Rhino News, etc.

Traditional Boat Geometry: Instructional Video

noreply@blogger.com (Keith) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:15:00 +0000

This detailed instructional video explains traditional boat geometry using Rhino and a screen capture program. Together these two programs produce high quality illustrations which are essential for explaining and demonstrating two dimensional geometry.

In Traditional Boat Geometry, you will learn about the construction geometry for setting up to build a carvel planked wooden boat. You will be able to see and understand the geometry for:

? The curved raked transom.
? The three station method.
? The building stations.
? The clamp & shelf.
? The rabbet notch.

All of this is explained and demonstrated in detail. Also,you will learn how to pick up points from a boat and develop a lines drawing. There are twenty eight files, they open and play one at a time. The duration of all twenty eight files, is eight hours and twenty one minutes.

Videos, Images, Purchase, and More...

VisualARQ 1.5 webinar, April 25

noreply@blogger.com (Jody Mills) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:21:00 +0000

Join Francesc Salla, VisualARQ Product Manager, for a fast-paced and exciting demonstration of VisualARQ 1.5.

Introduction to VisualARQ 1.5 webinar
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
8:00am-10:00am (PDT)

Sign up today!

Attendance is free; registration is required.

Features of VisualARQ 1.5:

Design architecture in an intuitive, easy and efficient way.
Save time by generating project documentation automatically from the 3D model.
All floor plans, sections, elevations, surfaces, dimensions, and object information are linked to and created from the 3D model. All drawings are updated automatically after any change.
Create, customize and edit walls, stairs, beams, doors, windows, and other architectural objects anytime. Their parametric properties allow them to be easily edited and generate data automatically.

Digital Fabrication MasterClass in Brisbane

noreply@blogger.com (Jody Mills) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:06:00 +0000

Digital Fabrication MasterClass
Examine the integration of digital tools with fabrication methods as a design process.

This course is a week-long masterclass in rapid prototyping using 3D modeling and fabrication methods such as: sectioning, tessellation, folding, contouring and forming. It is open to architects, landscape architects, interior designers, designers, artists and students. Participants must be over the age of 18.

Location: Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane, Australia

Dates: July 2-6, 2012*

Cost:  $1,534.50 - Standard Registration Fee
          $1,381.05 - Early Bird Registration Fee
          (Early bird discount is available until 5pm on Monday, June 4, 2012)

Register: Online or contact the CPE office.

Details...

*This course will be offered again in January 2013.

Advances in Architectural Geometry 2012 - Paris

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:37:00 +0000

Advances in Architectural Geometry 2012
Paris, France
September 27-30

Geometry lies at the core of the architectural design process. It is omnipresent, from the initial form-finding stages to the final construction. Modern geometric computing provides a variety of tools for the efficient design, analysis, and manufacturing of complex shapes. On the one hand this opens up new horizons for architecture. On the other hand, the architectural context also poses new problems to geometry. Around these problems the research area of architectural geometry is emerging. It is situated at the border of applied geometry and architecture.

Advances in Architectural Geometry / AAG is a symposium presenting theoretical works and practices linked to new geometrical development applicable to architecture. This symposium aims to gather the diverse components of the contemporary architectural tendencies which push the building envelope towards free form and respond to the multiple current design challenges with a renewed mathematical rigor. It involves architects, engineers, software designers and contractors. AAG has become a reference in the professional field and is supported by the direct participation of the most renowned architectural design and engineering offices along with academic laboratories.

The current edition, the third, will be held in Paris from the 27 to 30th of September 2012. Its attraction is reinforced by the support of the Centre Pompidou.

In an effort to link theory to practice, the symposium proposes numerous workshops where participants, teachers, students and professionals can learn and experiment with new technologies and practices reflected in the themes tackled during the symposium.

The organization is cordially inviting members of the Rhino and Grasshopper communities to contribute a paper or a workshop, or simply to visit. For details about paper and workshop submission please visit the conference web page at http://aag12.architecturalgeometry.at.

Rhino Job: Transportation Design in Barcelona

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:53:00 +0000

4-iD, a Barcelona based Transportation Design studio, is seeking a Junior designer/modeler with high Rhino skills:

experience in Vehicle Design (cars and motorbikes)

advanced Rhino user

based in Barcelona (Spain)

English or Spanish

Full time for a 2-3 months period on a free-lance basis

Immediate incorporation

Send your CV to Sergio de la Parra

RhinoGold training in NYC

noreply@blogger.com (Jody Mills) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:08:00 +0000

Learn RhinoGold and take advantage of this 3D technology specifically designed for jewelry. CadBlu has organized a four-day class being held later this month.

