Modeling upholstery detail with SubD in Rhino 8 by Simply Rhino

 

In their latest free video, Authorized Resellers Simply Rhino look at modeling upholstery details in SubD with Rhino. Simply Rhino’s senior Rhino trainer, Phil Cook, takes us through creating deep buttoning, creasing, and pleated features with a 1970s-style lounge chair as the subject.

Rhino’s complete set of SubD tools makes workflows for creating this detailing easier than ever, and Phil shows the tools and workflows you can use.

Find out more about the video and watch it here...

SubD Modelling in Rhino - new tutorial by Simply Rhino UK

Simply Rhino UK have announced their latest free Rhino video tutorial. In the video, their senior Rhino trainer, Phil Cook, looks at a SubD modelling workflow to create a soft yet structured packaging pouch. Phil starts with some 2D guide curves and then demonstrates how to create the pack in simple steps. We are shown how to create a dimensionally correct ‘rigid’ version for production and then how to create a more irregular version for visualization.

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Learn Rhino 8! Build a Pocket Knife

 

Jump into Rhino 8 with this hands-on Getting Started video, hosted by trainer and designer, Kyle Houchens. In about an hour, Kyle models a pocket knife from a sketch, showing his approach to curves, surfaces, details, and rendering.

This session is designed to feel like real design work: a sketch on your desk, a short deadline, and Rhino as your toolkit. Kyle keeps it fun, moves quickly, and shares practical tips (like his Rule of Three for smooth curves) that you can use on your own projects.

Whether you're exploring Rhino for the first time or looking for a refresher, this is an engaging way to learn the basics of Rhino 8.

Watch the full video on our Rhino YouTube channel.

Automating Tekla 2D Drawings with Grasshopper: Recorded webinar now available!

 

If you missed the latest Rhino User Webinar, it is now available!

Discover from the expert Greg Olszewski how to elevate your Trimble Tekla drawing capabilities using the free Grasshopper plugin.

Whether you're new to Grasshopper or looking to enhance your existing Tekla workflow, this webinar will equip you with valuable techniques to automate and customize your drawings more efficiently than ever before.

Watch the video now...
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New video: Industrial and Product Design Detailing with Rhino by SimplyRhino UK (Part 1/2)

 

Watch Part 1/2: Industrial and Product Design Detailing

In Simply Rhino's latest video tutorials, Phil Cook, Simply Rhino’s Senior Rhino trainer, discusses industrial and product design details with Rhino 8.

You will learn:

• Internal features for manufacture and assembly
• Adding internal detailing in Rhino
• Shelling, offsetting & creating a clamshell lip

 Watch the Industrial and Product Design Detailing with Rhino tutorial...

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

 

Learn Technical Drawings using Layouts in Rhino:

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 how to: 

• 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 to effectively communicate your ideas, whether working in architecture, design, engineering, or as a hobbyist.

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

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New video: Rhino for SketchUp Users – New and Improved Modelling Tools by SimplyRhino UK

Rhino 8’s New and Improved Modelling Tools Video Tutorial

Introducing the final video in the Rhino for SketchUp Users series in which we look at Rhino 8’s solid modelling tools, some of which are new to this latest version of Rhino software and others improved in Rhino 8.

There are three videos in Simply Rhino's short Rhino for SketchUp Users series; this is the third. You can find the other two videos listed here:

• Rhino for SketchUp Users – Push/Pull Modelling Explored in Rhino3D v7
• Rhino for SketchUp Users –  Solid Modelling Tools for Architecture

Rhino 8 has an enhanced toolset that Simply Rhino’s senior trainer, Phil Cook, introduces to us in the video. These new tools include:

• PushPull
• Inset Face
• Auto CPlane
• Improvements to the Gumball

Watch the New and Improved Modelling Tools video tutorial...

Rhino 8 – Sun and Sky Render by SimplyRhino UK

Sun and Sky Render for Architectural Interior

This beginner-level video, created by Phil Cook from Simply Rhino UK, demonstrates how to create an interior architectural visual in Rhino 8 using the built-in Sun and Sky system and Rhino’s Raytrace render engine.

1. How to apply library and custom materials

The video begins by introducing a method of setting up the interior perspective view by controlling Rhino’s camera widget before applying library and custom materials to scene elements.

2. Connecting the sun and sky

Phil then looks at setting up the Sun as a direct illumination source and replacing the default environment with the Physical Sky model to connect the sun and sky.

3. Raytrace Render Engine

The final rendering is created with the Raytrace render engine. Phil outlines how to use post effects to improve the exposure and how to export a transparent background so that the color-ramp sky can be easily replaced with a photographic image in subsequent editing.

Complete details and video by SimplyRhino UK...

Rhino 8 for Mac: Speed Enhancements - Video by Simply Rhino UK

 
Rhino 8 for Mac – Speed Enhancements

This Simply Rhino video focuses on Rhino 8 for Mac and looks at the performance enhancements offered by this latest Rhino version (v8) and the interface changes it brings.

Viewport Responsiveness and Raytraced Rendering

It’s fair to say that the performance of Rhino 7 for Mac lagged significantly behind its Windows counterpart, most notably Viewport responsiveness and Raytraced rendering times.

The great news is that Rhino 8 for Mac fixes these issues and, as you can see in Simply Rhino's video, is 20 times faster for some tasks than Rhino 7.

More info...

