Getting to know...YŪ by YOU Jewelry!

Read Shapediver's interview with Julius, Max, and Paul. They are the minds behind YŪ by YOU, an innovative German jewelry brand that uses computational design to turn any name into a unique wearable jewelry piece.

"The very first version of the algorithm was written in processing and not Grasshopper. Julius spent an entire semester abroad in the United States, where he gained enough knowledge of Grasshopper to develop the YŪ algorithm and design further." 

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After a semester of learning Computational Design with Grasshopper and digital fabrication with Rhino, students at the RhinoFabStudio at TEC de Monterrey in Guadalajara have submitted their final project. All projects illustrate the approach of continuous learning by Tec Monterrey and Rhino3D.Education. 

These students have worked hard on creating these outstanding Generative Jewelry final projects. Please vote for your favorite one here!

To watch the full videos of the projects, visit this link!

To check out the Computational Design course, visit this link!

Are you interested in learning Grasshopper? The Computational Design with Grasshopper course is available in English and Spanish.

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

ClimateStudio v1.3 is here!

ClimateStudio v1.3 is here! ClimateStudio is environmental performance analysis software for the architecture,  engineering, and construction (AEC) sector. Its simulation workflows help designers and consultants optimize buildings for energy efficiency, daylight access, electric lighting performance, visual and thermal comfort, and other measures of occupant health. 

ClimateStudio is a plugin for Rhinoceros and requires the latest service release of version 6 or 7.

ClimateStudio v1.3 features include new weather search tools, interactive climate data visualizations, hourly radiation maps, and more. Get the latest release.

ClimateStudio is free for academic use, too!

The evolving history of La Sagrada Familia: From ashes to masterpiece

If you have traveled to Barcelona, La Sagrada Familia was most likely on your must-see list. Started in 1882, the unique and ever-evolving church has a fascinating construction history.

In the 1990s, when we out-of-towners first visited La Sagrada Familia, it was roofless with a few volunteer contractors milling around. It appeared to be a project destined to creep along in our lifetimes. But instead, it has achieved phenomenal progress and engineering design.

ArchDaily documented a nice history of the building of the Sagrada Familia.

It's now functioning as a church, with a projected finish date of 2026. 

The Sagrada Familia is still a must-see.

From Handcrafted Stone to 3D Printing: The Technological and Material Evolution of Gaudí's Sagrada Familia...

Photopia for Rhino - Optical design software

LTI Optics is proud to announce Photopia for Rhino optical design software.  

For over 25 years, engineers have trusted Photopia for their illumination and non-imagining optical simulations, and now those tools are available directly inside of Rhino. 

The easy-to-use CAD system, superior surfacing tools, and Grasshopper programming language complement the simulation capabilities of Photopia.  Optical engineers can use sources and materials from LTI Optic's extensive library to setup accurate simulations of a wide range of optical systems, including architectural lighting, roadway lighting, medical devices, optical sensors, industrial UV curing and disinfection, light pipes, solar collection, aerospace, and automotive lighting, among many others.

Details and download on food4Rhino....

Lands Design 5.5 now available

If you are a landscape architect, urban planner, town council technician, constructor, or green space designer Lands Design for Rhino is the software you might be looking for. This plugin provides tools for producing technical drawings in 2D and 3D, realistic images, virtual tours through your project, and a lot more.

Lands Design 5.5 is available now, including these new features:

• Building Import: In addition to the terrain, select an area, extract the 3D shape using Lands Design, and import existing buildings into Rhino.

• Topiary Tool: Your 3D shapes in Rhino can be covered with natural plant leaves using the Topiary Tool. Assign a plant texture to any 3D shape, and Lands Design will automatically list the number of plants in your project.

• Forests from Hatch Patterns: Easily convert your hatch pattern areas to a 3D forest with indicated plant species and natural variation.

Details and download...

BIM for Architecture with VisualARQ (Spanish)

Academia COMGRAP is hosting a free BIM for Architecture with VisualARQ Webinar live-stream!

This workshop is aimed at architects in BIM technology who seek to operate with "licenses under perpetual modality with free choice updates as periods," of high ease of use, without spatial restrictions, parametric, and with all the strengths of IFC export as to Revit.

Workshop's Objective:

• VisualARQ tools that make it BIM.
• Reference user cases.
• You design in 3D without spatial restrictions, and you get 2D online planimetry.
• You design free, buildable shapes (Grasshopper).
• The base library is customizable for furniture objects and elements.
• Animation, real-time tour, and photorealistic rendering.
• Expansion to "Green Infrastructure or Landscaping" in BIM with Lands Design.
• Operation requirements for VisualARQ: Software and Hardware Platform.

This course is available for free in Spanish via Zoom.

Dates: June 29, 2021, at 12 PM

Location: Santiago, Chile - Live stream via Zoom

Register here!

