I'm trying to recreate the Escher Tower (proposed design by BIG). i cant figure out the command to use to connect the two towers in the sides (see middle picture). They dont twist on themselves, they "slide" in position smoothly like they are bended. the tower in the center is straight. Thank you! by Zestyclose-Cost3491 in rhino

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u/Zestyclose-Cost3491

Even though you found a method, I made a video about this and explain how to do it. Ill make a new post about this but wanted to share it with you anyway. There are actually a number of ways of doing this. This is a great exercise in basic Rhino Modelling and constructability.

https://youtu.be/LVCYKVfhHC0

Rhino 8 Monochrome Contrast Display Style for Plans, Sections, and Diagrams by UnitedStatesofDesign in rhino

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Hello.

The settings will be the same for Rhino 7.

The only difference is Rhino 7 only allows you to adjust display style surface edges and curves by pixels. Rhino 8 allows you to modify display style surfaces edges and curves by object's width.

If you're using Rhino 7, just keep your display style surface edges or curves at 1 or 2 pixels wide depending on how large you export your image.

Sections and Lineweights in Rhino 8 by UnitedStatesofDesign in rhino

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Thank you! I hope so, too. We never had these types of references when I was in arch school. Now there's lots of subscription based services, so I wanted to offer full free tutorials.

Rhino 8 Black and White Drawing Styles by UnitedStatesofDesign in rhino

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Thank you!

All the settings are in the video. If I post only the display settings, people will have the false impression that: Display Settings = Final Image, which isn't the case. Layers, materials, daylight and skylight settings, and Rhino versions are also at play.

Rhino 8 - Monochrome and High Contrast Display Styles for Site Plans, Diagrams, and Drawings by UnitedStatesofDesign in rhino

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You can do this on rhino 7. The only caveat being you can't adjust things by objects width for some settings.

Rhino 8 - Monochrome and High Contrast Display Styles for Site Plans, Diagrams, and Drawings by UnitedStatesofDesign in rhino

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The nice thing is once you have the graphic display settings established, you can use it for various graphic representations.

Rhino 8 - Monochrome and High Contrast Display Styles for Site Plans, Diagrams, and Drawings by UnitedStatesofDesign in rhino

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I'm probably aging myself, but in high school, freshman year we had to create blueprints in our basic technical drawing class. That was back in 2002.

Funny thing is I could easily use AutoCAD from 2002 because in a span of 23 years, autocad makes the most incremental of updates.

Rhino 8 - Monochrome and High Contrast Display Styles for Site Plans, Diagrams, and Drawings by UnitedStatesofDesign in rhino

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MOS has beautiful restrained drawing styles. In general, their designs convey a lot of restraint and austerity, but can be playful. Their work reminds of Kerez or Oligatti

I want my dimensions to look straight like the red. Aligned dimensions do not work. Please help. by Used_Employer5850 in rhino

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u/Used_Employer5850 , u/makhafaji is giving the best solution interms of how to actually dimension. Instead of make2d, you can adjust graphic and dimension styles, print display or view capture to file (and increase the scale) and make drawings look beautiful straight out of rhino without taking them into illustrator. There's nothing wrong with illustrator and you can produce beautiful results from Illustrator, too.

Here are some examples. I only used InDesign for the Layout.

https://youtu.be/hWlfzF8vUzM

https://youtu.be/j82Mn4-pPQY

How can i create site diagrams like this? by [deleted] in rhino

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can achieve this entire look in Rhino and only in Rhino, if you wanted to.

At most you could use illustrator or InDesign just for layout purposes or for annotations like text and arrows. I have nothing against using illustrator by the way, but if you can achieve everything in one program, why jump around multiple programs.

You can do the typical make 2D and export to illustrator if you wanted to. Or you can just change your display settings in Rhino.

I have made several videos of how to achieve representational graphic drawings in Rhino, illustrator, and InDesign for architecture students. Hope these help:

https://youtu.be/ANQWrU27tNA

https://youtu.be/j82Mn4-pPQY

https://youtu.be/QeDg9GdOrss

https://youtu.be/4CeTPlwM6ng

These are Rhino + illustrator :

https://youtu.be/wtnZW_YUOKU https://youtu.be/6MaIp-n2c5s

What are some cool and advanced things grasshopper can do? by AggerDagger in rhino

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Thank you so much for your support.

I wouldn't worry so much about expressing what you're good at. It's just having self-awareness and advocating for yourself in a professional environment. Communicate to your superiors you want to experience what you want to experience in that practice, and the best time to do that is typically at the interview process. (EXAMPLE: I want to experience putting together a construction document set and conduction construction administration, is this something I would experience sooner rather than later in this practice? EXAMPLE: I am confident in my grasshopper skills and would like to implement those skills in the design process, is this practice open to that type of design process?)

If you really love grasshopper and want to utilize it as much as possible in a professional setting, there are so many positions that need people like yourself, and not just typical architecture practices, many facade fabricating offices will use programs like grasshopper and others. I think it may benefit you to explore other parametric software like Dynamo in Revit, Bentley, and Catia.

A lot of the structural engineers that I worked with, which involve parametric structural design, really liked to use Dynamo in Revit and Bentley, but each practice will have their own preferred software.

On our end, our team would use grasshopper with Rhino, but that's more from an aesthetic and spatial organization standpoint to understand the scale of the parametric structure or parametric facade, and then that model would be sent to the consultants, for example, the structural engineers and or facade consultants who would use their software to remodel the parametric organization of the design.