino 3D world, learning about the various geometries, functions, drafting, and parametric capabilities to start Rhino projects. Students will then develop an architectural project with Voronoi parametric surfaces to be documented in orthographic views—rendering the project in the latest V-Ray.

New or intermediate students in Rhino will appreciate the up-to-date skills in Rhino and Rhino plugins from this course, where they will get key insights and workflows to manage and create beautiful designs in the Rhino environment.

Learn more and register for a free course subscription to I Am The Studio course...

Digital Footwear Modeling - Online course

  

We're pleased to announce that our Digital Footwear Modeling in Rhino 7 online course is now available in English. It's still a WIP (work in progress), and new chapters will be added weekly, so for a limited time, take advantage of our WIP introductory price and get 50% off!

The course is designed for beginners, so join us and discover the foundations of footwear design and 3D modeling and let your ideas emerge digitally. With this training, you will acquire the necessary skills to design any shoe and learn to use Rhino commands to focus on the development of virtual prototyping and skillfully use the tools provided by the program.

Enroll now while the course is still a WIP and save 50%!

Register here!

Plus: Upon conclusion, you will receive a certificate of completion for this course. Get started today!

Questions? Contact Dulce at dulce@mcneel.com

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Body Architecture 2.0 / Studio Filippo Nassetti online workshop (November 12-January 7)

The Body Architecture studio online workshop (November 12, 2022-January 7, 2023) explores designing unique wearables for different natural and artificial environments and how the human body and its prostheses react and adapt to these future trends.

Course Introduction

Throughout history, the human body and technology coevolved, generating forms of deep symbiosis that materialized in a vast web of artifacts and prostheses that mediate between individuals and the environment. Ultimately, all wearable products, medical devices, tools, and means of transportation, and the city itself can be interpreted as an extension of our physical bodies. These technological prostheses increase the chances of survival and expand the human experience.

In the future, abrupt changes in the climate and the ecological crisis will rapidly change the environments in which people live. As a result, we can expect even more extreme conditions, with changes in the atmosphere’s composition, expanding desertification, and flooding of vast territories.

It is possible that in the future, our array of prostheses and body extensions will have to be redesigned to adapt to such fast-changing conditions.

The Body Architecture studio workshop aims to anticipate such needs and develop a design agenda that explores and describes emerging opportunities. Projects will speculate on transformations of natural and artificial environments and how the human body and its prostheses react and adapt to such trends in climatic change. The projects will eventually propose the design of a specific wearable artifact or a vision of a more radical transformation of the human body.

While primed with software and design techniques, participants will form small groups to develop their projects. Research into historical, contemporary, and fictional case studies is highly encouraged, spanning from any gear developed through human history to adapt to aggressive environments to contemporary sportswear and tools for space and deep water exploration to science-fictional examples of body transformation and extension.

The Body Architecture studio workshop is flexible to encourage different time scales and degrees of speculation, from short-term ones, such as enquiring which type of wearable artifacts will be needed in the pandemic and post-pandemic world or the future of sports activities—to more radical and visionary ones, such as flooded worlds where people will have to live underwater, or outer space exploration.

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Rhino User Webinar: The Augmented Architect, by Mathias Sønderskov Schaltz and Fabian Sellberg

 

Rhino User Webinar

The Augmented Architect

Use Case for a Custom Computational Toolbox

November 2 at 4:00 PM CET

In this webinar, LINK IO, the computational design department in LINK Arkitektur, will present how they connect multidisciplinary design and engineering tools through Rhino and Grasshopper. We will get a sneak peek into LINK EP*, an in-house Rhino/Grasshopper plugin that serves as the backbone of the toolbox. 

The toolbox leverages other tools on the market such as Speckle, OneClick LCA, and others. The overview of the structure will define how to make these different systems interact with each other. Afterward, a live demo of the toolbox will be presented.

*working title LINK Early Phase

About the presenters:

#Mathias Sønderskov Schaltz
Mathias is a trained hybrid architect and engineer who works on the technical parts of the design, in particular with facades, daylight, and master plans. As an expert in daylight simulations and computational design, he tries to bring typical late-phase knowledge into early-phase sketching.

#Fabian Sellberg
Fabian Sellberg is an architect with a background as a backend developer focused on data-driven design and early-phase LCA studies. He is currently working with computational design and developing the internal and external tools used at Link Arkitektur.

