Rhino Introductory
Timber Exercise:
- Open File>Locate on Server
- Familiar with Layers+Sublayers (on right hand-side)
- Hover over the “Timber Layer,” there are three sub-layers. (Timber Unit, Inside Timbers, and Outside Timbers) Unlock both Inside and Outside; leave Unit locked, or better yet turn it off.
- Hover over the two layers “Move Place-Holders” and “Delete Place-Holders”
- Make sure these are locked, Toggle turning them off and on.
- The next step is to Copy the “Cube” (inside and outside timbers) ten times into the place holder blocks (five times on each row)
- Lock the “Outside Timbers” layer. Notice it says “DO NOT MOVE”….do not move these. The exercise involves either moving or deleting in the “Inside Timbers” layer.
- For 5 cubes, delete the inside timbers to generate a spatial quality (i.e. Solitude, Unfamiliar, Familiar, etc) For the remaining 5 cubes only move them to generate the same spatial qualities.
Make 2D:
- Isometric>SW orientation.
- Make 2D> Select objects you wish to make 2D. Select one at a time, by toggling through Top and Isometric (So you don’t select all of them at once)
- Organize the 2D linework accordingly in Rhino Top view
- File>Export Selected>Export as “.ai” (Illustrator)
- Open in Illustrator, add color swatches, change lineweights, etc
3D Parti Diagrams:
- Make a Polyline or rectangle
- Type Extrude to make the rectangle 3D, specify a height.
- Can also navigate to the “Solids” toolbar, to select primitive 3D objects. (cube, sphere)
- Gumball>capacity to make intuitive quick adjustments to objects
- Copy/Move to make other objects as well.
- In this exercise we will be going over Addictive and Subtractive methods to create parti diagrams.
- To create addictive geometries we can really just copy and stack solids above each other and rotate them using Gumball
- For subtractive geometries we will need to take a primitive geometry and trim from it using other primitive geometries.
- Type Boolean Difference, select object to subtract from, Hit Enter. select objects to subtract with hit Enter.
- When done switch to Isometric view like earlier, and Make 2D once again.
Ilustrator:
- File>Open>recently saved file(s)
- Add color swatches, as usual
- Change line weights accordingly. If you’re strategic with layers in Rhino, this can be a breeze. Look at examples of last year.
- Once line-work is completed, lock all layers. Now create a new layer, move it to the top and label it “Highlights”
- Using the Pen tool trace the desired selected area and choose “No Stroke” also select a color as the fill. Once you arrive to the original start location, the command will terminate. Hit Escape a few times, to exit back into your default toolbar.
- You can select your new object as if it was a shape. If you’re not happy with the Fill color, change, but leave the Stroke off…its redundant given you already have line work.
- You also can modify the shape you the Direct Selection tool, or add extra anchor points
- Notice your color is covering the line work behind it. One way you can change this is by modifying the opacity of the fill, but that reduces the intensity of the color.
- Select the object, open your Transparency (Window>Transparency) and change the blending mode to “Multiply”
- Your welcome.
- Grid Snap: F9 (can also be located in the toolbar typically docked in the bottom of the window)
- Ortho: F8 (can also be located in the toolbar typically docked in the bottom of the window)
- Osnap: (can also be located in the toolbar typically docked in the bottom of the window)
- Rectangle
- Box
- Group: Ctrl G
- Make 2D
- Move: M
- Copy: CO
- Zoom: Z
- Extents: E
- Distance: DIST
- Undo: Ctrl Z
- Rotate
- Rotate3D
- ExtrudeCrv
- BooleanDifference
- Make 2D
- Split
- MoveFace
- MoveEdge
- Scale1D
- Scale2D
