Webinar: RhinoCAM in Education, September 19

Webinar: RhinoCAM in Education

Wednesday, September 19

8:00am PDT

Register here!

This webinar features MecSoft's RhinoCAM products for education. Anyone interested in CAM for education is encouraged to attend.

Webinar overview:

• RhinoCAM in Univ of Arizona by Paulus Musters, Materials Lab Manager
• Overview and Demo of the RhinoCAM Educational Product
• Resources for Education
• Q & A

Presenters include Paulus Musters, Kyle Houchens and Don LaCourse

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XXXII International Fair of Bogotá (industrial exhibition)

The XXXII International Fair of Bogotá aims at the new technologies applied to productive industries. It has become a center of business and industry contacts that encourages commercial exchange. It is a favorable scenario for the exhibition of machinery, equipment, technological advances, supplies, machinery for construction, capital and intermediate goods, raw materials, components and services to an infinite market for development and industrial growth.

Join Rhino3D Colombia and Almacenes Yamata and learn how 3-D design is combined with new technologies, and how new ideas can be generated using Rhino, RhinoCAM, and Grasshopper. 

Date: September 24-28, 2018
Time: 9:00 AM-7:00 PM
Place: Main entrance: Carrera 37 No. 24 -67, Bogotá
Visit us at Pavilion 1, Level 1, Stand 232, CORFERIAS.

Register here!

For more information, please contact Andres Franco.

What is a RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

Rhino for Educators Workshop at Construct3D 2018

Construct3D 2018 is a 3D printing, digital fabrication conference, and expo focused on academic use, best practices, and professional development opportunities for faculty, staff, and students. This year, Georgia Tech hosts the event.

The Rhino for Educators Workshop is a comprehensive, one-day introductory class, where you will learn the basics of creating and editing accurate 3D models. This fast-moving class covers how to start using Rhino to develop models for both rendering and digital fabrication. The day will start with an introduction and progress rapidly to more advanced surfacing commands and preparing models for 3D printing. This class is designed to be “hands on.” However, feel free to join us even if you do not have a computer.

Location: Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI),
813 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332
Venue: GTMI Auditorium
Date: Friday, October 5, 2018
Time: 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Instructor: Mary Ann Fugier, Director of Education and Training,
Robert McNeel & Associates

Spaces are limited - Register now!

More information...

ACADIA 2018 Mexico City, October 18-20

ACADIA 2018 Mexico City

October 18-20, 2018 | Universidad Iberoamericana | Mexico City

ACADIA 2018 Mexico City aims to recalibrate the discourse of computational design research. Mexico has a rich and varied design culture which brings to mind names like Barragan, Candela, Legorreta, Goeritz, and Pani. This conference provides a platform for experimentation in imprecision and the breaking of the norms that define fidelity within contemporary architectural research and practice. More...

Register here.

Various workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference. Details, workshop descriptions, and registration information are here.


About ACADIA...
ACADIA was formed to facilitate communication and critical thinking on the use of computers in architecture, planning, and building science. The organization is committed to the research and development of computational methods that enhance design creativity, rather than just production. A particular focus is education and the software, hardware, and pedagogy involved in education. Please visit the main ACADIA website for more information.

Karamba3D Workshop - November 28-30 in Vienna

Location: Vienna, Austria

Venue: Sichtart e.U., Mariahilfer Straßer 112/1/9 Vienna 1070

Dates: November 28-30, 2018

Time: 10:00-18:00

Course Fee: Professional EUR 750 (+VAT), Student EUR 375 (+VAT) 

Led by plugin developer and structural engineer Clemens Preisinger, along with Zeynep Aksoz and Matthew Tam from the expert Karamba3D team, this three-day workshop will focus on methods of setting up structural systems in the parametric environment of Grasshopper. Participants will be guided through the basics of analyzing and interpreting structural models, to optimization processes and how to integrate Karamba3D into C# scripts.

This workshop is aimed toward beginner to intermediate users of Karamba, but advanced users are also encouraged to apply. It is open to both professional and academic users.

Karamba3D is a parametric structural engineering tool that provides an accurate analysis of spatial trusses, frames, and shells. Karamba3D is fully embedded in the parametric design environment of Grasshopper, a plugin for the 3D modeling tool Rhinoceros. This makes it easy to combine parameterized geometric models, finite element calculations and optimization algorithms like Galapagos.

