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Description
Rhinoceros is a Modeling Tools for Designers and Architects
Since its first release in 1998, Rhinoceros®, or Rhino®, has become one of the standard 3D modeling tools for designers and architects.
Start with a sketch, drawing, physical model, scan data, or only an idea—Rhino provides the tools to accurately model and document your designs ready for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing or construction.
Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids with no limits on complexity, degree, or size. Rhino also supports polygon meshes and point clouds. Its accuracy and flexibility makes it possible to students to explore and build their ideas without having to spend much time learning “CAD”.
Also, any geometry created in Rhino can be manufactured using laser cutters, milling machines or 3D printers, and this is really what makes Rhino different from general 3D modelling tools based in polygons, where you can create great images, but without manufacturing precision.
Rhino’s open architecture allows using also Rhino as a development platform: a C++ SDK and a series of scripting methods (RhinoScript) allow programmers of any level of expertise customize and automate Rhino and extend its capabilities. Today, there are dozens of commercial plug-ins for Rhino for nesting, terrain creation, parametric architecture, rendering, animation, CAM, subdivision modelling, jewelry, mold design, etc.
With more than 300,000 commercial users and more than 10,000 schools, Rhinoceros allows to quickly develop your designs and accurately communicate them to everyone in the product research, development, marketing, and manufacturing or construction process.
A free Evaluation version can be downloaded at www.rhino3d.com/eval.htm
Latest news on Rhino
Online Level 2 Rhino in November
Image credit: Kyle Houchens, The Outside
Ready to take your Rhino skills to the next level? Join us for an online Level 2 course. Our detailed course outline is available here.
- Level 2 Rhino 5 for Mac, Online
November 7-16 - Level 2 Rhino 5 for Windows, Online
November 28-December 7
Our online courses are taught “live” and are interactive sessions. All sessions are also recorded and will be posted to a private class album for your study and review. Videos will be available for streaming up to three months following the class.
Join Proving Ground at ACADIA!
Proving Ground is presenting new research at ACADIA.
Nate Miller’s and Dave Stasiuk’s paper, A Novel Mesh-based Workflow for Complex Geometry in BIM, is research built upon “recent work in utilizing meshes as an often overlooked interoperability data-structure relative to constructive solid modeling in BIM software.”
ACADIA will be in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2-4. Register for ACADIA.
Arq.A 2017 Conference in Colombia
Join Leonardo A. Velasco P., Director of Innovation at Voxel S.A.S, who will offer a conference about digital design processes for architecture, from BIM to Generative Design. Leonardo Velasco has experience in production processes and product development in the plastics, architectural design, furniture and graphics sectors.
Open to the public, free of charge! Please register here!
Date:
October 19, 2017
Time:
5:15 pm
Place:
Ruta N: Cl. 67 #5220,
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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.
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C# Scripting and Plugin Development for Grasshopper Workshop – Nov 28-30, McNeel Europe (Barcelona)
Advanced Course
C# Scripting and Plugin Development for Grasshopper by Long Nguyen (ICD Stuttgart)
McNeel is pleased to welcome Long Nguyen, research associate at ICD Stuttgart, for a 3-day Advanced Workshop for Developers at McNeel Europe in Barcelona.
Day 1:
• ScriptSync: Using Visual Studio as a replacement C# Code Editor in Grasshopper.
• Custom graphics display (custom colors, materials, styles, etc…)
• Rhino geometries (Curves, Surfaces, Meshes).
• String editing: useful for generating robot/machine control codes.
Day 2:
• Programmatically interacting with Rhino modelling environment from Grasshopper (including geometry baking)
• C# Delegates
• Computational complexity: understanding code performance and scalability
• Spatial Data Structure: using RhinoCommon R-Trees to accelerate 3D searches, proximity checking, collision detection…
• Parallel computation with the .NET Task Parallel Library
Day 3:
• Personal project development
• (Optionally discuss topics requested by the participants)
Course Fee: EUR 795 (+VAT); full time students and university teachers will get a 50% discount (proof of status required). Bookings will be formalised once payment is cleared.
Max. Number of Participants: 10. If there is no quorum, course will be cancelled 15 days before.
Language: English
Rhino and a fixie: Arc Bicycle
We’ve spotted Rhino in a fun bicycle project: Arc Bicycle, the 3D-printed steel frame designed by a student team at TU Delft and printed by MX3D.
See Rhino in the YouTube video…
A few details in BikeRadar…
VisualARQ 2 – flexible BIM
Say hello to VisualARQ 2!
Asuni, makers of VisualARQ and Lands Design plugins for Rhino, are pleased to announce the release of VisualARQ 2, the architectural modeling software which adds BIM features to Rhino. This release is not only about introducing new features and fixes, it is about entirely redefining industry paradigms by enabling new tools to develop powerful workflows with Flexible BIMTM.
Some new features include:
Owners of VisualARQ 1 can have a free upgrade to VisualARQ 2. Tech support and training are available on the VisualARQ support website.
Exploring Glass with Grasshopper
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| One of the finished pieces, a vase. |
McNeel & Associates take a field trip! One of our staff, Brian Gillespie, explored the world of Pilchuck Glass. Tara Broyhill and Brian joined the Pilchuck Glass School as artists in residence for two weeks. Neither person had worked in glass before. They were invited to come to the school to explore how generative design and digital fabrication can be used for art glass. In the process, they studied the texture and optics of hand-blown glass, along with the mathematics of a Voronoi diagram as computed in Grasshopper.
Initially, Brian and Tara set out to explore four-part molds as a way to make unique versions of optic and pineapple molds. They ended up making a couple variations of roll plates to add texture to their glass.
The Pilchuck Glass School is a woodland retreat, so the equipment they provided needed to be portable. They chose a Handibot as their CNC tool for their fabrication work. The Handibot was used to mill a roll plate to apply the texture to the glass.
Xirus – Augmented CAD in Rhino
Mirrakoi recently announced (at the Rhino User Meeting Berlin) the future release of Xirus, a brand-new geometric modeling kernel which provides augmented CAD: a powerful modeling technology that combines the best of the worlds of NURBS, subdivision, and polygon meshes and adds augmented access to the 3D digital object. Xirus provides decoupled control of tangents, curvature, mixed- and higher order derivatives and enables direct smoothness control in 3D modeling.