FURNITURE DESIGN USING RHINO

Duration: 20 hours

Teaching Methodology: Hands on

Course Schedule: Schedule

Fees $450

Course Mode: Blended Face-to-face or online via Zoom

COURSE OBJECTIVE

In this course, you will use the skills you acquired in Rhino 1 and 2 to design various furniture models. At the end, you will be able to create your designs using the ETC 3-D printer.

AUDIENCE

This course is for people who want to design furniture using Rhino.

PREREQUISITES

Rhino Level 1 and Rhino Level 2

COURSE CONTENTS:

01 - OVERVIEW OF NURBS TOPOLOGY

Rational vs. Non-rational Geometry ( Clean Curves = Clean Surfaces)
Working with Curves ( Curve Rebuilding vs. Curve Fitting / Control Point Optimization / Curve Continuity)
Working with Surfaces ( Surface Continuity / Surface Generation / Surface Analysis Tools / Rebuilding Surfaces)

02 - CREATE COMPLEX CURVED SURFACES

Working with Simple Curves
Various Methods of Surface Generation
Various Methods of Symmetry Production
Solid Filleting and Blending Tools

03 - CREATE 3D RELIEF PATTERNS FROM 2D ARTWORK

Importing 2D Raster / Vector Information ( DXF, Illustrator)
Cleaning Up the Output in Rhino
Using Solid Tools to Produce Pierced, 3D Decorative Detail and Relief Patterning

04 - CREATE PRESSED PLYWOOD FORMS

Create Complex Forms Using a Master Surface and Offsets
Produce Holes and Cut-Outs that are Normal to the Surface (Orient on Surface and Boolean)

05 - CREATE CAST ALLOY ARMS

Create Complex Curved castings (Arm Casting)
Create Complex Curved castings (Arm Casting)

06 - SOLID TOOLS

Create and Modify Solids with Different Solid Tools such as Holes

07 - BLOCK INSTANCES

Create Blocks such as Fasteners, Brackets,…
Store Blocks and Bring them into the Assembly File

07 - STL FILES

Short Primer on Writing Good STL Files for Export from Rhino

08 - BASIC ANIMATION IN RHINO AND RENDERING IN VRAY

Create Simple Presentation Animations from within Rhino