Rhino Basics, Week 01
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Rhino Basics, Week 01
As many of you know, I will be teaching a basic sophomore-level CAD class at Otis College of Art & Design during the spring of 2009. As the class progresses, I’ll be publishing what we learn each week here on the site, so that anyone else who wants to can join in. We’re starting at the very beginning here: greetings noobs! You’ve come to the right place!
For a complete syllabus, including a few reasons why we’re learning Rhino in the first place, see this post.
Most of my students have at least fundamental experience with a 2D drawing application such as Adobe Illustrator. Rhino is a lot like illustrator in many ways, but for two major differences: precision, and 3D.
Video 01:
- opening a new document
- maximizing/restoring a viewport
- navigating in 3D space (rotate, pan, zoom)
- basic rectangle
- zoom extents, zoom selected
- select/delete
- basic box tool
- shaded/wireframe viewports
- basic sphere tool
- drag move
- drag with ‘elevator mode’Three more vids after the jump:
Video 02:
- polygon tool
- curve boolean basics
- enter/space/right-click equivalency
- left-right vs right-left box selectVideo 03:
- solid boolean basics (add/subtract/intersect)caution: booleans are a great way to quickly deal with very simple geometry, but they are NOT a good modeling methodology in many situations. As we learn new ways of working, we’ll using booleans less and less.
Video 04:
01/14/2010
- homework: skyline
- use good composition!
- use booleans to create interesting buildings
- solid fillet basics
- viewport context menu intro
- viewport focal length intro
Tags: CAD, NURBS, Rhino.
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January 29th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
very good tutorial! not to fast clear and through why do you like modo so much could you compare it to zbrush if you have time please answer doest have to be lengthy. caswell
February 9th, 2010 at 5:54 am
I live in Thailand.I try very hard to learn this programe it really compricated for me.I’m in jewelly bussiness.looking for further class
thank you very much.
February 9th, 2010 at 8:41 am
Krit:
Glad you’re finding it useful. There are already four more weeks’ worth of tutorials. Just click “Tutorials” at the top of this site, and you’ll see the others in the list. Enjoy!
Adam
February 9th, 2010 at 8:42 am
Hi Caswell:
Rhino isn’t really like Z-Brush at all. It’s not even in the same category of application; they can’t really be compared.
Adam
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