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Making Sine Bar downloadable document by Pete Sorenson

A tool for Layout and Set-up work  …

SubD model that is contoured, remapped, nested, and cut on a laser.    by Dave Weidkamp

The steps in fabrication are shown in the video (below)

Dave is paddling the kayak at the end of the video.…

Gumball Lamp video

This is even better with the addition of the 'Extrude Ball' on the Gumball widget.   

ALL students & teachers should view this video and work along…

The Video:   Gumball Practice

The video…

Gumball advanced by Vanessa

This video will show you the enhancements

to the Gumball in…

Click this link:  STEM links

See project details here.

Download DXF here. 

• Expand this project for to additive manufacturing by revolving the game pieces in Rhino to into 3D geometries and 3D printing.
• Also encourage students to create a theme piece, that…

Pete Sorenson case study: RhinoCam Teacher/Student Project

Pete's Model…

Paper Box Model v6  Unroll…

The inspiration for this is from Scott Callihan

at Harbor College in Los Angeles, CA…

Paper Box Model downloadable file…

Paper Cup Sketched…

 by PJ Chen   Toy Screw Threads video

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Vectorize plugin for Rhino 6 or 7 Windows and Mac.

   The developer of the Trace plugin passed away a few months ago.  Dale Fugier, one of our Rhino developers, wrote the Vectorize plugin to replace the Trace plugin.  Thanks Dale.  And also thanks to Gérard Bouteau, the original developer of 'Trace'.…

I was looking for some things that I could cut on the laser to include in kits sent home with kids during distance learning and found these three puzzles.  They were quick and easy to cut, and gave me some projects to help them build some basic Rhino skills.  The two cube puzzles are similar to the 3D Puzzle exercise in chapter 6 of the Rhino Level 1…

Model:   …

 Rhino home page, click 'Learn'

'Learning to use Rhino', Select 'SubD Modeling'…

Here is the second Carbon Fiber bike frame tutorial.

An organic frame design.  Great project for students that have a creative side.

Given the location of the front and rear sprockets, as well as the location of the crank set and head post  design a 'bike' frame .  I would encourage exploring several iterations . 

When I was teaching one of my students (Heath M.) built a non traditional bike as his senior project.  A variation of it was latter put…

Projects to go with this series of updated/changed shed models:

Research and 'purchase' each and every part of the shed model. Be aware of the lengths of lumber to be purchased vs the length of lumber to be cut on the job.

Sketch each part of the shed beginning with the pier block.  (Both Isometric sketches AND orthographic sketches.)

Sketch the entire shed…

If you have grown tired of teaching CAD and the students roll their eyes at the concept of drawing another widget.

Try adding some creativity . Simple rules - many answers.   This project utilizes the Sub D tools in Rhino V7.

Starting with some hard points (points that are given and don't change) design a bike frame.

The only rules are :  You must use the four locations :  Front and rear wheel hub centers, The location…