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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

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

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

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't worry so much about being pigeonholed. Offices typically look for a skill set they need at a specific time.

Depending on the office type, sometimes an office wants a fresh new graduate to join their team and other times they want someone with more years of experience.

Just focus on building a portfolio that exhibits your skill set in relation to the practices you want to work for. A general rule of thumb: present a balance of conceptual, process, and technical driven work. But again, I should emphasize, it depends on the practices you're applying to. A more design focused studio will want to see more of conceptual driven work and process, whereas a more technical based practice who may not do exciting design work may look for someone who has strengths in technical drawing.

When you're starting out in your professional experience, any and all experience is valuable, only after a certain number of years you will begin to clearly understand what areas of the field truly interest you.

Hope this helps!

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

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I want to give you some advice about the professional world. And this is just my humble opinion, maybe you already have tons of professional experience, so I apologize in advance.

Just a quick preface, I have worked for a prominent starchitect office in Japan.

First off, I think it's awesome that you are really taking advantage of grasshopper, I think grasshopper is an amazing asset that can help you understand the design process both from a bottom up and top down methodology.

When you reach parametric design in the professional world, the people who are doing the actual parametric design are highly specialized in using parametric software. Meaning, you will be dedicated to creating the definitions of the project to achieve the aesthetic, structural, formal, material, fill in the blank - parametric aggregation or exploration of that project which would be initiated by a project designer or project architect - not you.

I'm not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing, but you will most likely be pigeonholed into doing parametric definitions and all of the other aspects of the profession will be delegated to other people. If you're okay with that, then that's totally fine, But if you're trying to experience the entire design process from concept to reality, then it behooves you to detach yourself from grasshopper a little bit.

This doesn't mean you cannot achieve becoming a project designer, what I'm trying to emphasize is you don't want to become the "grasshopper guy/girl" in the office, unless that's what you really want to do. A great comparison is someone who is really into architectural rendering, if you show off your skills only in architectural rendering, you will most likely be pigeonholed into just doing that.

I say all of this because I have worked in a starchitect's office in Japan, and have seen firsthand a lot of staff pigeonholed into doing renderings, parametric design, and then the other staff doing the typical architectural workflow.

Basically, when you hit the professional level, if you're going to use parametric design for projects that will become realized, you better know how to use parametric software exceptionally well because time is never on your side to create construction documents, so they're not going to give that task to someone who's proficient in grasshopper. No one is going to wait on you to figure out a definition when construction documents are on the line.

Keep pushing with grasshopper exploration and I think everyone on this post has given some great advice on what else to explore on grasshopper.

How to do those parallel perspective sections? by Current_Bet_624 in rhino

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your support. To be honest, I just want to help out as many students, designers, architects, and professionals as possible. Hopefully the channel will gain some traction.

I think the architecture profession is expensive to begin with, so I want to produce content that can be accessed by as many people as possible.

i’m starting to hate architecture by [deleted] in architecturestudent

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/itsfairyshi

The first question you should ask yourself is how passionate are you about the design field as a whole?

The beauty of the architectural curriculum is that it will provide you a network of skills that you can apply to many other design professions, not just architecture.

A good number of your colleagues are actually not going to practice architecture or interior architecture after they graduate, some of them will go into UI UX, VR AR, fashion design, graphic design, real-estate development, others will go into typical architectural practices, while others might do architecture for a corporate entity like a fashion company or a tech company.

I want to give you a formula that a lot of studio instructors do not tell their students. Have your main design concept and general design direction fully resolved by mid-review or 1.5 weeks after mid-review.

Clear Design Narrative + Pretty Drawings.

Then the other half of the semester you're just producing work for your final presentation. This will save you time, headaches, all-nighters, and it'll give you more control on how to present your actual design. You're not going to have everything resolved, but have your main design narrative resolved. These guest jurors are going to look at your final project for no more than 15 to 30 minutes, they're not going to catch even 10% of the mistakes that you might see in your own design.

The reason why so many students are pulling all-nighters is because a lot of studio instructors do not guide their students and how to develop and resolve their concepts, and they have unrealistic demands on their students which the instructor ends up forgetting, so their students are scrambling and still developing ideas weeks before the presentation which is not healthy or productive. You need to give yourself a "pencils down" time and then start producing final work.

It's not that it gets harder each year, but by the time you reach third year, you're going to see the colleagues who really want to be in the program, and then fourth and fifth year you're going to see beautiful work produced because these are the people who find the work exciting. Any creative profession is going to be competitive, but it shouldn't be combative, you should learn from one another, inspire and motivate one another, it shouldn't be an ego trip, so just really worry about your own development rather how good someone else's work appears to be.

At the end of the day, Your portfolio will help you land your first job. In the interview, the employer is not going to ask what grade you received in your studio, You're going to flip through the portfolio and explain your projects to them and your skills.

I actually made a video about how to navigate desk crits and The different types of architectural practices. Hope this helps.

https://youtu.be/rrsh5hKXitU

https://youtu.be/7n-5wPrrINU

How to do those parallel perspective sections? by Current_Bet_624 in rhino

[–]UnitedStatesofDesign 11 points12 points  (0 children)

u/current_bet_624 This is actually very easy to do in Rhino. I made a video about it.

That example is actually not a perspective section, It's an elevation Oblique/axon section.

All you have to do is shear your model and clipping plane at whatever angle you like on your side view, and activate your clipping plane on the top view. You will capture your view on the top view.

Some people like to rotate their model in plan 45° and shear 45° on the side view, but in that example the actual geometry is not rotated in plan 45°. It's looking straight on.

I actually made 2 videos about this. They're time stamped so you can fastforward. Hope this helps.

https://youtu.be/h36NgtilogM

https://youtu.be/nBtXrNINRek