Description

The main aim of the contest is to let people create something unique, futuristic and inspiring at the same time without any limitations and blow fresh air into their portfolios. Participants will create objects liberated from any gravity and other physical laws to showcase how they imagine the future of Architecture industry.

Schedule

Start of contest: April 15th, 2013
Image submissions: Until June 30th, 2013
Results & winners announcement: July 15th, 2013

More details here.

The goal of the workshops is to introduce participants to the robust modeling environment of Rhino and the flexible BIM tools of VisualARQ. You will acquire essentials skills to explore, rationalize, and document 3D geometric representations of your design intent. Certificates of attendance will be given to participants upon completion of each workshop.

Instructor:

Maher Elkhaldi

Module 1:

Rhino Level 1 and VisualARQ

May 18th, 25th and June 1st

Professionals at AED 2600, students at AED 1500

Module 2:

Rhino Level 2 and VisualARQ

June 15th, 22nd, 29th

Professionals at AED 2900, students at AED 1800

Certificates

Participants will receive Certifications of Attendance.

Location and Notes

Dubai Media City.

Bring Your Own Laptop with software installed.

Refreshments will be provided.

To Register

m.s.khaldi@gmail.com

+971 50 381 4911

VisualARQ at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano)

When: Tuesday 7th May. 16.00h
Where: Room 38, NABA

Free attendance for NABA students and teachers only.

VisualARQ at Polimi (Politecnico di Milano)

When: Wednesday 8th May. 9.00h
Where: Aula M2, Polimi

Attendance is free.

You are invited to attend the VisualARQ seminars that will be held on 7th and 8th May at the NABA and POLIMI of Milano, respectively.

Both presentations will focus on the main VisualARQ features and will show one of the current work in progress features: the integration with Grasshopper.

These seminars are organized by CorsiRhino.it and will be given by Francesc Salla, VisualARQ Product Manager.

It’s been over 5 months since Rhino 5 was released, and 1 month since the latest update of VisualARQ 1.7.1. It’s time to take stock of the main advantages and reasons why VisualARQ works better in Rhino 5.

1. 1. Faster and bigger: It is well known that Rhino 5 works in 64-bit, handles larger models and improves the display speed. In addition, in Rhino 5 VisualARQ uses multi-threaded regeneration for its geometry. Just take a VisualARQ model created in Rhino 4 and open it in Rhino 5. You will notice the difference immediately!
2. 2. Lightweight extrusion objects: Rhino 5 uses a new technology for creating extrusions. VisualARQ takes advantage if this technology and objects are now created as lightweight extrusion objects as well. This technology saves significant memory and improves the display speed. For example, in Rhino 4, a simple box was using the memory for the information of its 6 different faces. Now, the same box just uses the information of 1 surface and a vector. Imagine how much space is saved for a single VisualARQ window, which has a frame component with 10 surfaces, a leaf with 10 more surfaces, an extra surface for the glass, 6 more surfaces if there is a sill… not to mention if the glass component has muntins!
3. 3. Toolbar and dialog management:  Remember when going crazy trying to place the VisualARQ toolbars in the toolbar area or to dock the layer, level or properties dialogs in Rhino 4 sidebar? The new system to organize toolbars and dialogs in Tabs is great for workflow customization.
4. 4. Gumball: The Gumball object manipulation allows you to easily and precisely move, scale, rotate objects in place. Also for VisualARQ objects.
5. 5. Drafting/Annotation improvements: More control over annotation styles, history support for dimensions, data fields in text and leaders, area and curve length dimensions, draw order, more page layout controls… and many more drafting improvements. These features are crucial when creating 2D documentation drawings of architectural projects.
6. 6. Annotation and hatch scaling: Cool option to scale hatch patterns and annotations in page layouts based on the detail zoom factor, and in model space based on the hatch and annotation scale factor.
7. 7. Layers display by detail in Page layouts: The improvements of Rhino 5 in Page layouts are important, but one of the most significant is the one that allows you to show and hide layers individually by detail view.
8. 8. Render: Rhino 5 has enhanced the rendering tools for both the basic Rhino renderer and the plug‑in renderers support. VisualARQ benefits from that since it uses the same render engines and rendering tools as Rhino.
9. 9. Display: Speed improvements, enhanced working display modes (artistic, pen….) and quick viewport display settings have been added.
10. 10. Grasshopper: The new versions of Grasshopper only work in Rhino 5. In addition, the current development of Asuni CAD for the integration of VisualARQ with Grasshopper will only be available for Rhino 5. Stay tuned for news!