Class dates, location and registration information are following:

April 23-26, 2012
CadBlu, Inc, 37 W 28th St, 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10001
Call (212) 481-8700 or email

Sign up today!

Rhino and V-Ray open house - Hamburg (Germany)

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:29:00 +0000

Rhino and V-Ray open house
picturetools, Hamburg (Germany)
25 April 2012

picturetools invites you to an open house in Hamburg, where Jens Bingenheimer (Formherr Industriedesign) and Gerrit Corsmeyer (Chaos Software Distribution Deutschland) will show the latest news about Rhino and V-Ray 1.5, as well as a tips & tricks session.

Info and registration (in German)...

Generative Design for Jewellers Training in London

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:09:00 +0000

Generative Design for Jewellers Training
SimplyRhino UK, London
May 21-24

This 4 day workshop delivered by McNeel Miami will provide students and professionals with a functional understanding of Rhino and Grasshopper concepts, necessary to obtain effective algorithmic and computational knowledge to model parametric 3D shapes.

For this particular class, the participants will be using Jewellery and Industrial Design models as their main 3D geometry. This class is suitable for all users of Rhino, RhinoGold, RhinoJewel, Matrix3D or any other Rhino based solution for Jewellery Design.

Details and registration...

Report 8th RhinoDay Italy

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:51:00 +0000

The 8th RhinoDay held in Padova (Italy) on March 23-24 was a a great success, with more than 200 people from many different industries attending it.

Read here a nice report with photos (in Italian)...

Neon 1.0 Beta 1 Now Available

noreply@blogger.com (Marika Almgren) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:39:00 +0000

Hi all!

Welcome to the Neon Project!

Today we're releasing the first Beta version of Neon forRhino - a fully raytraced viewport plug-in for Rhino 5.0.

Neon adds a new viewport mode called "Raytraced(Neon)" - there's almost no other UI - it just works.

Neon supports all Rhino 5.0 rendering features -including the sun, skylight, ground-plane, standard materials, environments andmost procedural textures.

Neon is a fully working viewport mode. You can edit your model just like any othermode and Neon keeps up. It supportsin-command previews (like BlendSrf), real time dragging and so on.

In addition, Neon supports many Brazil settings if Brazil2.0 SR2 Beta is installed on your computer. This includes most Brazil materials, the GI environment, most Lumaserver settings, Depth of Field - along with a raft of other bits andpieces. More is coming soon!

Neon works best on powerful hardware, but it's usable onmost modern mid-range computers - even laptops. It doesn't require a powerful video card. We recommend 64-bit Rhino 5.0 with at least4Gb of RAM and an I7 processor - preferably Sandybridge.

Windows Vista or Windows 7 is required. It does not work on Rhino 4.0.

Neon is available from http://v5.rhino3d.com/groups/neon

Worm-e, Electric Vehicle concept by Jorge Biosca

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:58:00 +0000

?Congratulations to our friend and long-time Rhino user Jorge Biosca (Valencia, Spain), winner of the European "ELVA Design Contest" for an Electric Vehicle concept with his Worm-e project.

DIVA 2.0 for Rhino New Features

noreply@blogger.com (Keith) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:04:00 +0000

DIVA-for-Rhino allows users to carry out a series of environmental performance evaluations of individual buildings and urban landscapes including Radiation Maps, Photorealistic Renderings, Climate-Based Daylighting Metrics, Annual and Individual Time Step Glare Analysis, LEED and CHPS Daylighting Compliance, and Single Thermal Zone Energy and Load Calculations.

DIVA 2.0 new features:

Annual glare maps
This feature uses the gen_dgp_profile program written by Jan Wienold that comes with Daysim. It generates an annual glare map that predicts for all view points in a scene the hours in the year when glare is disturbing or intolerable. The results are displayed as an html report with embedded images. Please note, if annual dgp profiles have been calculated, they are used in the climate based metric calculations if a dynamic shading system has been specified.

Dynamic Shading Module
The module allows users to specify up to two independently controlled dynamic shading systems. A shading system may be mechanical (venetian blinds) or switchable (electrochromics). Various manual or automated control options are available. When a dynamic shading system has been specified, it is considered during an annual climate based metric calculation and the status of the shading system over the year is displayed in an html report with embedded images.

