Mastering Grasshopper Tekla Live Link: Discovering Hidden Options and Effective Workflow Tips (May 16 at 14h CEST)

This session explores some of the most interesting and non-intuitive components in Grasshopper Tekla Live Link, as well as uncovers some hidden options that can help streamline your workflow. Sebastian Lindholm (Trimble) and Krzysztof Wojslaw (LearnGrasshopper.com) on May 16 at 14:00 CEST will share their expert tips and tricks for working effectively with Live Link, allowing you to get the most out of this powerful tool.

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Intelligent Generations V1.0 Webinar by DesignMorphine

Intelligent Generations V1.0 is about creatively and playfully harnessing the power of different computational design techniques, including AI technologies, to iterate through ideas quickly and make 3D models that directly come from AI-produced code. You will use Python code from ChatGPT in combination with your brain to create generative Grasshopper definitions inspired by the logic in AI-generated imagery. The class will use screenshots of our generatively designed 3D models to feed back into text-to-image AI systems to visualize different possibilities for viewing designs. Throughout this process, evoke the spirit and ethos of Bob Ross in the 21st century by sketching ideas with the contemporary mediums of computation, pixels, and 3D geometric information via artificial and human intelligence.

Starts July 30.

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VisualARQ Webinar and Online Course

Last week's Rhino3D.Education webinar, Modelado Arquitectonico BIM con VisualARQ, by Francesc Salla, is ready for watching, En Español!

If you couldn't join us live or want to rewatch or share the webinar, you can do so here!

Francesc Salla, architect, a specialist in parametric design, and Product Manager of VisualARQ and Lands Design at Asuni, showed us how VisualARQ integrates intuitively into the design process with Rhino and Grasshopper, with the shortest learning curve and thus generates any type of freeform architecture.

Check out Salla's free online course, VisualARQ, Flexible BIM Tools for Rhino.

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.

Enroll now!

You can follow this course with just a little Rhino experience. However, most videos focus only on VisualARQ features, and we recommend you take this free Rhino Introductory course.

A New Digital Wind Tunnel App in Rhino

A New Digital Wind Tunnel App in Rhino

April 19, 2023

3:00 pm CET / 9:00 am ET

SimScale has launched a new microclimate modeling app, a Rhino plugin visualizing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations directly from within Rhino! The app used the powerful CAD tools in Rhino and integrates SimScale's fast and accurate wind and outdoor comfort studies tools.

Attend an upcoming webinar and learn how architects and engineers use this new app for microclimate design insights. See how to set up and run a complete simulation of a city model from Rhino step by step, including how to:

• Start with a CAD model in Rhino
• Use the app to set up the climate data and location
• Run the simulations without leaving Rhino
• Postprocess and visualize the simulation results directly in Rhino
  
  

This app was developed jointly by Thornton Tomesetti and SimScale.  Presenters are Jeroen Janssen and Richard Szoeke-Schuller. Jeroen is an Associate Director leading the CORE studio team for Thornton Tomasetti in London. Jeroen mainly focuses on the design of microclimates for urban spaces. Richard Szoeke-Schuller is a Product Manager at SimScale and has an extensive background in applied mathematics and mechanical engineering.

Register for this live event. Even if you cannot attend, you will receive the recording.

Rhino User Webinar: New solutions for eyeglass design, by Riccardo Pietro Visentin (In Italian)

                               

Rhino User Webinar (In Italian)

New solutions for eyeglass design

April 26, 2023, at 4:00 PM CEST

This webinar will explain how Rhino enables improvements to the traditional workflow in eyewear design, using SubD and parametric modeling with Grasshopper. We will address aspects aimed at both digital fabrication and product virtualization. Special focus will be given to using 2D and 3D tools in Rhino for eyewear customization, including models with custom designs in terms of shape, size, materials, colors, details, logos, and engravings, up to unique solutions for the person who will wear it. This is the new concept of sartorial eyewear, that is, eyewear designed as a tailor-made garment to express the taste and style of people who seek exclusive fashion accessories. Taking advantage of Rhino's potential and new functions, it will be shown how to handle complex design situations, including the creation of fittings for critical parts, the intersection of surfaces between bridge, nose pads, and the ergonomic shapes of temple ends.

Riccardo Pietro Visentin is the Founder & Owner of AUREASERVICE Design Studio (Est. 1989), which has been an Authorized Rhino Training Center since 2005. He is a Creative Digital Designer: consultant, 3D designer, and trainer for digital innovation in multiple areas of design. He has developed specific expertise in the design of fashion accessories and furniture components, working alongside and training designers from companies and professional studios. In the area of eyewear design, he has created training paths to introduce and improve digital design and fabrication in companies in the supply chain.

