Full Rhino - A Complete Course For Architects And Designers

From SKETCH to SHEETS - Learn Rhino 3D from scratch, structured arround a core project that we will build together

What you'll learn

Import a hand skecth to scale in Rhino

Vectorize your sketch with 2D curves

3D modeling from basic to advanced geomery

Model your site from Surveyor's document

Learn how to apply texture and play with display mode to export diagrams of your project

Create more realistic images and animation with a free software synchronized with Rhino

Setup and export layout drawings from your model

Improve your workflow efficiency with Rhino

Requirements

No past experience in Rhino needed. This course will cover all the steps from the ultimate beginning.

Description

We will design together a tower in 3D starting from a sketch all the way to renderings and layout. During the process, i will make sure to hit all the most important commands that you need to know as a designer. I have been using Rhino as a design Architect for more than 15 years. What i realized is that you only need to know approximately 80 to 100 commands to model any geometry that your architecture journey will put before you. In this course i will cover 130 commands which will give you a solid toolbox to generate the simple but also the more advanced massing.At the end of each chapter, you will see a workflow consolidation course. This is where you will gradually enrich your shortcut skills and efficiency in using the software. This is an important step that will help you save a lot of time in your modeling.Since Rhino rendering isn't the best. I added a course using a free software that is way more appropriate for designers. With a minimum amount of effort, you can get out amazing images and save a lot of time on designing instead of setting up lighting, texture, people etc…Finally you will learn how to get the most out of your 3D model for diagrams by playing with the Rhino Display Mode. Texture Mapping, adding shadows, play with line-weight etc.. We will also see how to slice your model and generate Layout with annotations. A 100% of what you see in the presentation video is extracted from the course. This course is appropriate for all levels, even for absolute beginner. I will be using Rhino 8 for PC. Mac users, and or PC users with lower Rhino versions can still follow the class as more than 90% of the commands will be the same. However, for the rendering software i am presenting in Chapter 9, Mac users will not be able to use it as it is not compatible.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course structure and commands hierarchy

Lecture 2 Rhino interface - Box/Copy/ZS/Move

Lecture 3 Import a hand sketch - Units/Picture/Rotate/Rotate3D/Scale/Distance

Section 2: 2D Curve tools - drawing and functions

Lecture 4 Curve introduction

Lecture 5 Draw the Plan Grid - Line/Arc/Polyline

Lecture 6 Draw the Tower structure - Rectangle/Block/Point

Lecture 7 Draw Tower outline - Offset/Area

Lecture 8 Draw the Site - Connect/*Connect/Fillet/Chamfer/BlendCrv

Lecture 9 Draw Landscape - Curve/Rebuild/Tweencurves

Lecture 10 Bulk curves operation - Extend/Intersect/Split/Trim/OffsetMultiple/FilletCorners

Lecture 11 Curve closing statement - Circle

Lecture 12 Workflow consolidation 01 - CPlane/Explode

Section 3: 3D Modeling tools - Part 1

Lecture 13 NURBS introduction - DupEdge/DupBorder/Dir/Flip/Extractisocurve/Scale2D/Scale1D

Lecture 14 Build Tower Massing - ExtrudeCrv/Points/SrfPt/PlanarSrf/ExtendSrf

Lecture 15 Curve tool & Surface tool Analogy - ConnectSrf/OffsetSrf/BlendSrf/FilletEdge/…

Lecture 16 Build the Core - Group/Purge/Ungroup/SolidPtOn/PushPull/Mirror

Lecture 17 Workflow Consolidation 02 - Hide/Show/Lock/Isolate/Unisolate/Z

Section 4: 3D Modeling tools - Part 2

Lecture 18 Build the Slab - ExtrudeSrf/Sweep1/Sweep2

Lecture 19 Expand the Slabs to Tower - ArrayLinear/Array

Lecture 20 Build Facade module - Divide/ArrayCrv/Cap

Lecture 21 Expand Facade on tower

Lecture 22 Build the Parapet - SelVolumeObject/SelBoundary

Lecture 23 Block strategy

Lecture 24 Workflow consolidation 03

Section 5: 3D Modeling tools - Part 3

Lecture 25 Build Lobby Soffit - Loft/Contour

Lecture 26 Spiral Staircase - Length/Spiral/Calc

Lecture 27 Core Pattern - UnrollSrf/FlowAlongSrf

Lecture 28 Surface and Curve interaction - Crv2View

Lecture 29 Record History tool

Lecture 30 Workflow Consolidation 04 - SelLast/MatchProperties

Section 6: 3D Modeling - Build a site

Lecture 31 Build a site from a Survey - What/Blockmanager/Insert/Patch/Volume/Untrim

Lecture 32 Second site survey example

Lecture 33 Merge Project and Site - SetPt/Plan

Section 7: 3D Modeling tools - part 4

Lecture 34 Treelike Canopy - PointGrid/Pipe

Lecture 35 "Y" Connector - Dot/Extractwireframe/BlendSrf/ShowEdge/Zebra/FitSrf/MatchSrf

Lecture 36 Simple Structure for canopies - Torus/hatch

Lecture 37 Bench and Flow alignement - Revolve/Flow

Section 8: Booleans & Transformations

Lecture 38 Boolean operation tools - Boolean2Objects/Difference/Union/intersection/Split

Lecture 39 CageEditing tool - CageEdit

Lecture 40 Transformation Tools - Twist/Bend/Taper/Shear

Lecture 41 SubD introduction - ToNURBS

Section 9: Generate Renderings for your projects.

Lecture 42 Software presentation

Lecture 43 Prepare your file for rendering.

Lecture 44 Rendering program Overlook

Lecture 45 Apply Materials in rendering software

Lecture 46 Mass landscape

Lecture 47 Mass Vehicules and People

Lecture 48 Render an image

Lecture 49 Render an Animation

Section 10: Diagrams and Layout

Lecture 50 Apply Texture Mapping in Rhino

Lecture 51 Customize Display mode - Options/SetObjectDisplayMode/Mesh

Lecture 52 Linetype Parameters

Lecture 53 Clipping Plane Manipulation - ClippingPlane/NamedView

Lecture 54 Export a Viewport image

Lecture 55 Make 2D drawings from your 3D model - SelVisible/Make2D

Lecture 56 Layout and Annotations - Detail/Dim/DimRadius

Section 11: Workflow Optimization, Shortcut creation and recommendations

Lecture 57 Shortcut Creation and my top tier commands to know

Architectural students who wants to start modeling their project.,Interior Design students who wants to start modeling their project.,Small Architecture pratice who wants to add some 3d workflow to their practice.,Architect proffessionals who Joined a big firm that requires to know Rhino for competitions and early stage 3D design studies.,Non Architect who have a small design project they want to plan on their own.