Electric Lighting Module
The module allows uses to specify up to ten electric lighting zones in a scene. Any lighting zone may be manually or automatically controlled. The electric lighting calculation is fully integrated with the shading calculation and resulting hourly load profiles for electric lighting can be linked to EnergyPlus or other thermal simulation programs.

Thermal Load Calculation
The thermal load calculation allow users to set up a single thermal zone in Rhino and specify some basic thermal construction properties and usage patterns. The occupancy, lighting and shading schedules are taken from the daylighting module. Simulation results are displayed in an html report with embedded images.

Grasshopper Improvements
The daylighting analysis component has been overhauled to give users parametric control over project location and simulation type and settings. This means you don't need to 'prime' the components with a toolbar run every time you want to initiate or change your analysis. The thermal components have also been updated with several bug fixes since the last release.

Download Free Trial...

Purchase DIVA 2.0 for Rhino...

THE SWARM, a sculptural pavilion at the TU Munich

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:14:00 +0000

THE SWARM is a parametrical designed (Rhino, Grasshopper), free-standing, sculptural pavilion. It develops its form from the theme of a flying flock of birds. By joining 211 individual, CNC-milled modules the result is a play of density, light and shadow. The focus is yet on the characteristic features of a swarm of birds. The curve gives the pavilion the dynamic of a passing flock of birds which streaks the ground only for a glimpse and moves upwards to the sky in its next movement. At a second glance a complex system reveals itself, which is the base for the connection of the individual parts and the entire shape.

The vernissage took place on 29 March 2012 at the TU Munich.

See more info, photos and videos about this pavilion here...

New book: Design with Rhinoceros V4 & V5

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:03:00 +0000

A new book "Design with Rhinoceros V4 & V5" is now available as e-Book.

"This book is addressed to those, who are already experienced in the three-dimensional modeling and the Rhinoceros interface and are willing to refine their skills in using it. The tools available in the software are illustrated by practical examples to be followed step by step. Topics covered: Complete modelling of objects, Modelling of complex surfaces with curvature continuity, Modelling for deformation of solids, Rendering with V-Ray for Rhino and Technical drawing, Data exchange and repairing of imported IGES files and more!"

Buy it at Amazon...

New VisualARQ price for students

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:37:00 +0000

VisualARQ allows you to work within Rhino?s interface, providing specific tools to create/edit architectural plans, and to work with parametric 3D Objects -such as walls, doors, windows, columns, slabs, roofs, stairs and railings- making the architectural design process and its documentation much easier to handle.

Due to many students' requests, the price of VisualARQ Educational License (Download version) has changed from ?195.00 to only ?95.00.

Details...

Snaporaz landed in Oerlikon

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:21:00 +0000

Zurich based artist Marco Ganz is known for creating sculptures with smooth and glossy surfaces from composite materials. But with a height of almost ten meters this piece called ?Snaporaz? and designed for the central courtyard of a newly built housing development in Zurich Oerlikon went beyond the scope of manual fabrication. Due to the special conditions it had to be assembled from massive, digitally fabricated timber elements, before the sculpture could be sanded and varnished.

designtoproduction translated the analog design into a digital 3D-model (Rhino, Grasshopper) to define the precise shape of the sculpture in close cooperation with the artist. In a second step, detailed fabrication data for the timber manufacturer was directly derived from this parametric CAD model.

More details...

3D printed earrings and free 3D models

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:14:00 +0000

This pair of 3D printed earrings with 13 unique cutouts, made of strong & flexible material (SLS and also in Acrylic-based photopolymer), digitally designed with Rhino and Grasshopper by Aleksandar Dimitrov, is now available to purchase on-line at shapeways.

See also 50 free 3D models by Aleksandar Dimitrov on his website vihrogone.

Parametric Design workshop, April 28-29

noreply@blogger.com (Jody Mills) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:13:00 +0000

modeLab invites you to attend their second Parametric Design workshop. The first session filled so quickly that they created this "overflow" session to accommodate everyone. There are still a few seats left.

Sign up today!

Parametric Design is a two-day intensive workshop that will be held in Brooklyn on April 28-29. In a fast-paced and hands-on learning environment, this workshop will engage both the conceptual as well as technical domains of applied parametric design. Using Rhino and Grasshopper, attendees will explore parametric and computational design with unprecedented fluidity.

The workshop will consist of a series of instructional lectures, open work sessions, and guided exercises, beginning with an introduction to Algorithmic Processes and Computational Geometry.

Details...

