Rhino User Meeting Zürich by Design-to-Production - 7 December 2023

Rhino User Meeting Zürich
Solutions for and from the Timber Industry
7 December 2023

On December 7th, Design-to-Production is hosting a Rhino User Meeting dedicated to software usage in general and specifically in the timber industry. After an update from McNeel’s developers, 18 professionals will share their work, tools, and thoughts in short presentations throughout the afternoon, followed by a social event around a drink. Our goal is to share our common challenges and identify new ways to solve them, ideally learning something in the process!

Whether you are a timber contractor, project manager, software developer, cabinet maker, or Rhino user (or not!), we are sure that you will find something to pique your interest and have a great afternoon!

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The Rhino User Meeting is by invitation/application only, as space is limited. Fill out this form to apply.

Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting - July 5, 2023 - London (UK)

 

Join Simply Rhino at Foster + Partners for the latest Grasshopper User Meeting, with presentations from the hosts, Foster + Partners, and invited guests Price & Myers, plus Rhenso presenting Adaptive Parts Environment (APE).

• Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2023
• Time: 18:30-20:30
• Location: Foster + Partners, Riverside, 22 Hester Road, London, SW11 4AN
• Book your place: You must prebook your free place to attend the meeting

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Rhino User Meeting in Basel (March 17, 2023)

In collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron, McNeel Europe is organizing a Rhino User Meeting in Basel on March 17, 2023.

Join us and learn more about state-of-the-art digital design and fabrication.

Get inspiration from industry experts in different fields: Architecture, BIM, Landscape, Design, Algorithmic Modeling, Rendering and Visualization, Footwear, Orthotics, 3D Printing, Robotic Milling, Environmental Analysis, and much more!

Get the latest news about Rhino WIP, Rhino.Inside, Rhino Compute, Hops, Grasshopper, and food4Rhino apps.

Watch presentations and get hands-on with live software demonstrations from our exhibitor partners.

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Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting | 4th October 2022

Join Simply Rhino and McNeel at Arup for the Grasshopper UK UGM, with updates from McNeel (Rhino WIP, GH1, GH2...), a presentation from our hosts Arup, a Rhino.Inside Revit case-study demonstration from Bimorph, and a V-Ray update from Chaos Group.

• Date: Tuesday 4th October 2022
• Time: 18:30-20:30
• Location: Arup, 8-13 Fitzroy St. London, W1T 4BQ
• Book your place: Free to attend but places are limited and you must register for your place

Chaos Meetup Berlin - September 27, 2022

Chaos Meetup Berlin

September 27, 2022

4-8 PM CEST

Join Chaos, Enscape, and McNeel at Art Stalker for the second edition of the Berlin-based Chaos Meetup this September 27 at 16:00 CET. 

We’ll deep dive into architecture and design with inspiring industry leaders like Chang Hoon Jeong from the Technical University of Munich and Hanns-Jochen Weyland from Störmer Murphy and Partners.

We’ll finish off with some friendly chatting and beer.

Hope to see you there!

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Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting in London - June 22 at 18:30h

Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting in London
June 22 at 18:30h

Join SimplyRhino UK and McNeel at Grimshaw for the Grasshopper UGM, with updates from McNeel, a presentation from our hosts Grimshaw alongside Buro Happold, and a V-Ray for Grasshopper update and presentation from Chaos Group.

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Design Modelling Symposium Berlin - September 2022

Technology is the answer, but what is the question?, famously asked Cedric Price to an audience of architects and engineers in 1966.

For researchers, educators, and practitioners in the Architecture Engineering Construction (AEC) fields, the question could not be clearer, nor the answer more urgently needed. In the age of the growing inequalities, climate crisis, ecosystem collapse, the AEC sector accounts alone for almost 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, it is responsible for eco-systemic changes and plays a central role in creating and perpetuating social injustice.

Among the many campaigners, communities, institutions, and governments worldwide that have declared a state of emergency, what are the radical measures we can take to change the way we plan, build, operate, maintain and dismantle our built environment?

The Design Modelling Symposium 2022 (Berlin, September 24-28) aims to provide critical perspectives on current advances in computational methods in AEC in this age of crisis and hope.

Recent advances in design and construction technology may hold the promise to help us trace a new path, but, at the same time, they hold the threat of turbo-charging existing destructive paradigms. Our collective practices are tantamount to many uncontrolled planetary experiments, deploying technologies and practices at unprecedented scales first and worrying about the consequences later. We urgently need to negotiate a myriad of global and hyper-local equilibria between the built and natural environment.

