r/rhino

Hi everyone.
I work as a facade design engineer. My company manufactures composite facades.
We haven't produced any complex facades yet, but my boss wants to aim higher.
He saw how facades and signage are created using Rhino and Grasshopper online, and he’s pushing for me to learn the software.
We have a CNC machine, and the boss wants us to handle the entire workflow—from design and composite cutting to the actual facade installation.
My question is: does it actually make sense to learn this process?
I notice there are very few job openings requiring Rhino and Grasshopper skills.
I’d hate to put the effort into learning it all, only to find out that no one needs those skills—except my boss, of course.
I have experience with CNC, ArtCAM, and Python, but almost none with Rhino and Grasshopper.

Sorry for the confusing title. Here's the situation:

I'm using Display Modes for a drawing project. I have a primary display mode set for the viewport, but the objects within the scene need to have another display mode. These objects are generally imported Sketchup files that are converted to meshes. They usually import as nested block references, and the only way I can get the proper display mode to carry through to the geometry is to explode them, but when I do this they start to really slow down the software. Is there any way to deal with these in a better way?

hii, i have a question. i was wondering how i can export an isometric view from rhino to dwg. When i try to do it i just export the top view...

I have RecordHistory turned on as my default when I make jewellery but is there a way to stop the “History broke on x objects” pop up? It happens every time I move a curve or a surface and it’s annoying af.

Thanks

Sto provando a creare una sezione prospettica in cui c'è una griglia che puntualmente viene rappresentata male nel Make2d, succede anche se lancio il comando selezionando solamente la griglia. Cosa mi suggerite? È inevitabile che qualcosa di complesso divenga illeggibile?

Grazie in anticipo

I have tried to make a cavalier axonometric projection following YouTube tutorials, but some of my planes come out distorted and rotated in other directions.

First I performed a scale1d to set the corresponding scale, then I used the SHEAR command to give it a 45° angle in the right view, then I used the SHEAR command again in the top view to give it 45° again.

When I went to the front view, those planes appeared rotated in the wrong directions. When I set it to rendered style, the drawing appears correctly. But when I use Make2D, the planes reappear rotated incorrectly.

I don't know if it's a problem with my model, the way I'm creating the axonometric drawing, or my computer.

I would greatly appreciate your help.

Thank you very much.

https://preview.redd.it/v3w8hre0y5ah1.png?width=1401&format=png&auto=webp&s=f256bccadb0527917b5cfed33e2e1ad0df888533

Hi! I'm a complete beginner with Rhino and I'm having a really tough time getting the hang of it. Even basic tasks have been difficult because I'm not always sure which commands to use, and a lot of the commands I've tried seem to have limitations that prevent me from getting the result I'm after.

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction on two things.

1. Creating a smooth connecting surface

I'm trying to connect these two surfaces with a smooth face that curves inward (I've drawn the shape I'm imagining in purple in the following image). I've tried commands like BlendSrf and Loft, but neither gets anywhere close to the shape I'm looking for.

https://preview.redd.it/dg8v9jztmt9h1.jpg?width=2465&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31170bec9318e46466a99da8c53825bc71b30b30

What's the proper workflow for creating a smooth, concave transition between/wraped around these two differently shaped surfaces?

2. Connecting open curves to a closed curve

I'm also confused about what I thought would be a basic task. I drew a closed control point curve (the circular one), then later drew a few additional control point curves branching off from it (forming a sort of Y shape). I realized afterward that those new curves aren't actually connected to the original closed curve.

https://preview.redd.it/2f3d48aqpt9h1.png?width=1442&format=png&auto=webp&s=1636158d9ca9d3cd9b64349f739c356c82b77a21

Is there a way to properly attach or merge those open curves to the existing closed curve, or would I need to redraw everything as a single curve?

For context, here's how I built the model so far:

• I drew the control point curves for the back surface, joined them, and used EdgeSrf to create the surface before then using the Split command to project and cut out the more circular closed control point curve you see on the back surface.
• For the triangular-like surface in the front, I used EdgeSrf on the two boundary curves (selecting two curves and the program automatically filled in the third side when creating the surface) then I Split the circular curve onto that new triangular-like surface and deleted the half circular portion that was projected which left me with the shape that's visible in the front.

I'm still learning the basics, so it's very possible I'm approaching this in the wrong way entirely. If there's a more "Rhino" way to model something like this, I'd really appreciate any advice. Thanks in advance!

Hi, I'm a long-time Blender user and Rhino beginner. The donut tutorial is known as the first thing most of its users model. I wonder if there's something similar for Rhino? What is the first object/tutorials you all did at the start on your journey?