Course Outline

• Introduction and presentation of project examples
• Optimization of cross sections of line-based and surface-based elements
• Geometric optimization
• Topological optimization
• Structural performance informed form finding
• Understanding analysis algorithms embedded in Karamba and visualizing results
• Complex workflow processes in Rhino, Grasshopper, and Karamba3D

Requirements

• The workshop will be taught in English.
• Basic Rhino and Grasshopper knowledge is recommended.
• No knowledge of Karamba is needed.

Places are limited to a maximum of 10 participants with limited educational places. A minimum of 4 places is required for the workshop to take place. The workshop will be canceled if this quota is not filled by October 15th.

Participants must bring their own laptops with either Rhino 5/Rhino 6 and Grasshopper installed. A 90-day trial version of Rhino can be downloaded from Rhino.

Karamba ½ year licenses for non-commercial use will be provided to all participants.

Registration...

Construct3D 2018 at Georgia Tech - Grasshopper 101 Workshop

Construct3D will take place at Georgia Tech this year. The Conference aims to bring together educators involved in digital fabrication to exchange ideas, build their networks, learn new skills, and accelerate the adoption and exploration of 3D printing in education. 

We are honored that they have invited RhinoFabStudio Director and Rhino and Grasshopper specialist, Andres Gonzalez, to lead a couple of workshops and a presentation in partnership with TROTEC USA. 

Join Andres in his Introduction to Grasshopper Workshop!

This course is for design professionals who are looking to efficiently learn concepts and features of Grasshopper at an accelerated pace. Andres will get you started with generative modeling in Rhino using the Grasshopper plugin in real-life examples.

Location: Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI)
813 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332

Date: Friday October 5, 2018

Time: 9:00 AM- 4:00 PM

Spaces are limited! Register now!

What is a RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

RhinoLink for Wolfram Language

RhinoLink is a prototype Wolfram Language paclet that provides a two-way communication link between McNeel and Associates' Rhino and Mathematica or Wolfram Desktop.

With RhinoLink you can:

• Script Rhino with Wolfram Language code
• Create Grasshopper components that encapsulate Wolfram Language code
• Control Rhino content with Wolfram Language interfaces
• Source Rhino geometry from Mathematica
• Include Wolfram Language code directly in Grasshopper structures
• Use Rhino as a geometry server from Wolfram Language

RhinoLink currently supports Rhino 6 for Windows and Mathematica versions 11.0+.

More information...

Construct3D 2018

Construct3D 2018 is a 3D printing, digital fabrication conference, and expo focused on academic use, best practices, and professional development opportunities for faculty, staff, and students.

This year, Georgia Tech hosts the event, happening in Atlanta, GA, October 5-8th. Registration is open until September 28, 2018.

The event is open to all teachers, practitioners, technologists, designers, students, and academics from K12, higher education or informal education.

The conference hosted panels featuring notable educators and industry four full days of over one hundred talks and workshops, a vendor area offering demonstrations of leading design, materials, digital fabrication technologies and other resources, and social gatherings that encouraged discussion.

Robert McNeel & Associates lead trainers Andres Gonzalez, Mary Ann Fugier and Dale Fugier will present in-depth workshops on Rhino, Grasshopper, and SudoHopper3D.

The sessions offer educators new skills to take home to their schools and programs, and opportunities to speak directly to staff who develop these applications.

More information...

Food4Rhino reaches three million downloads!

Food4Rhino, the plugin community server by McNeel, with more than 400 Rhino and Grasshopper apps, reached recently three million downloads!

Many thanks to all the third-party developers and users for this milestone, keep up the good work!

And please send us your feedback to continue improving the service!

Check out the newest developments in AEC, jewelry, visualization, CAD/CAM, robots, CFD, FEA, environmental analysis, marine, AR/VR/MR, footwear, games, volumetric modeling, structural optimization, product configurators, form-finding, urban and landscape, BIM translators, GUI customization, and much more!

Digital R+Evolution Days - Macherio (Italia) - Sep 20-21, 2018

Digital R+Evolution Days
Regolo Studio
Sep 20-21, 2018
Macherio (Italia)

Regolo Studio, Authorized Rhino Training Center and FabStudio, has organized a free event for you to learn more about all the new possibilities Industry 4.0 offers, including CAD/CAM, digital fabrication, reverse engineering.

Complete details and registration (in Italian)...

