TOMKOD publishes a whole range of Rhino plugins

Developed with the user experience and simplicity in mind, TomKod released a range of tools to address the engineers' expressed needs. At a few dozen euros, the investment is cost-effective starting from the first use.

Following is the list of TomKod plugins currently available:

 

   Attribute Analysis - Get a 3D model's attribute analysis and stats

Draw UserTexts - Draw attribute values as text, with consistent positioning

Rhino Beam Tools - Export data to beam calculation software (Finite Element Method) BV STEEL® and RDM7®

Marine Weight Schedule - Compute a project's Bill Of Masses and Bill Of Materials

Selection Tools - Object selection tools

Tables - Create/Edit tables and import from Excel Spreadsheets

New features are still released regularly via updates or new products based on expressed needs.

The plugins are also downloadable from Rhino’s package manager.

Details...

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Re-Emerge Pavilion, a collaboration between AA [EmTech] and Hassell

Photography: Studio NAARO

Architectural Association (AA) Emergent Technologies & Design (EmTech) Post-Graduate Programme and Hassell in London have collaborated to create a new pavilion in Bedford Square.

EmTech Post-Graduate Programme at the Architectural Association has a long history in designing and creating structures and pavilions. This year’s pavilion is titled Re-Emerge and is the first time since the pandemic that the students could closely work together, fabricate and assemble a full-scale structure.

For this collaboration, Hassell gave the students the challenge to keep the project's carbon footprint to an absolute minimum and therefore only use reclaimed timber.

Xavier De Kestelier, Head of Design at Hassell, said, “The students really took on the challenge with both hands and decided early on to build the pavilion out of timber from reclaimed wooden pallets.”

The Re-Emerge pavilion explores new design and construction technologies that repurpose materials that have completed their first life cycle towards innovative structural formations. The project addresses themes of generative design, material computation, large-scale fabrication and assembly technologies, emphasizing the pavilion's ecological impact from the early phases of the design process onwards.

Re-emerge revives the tradition of building on Bedford Square as a collaboration between an academic programme at the AA and partners from the world of practice to test ideas at scale and imagine new possibilities.

Dr. Elif Erdine, Director of the EmTech Program, said, "This collaboration with Hassell demonstrates a successful illustration of how academia and practice can come together to discover novel solutions to complex spatial and material problems. With the support of our other sponsors, BuroHappold Engineering and One Click LCA, EmTech and Hassell explored new design and construction technologies for repurposing timber."

She added, "As designers, architects, and engineers, we share the responsibility to maintain a mindful approach towards our environment while designing and building. Our mutual insight into how construction waste can be a useful resource has originated this research into repurposing timber for an outdoor structure that is lightweight, emphasizing the project’s ecological impact from the early phases of the design process."

Complete details about the Re-Emerge Pavilion...

The EMTECH (Emergent Technologies and Design Programme) is a post-professional graduate degree at the Architectural Association open to graduates in architecture and engineering who wish to develop skills and pursue knowledge in architectural design science located in new production paradigms. EMTECH investigates new synergies of architecture and ecology through the critical intersection of computational design and fabrication. 

EMTECH Graduate programme 2022-23 registration now open...

Introduction to V-Ray for Rhino 7 Online Course

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

We invite you to register for our new Introduction to Rendering with V-Ray for Rhino 7 course in Spanish by Valeria Palacio and also for the Work In Process (WIP) English version, which will be available by the end of the year, but you can get an early start now!

V-Ray is a tool that lets you create high-quality renderings with the option of creating and editing materials, lights, and geometries. This course is for designers who want to see their ideas come to life. In this introductory course, the user will learn the V-Ray interface and approach complex renderings, exploring this tool's various possibilities in product and space rendering.

Register now and give your models a realistic appearance!

Plus: Upon completion, you will receive a certificate of attendance.

Get started today!

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

Another use for Rhino: Book illustrations

John Miano used Rhino to do his illustrations in his new book, A Visual Tour of Battleship USS New Jersey. Most are 2D, but there are a few 3D models.