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2Shapes for Rhino - new jewelry plugin

From the founder and product manager of RhinoGold, Rafael del Molino, and the 2Shapes team, the new 2Shapes for Rhino is the most intuitive jewelry design and fabrication software on the market.

2Shapes for Rhino aims to solve all the jewelry design needs they have learned over the past 15 years.

Intuitive Parametric
One of the most powerful features is the intuitive parametric. It allows you to change any property of your design, from finger size, gem, profile, including the prong thickness. Simplicity is a must; for that reason, you don’t need to worry about complexities and focus on the results, the perfect design!

User Interface
Working comfortably and efficiently is a priority, that is why 2Shapes offers several interfaces: side, top, light, or dark. You can switch between them with one click. Also, all features are available in the standard Rhino interface.

The Best Builders
Design effectiveness, as in business, is necessary for such a competitive sector. For that reason, the builders are faster to create what you need in seconds. There are more than ten builders: shanks, gem sets, and smart components; please check the feature list for extra details.

Unmatched Libraries
2Shapes for Rhino offers the possibility of starting your design from zero or selecting one of the more than 2000 elements at your disposal and, based on it, change what you need and apply your style. The list of elements is updated every week!

Render Images and Videos
Creating photorealistic images from a 3D model will help your customers better understand your designs and thus increase your business. The easy and fast tools will leave your customers with their mouths open.

Realtime Pricing
Are you interested in having precise control of the costs of your design? 2Shapes offers the possibility of seeing weights and costs during design! Precision in modeling and pricing!

Ready for Print
2Shapes for Rhino offers tools to analyze and repair STL files for 3D Printing. 2Shapes for Rhino has a direct connection with the most 3D printer software as Preform, Anycubic,…

Download an eval from food4Rhino...

GRIDDLE - New volume mesher for Rhino

Griddle provides automatic, interactive, and easy-to-use surface meshing tools and volume mesh generation capabilities. 

Meshes created by Griddle can be imported into various numerical simulation software, including FLAC3D/3DEC, ABAQUS, ANSYS, NASTRAN, and LS-DYNA. 

Griddle is a commercial product with a free demo version available. 

It can be installed for Rhino Versions 6 and 7 (Windows platform).

Griddle has been designed to address meshing needs primarily in the fields of civil, mining, geotechnical, and petroleum engineering. However, Griddle is a general meshing software and it can produce volume meshes for a variety of applications requiring Finite Element, Finite Volume, Discrete Element analyses, or other types of numerical modeling.

Griddle's volume meshes are capable of creating:

• Fully structured, fully conformal, hexahedral volume meshes based on Rhino solids.
• Unstructured, fully conformal, hex-dominant, or tetrahedral volume meshes based on surface meshes.

In addition, Griddle provides powerful capabilities to work with surface meshes, such as mesh clean-up and repair, conformal intersections, re-meshing, extraction, extrusion, extension, etc.

Download an eval version on food4Rhino...

xNURBS Rhino plugin V5.113 released

xNURBS announces the availability of Version 5.113, and V4/V5 customers can get a free upgrade to V5.113. V5.113 includes several enhancements. The most important improvement is that V5.113 significantly reduces the deviation, and for some models, the deviation achieved by V5.113 can be easily ten times smaller than the previous versions. The following is a short answer to Why xNURBS?.

Key features of xNURBS:

• Unlimited capacities for solving NURBS: Its optimization algorithm can solve virtually any NURBS surface in a matter of milliseconds (regardless of how complex the constraints are.).
  
  
• High-quality surfaces: For a given set of constraints, xNURBS’ optimization algorithm uses an energy-minimization method to generate the smoothest NURBS surface among all possible solutions. The generated surface quality is outstanding.
  
  
• xNURBS is one super powerful NURBS tool that virtually fixes all surfacing issues for existing CAD software.
  
  
• Easy-to-use: It uses a straightforward UI for all kinds of NURBS modeling.
  
  
• Super robust: xNURBS is rock solid and works flawlessly. 
  
  
• Native CAD surfaces: xNURBS is based on NURBS, i.e., the native CAD surfaces, which can be directly used for CAD modeling operations without any geometry translation.

More information...

Work with VisualARQ Grasshopper styles in Revit with Rhino.Inside

This video (tutorial) shows how to work with the VisualARQ Grasshopper styles (VisualARQ objects driven by Grasshopper definitions) in Revit running VisualARQ inside Revit.

This connection lets you work with the VisualARQ parametric objects directly in Revit, which are generated as Revit’s Furniture object types.

This workflow is possible with the VisualARQ Grasshopper components, which let you retrieve the geometry and data of VisualARQ objects and connect them with the Revit components (available in Grasshopper with the Rhino.Inside tool), and thus regenerate all geometry and data live in Revit, as native Revit Furniture object types.

Watch the video tutorial...

