Introduction to Rhino 3d for architects by Grant Adams (120min)

Draw rectangle as square (CMD: @5,5) Make surface out of curve: CMD “Patch” (Surface U/V spans = 2). Viewport “shaded” to see surface. How to select objects on top of each other.

Draw vertical curve (surface) on surface: CMD “rectangle”, set “first corner of rectangle:” vertical. Draw rectangular surface like curve just allready as surface without CMD “Patch” as vertical plane.

Draw triangular surfaces: 1. as polyline-tool and add CMD patch 2. as surface tool and only use 3 corner points.

Draw twistet surfaces: 1. CMD “Loft”: draw two lines, select them and CMD “Loft” 2. Instead drawing extract edges: “Menue/Curve/CurveFormObjects/Duplicate Edge”

Units: Basic set up under “Menue/Tools/Options/Units”. DE1-3: We are working in cm/meters (absolute tolerance 0.001 units for meters… (Check  Info-bar C-Plane)

Viewport and coordinate system:  Rhino is a vector based programm (XYZ). You can enter X/Yfor polyline and also X/Y/Z coordinates.

Polyline-tool: CMD “Poly”, enter X,Y and draw poylines,  use ortho-snap (X=red, Y=green, Z=blue). Enter absolute mode (3,5) and relative mode (@3,5). Close curves with (“C”).

Polyline with “Distance and direction” for best workflow: type distance and enter, mouse-klick direction. Object selection: from left/right-only contained objects are selected, fromt from right/left: everything touched is selected

Zoom in to selected objects: key “Z” + key “S” (CMD “ZS”)

“Polyline”-Drawing a wall based on polylines: CMD “Offset”: enter distance, choose direction with mouseclick.

1. “Osnap”-Drawing a door opening of a wall: Osnap “Midpoint” perpenticular to wall, use “Offset-curve” for width of door with setting “bothsides”. How to calculate in Rhino + CMD “Calc”

2. “Trim & Join” – Drawing a door opening of a wall: “Trim” to delete unnecessary lines for openings. “Join” all lines to get continuous closed polylines to “extrude” in 3d.

“Arc”-Draw door: create “rectangle” with “@ relative” as door. Add door-swing as ARC:  “Start, End, direction”

Drawing windows: use “smarttracking” to draw windows. Create window-glas with CMD “Offset”: bothsides.

“Mirror” +  “Copy”: you can across straight corners with mirror but also across diagonal corners. Use Copy to copy windows with defined distances.

Introduction: elevations (side view)

Draw elevations: polyline with “Smarttrack” measure distance with CMD “distance”, Draw helper lines repeat command: right mouse-klick or spacebar

Draw window: start at hight of 1m (window sill) with CMD polyline + “SmartTrack”, offset window hight, glasses CMD “Join” lines for closed surface, CMD “Explode” unjoints More windows: Copy windows and use smarttracking to draw window

Layer-panel: rename layers, add sublayer as nest, change object layer, activate layer (√)

Rotate 3d: rotate in any direction with “Ortho” snap Change perspective to isometric view

Extrude 3d walls: check that all walls are one closed curve. Join all wall curves. CMD “ExtrudeCRV” (Menue Surface/Extrude curve/straight)-deleteInput, solid yes

CMD “Project” window-curves on wall: Menue/Curve/curveFromObject/Project Add to selection:shift deselect: CTRL

Cut window: 1. method: CMD “Trim” + “loft”: cut wholes and loft to close reveal.

Cut window: 2. method: CMD “MakeHole” (under Boolean tool)  Plane has to be coplanar. Make heads for doors: draw box with match of window hights

Extrude curves for window reveal. Capture viewport as .jpg picture.