By synthesizing artistic, theoretical, and technological perspectives and positions, the symposium aims to challenge innovative digital techniques in the design, materialization, operation, and assessment of our built environment, examining them in relation to their impact on the future of societies and the environment. In this context, the digitalization of design offers multiple routes to identify the material, social, ethical, ecological, and other dimensions of new, necessary, and radically measured equilibria.

The conference is structured around four thematic areas that explore Almas in which new, radical measures need to emerge, spanning from the tools that enable design, simulation, and materialization to new ways of approaching the relationship between built and unbuilt environments.

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AKTII presentation on Rhino.Inside Revit now available!

In case you missed the recent Rhino UK User Meeting with a focus on Rhino.Inside.Revit, you can now watch the recorded presentations by AKTII and by McNeel here.

Enjoy!

Rhino UK User Meeting with a focus on Rhino.Inside.Revit

SimplyRhino UK has organized a new User Meeting (November 17 at 6:30 PM UK time), this time with a focus on Rhino.Inside.Revit.

Featuring Engineers AKT II and Rhino.Inside Developers from McNeel.

Presentation #1 – AKT II

AKT II has extensive experience in collaborative computational design. They have developed a suite of tools including structural façade, bioclimatic and sustainable design. The presentation will show how AKT II is using Rhino.Inside.Revit in complex geometry projects and how Rhino.Inside.Revit can speed up the production and maintenance of the BIM modes.

Deyan Marzev has been with AKTII for more than 14 years and, for the last 8 years, has been part of the parametric research team. He’s leading the development and delivery of 3d models and BIM models for highly complex projects in AKT.

James Magbanua has been with AKTII for 9 years and now leads the company’s BIM / Analytical model interoperability. His focus is on streamlining the practice workflows on the production and delivery of 3D BIM models, specializing in projects with complex, challenging geometry.

Presentation #2 – McNeel & Associates

What has McNeel been up to recently with the development of Rhino.Inside.Revit? Come and hear from Scott Davidson and Ehsan Iran-Nejad. The latest developments in v1.2 (just announced) will be discussed.

Join in the discussion and help shape the future of the product. The Rhino.Inside.Revit project brings the power of Rhino 7 and Grasshopper to the Autodesk Revit® environment. 

Free registration here...

Rhino UK User Group Meeting | October 6, 2021

Join SimplyRhino UK on a new edition of the Rhino UK User Group Meeting.

Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Time: 18:30–19:30 (UK Time)

Presenter: Michael Eden – Form and Transform

Michael Eden is an award-winning ceramic artist and maker, internationally recognized as one of the first makers to engage with and realise the creative potential of new technology including 3D printing and scanning. His work sits at the intersection of craft, design, art and technology, exploring contemporary themes through historical, culturally familiar objects.

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Rhino UK User Group Meeting | May 20, 2021

Join SimplyRhino UK and McNeel on a new edition of the Rhino UK User Group Meeting.

Date: Thursday, May 20, 2021
Time: 18:30–20:00 (UK Time)

Presentation #1 – Astheimer Design – Delivering Mobility Solutions for a Sustainable* Future

AURA image ©Astheimer Design

Founded in 2009 by Carsten Astheimer with Russell Gillott, the Astheimer team has grown into a talented multidisciplinary team of designers and design engineers enabling the design, development, and building of road-going vehicles, award-winning boats, vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and more.

Carsten spent a large part of his career in Italy, the birthplace of automotive design, building and running one of the studios for Pininfarina. He then became design director for Brunswick, a multinational marine company where he met Russell, now the design director at Astheimer.

Presentation #2 – McNeel – Rhino 7, Design Possibilities

Kyle Houchens

Scott Davidson and Kyle Houchens will deliver McNeel's presentation.

The goal of the presentation is to showcase some of the new features of Rhino 7 and the possibilities they bring for design. The session will also demonstrate how users can apply these new tools to their workflow.

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Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting

Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting

Thursday 22 April 2021

18:30 - 20:00 (UK Time)

Join Simply Rhino, Eckersley O’Callaghan, and Karamba3D, for their live and online Grasshopper User Group meeting.

This meeting will have two live presentations. Firstly Sam Gregson, part of the in-house Digital Design Group at engineers Eckersley O’Callaghan in London, will discuss some of his favorite algorithms and give insight into workflows and techniques employed at his practice.

Clemens Preisinger, developer of Karamba3D, will give a short introduction to what Karamba3D is and how it's applied to parametric structural design.

Following the presentations don't miss the live Q&A. A great opportunity to ask your questions and have them answered live during the meeting.

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AR/VR for Rhino and Grasshopper User Group Meeting

Join Simply Rhino, AKT II and Mindesk, for our live and online AR/VR focused Rhino User Group meeting.