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2D Technical Drafting with Rhino 7, new course! (English)

We are celebrating one year of www.Rhino3D.Education bringing good education to many Rhino3D users.

As a gift, we have generated 250 coupon codes to use for this new course, 2D Technical Drafting with Rhino by Andres Gonzalez. The retail price is 29.95 US$, but if you enroll now and use the code, 2DDRAFTING, you will get access to it for free.

Upon completion, you will obtain a certificate of attendance. This course is now available for both students and commercial users.

Stay tuned. The Spanish version will be ready soon.

We highly recommend enrolling as soon as possible, since the previous free course that we published got more than 3,500 users in less than a week. So, hurry up before the 250 coupons are redeemed. 

Just visit the link below and use the following coupon code:
https://www.rhino3d.education/p/2d-technical-drawings
Coupon code: 2DDRAFTING

Please, share this information with your friends if you think they will benefit from this course.

The coupon is available for the first 250 users or expires on July 1, 2021 (whichever comes first). 

If you do not get a chance to redeem the coupon on time, enjoy 50% off until September 30, 2021, with this coupon: 2DDRAFTING_50_OFF

Hope you enjoy this free course!

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Bridge design and Grasshopper

Gabriel Neves from Trimble gives a few pointers on starting out with Grasshopper in bridge design in the article, Overcoming Complexity and Driving Efficiency in Bridge Design with Parametric Design.

Render with Adobe Substance Materials in Rhino

Rhino 7 now works with Adobe Substance materials for amazing rendering realism. Adobe Substance Source contains some of the most advanced and flexible rendering materials available. Materials can be imported and edited within Rhino. Realistic materials such as high-end leathers, organic materials, woods, metals, and fabrics are available.

Learn how to use these materials in Rhino...

The Journal for Digital Landscape Architecture (JoDLA) 6-2021 is online!

 

The open-access Journal for Digital Landscape Architecture (JoDLA) 6-2021 is online available at https://gispoint.de/jodla.html. Research papers representing practical and theoretical approaches regarding the latest technological advances in digital landscape architecture will be presented these days at the DLA virtual conference 2021, May 26–28, with the topic Resilient Landscape Architecture and Global Change.

More information...

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...

Teaching engineering students to use pencil and paper alongside digital design

In this article, Imperial College London discusses how their classes teach the roles of sketching, building paper models, and using Grasshopper.

Engineering students taught to use pencil and paper alongside digital design...

Useful Resources for Teaching Rhino

Useful Resources for Teaching Rhino
13 May 2021
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CET
Hosted by McNeel Europe

Whether you teach architecture, industrial design, engineering, art, mathematics or you just started with a YouTube channel, this session will give you some ideas, insights, learnings, and cool perspectives to teach Rhino.

Learn how to incorporate Rhino into your current design curriculum, and discover all the material available for teachers: Rhino features, extra and market-specific tools, guides, videos, social and learning platforms, teachers advice, tips for online teaching, certifications, exams, training and much more!

Join Carla Sologuren from the McNeel Europe team on this free online webinar in English and let her introduce you to these Useful Resources for Teaching Rhino.

Don’t miss the chance to be part of our teachers' community!

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SectionTools for Rhino 7 - New Release

 

A new version of the SectionTools plugin for Rhino 7 for Windows is now available.  You can install using the PackageManager command in Rhino (then search for and install SectionTools). New in this version:

• Added stExtractSections to extract sections' curves, caps and slices.
• Added stSaveSectionsView to save sections to NamedViews and NamedCPlanes.
• Added stLockSections to lock all sections and hide their ClippingPlanes.
• Added a new option to stViewSections called ClearOtherSections to remove other sections from the view.
• Updated the stMake2D command to use the HiddenLineDrawing SDK functions to create parallel projections of sections and the background objects and organize in sublayers with the section name indicated. You can change the attributes of the layers, but need to keep the names to be able to replace content when rerunning the command on the same section to update the result.
• Added support to sectioning the new SubD objects introduced in Rhino 7.
• Changed the Attribute option in stCreate command to be either “ByLayer” (use the section layer attributes) or “FromSource” (use source object attribute if assigned by object, or the source layer attributes if assigned by layer).
• The LoadFromFile option is now a one-shot option in stCreate command.
• The stCreate preview for the section line placement now shows a line with an arrow to indicate the up direction of sections.
• Added options to stNestLayout command to place the tags inside or outside the layout and to use either a Dot or Text for the label.
• Whenever sections need to be selected, it is now possible to press “Enter” to select all sections instead of using the UI to select all.
• Added support to stViewSections to select the active viewport when pressing Enter, instead of requiring to select a view.
• Fixed a bug when sectioning with tight BoundingBox and that sometimes resulted in incomplete intersections.
• Updated the menu and toolbars to include the new commands (toolbars installed with the plugin and should be accessible through the Toolbar command)
• Updated the SectionTools Primer with the new changes.

Details and downloads...