International conference on cross-disciplinary collaboration Sept 27/28 at University of Kaiserslautern

Register now to visit the RCA 2018 conference on cross-disciplinary collaboration in architecture on September 27/28 at University of Kaiserslautern. Meet researchers from leading institutions and groups such as ETH Gramazio Kohler Research, ICD Stuttgart, EPFL Xploration Lab, RWTH Individualised Production IP and many more. Listen to keynotes and roundtable discussions with experts across architectural research including Sigrid Brell-Cokcan, Caitlin Mueller, Michael U. Hensel, Christian Derix ,Margitta Buchert and Eike Roswag-Klinge. Registration includes the RCA2018 book and dinner.

The International Conference aims to discuss topics and methods in architectural research, focusing on their cross-disciplinary interrelations and their relevance to the design process itself. The organizers are interested to see approaches to the development of a research culture in architecture. This conference will identify research topics and methods, encourages a research discourse and provides impulses, especially for young researchers.

Complete info and registration...

Curvahedra the new style of puzzle

Curvahedra is the brainchild of British Mathematician and University of Arkansas Math Professor, Edmund Harris, and is more than a fun and interesting new style of puzzle. With its new tagline Art + Puzzle, it creates new ways for people to engage in creative thinking through puzzle and design that everyone can enjoy. It consists of sets of identical cut pieces which link together ingeniously, without the aid of glue or tape, to build a variety of 3D structures. 

Edmund does his 3D work in Rhino and Grasshopper and has written CAMel a CAM plugin to export the Code straight from Grasshopper. The individual pieces for the metal models were drawn in Rhino and then cut using the Code from CAMel.

Follow them on their social networks:

Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

For information please contact Brad Harvey at 479-715-1639
or email Edmund Harris 

What is a RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

3D Modeling Workshop (Beginners) in Chile

Carpintería Vez is hosting a 3D modeling Workshop for beginners in Chile. The course is for professionals and technicians in the area of construction, engineering, architecture, industrial and interior designers, art and entrepreneurs. Rhino software will be used in this workshop.

Dates: October 1 and 3, 2018

Time: From 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Calle Martinez de Rozas #520 Concepción,
C3 Centro de Creación Concepción, Chile
Fee: $250.000 CLP

Register here!

For more information please contact Evelyn Larraguibel.

What is a RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer-controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

4th AR & VR with Rhino UGM at Bryden Wood (London, UK)

4th AR & VR with Rhino User Group Meeting 

Bryden Wood (London, UK)

September 20, 2018

This is the fourth meeting of the AR/VR for Rhino User Group organized by SimplyRhino UK.

The group is for those interested in meeting to network, discuss, and explore virtual and augmented reality solutions for Rhino.

The meetings follow a simple format of at least one presentation from a customer with experience in this field, followed by group discussion and informal pleasantries.

Details

• Thursday, September 20, 2018
• 18:30 – 20:30
• Bryden Wood – 100 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1x 8AL (See map)

Presenters

• Bryden Wood: 
  The Creative Technology team of Bryden Wood is a new digital group of computational designers working on advanced approaches to digital design.
• Robert McNeel & Associates – RhinoVR: VR Tools inside Rhino 6 presented by Andy Le Bihan. McNeel (the developers of Rhino) has been working on some VR tools within Rhino 6 for Windows. The resulting plugin is called RhinoVR.  Although this is an on-going project, there are some very interesting tools here for everyone interested in using Rhino as a VR platform.

Complete info and registration...

Also, check the notes from the last AR/VR for Rhino UGM which took place at AKT II... 

RESHAPE18 Competition - Deadline extended until Sep 7th

The RESHAPE18 |sensing materialities competition has extended the closing deadline to September 7th, 2018.

Through their online platform Reshape promotes research, design, and production of digital ideas, exploring implications and applications of technology and innovation. Reshape 18 | sensing materialities is focused on customized garments or products, promoting healthy living for individuals in everyday life.

Annually Reshape launches a competition organized by Noumena in collaboration with IN(3D)USTRY From Needs to Solutions and Fira Barcelona to foster the use and adoption of additive and advanced manufacturing on wearable and product design. This year's forum is October 16-18.

Designers, makers, and artists are invited to submit their ideas and design proposals for the Reshape challenge.

Submit your design now...

Innochain exhibition starts today “Practice Futures – Building Design in a new material age” - KADK, Copenhagen

Aug 31-Dec 7

9.00 am-5.00 pm

KADK Exhibition Hall

Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 51

1435 Copenhagen K

We invite you to the Innochain exhibition PRACTICE FUTURES: BUILDING DESIGN FOR A NEW MATERIAL AGE at KADK. Innochain is a European PhD network examining new potentials in digital design practice within architecture, engineering, IT, and fabrication. 