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Rhino User Webinar: Gradient Skins, by Boyan Mihaylov

Rhino User Webinar

Gradient Skins

April 5, 2023, at 4:00 PM CEST

This webinar will introduce typical approaches for algorithmic modeling used in the designing of Joris Laarman Studio's products, illustrating how they relate to their design philosophy and visual language and focusing on the parametric techniques behind several large-scale 3D-printed metal structures produced by MX3D. In this workflow sculptural logic meets a mathematical one in a complex interplay between function, aesthetics, and fabrication constraints.

Boyan Mihaylov is a Computational Designer and CAD Specialist at Joris Laarman Studio. Coming from a background in architecture, he specialized in parametric modeling for digital fabrication during his projects with ICD at the University of Stuttgart. For the past eight years, he has provided expertise in the digital implementation of complex designs in various scales, constantly looking for innovative computational solutions for design problems.

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VisualARQ webinar in Spanish

   

Join Rhino3D.Education in a free live webinar, "Modelado Arquitectonico BIM con VisualARQ," by Francesc Salla.

Register here!

VisualARQ is an architectural BIM software that works as a plugin for Rhino. It adds architectural features to Rhino for working with powerful associative objects, dynamic documentation tools, and collaborating with other programs with IFC file import and export capabilities.

VisualARQ adds powerful architectural object styling and dynamic documentation tools that adapt to your workflow. It is for Rhino users and professionals in architectural fields such as architects, interior designers, and developers.

Francesc Salla, architect, a specialist in parametric design, and Product Manager of VisualARQ and Lands Design at Asuni, will present this webinar. He will show us how VisualARQ integrates intuitively into the design process with Rhino and Grasshopper, with the shortest learning curve, and thus generates any type of freeform architecture.

When? Thursday, March 30, 2023.

Time? 10 am (EST) - Miami time zone
Where? Online live-stream via Zoom

Free with prior registration
The webinar will be held in Spanish.

Register now! 
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

If you can't make it, we keep recordings of our webinars so you can replay or watch them again!

Watch Rhino3D.Education's whole collection of free podcasts and webinars. 

Questions? Contact Lucia Miguel at lucia@mcneel.com

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

Grasshopper for Beginners workshop by Parametric Architecture - March 11-12

Parametric Architecture has organized a Grasshopper for Beginners workshop that will take place on March 11-12, 2023.

Grasshopper for Beginners 1.0 is a weekend-long workshop that teaches the core principles of Grasshopper and provides the foundations for further advanced courses over two sessions. At the end of the course, students will have a solid knowledge of the fundamental principles and tools required to utilize Grasshopper properly. This course will give an excellent beginning place for your adventure into the world of Grasshopper, whether you are an architect, designer, or enthusiast.

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food4Rhino webinar: Share data between Rhino and Revit with Autodesk’s Data Exchange Connectors (March 15, 2023 at 5PM CET)

food4Rhino webinar: Share data between Rhino and Revit with Autodesk’s Data Exchange Connectors
March 15, 2023 at 5PM CET

In this webinar, Japhy Walton (McNeel) and Tobias Hathorn (Autodesk) will provide an overview of Autodesk’s new Data Exchange Connectors for Rhino and Revit, with some live collaborative demos between the two applications. We will walk through how you can use Data Exchanges to share your design data through the cloud, across the apps your team works with every day, without the hassle of importing / exporting entire design models. 

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Landscape Modeling - Webinar en Español

  

Join Rhino3D.Education in a free live webinar, Landscape Modeling with Lands Design, by Elham Ghabouli and Francesc Salla.

Register here!

Lands Design is a BIM landscape design software that works as a plugin in two versions: AutoCAD and Rhino. The webinar follows the design process with Lands Design, including drafting tools, terrain modeling tools, streetscape, vegetation, visualization, and documentation tools.

When? Thursday, March 2nd, 2023.

Time? 10:00 am (EST) - Miami time zone
Where? Online live-stream via Zoom

Free with prior registration
The webinar will be held in Spanish.

Dr. Elham Ghabouli, who has a Ph.D. in Urban and Architectural Management, will present this webinar. She is the Product Manager of Lands Design at Asuni with a long academic experience in landscape and urban planning programs and as a landscape architect. With Elham, Francesc Salla, architect and specialist in parametric design and Product Manager of VisualARQ and Lands Design at Asuni, will show us how to develop a complete landscape project—from drawing to 3D modeling and producing documentation with BIM technology.

Register now! 
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

If you can't make it, we keep recordings of our webinars so you can replay or watch them again!

Watch Rhino3D.Education's whole collection of free podcasts and webinars. 

Questions? Contact Lucia Miguel at lucia@mcneel.com

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

Free webinar - Model and texture Herman Miller chair

Free Workflow Webinar 5.0 
March 12 at 16:00 (UTC/GMT)

Attention all industrial designers! Join us for the next Free Workflow Webinar 5.0. Learn how to use Rhinoceros to 3D model and design texture with Grasshopper of the iconic Herman Miller Verus Chair. 