Meeting information:

• Date – Thursday, February 25, 2021
• Time – 18:30–20:00 (UK Time)
• Where – Free to Join Live and Online Webinar
• How to join the meeting – Sign up for this Rhino & Grasshopper AR/VR focused webinar

We have two live presentations, firstly from the Parametric Applied Research Team (p.art) at engineers AKT II in London. Then we’ll hear from Mindesk which develops a real-time platform for CAD software that allows the editing of 3D models in virtual reality. Following the presentations, we’ll have live Q&A sessions with our presenters so you can ask your questions and have them answered during the meeting.

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AR/VR for Rhino and Grasshopper User Group Meeting

 

Join Simply Rhino, Softroom and Fologram, for February’s live and online AR/VR focused Rhino User Group meeting.

Meeting information:

• Date – Thursday, February 11, 2021
• Time – 18:30–20:00 (UK Time)
• Where – Free to Join Live and Online Webinar
• How to join the meeting – Sign up for this Rhino & Grasshopper AR/VR focused webinar

There are two live presentations, the first from architecture and design studio Softroom’s founder, Oliver Salway. Then we’ll hear from the mixed reality platform Fologram. Live Q&A sessions with the presenters follow the presentations, so you can ask your questions and have them answered during the meeting.

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Rhino UK User Group Meeting | December 16, 2020

Join Simply Rhino UK and McNeel for this Rhino User Group Meeting featuring a customer presentation from Mamou-Mani, then a preview of Rhino 7 from Simply Rhino UK, followed by an extended and live Q&A with you and the McNeel (developers of Rhino) team.

Arthur Mamou-Mani is presenting the latest projects from his eco-parametric architectural London based practice, Mamou-Mani.

The second part of the meeting is your chance to see the latest and greatest tools in Rhino 7 and then to hear from and ask questions of McNeel, the Rhino developers, themselves!

Date and Time: December 16, 2020, 18:30-20:30h (GMT)

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AR/VR for Rhino & Grasshopper User Group Meeting - October 8 at 7:30 PM CEST

Image courtesy of Heatherwick Studio

Join Simply Rhino UK, Heatherwick Studio and Epic Games for the next AR/VR for Rhino & Grasshopper UGM (October 8 at 7:30 PM CEST).

Heatherwick Studio has been working with game engines as part of their design workflow for years now and has developed custom design workflow and techniques that enable these processes. Silvia Rueda will provide insight into Heatherwick Studio’s use of Immersive Media, focusing on the role of landscape design and the use of Unreal within its design process and workflow.

David Weir-McCall will look at the many ways that people are utilizing the power of the Unreal Engine in the AEC to go beyond visualizations to help bridge the gap between ideas and reality. Looking at use-cases in the industry, explore the different integrated workflows with Rhino and Grasshopper and how they are being used to communicate ideas, design and build in real time, and link up to sensors to create fully functioning digital twins.

After the presentations, there will be a Q&A with the presenters.

Our presenters are:

• Silvia Rueda | Heatherwick Studio – Designer / Immersive media specialist
• Pablo Zamorano | Heatherwick Studio – Head of Geometry and Computational Design
• David Weir-McCall | Epic Games – Epic Games Enterprise team

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FABRICATE 2020 (London)

*The conference and events planned for April 2-4 are postponed until autumn. (New dates to be confirmed.)
Booking is now open for FABRICATE 2020, a unique conference this April exploring the future of digital fabrication in London.

Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE brings together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology, and computation.

FABRICATE 2020 is co-chaired and co-organized by The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University and Swinburne University of Technology. It will take place in London between April 2-4, 2020.

Limited early bird tickets now on sale at fabricate.org

Grasshopper User Meeting in London - November 20, 2019

Join SimplyRhino UK and McNeel at AKT II for this special Grasshopper User Group meeting with updates from the team at McNeel, including details on Rhino.Inside, SubD, Rhino 7, and more.

AKT II will kick off the evening’s proceedings before we move on to McNeel’s presentation and an extended Q&A.

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Rhino UK User Group Meeting 2019 notes and photos

The Rhino UK User Group Meeting 2019 was held in June at The Crypt On The Green, London, EC1. 

Notes and photos from the event can be found now on SimplyRhino UK website.

Chaos Meetup Berlin - September 23, 2019

Chaos Meetup Berlin

September 23, 2019

Come join the Chaos Group for a deep dive into the world of architecture and design featuring inspiring industry leaders like Mahmoud El Hakim from Cheil, Gerrit Corsmeyer and Andreas Moos.

See the latest developments in V-Ray and in the Rhino 7 WIP (SubD, QuadRemesher, Rhino.Inside technology...). 

The event will finish off with some fine chat and beer. See you there!

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