Details and free registration...

Rhino User Webinar: Grasshopper Animations, by Antoine Maes

 

Rhino User Webinar

Grasshopper Animations, by Antoine Maes

October 18 at 4 PM CEST

Antoine Maes is the lead computational designer at A2M architecture in Brussels.

He's a computational design consultant and Grasshopper teacher for architecture offices and a lecturer at the University of Liège.

In the community, he's better known for his animations and for co-developing the Tapeworm plugin for Grasshopper.

The webinar will display some ways of animating different objects and basic behaviors in Grasshopper. Behind the scenes of some of Antoine's animations, a few animation tricks will be revealed.

As a bonus, we'll see a way of animating multiple successive actions from one slider only.

Complete details and free registration...

Last call for Authorized Rhino Trainer (ART) - Online Class

  

Last call for Authorized Rhino Trainer (ART) - Online Class. (NA & LA Regions)

Stand apart from others offering Rhino training. 

As an ART, you can post your class schedule to the Rhino Learn page for exposure to Rhino users that visit the web site. 

This schedule is searchable by type of training and region. 

ART Requirements include participation in this online class.

This class is offered by the North and Latin American Regions.

See details, sign-up, and outline.

• Monday- Friday
• October 3-7, 2022
• 9 AM-1 PM PDT

See the ART Requirements for all Regions.

(This class is typically offered in the fall and spring.)

Questions? Please email Mary Ann Fugier. 

Contorted Compositions V2.0 Webinar by DesignMorphine

Contorted Compositions V2.0 Webinar by DesignMorphine

November 12, 2022, from 3 PM to 8 PM

Contorted Compositions V2.0 intends to introduce a set of form-finding methods based on the Minimal Surface concept and its combination with Polygon Modeling methods with Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, and 3ds Max. 

Simulation of Forces and Data Management tools in both 3Ds Max and Grasshopper are another part of this teaching webinar. Through the combination of modeling tools in both software, you can attain the necessary freedom in customizing mesh typology and creating various forms based on the same workflow. Participants will learn to create mathematically curved geometries such as minimal surfaces and how these geometries can smoothly connect together to form overall larger continuous gestures. Using mathematics to shape geometry ensures there are no curvature defects that typically occur in manual modeling strategies. This ensures smooth and accurate topological flow between design components. The entire process will be explained clearly throughout the webinar in a practicable framework, and participants will be able to practice and follow the instructions. By the end of the webinar, we will use the Corona rendering engine in 3ds Max to create conceptual renders.

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Fluidic Expressions V1.0 Webinar by DesignMorphine

Fluidic Expressions V1.0 Webinar
November 6, 2022, from 3 PM to 8 PM UTC

Fluidic Expressions V1.0 will focus on presenting the fully manifested image of fluidity, its forms, and logic through Rhinoceros SubD's. The course will question whether fluidity is a material and spatial practice. How does fluidity form relations between spatial, social, material, and experiential forms? Viewing the fields of urbanism, architecture, and design as inherently interrelated with the fluid sensibility of the design impacting our perception of space will be explored and modeled with SubDs. Students will begin by learning the basics of SubD in Rhino, how to use them and how they differ from mesh and Nurbs topologies. From there, we will use SubD to sculpt and manipulate form into beautiful fluid-flowing architectures. Ideas about smooth connectivity, weighted gradient form manipulation, continuity of curvature, and model cleanliness will be explored. SubD is the surface representation of a spline in which they represent actual curvature, unlike mesh which approximates curvature. Nurbs also represent curvature; however, they can be difficult to manipulate into complex freeform objects. SubD provides the real curvature advantages of Nurbs paired with the manipulation ease of a mesh. 

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Jewelry Settings in Rhino 7 Online Class - GIA, Online

Projects in Jewelry Settings in Rhino 7

• Format: Online, Self-paced online
• Presented by: Gemological Institute of America- Carlsbad, California
• Fee: $800 

Course Description

In this online, self-paced course from the Gemological Institute of America, you'll learn how to use Rhino 7 to optimize your jewelry design workflow. With over 13 hours of videos, this course is for the working CAD professional, as well as any individual interested in advancing their Rhino skills to create jewelry models and photorealistic renderings.