In this webinar, you'll understand how to use Rhinoceros surfacing and solid modeling techniques to create an accurate 3D model of the chair and use Grasshopper to add parametric texture to the Verus Chair. It is an exciting opportunity to expand your skills in one of the most widely used 3D modeling tools for industrial design and enhance your portfolio. 

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

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food4Rhino webinar: Botcha x Rhino (February 9 at 4 PM CET)

food4Rhino webinar: Botcha x Rhino

February 9, 2023, at 4 PM CET

Botcha x Rhino is a new plugin that introduces commands and Grasshopper components to enhance some UV editing and remapping features in Rhino, as well as adding some parametric modifiers components. In this webinar, we are going introduce the plugin.

Speakers:

• Alberto Franco: Lead software architect for design&develop, in charge of development for Jevero Pattern, Botcha, and many other custom tools. Specialized in developing product design software, with over a decade of experience in both modeling and developing in various different 3D platforms.
• Federico Trentin: Product Owner for design&develop, responsible for account management and education for the software Jevero and Botcha. Broad experience in multilingual training for Jevero Pattern. Rhino enthusiast.

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Rhino for Beginners workshops by Parametric Architecture - starting January 2023

Parametric Architecture has organized a series of Rhino for Beginners workshops, the first one taking place January 28-29, 2023.

Rhino for Beginners 1.0, which will last the entire weekend, is a course on Rhinoceros for beginners. It will cover basic 3D modeling terminology and tools. By the end of the workshop, students will understand how to use the Rhino software to create their own 3D models. They will also have a foundation for learning more advanced techniques. The material covered in the workshop will be reinforced through exercises and small design challenges during and after the workshop.

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Rhino User Webinar: Surface Modeling and Product Presentation, by Gijs de Zwart

 

Rhino User Webinar

Surface Modeling and Product Presentation

January 18, 2023, at 4 PM UTC+1

Gijs de Zwart will drive this webinar, where he will demonstrate how to rebuild some Soft Electronics products in Rhino based on the book by Jaro Gielens. During the live demo, Gijs will show surface modeling workflow in Rhino, reverse engineering from scanned objects, and some tips on rendering and product presentation.

A few examples of what he will show can be found in the Rhino Gallery.

Gijs is a design professional with a primary focus on high-quality design visualization. He is an experienced Rhino and Grasshopper user with programming and visualization experience. He has developed some plugins like Global Edge Continuity and is a Rhino trainer and freelance designer.
He has recently joined the McNeel team.

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VisualARQ webinar: Flexible BIM tools for Rhino every architect should know (January 12, 2023)

VisualARQ webinar

Flexible BIM tools for Rhino every architect should know"

January 12, 2023, at 5 PM UTC+1

This webinar will cover an overview of the “Flexible BIM” features VisualARQ adds to Rhino and Grasshopper for developing a project of architecture inside Rhino, producing the 2D documentation drawings, and delivering a BIM model for other AEC applications.

You will learn:

• How to work with smart parametric architectural objects.
• How to efficiently produce 2D drawings of your project in Rhino.
• How to generate custom dynamic BIM objects driven by Grasshopper (also known as “VisualARQ Grasshopper styles”) with unlimited design options.
• How to automate many modeling tasks through the VisualARQ components built for Grasshopper.
• How to add and manage custom data to geometry and list it in schedules.
• How to deliver BIM models and collaborate with other tools through the IFC import/export capabilities and Rhino.Inside.

The webinar will take around one hour, including Q&A.

Free registration here...

food4Rhino webinar: Rhino.Inside Cadwork (November 23, 2022, at 5 PM CET)

food4Rhino webinar: Rhino.Inside Cadwork

November 23,, 2022 at 5 PM CET

This webinar introduces Rhino.Inside Cadwork.

Cadwork is a widely used software in timber construction, now linked to Rhino and Grasshopper.

We will have a look at the components of Cadwork in Grasshopper, including a practical project.

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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: 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.

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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.

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2022 COMMON GROUND Symposium, NYC, October 13

 

2022 COMMON GROUND Symposium in NYC

October 13, Thursday, 6 pm-8 pm (EDT)

Verizon Executive Education Center at Cornell Tech / Live Webinar

Pre-registration is required for both in-person and for webinar attendees.

The Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) of The University of Tokyo is pleased to invite you to the 2022 COMMON GROUND Symposium in New York City on October 13, 2002, cohosted by The University of Tokyo New York Office (UTokyoNY).

The symposium aims to bring together leading researchers and specialists from Japan and the US to explore and advance our insights into today's emerging topics in integrating virtual and physical agents and spatial description systems.

The evening will feature keynote speeches by researchers from IIS on their cutting-edge research in applying game engines to Common Ground to facilitate interactions between agents and spatial systems, followed by discussions with panelists from academia and industry in the US on the latest topics from related fields.

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