The exhibition showcases the results of 15 PhD projects from 6 institutions across Europe. With a strong industry focus, the PhDs are undertaken in collaboration with 14 cutting edge industry partners from across the interdisciplinary field. McNeel Europe S.L. is one of the official industrial partners.

Together we investigate the extended digital chain–the way that a shared digital platform can allow tools for analysis, fabrication and material design to interface so as to create new interdisciplinary methods and digital workflows for future building industry. Here you will see how:

• digital tools can make new use of traditional craft techniques
• resource aware optimization can lead to new structural designs
• shared digital platforms can lead to a new understanding of collaboration

Rhino, Grasshopper + Apps have been extensively used in all these PhD research projects.

The Innochain exhibition PRACTICE FUTURES is co-organised with the international conference PRACTICE FUTURES: Expanding information modelling for a new material age. The conference will take place at the Danish Architecture Centre, Nov 8-9, 2018. Registration to the conference is open now: http://innochain.net/conference/


Innochain Industry partners:
BIG, Bluhmer Lehmann, Buro Happold, Cloud 9, designtoproduction, Fibre, Foster Partners, HENN, McNeel Europe, ROK-Office, S-Form, Str.ucture, White Architects, Smith Innovation

Innochain Academic Partners:
The Bartlett School of Architecture - UCL, IOA - University of Applied Arts Vienna, CITA - The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, ITKE - University of Stuttgartt, IAAC, KTH School of Architecture

Complete details...

A conversation with concept phone designer Jonas Daehnert

Read Yanko Design's interview with Jonas Daehnert, phone and industrial designer.

Yanko Design is an online magazine dedicated to covering the best in international product design.

New Rhino course in Portland, OR

Join us in welcoming one of our new Authorized Rhino Trainers, Gary Dawson of Gary Dawson Designs. He will be conducting a Level 1 Rhino course next month at Portland Jewelry Academy.


Dates: September 19-21
Location: Portland, OR 
Price: US$750

The course consists of seven two-hour sessions. The first will be at Portland Jewelry Academy, the following six will be held as webinars. The class is intended for beginning to intermediate Rhino users, with a focus on modeling for jewelry. More... 


If you have questions or would like to register, contact Jason Chandler or call (503)-444-5623.

ACADIA2018 workshops have been announced!

October 15-17, 2018

UNAM University Museum of Arts & Sciences

Mexico City

The ACADIA2018 Workshops have been announced and are now online.

Register today!

Choose from:

• Flexible Formwork for Concrete Curves (Rhino, Grasshopper)
• Recalibrating Architectural Design Optimization (Rhino, Grasshopper, DIVA, Ladybug, Karamba, Galapagos, etc)
• Holographic-Analog-Controlled (HACd) Machines: Working with hand-operated tools within mixed reality environments (Rhino, Grasshopper, Fologram)

Details and registration...

Fractals Grasshopper plugin now available on food4Rhino

Now available on food4Rhino! Fractals is a free plugin for Grasshopper that helps you create three different types of mathematically generated fractals: L-System, Sunflower, and DLA.

To download Fractals...

Grasshopper and ShapeDiver help create 3D printed prosthetics for kids!

The Project

As you'll see in the video, SuperGiz is a different type of prosthetic device. It wasn't meant to mimic an exact human hand but rather to be extremely useful in very specific situations, like playing basketball or eating. You'll also learn about one of the first kids, Hector, who is already using a SuperGiz prosthetic. 

Hector and Israel

For years Hector's father Israel tried searching for viable alternatives that could help his son overcome a genetic challenge. Then he met the team of Autofabricantes and MediaLab Prado. After several iterations, they came up with the SuperGiz concept which they hope can help revolutionize the affordable prosthetic world for many families out there.

Complete story and ShapeDiver model...

Last call for entries - Reshape

Reshape 18| Sensing Materialities Competition

Entries due August 31st

Through their online platform Reshape promotes research, design, and production of digital ideas, exploring implications and applications of technology and innovation. Reshape 18 | Sensing materialities is focused on customized garments or products, promoting healthy living for individuals in everyday life.

Annually Reshape launches a competition organized by Noumena in collaboration with IN(3D)USTRY From Needs to Solutions and Fira Barcelona to foster the use and adoption of additive and advanced manufacturing on wearable and product design. This year's forum is October 16-18.

