Getting started with architectural modeling

Rhino 7 for Mac

Rhino 7 for Windows

Join Rhino instructor Mary Ann Fugier in this previously recorded getting started webinar for both Rhino 7 for Mac and Rhino 7 for Windows. 

Learn to create a simple architectural guest house model using exact coordinates. You'll also learn to view the model in various display modes, assign materials for rendering, and configure a layout for printing complete with dimensions and annotations. 

Modeling and rendering a simple glass

Learn how to model and render a simple glass using Rhino 6 for Windows. *Video updated for Rhino 6 Feb. 2018

Intro to environments in Rhino 6

In this short video, learn the essentials of setting up an environment in Rhino 6. We cover the different types of backgrounds, ground plane settings, and how an HDR environment affects lighting and reflections.

Modeling a bar stool

 

In this simple tutorial, learn to model an organic bar stool.

Modeling a freeform bench

In this simple tutorial, model a freeform bench made out of serialized panels.

Recorded webinar sessions on Rhino for Windows and Rhino for Mac by McNeel Europe available on Vimeo

For some months now, McNeel Europe has been offering a series of free webinars on Rhino for Windows and Rhino for Mac in five different languages (English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish).

If you haven't had a chance to follow them live, you can find them at the following links for your study and review:

https://vimeo.com/channels/rhino3den (English)
https://vimeo.com/channels/rhino3dfr (French)
https://vimeo.com/channels/rhino3dde (German)
https://vimeo.com/channels/rhino3dit (Italian)
https://vimeo.com/channels/rhino3des (Spanish)

More webinars will be offered regularly in the future. Stay tuned!

Make a layout detail of any shape

You can make details of any shape using a solid white hatch in the layout.

 Steps:

• Set up a layout with one or more details.
• Scale the details as you wish.
• In the layout, draw a rectangle from the corners of the page

• In the layout, draw your detail shapes.

• Use any planar curve: Circle, Curve, InterpCrv, Rectangle, etc.
• Create a solid hatch using the rectangle at the drawing edge and the detail shapes for the hatch boundaries.
• Make the color of the hatch white.
• Add anything else you want in the layout such as detail names.
• Print.

Note

This technique works around Rhino's limitation of a rectangular layout space detail. Working with details that can be made from any closed curve is on the wish list.

• Try turning History on, then make your hatch. If you stretch the boundaries, the hatch will update.
• You will need to use Draw Order to keep your text, title blocks, dimensions on top. It can be frustrating if the text or dims that you are looking for has gone behind the hatch.
• You cannot trim a hatch. If you need to add another detail to the page, delete the hatch and remake it with all the boundaries.
• You cannot bring a detail (even a rectangular one) above the hatch. Hatch has draw order priority to be on top.

Modeling a bubble R

In this advanced tutorial, learn to model a letter R in a bubble style while also being based on a specific font.

Orient curves to surface edges

In this video, you'll learn about the OrientCrvToEdge command and see a simple example of it used in practice.

Modeling complex transitions

In this advanced video tutorial, learn to model smooth transitions using combinations of fillets, sweeps, and network surfaces.

Troubleshooting discontinuities

This tutorial covers how to troubleshoot and repair discontinuities in a polysurface. This video was made to specifically help a user who wanted to maintain the form of a model while achieving better continuity between surface edges.

Here's the before file if you'd like to follow along with these steps: Troubleshooting_Discontinuity.3dm

The Rhino forum can be found here http://discourse.mcneel.com/

Creating labels and tabs with PanelingTools

In this tutorial, learn how to use the PanelingTools plugin for Rhino to create a nested array of panels while also adding labels and tabs for assembly.

This tutorial requires the most recent release of PanelingTools for Rhino dated September 4, 2014, and also uses a single stroke font, both of which are available at http://wiki.mcneel.com/labs/panelingtools.

Drafting and page layout tutorials

01 Layouts - The Basics is one in a series of Rhino Tutorials on Vimeo.

Creating drafted drawings and page layouts in Rhino 5 is quite powerful. This video tutorial series includes extensive coverage of setting up layouts, using detail views and a few case studies showing how to approach specific drawing types. The series has been divided into 23 short videos on various subjects. 

Watch now...

Easy stitching with piped linetypes

In this quick video tip, learn how to use curve piping in conjunction with linetype styles. Stitching for softgoods renderings is one possible use.

Templates and defaults in Rhino

Do you ever get tired of setting default values in Rhino options each time you create a new model? Work more efficiently and set up Templates in Rhino. Templates can set the correct defaults. Pascal Golay shows how templates work and shares many details on how they are used.

Model Units, Accuracy and Tolerance

Model Tolerance and Units in Rhino effects nearly every command. Learn how to configure tolerance to help you model as efficiently as possible. Recorded by our own Pascal Golay.

Hello Gumball

In this quick video tutorial, learn the basics of using the Gumball manipulator in Rhino 5.

'Say Ahh'... product design and packaging with Rhino 5

In this seven-part tutorial series, learn how to design and model a toothbrush as well as its packaging using Rhino 5. This section covers modeling a smooth handle form for later detailing and material breakouts.

Watch the other videos in this series... 'Say Ahh'... product design and packaging with Rhino 5

Displacement in Rhino 5

Learn how to create displaced mesh objects using procedural textures in Rhino 5. Displacements can be used for rendering purposes or extracted and edited for fabrication.

Intersecting multiple pipes

In this Rhino 5 tutorial, learn how to model a smooth intersection between multiple pipe surfaces.