Register.

VisualARQ, Flexible BIM Tools for Rhino - New online course

We are happy to share our new online course, VisualARQ, Flexible BIM Tools for Rhino, on Rhino3D.Education by Francesc Salla. 

Francesc is the Product Manager of VisualARQ and Lands Design, software plugins for BIM, and Landscape Design for Rhinoceros developed by AsuniCAD in Barcelona.

Le Corbusier's masterpiece The Villa Savoye is the model selected for this course. It is a step-by-step guide explaining the architecture modeling workflow with VisualARQ and Rhino. Students will learn about the different VisualARQ commands and features.

This course can be followed quickly with just a little Rhino experience, although most videos focus only on VisualARQ features. Some Rhino experience will be helpful, so you may take this free Rhino Introductory course.

VisualARQ, Flexible BIM Tools for Rhino course is 100% free. However, if you want an official certificate, please follow the instructions below:

1. Submit your final project, the same as what you have been developing throughout the course.
2. Complete the payment for the Certificate. 

Until December 31, 2022, save 50% on your Certificate with code: VISUALARQ50.

After you purchase the Certificate, one of our professional instructors will take the time to review and evaluate your project. If everything is ok, you'll get the approval certificate for the course.

Enroll now!

Rhino3D.Education offers online courses in Rhino, Grasshopper, Computational Design, GhPython, PanelingTools, RhinoCAM, V-Ray, and more. Check it out!

Digital Footwear Modeling in Rhino 7 online course

 

We've published a new online course on Rhino3D.Education you can't miss. 

Digital Footwear Modeling in Rhino 7 in Spanish
The English version is coming soon...

Hello! I am Valeria Palacio, the author of the new Digital Footwear Modeling in Rhino 7 online course. I am an industrial designer, ART (Authorized Rhino Trainer), and part of the RhinoFabStudio in Colombia.

The course is ideal for beginners and intended for those who want to learn about the exciting world of footwear design and move towards more excellent knowledge. With this training, you will acquire the necessary skills to design any shoe and learn to use Rhino commands to focus on the development of virtual prototyping and skillfully use the tools provided by the program.

We have created two introductory pricing options for you:

Option 1: Purchase the individual course, Digital Footwear Modeling in Rhino 7, while it's still a WIP at an introductory price getting a 50% discount.

Register here for this introductory price and enter the coupon code, CALZADO50, at checkout. 

Option 2: An Early Bird Bundle that includes the new Digital Footwear course + two of our most popular courses. You will get access to
Digital Footwear Modeling in Rhino 7 + Rhino Intermediate + SubD with Rhino 7. All three classes for only $90 (Valued at $175).

Register here for this bundle.
Note: All three courses are in Spanish.

Plus: Upon conclusion, you will receive a certificate of completion for every course. Get started today!

For additional questions, contact Valeria at valeria@mcneel.com

Rhino3D.Education offers online courses in Rhino, Grasshopper, Computational Design, GhPython, PanelingTools, RhinoCAM, V-Ray, and more. Check it out!

New Revit for Rhino+GH Users - Online Course

  

 New online course on Rhino3D.Education, check it out: 
Revit Essentials for Rhino and Grasshopper Users

Hello! Niloofar Zaker here, the author of the new Revit for Rhino+GH Users online course. I am a computational designer with a Master's Degree in Sustainable Architecture. I'm an ART (Authorized Rhino Trainer) and part of the McNeel Miami team. I have an architectural background and several years of working experience in parametric modeling with Rhino and Grasshopper, as well as Python and environmental analysis, Revit, and BIM coaching. I am here to share my experiences with you.

Enjoy our new Revit Essentials for Rhino and Grasshopper Users course and take advantage of the Early Bird price while the course is still a WIP (work in progress), new chapters will be added weekly. 

This early bird offer includes access to our popular Rhino 6 and 7 Intermediate and Computational Design with Grasshopper online courses, all three courses for $90.00 (Valued at $184.90). Limited time!

Register now!

Plus: Upon conclusion, you will receive a certificate of completion for every course. Get started today!

Rhino3D.Education offers online courses in Rhino, Grasshopper, Computational Design, GhPython, PanelingTools, RhinoCAM, V-Ray, and more. Check it out!