More book details on Amazon.com...

2Shapes for Rhino 2.0 Released

2Shapes for Rhino, the jewelry design plugin for Rhino, just got to version 2.0. Here are the top 10 new features:

• Pave and Prongs to set gems anywhere on your design while optimally giving your unique style.
• One-Click to STL & Integrations with 3D printers to point what needs changing for your design and fix it.
• Open from Cloud, bring any design from the 2Shapes Suite into Rhino, all your team's designs in one centralized place.
• Smart Profiles to create organic and smooth designs with ease, no matter the shape, size, or complexity.
• Report, Gems Map and Gems List. Automatically generate documents of your design, its gem distribution, and a full list.
• Assets Selector and Assets Editor to modify profiles and see how the changes dynamically affect your design.
• Improved outliner, get an overview of your design's elements, and edit them in an agile and intuitive way.
• With Cutters, select what gems need to be drilled, set the drill measurement, and run the boolean difference.
• Let your design sparkle with Gems by Network, draw the bounds and let 2Shapes automatically fill it with gems.
• Dedicated Render Studio for amazing images and animations. Easy to use rendering tools for jewelry designers.

Complete details about the new version...

Download 2Shapes for Rhino on food4Rhino...

RhinoCenter launches a new Academy Platform for Turkish users!

After working on this new project for many months, RhinoCenter (Authorized Rhino Reseller and Training Center in Turkey) is happy to announce the launch of their Academy platform. Their website now offers basic courses for Rhino, specific training on SubD, Grasshopper, and all in Turkish!

These initial courses are similar to intense on-site training but with lifetime access to follow at your own pace. Each course has its own final test which takes around 45 minutes and has a passing score of 70/100. Upon passing the test, students will receive a completion certificate.

At the end of the year, all certified students will have the chance to win a Rhino Level 1 Exam Certificate. A great opportunity to test knowledge and competency in Rhino software, 3D visualization and become a Certified Rhino Specialist.

Last but not least, all courses are listed with a 75% special discount until the end of the year and stay tuned because they will soon release the following new courses: Python, RhinoCAM, and V-Ray for Rhino.

For more information, visit academy.rhinocenter.net

Announced: Winner of the DigitalFUTURES Coding Award 2021!

We are excited to learn that Rajaa Issa, our developer of PanelingTools for Rhino and Grasshopper, has been given the DigitalFUTURES Coding Award 2021.

This award is given to a digital tool that revolutionizes architectural research, practice, or education by offering an advanced thinking paradigm and workflow. 

PanelingTools is widely used to rationalize freeform surfaces and create paneling solutions, from concept to fabrication. 

You can hear Rajaa in a video describing the history, concept, and development behind PanelingTools.

DigitalFUTURES is an educational initiative that organizes workshops, lectures, conferences, exhibitions, book publications, a peer-reviewed journal, and an international PhD program. While emphasizing the latest computational design and fabrication technologies, they also address education's broader ethical and social education issues by providing an ever-growing repository of knowledge accessible for everyone.

Rhino 7 to FELIX Online Render

FELIX Render is a clever cloud-based rendering software for architects and designers. It offers superior rendering quality, rich collaborative material and object libraries, wonderful tools to quickly populate your designs with furniture and vegetation, the comfort of a 100% non-destructive workflow, and fantastic lighting tools. It can handle huge projects from an old laptop. Its performance is almost entirely hardware-independent.

It's very affordable and since the cloud is based on sharing hardware resources, it's also environmentally friendly. 

Download the Rhino 7 to Felix Render Exporter on food4Rhino...

Parakeet plugin now supported on ShapeDiver

Parakeet3D is a collection of digital tools that expands Grasshopper's morphological repository for Patterns and Networks, allowing designers to go beyond old shapes and push the old boundaries to comply with modern design requirements. Designing with Parakeet is simple and straightforward. It's as simple as selecting a tile (grid), then selecting the method you want to use for pattern generation on that grid. And from his week on, it's now supported on ShapeDiver!

Learn more here ...