Material Matters workshop, May 12-13

noreply@blogger.com (Jody Mills) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:56:00 +0000

Material Matters is a two-day intensive design, prototyping, and fabrication workshop to be held in New York City during the weekend of May 12-13. The workshop will operate through a framework of computational and fabrication strategies that hinge on the peculiarities of material and the emergent set of knowledge associated with the work of the hand. In a fast-paced and hands-on learning environment, participants will develop digital and fabricated prototypes utilizing Grid-Based Modeling techniques via PanelingTools and Machining Strategies with RhinoCAM. More...

Topics include:

Computational Geometry: Introduction to Curves, Surfaces, Meshes in Rhinoceros
Grid-Based Modeling + Implicit History: Introduction to Paneling Tools
Pressures + Influencers: Proximity, Image Mapping, Curvature Strategies
Machining Strategies: Introduction to RhinoCAM
Fabrication: Prototyping Workflows with a 3-Axis CNC Router

Details and registration...

Jewelerscad for Rhino 5.0, Special Pricing

noreply@blogger.com (Keith) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:46:00 +0000

Jewelerscad for Rhino 5.0 gives you the ability to move objects, groups ofobjects, grip points, points, or cage edit points in the perspective view. Youcan use the mouse to move objects on any of six axes, while simultaneouslybeing able to right-mouse click and drag the viewing angle. Enter a numericalvalue or simply click the mouse to set new position. Your speed willdramatically increase, and you will be able to produce difficult jewelry designs withease.

Demo Videos, Product Details, Special Pricing...

USC Design Faculty Search

noreply@blogger.com (Jody Mills) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:59:00 +0000

The School of Architecture at the University of Southern California (USC) is seeking both tenured and tenure-track faculty candidates in the area of architectural design. The tenure candidate will be expected to assume a leadership position in architectural design, education and exploration. A candidate's design excellence must be manifested through creativity in architectural design and/or practice, and through criticality in architectural research. Read more...

Requirements:
The requirements for the position(s) include an M.Arch degree or a B.Arch degree with another relevant masters degree. Candidates with demonstrated excellence in publishing, design, practice, and/or funded research, as well as teaching, are encouraged to apply.

Apply online!

RhinoScripting workshop in Brooklyn

noreply@blogger.com (Jody Mills) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:25:00 +0000

PointCrowd : Evenings in June
June 4-21 | Brooklyn, NY

PointCrowd is a RhinoScripting workshop using the Python programming language that is available in the upcoming release of Rhino 5. In this three week mini-course, participants will start with the basics of programming and move into the mathematics of space and Rhino's representation of geometry.

Workshop topics include:

Automation: Increase your efficiency by programming Rhino to complete tedious drawing and modeling tasks.
Optimization: Create a better design product by testing and improving your models against physical conditions like light and circulation.
Generative Design: Work through complex geometric ideas using simple Python scripts.

Classes will be held on Monday and Thursday evenings from 6:30-10:00pm in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Details and registration...

Scan&Solve Helps Solve Real World Problems

noreply@blogger.com (Keith) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:06:00 +0000

Ian Boyd has a veneer cutting guillotine that is down. Not only are both arms (holding the blade assembly) broken (and ineffectively repaired) but also the joint/coupling that swings the blade. Repeated attempts at welded repairs have failed and the RHS arm is practically crumbling. New ones will have to be
fabricated but it would be silly to repeat the same mistakes.

Scan&Solve to the rescue.

Follow Ian's redesign of the broken parts with Scan&Solve for Rhino, and the rebuilding of his guillotine here.

Download Evaluation Scan&Solve...

Purchase Scan&Solve...

Marine User Meeting and Training in South Africa

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:38:00 +0000

SimplyRhino South Africa is pleased to announce the following events:

April 11 - Marine User Meeting - Westlake (Cape Town), South Africa

This is a free two-hour networking and information-gathering event aimed at those in the boat building industry who either want to learn more about Rhino or are users of Rhino.

Presentations will be done by Icarus Marine and Wayne Robertson Yachts on the uses of Rhino in boat design.
April 16-17 - Rhino Level 1 training - Westlake (Cape Town), South Africa

A Rhino Level One two-day course aimed at the boat building industry facilitated by a marine industry expert.

Complete info and registration details...

Rhino jobs at Bollinger & Grohmann (Frankfurt, Germany)

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Perez) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:26:00 +0000

Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure is a Frankfurt based engineering consultancy with more than 30 years experience and expertise.

Check here the job vacancies at its performativeBuildingGroup (Frankfurt, Germany) for architects with skills in Rhino and Grasshopper.