Read the full list of Rhino 5 enhancements here.

One more year, VisualARQ will be present at the 9th RhinoDay Padova 2013. The 9th Italian User Meeting, organized by Università degli Studi di Padova - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale and sponsored by ZEN's s.r.l.,  has been announced and registrations are now open: April 12 - Workshop (educators and students only)

• Software workshop: Rhino 5, Grasshopper, Scan & Solve, VisualARQ, CAD/CAM, RhinoPython, Advanced Surface Analysis.
• Language: Italian (some classes in English)
• Workshop Program and registration.

April 13 - User Meeting

• Case studies by expert users and overview of some new plug-ins. Round table at the end of the event with Bob McNeel.
• Language: Italian (some presentations in English)
• User Meeting Program and registration.

When: March 21th 2013 (18.30h)

Where: Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa. (Sala G.3.4)

Organizers: DigitalLAB/Rhino3DPortugal | DARQ-ECATI-ULHT| LABART | VISUALARQ

Francesc Salla will be showing VisualARQ's main features during the Research Lab conferences in Lisboa. The VisualARQ presentation will focus on the BIM features that VisualARQ provides to Rhino.

In addition, Francesc Salla will offer a VisualARQ training during the Rhino Masterclass organized by Rhino3DPortugal on March 22th-23th. You can find more information on the Rhino Masterclass here.

Owners of VisualARQ are encouraged to download and install VisualARQ 1.7.1. This is a free service release for all VisualARQ users.

VisualARQ 1.7.1 fixes all known bugs. See the complete list in What’s new.

• If you are a VisualARQ user, download VisualARQ 1.7.1
• If you are an evaluation user, download the new Evaluation version to test the last version release.

This video shows the round-tripping capability of the NOL (National Object Library) from a VisualARQ and Rhino model to Revit and back.

The National Object Library (NOL) server is meant to meet the needs of Australian infrastructure and building projects. The NOL manager would maintain the generic objects and update them to match changes in Australian Standards and Legislation. Manufacturers will be able to upload details of their products to the NOL and manage their products over time. The key feature will be free access by end users.

NOL is meant to support the main AEC software programs including Rhino due to its big potential compared to conventional CAD software, and also VisualARQ, which simplifies the BIM experience in Rhino.

Read more about this topic here...

La Tienda del CAD with Luis Fraguada and Matúš Nedecký (Flying architecture) have organized a series of workshops in Advanced Architectural Design with Rhinoceros and Grasshopper and Architectural Visualization with V-Ray in Barcelona:

• March 4-5-6: Advanced Architectural Design with Rhinoceros and Grasshopper
  Details and registration...

• March 7-8: Architectural Visualization with V-Ray 
  Details and registration...

Both workshops will be in English. Student price also available!

The event will gather together Rhino users, instructors, students and software developers from the 3D modeling world, with the common idea to get to know the latest news on 3D modeling techniques, computing design and digital fabrication, and willing to share their knowledge and experiences among the attendees.

User Meeting, 11th February:

The final agenda will be available soon; it will include the latest news on Rhino 5, Flamingo nXt, food4Rhino, VisualARQ, Lands design for Rhino, Clayoo, RhinoGold 4.0, VSR Shape Modeling and VSR Realtime Renderer.

Some of the following presentations are already confirmed to be held during this event:

Andrés de Mesa (Rhino and Grasshopper in La Sagrada Familia), Jorge Biosca (Transportation Design), ControlMAD (Diego Cuevas), Luis Fraguada, FAB LAB Barcelona (Tomás Díez), CODA (Pep Tornabell, Enrique Soriano), Modelical (Roberto Molinos), SMD arquitectes (Oriol Carrasco, Alba Armengol), MedioDesign (Juan Pablo Quintero), Manuel Hidalgo.

Workshops, 12-14th February:

The following workshops will take place during 12-14th February:

1. VisualARQ (9:00-13:00h)

• The workshop will cover the main features of Rhino and VisualARQ and will provide the attendees the knowledge to create a project of architecture in 3D, generate the 2D graphic documentation, and create 3D render views of a full project. Full program.
• Instructor: Francesc Salla

2. Clayoo (13:15-17:15h)

3. Grasshopper (13:15-17:15h)

4. Digital Fabrication (9:00-13:00h)

Complete info and registration (in Spanish)...