Rhinoceros, Digital Design and Manufacturing Platform for Architects

07-08 Abril 2008, 9:30-17:30h
Instructor: Stephan Seifert, Rodrigo Bárcena. McNeel Europe

Rhino is being used by an increasing number of the world's major architectural practices.

Conceptual and spatial planning schemes can be developed quickly in three dimensions. As the project progresses and more detail needs to be added, Rhino has the accuracy and robustness required for large projects.Complex double curvature forms can be created.

The open architecture of Rhino is an excellent platform for creating complex script driven routines and the excellent import and export options ensure that Rhino is compatible with legacy 2D and engineering software.

There will be also an overview of the following plug-ins:

RhinoTerrain
Designed for architects, landscape designers, surveyors, RhinoTerrain takes the full advantage of the power of Rhino geometry and graphics.

Pointools
Pointools 4 Rhino™ delivers Pointool's industry leading point cloud display technology into Rhinoceros®. This enables you to use Rhino's powerful drawing and modelling toolset within a point cloud context, ideal for:

- Visualising your Rhino model in a point cloud context
- Modelling from point clouds and Lidar data
- 2d drawing from point clouds and Lidar data

T-Splines
T-Splines can help you easily create precise organic forms for manufacturing.

Explicit History
Rhino 4.0 came with a basic history feature build-in, which is a non-intrusive layer around the workflow that allows for automatic updates of certain modeling steps. The current implementation of History in Rhino4 is implicit, that is: it is recorded as you go. This means there is no additional overhead required at model-time which is exactly the sort of thing we would like to see in Rhino: more features, no additional limitations. However, implicit history cannot do some things which are possible with explicitly defined history.

Rhino Labs
Experimental software development, including sectioning, paneling and advanced flattening or double-curvature surface development.