Rhino Level 1

After a brief introduction, the following concepts will be covered:

• Get acquainted with the Rhino screen and menus.
• Navigate around the Rhinomodel.
• Create 2-D lines, polulines, and NURBS curves.

• Modeling setup and mode functions: ortho, grip, snap, and planar.
• Fast 3-D solids and surfaces.
• The Rhino layering system.
• Delete objects

Use coordinates and constraints to model easily and accurately. Move off the x-y plane and use viewports to establish the current construction plane. Draw polygons and ellipses. Draw free-form curves and compare interpolated and control points curve.

• Draw with absolute, relative rectangular, and polar coordinates.
• Distance and angle constraints.
• Viewports and construction planes.
• Model in 3-D space.

• Elevator mode.
• Rectangle command and its options.
• Point selection with object snaps.
• Analysis commands: length, distance, angle, radius.
• Draw circles and arcs.
• Draw ellipses and polygon curves.
• Rhino render and render color.
• Model free-form curves.
• Create helix and spiral curves

Discover display commands used to view different parts of the model. Use edit commands to produce complex and detailed variations on the curves. Loft and extrude curves into surfaces and solids.

• Pan, zoom and reset model views.
• OpenGL shade.
• Edit curves with fillet and chamfer.

• Loft and extrude curves.
• General editing: move, copy, rotate, mirror, scale.
• Array polar and rectangular.
• Boolean union, difference, and intersection.
• Offset curves and surfaces.
• Trim and split for curves and surfaces.
• Extend and extend to surface.

Learn additional editing commands and use them to build practice models. Reinforce concepts of model setup and drawing accurate 2-D geometry to build precision 3-D shapes.

• Introduction to NURBS modeling concepts and terminology.
• Free-form curves.
• Control point editing of curves and surfaces.

• Rebuild curves and surfaces.
• Use the nudge modeling aid.
• Create deformable shapes.
• Curve creation through projection.
• Split surfaces with curves and surfaces.
• Blend between two surfaces.
• Lighting and rendering.

learn how to model with solids and solid text. Use Booleans to shape your model. Extrude, loft, and revolve curves into surfaces. Use sweeps to create surfaces. Use advanced surfacing techniques like blend, match, and surface from network of curves.

• Create solid primitives and solids text.

• Model with pipe and extrude.
• Modifying solids with Booleans.
• Extrude and loft surfaces.
• Revolve curves into surfaces.
• Sweep 1 and 2 rail curves.
• Surface with network of curves.

Reinforce the commands and skills gained in the class by creating several models: the hammer and the chocolate syrup bottle. Add texture, bump and materials to the Rhino model for rendering. Annotate the Rhino model by adding dimensions. Work with the Options dialog box to refine the rhino modeling environment. Generate 2-D views of a model for detailing and exporting. Output wireframe images directly to printers and plotters from Rhino.
Time permitting: Customize Rhino toolbars and workspaces. Use the flamingo plug-in to render a model and compare the finished rendering with Rhino’s renderer.

• Setup the hammer model

• Create the hammer construction lines with precision.
• Build the hammer surfaces.
• Render the hammer.
• Setup the syrup bottle model.
• Create the syrup bottle surfaces.
• Add the threads.
• Render the bottle.
• Import and export models.
• Generate 2-D drawings from 3-D model and export.
• Print wireframe views of the model.
• Edit and create new toolbars and tool buttons for rhino.