Rhino and Grasshopper News

• Check out food4Rhino for a wide range of plugins, such as Botcha X Rhino for footwear modeling, Alpaca4d-OpenSeesGh for parametric structural analysis, and KaroroCAD Inflatable Kite/Wing Designer for designing, developing, and manufacturing inflatable surf kites.

• SAVANNA3D has added a new collection of 3D model blocks, featuring bathroom cabinets, to their library of 3D architectural models.

• Simply Rhino has been busy publishing interesting and helpful information:

  • Did you miss the Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting last June? View the meeting notes.

  • Simply Rhino published test results for an in-depth look at which graphics card works best with Rhino 8 and Rhino companion products.

• Using Rhino, Grasshopper, and Weaverbird, SCAD student Berfin Erdogan was inspired to design beautiful flower vases. Read about it in Rhinozine, which features Rhino projects and is a resource for tips and tricks, tutorials, and industry insights. 

• On LinkedIn, Design & Develop Srl explores what computational design means to footwear design.

• ShapeDiver has been working on a few things to help Rhino users:

  • ShapeDiver offers a tutorial to explain its Selection Input component. This plugin for Grasshopper enables users to select geometry directly within the 3D viewer.
  • A new video is available covering the integration of Speckle and ShapeDiver.

  • ShapeDiver now supports the SheepMetal plugin, a Grasshopper tool for designing and preparing sheet metal parts.

  • ShapeDiver interviewed Eesha Jain of CORE studio on how Thornton Tomasetti leverages ShapeDiver to transform computational design scripts into scalable engineering tools.

• Read about USC's process of designing a concrete canoe for the annual American Society of Civil Engineers competition.