Modeling 3D Jewelry with Rhino 7 - Online course

   

Hi, I'm Dulce Chavez. I'm an Industrial Designer with a product design and jewelry focus. In addition, I'm an ART (Authorized Rhino Trainer) and part of the McNeel Miami team.

I am excited to announce the Modeling 3D Jewelry with Rhino 7 online course from Rhino3D.Education has been published!

Join me and discover the fundamentals of jewelry design and 3D modeling and let your ideas come to life!

The jewelry industry is a growing sector worldwide, and a fundamental part of it is the design and creativity with which we capture new ideas. Rhino is a crucial digital jewelry modeling tool with no limits to your ideas.

If you want to learn about the design, manufacturing, and modeling of Jewelry, this course is for you. 

We've extended our early bird offer for one more month. Get this Modeling 3D Jewelry course plus free access to our popular Rhino 6 and 7 Intermediate online course, all for $49.95 (Valued at $135.90)

The offer expires on August 31, 2022.

Plus: Upon finalization, you will receive a certificate of completion. Get started today!

Stay tuned for the Spanish version of this course. 

Rhino3D.Education offers online courses in Rhino, Grasshopper, Computational Design, GhPython, PanelingTools, RhinoCAM, V-Ray, and more. Check it out!

Free webinar: Rhino + Gh 3D Modeling Ergonomic Mouse

Rhino + Gh 3D Modeling Ergonomic Mouse
Free Webinar

August 7, 2022, at 16:00 (UTC/GMT)

Are you an industrial design professional or student who would like to level up your Rhinoceros surfacing and Grasshopper parametric design skills? We welcome you to join our live Free Webinar Session 4.0. In this webinar, we will be 3D modeling the Logitech Lift Vertical Ergonomic Mouse in Rhinoceros using various surfacing techniques and applying textures in Grasshopper by creating triangular panels and controlling the depth of the pattern using attractor gradient. 

Please register to receive the YouTube Stream Link and exercise files. See you there!

Complete information and registration...

BIM and Landscape Modelling with Lands Design Software

Asuni CAD, responsible for Lands Design's development, is collaborating with the American Society of Landscape Architects by offering courses on LA CES, their continuing education platform. 

The upcoming course BIM and Landscape Modelling with Lands Design Software is on July 21st, 9:00 am CDT (Central Time US).

The course is free and available to all professionals. It includes two Professional Development Hours (PDH) based on the criteria of Landscape Architects Continuing Education System. ASLA members will get an attendance certificate. 

More information and registration...

Parametric Bridge Modeling with Grasshopper and SOFiSTiK

 

Basic Online Training Course for Bridge Design
27-30 September 2022 
14:00 CET - 18:00 CET
Hosted by SOFiSTiK

Parametric tools such as Grasshopper and the scripting capabilities of FEA software packages such as SOFiSTiK FEA allow engineers to automate functionalities to work faster and more creatively. Besides, it comes with a lot of potential to parametrize and optimize structures of any type.

This 4-day course teaches you the entire parametric modeling process with Grasshopper and SOFiSTiK FEA of a post-tensioned concrete bridge. You will learn the fundamentals of Grasshopper to create effective and maintainable visual scripts and how to use the SOFiSTiK Grasshopper components to build the axis-based bridge structure.

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DesignMorphine Masters Y22/23 - Degree

DesignMorphine Masters Y22/23 - Degree

Duration: September 2022 to June 2023 (Online)

Limited Enrollment: August 25, 2022

Everything humanity has designed so far is limited and based on how our bodies are designed and work and they experience reality around us. However, in this age and time, we have reached the crossroads where technology can and will eventually shape our minds and our body. In this sense, designing the future entails, first and foremost, designing the body that will live that future. Challenges inevitably arise and demand innovators and pioneers to overcome them; new tools and technologies are required to materialize the answer; limits and boundaries will be crossed, and the equilibrium will change. The compass will be a scalable notion of the human condition in this journey. Housing, transit systems, and the ways one moves around in the city, as well as the whole structure of the city itself, are essential aspects one must consider when designing for this new reality. By changing the very unit, the whole world is built around, the human body, we are no longer concerned with just designing parts of our world. We are designing the whole world we live in. It’s not a mere design process; it’s cosmogony.

Complete information and applications...