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Video tutorial about PushPull (new in Rhino 8)

PushPull - new in Rhino 8

Charles Panke from Filou created a video tutorial (in German) to explain the new Rhino 8 feature PushPull.

It allows you to extrude a polysurface face while interactively adding or removing volumes. PushPull also simplifies the process of splitting or extruding a face and allows for the selection and unification of multiple regions.

In this video for German speakers you will learn how to:

• Apply PushPull on solids
• Create and use regions
• Push and pull double-bent surfaces

More information and video at Filou...

SubD Crease in Rhino 8 by Simply Rhino UK

SubD Crease in Rhino 8 by Simply Rhino 

What is SubD Crease in Rhino 8?

SubD Crease introduces weighted creases to Rhino. These allow you to add soft, defined transitions to be added to a SubD form without increasing complexity.

What’s in the SubD Crease Video Tutorial?

In this Simply Rhino video Phil Cook, our Senior Rhino trainer, starts by explaining the new command using a simple example and comparing this to the older Rhino 7 workflow before moving on to a practical example of an automotive sketch model.

Here, Phil demonstrates adding and controlling character lines to the model and how the new SubD Crease command allows for easy iteration at the design stage. There are also general tips on SubD layout and creating a custom display mode.

Complete details and video by Simply Rhino UK...

Video tutorial on a new Rhino 8 command: ShrinkWrap (in German)

What is ShrinkWrap?

Charles Panke from Filou created this video in German on ShrinkWrap, one of the new Rhino 8 features.

Using this command, you can create a watertight mesh from surfaces, solids, meshes, SubDs, or any combination, whether open or closed. And if you have point cloud data, ShrinkWrap can create meshes directly from that, too.

What is ShrinkWrap ideal for?

ShrinkWrap is the tool you choose to create:

• Meshes for 3D printing
• A solid union mesh from multiple objects
• A solid mesh from 3D scan data fragments
• Meshes without internal self-intersections
• Offset meshes for shelling
• Meshes from point clouds during reverse engineering
• Valid closed meshes from broken or often hard-to-repair geometry

ShrinkWrap video tutorial

In this video you will learn:

• How to create an editable geometry
• The use of ShrinkWrap for the modeling of radii
• How to create complex wall thicknesses in NURBS

Please note: German is the language used throughout the tutorial.

More details and video at Filou...

New Dutch Rhino tutorials

At rhinoacademie.com, designer Michiel van der Kley has published a series of very accessible and short tutorials that explain, in Dutch, how to work with Rhino. Michiel explains the basics and shows you how fun it is to work with the program.

New and easy tutorials for Dutch-speaking Rhino users are added regularly to provide much-needed basic knowledge of Rhino as well as offer insight into the way Rhino is taught at the Rhinoacademie. 

The Rhinoacacademie organizes regular Rhino courses in the Netherlands. Check the website for more information.
 

V-Ray 6 for Rhino – Architectural Interior Scene

Creating a Night-time Architectural Interior Rendering in V-Ray 6 for Rhino

In this new Simply Rhino V-Ray video tutorial, part of our new ‘Getting Started with V-Ray’ series, we create a night-time architectural interior rendering using V-Ray 6 for Rhino 7.

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New to Rhino or Grasshopper?

We have a Getting Started web site to help you get going in Rhino. It's full of short video tutorials. Most are less than five minutes long.  The various topics include tutorials on navigation, selecting objects, modeling strategies, and Grasshopper basics. Both Windows and Mac are covered. 

And we've recently added a few new ones.

Try them out!

The Essential Guide to Digital Jewelry

The Essential Guide to Digital Jewelry is a set of free video tutorials and a book from Authorized Rhino Trainers, Akiyo Matsuoka and Eva Tucek.

With Rhinoceros 7 and Grasshopper algorithms, create models easily, enable simulations, modify, iterate and find better results by manipulating Grasshopper parameters. 

The videos and book help you create jewelry designs using these latest computational design techniques. Discover the many possibilities your design may offer with the help of Grasshopper. 

The paperback is available on Amazon, or grab the PDF Book and models for everything you need to complete the exercises.

Akiyo Matsuoka and Eva Tucek, Authorized RhinoTrainers (ARTs), bring their years of knowledge and experience in Rhino and Grasshopper to those who want to learn CAD for jewelry design.

Questions on this book? Email Akiyo or Eva here.

Grasshopper Knowledge | Packhunt.io

Are you interested in expanding your Grasshopper knowledge?

Packhunt.io has created a video series called Grasshopper Explained with snackable tips and tricks that will help you save time and keep your models clean!

Join its community by subscribing to the video channel today!

Exporting Data from Rhino to Twinmotion

In this Simply Rhino UK video tutorial, senior Trainer Phil Cook takes a look at exporting data from Rhino to Twinmotion using the new Datasmith Rhino Exporter.

Improved Rhino to Twinmotion workflow

The new Direct Link, which also uses the Datasmith file format, makes it very easy to have Rhino and Twinmotion open together and push design changes in Rhino to Twinmotion for evaluation.

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New video tutorial for SectionTools in Rhino 7

 

In this video, Rajaa Issa shows the general workflow and the new functionality in SectionTools for Rhino 7 for Windows.

SectionTools is a free plugin by McNeel to create dynamic 3D sections and 2D layouts that update with model changes. Download and documentation are available here...

SectionTools video tutorial...