Designers, makers, and artists are invited to submit their ideas and design proposals for the Reshape challenge.

Submit your design before August 31st!...

Para Guru 2018 Symposium + Ladybug Workshops

Para Guru 2018

Symposium + Ladybug Tool Workshops

3-10 November (Melbourne) + 12-17 November (Sydney)

With Ladybug tools, Swinburne University and the University of New South Wales are hosting Para Guru 2018, an event in Melbourne and Sydney in November.

The Para Guru Symposium + Ladybug Tool Workshops aim to promote the adoption of parametric modeling in architectural, engineering and academic communities by bringing together local and international Para Gurus to geek it out and share their experiences and challenges.

More information and to register...

Introduction to Generative Jewelry Design course, NYC

Grasshopper - Introduction to Generative Jewelry Design

Saturday-Sunday, October 6-7, 2018

New York, NY

Price: US$495

Enroll today! 

This two-day class will give you a functional understanding of Grasshopper concepts and parametric design. Learn and explore how Grasshopper generates unprecedented fluidity and automated tasks to go further in the design process, allowing for much greater speed working on complicated and repeating forms. Grasshopper creates parametric modeling to automate production, new forms, shapes, patterns and your interfaces. It is only possible with the algorithmic modeling.

No knowledge of programming or scripting required for designers to build form generators, from the simple to the grand and awe-inspiring designs. The class covers List management and introduces Date Trees. 
Prerequisite: Basic Rhino knowledge is required. 


Participants will work on jewelry projects. However, design professionals from all industries can benefit from this class.

Required: PC laptop with Rhino 5 and the latest Grasshopper installed. 

About the instructor:
Akiyo Matsuoka is an Authorized Rhino Trainer and adjunct faculty at Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC.

Register...

Droid now on food4Rhino

Droid is a free 3D printing Grasshopper plugin library add-on that offers control over model slicing, custom paths, and Gcode generation.

Droid allows control over conventional slicing features, such as infill, shell thickness and caps, within the Rhino and Grasshopper environment. Also, output and editing of paths are available once models are sliced into the Rhino and Grasshopper workspace, allowing full control and analysis.

Custom or edited paths can then be input back into Droid for Gcode preparation and generation.

With Droid, you can prepare and print models in a Plug and Play style with Droid components. Or opt for a more controlled and experimental manner with custom input and output print paths.

Droid can use various printing devices, from small desktop 3D printers to large robotic fabricators.

Learn more and download Droid on food4rhino...

Reviving Tacoma's wooden dome

The renovation of the Tacoma Dome, in Tacoma, Washington, United States, is now underway. When measured by volume, the Tacoma Dome is the largest wooden dome arena in the world.

More than 25 million people have enjoyed world-class entertainment and events at the Tacoma Dome for the last 35 years. This summer, the dome will be enhanced with more than $30 million in capital improvements.

The dome structure and new upgraded seating layout were modeled in Rhino for 3D-review and visualization. The model walk-through is a short clip by DIG showing the model build-up.

Model walk-through in a time-lapse rendering

SudoHopper3D Teacher's Guide

To help you learn Grasshopper, McNeel Miami has created SudoHopper3D, a card game to improve the overall understanding of parametric thinking. SudoHopper3D playfully takes you on a journey through mathematics, algorithms, and basic coding. 

Level 1 provides the players with 32 assignments to write definitions. To help educators facilitate learning for their students, we have provided a Teacher's Guide that works as a "cheat sheet" and has the definitions for all assignments. 

Download the Teacher's Guide to get access to all Level 1 definitions here! 

The card game consists of 126 cards for Level 1. Players have the option to download the free PDF file that comes with all the cards needed for playing SudoHopper3D. Or they can order the physical cards online from here.

We also recommend that players rent the Level 1 videos from our Vimeo On Demand page. These videos will show you different ways to write the definition to solve each assignment. The videos are available in either English or Spanish.

Check out this video of students playing SudoHopper3D!

For more information, please contact Andres Gonzalez.

What is a RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

Optimizing multiple design variables with Karamba

Analysis of principal stresses and deformations of a cantilevered beam

Architects Patricio Llordella and Juan Fostel and engineer Jorge Farez recently collaborated on the design of a single-family home in Hudson, Argentina.

They used parametric modeling to study the combination of the structural and architectural parameters. Karamba was paired with Zirkel, an in-house developed multiple objective optimization tool, to develop the design to meet the architectural and structural design needs. 

More details on the design of the Vierendeel House...