Digital Futures Workshop Series

Pratt Institute

School of Undergraduate Architecture

Rhino Workshop Level II

Location- HHS 416

Date + Time- 2010.02.17, 7-10pm

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with Rhino 4.0 (SR7) installed and an extension cord.

Description- This workshop will serve as an intermediate lesson in developing surfaces in Rhino 4.  Participants will be exposed to differing approaches to generating surfaces with a focus on the particulars of continuity and curvature.  Topics covered will include lofting, sweeping, patching, creasing, and blending with in-depth tutorials on digital topography creation/manipulation and generating layouts for a laser cut site model.  Emphasis will be placed on creating a procedural understanding of generating and managing surfaces and polysurfaces in Rhino.

Workshop Outline:

Curves and Curvature

-quantifying continuity: Positional, Tangent, Curvature

-strategies to blend curves and surfaces

-analyzing curvature in 2d, 3d

-Workshop Tutorial 1: Periodic Table of Form,

adapted from article by Gray Holland of Alchemy Labs

Generating Site Topography

-Importing/Tracing a site drawing

-Extracting Loft Curves to generate Surface

-Generate the surface, resolving issues/inconsistencies

-Adding Detail: Roads, Existing Buildings, Landscape Elements

-Workshop Tutorial #2: Creating the digital site model

Generating Content from a Digital Site Model

-Generating a site drawing, the contour command

-Creating a laser file for a site model.

-Workshop Tutorial #3: Creating Site drawings and laser files from a digital site model

Workshop Files:

Download: Rhino Workshop Level 2 files.zip