Learning Rhino 6 for Mac

Course details

Rhino 6 for Mac is here. While it doesn't have the exact same features as its Windows counterpart, Rhino for Mac offers both precise and organic modeling tools, making it a great choice to designers who need to create complex forms and shapes. This course covers the key differences between the Mac and Windows versions, basic interface navigation, and techniques for generating high-quality 3D models for a variety of industries, including manufacturing, architecture, and animation. Author Chris Reilly starts by showing how to create simple geometry from points and curves and progresses to extruding solid objects for 3D printing or CNC milling. He closes with some lessons on applying custom materials and rendering your design. No prior experience with Rhino is required! Simply start watching to get up and running with this powerful 3D modeling software.

Topics include:
Installing Rhino for Mac
Selecting objects
Manipulating objects with commands
Creating curves, surfaces, and solids
Extending, trimming, and offsetting curves
Creating resolved surfaces
Analyzing surfaces
Editing solids
Applying transformations: scaling, rotations, and more
Modeling constraints
Lighting and rendering in Rhino for Mac

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Design complex forms and shapes with Rhino
02 - What you should know before watching this course
03 - Using the exercise files
04 - What is Rhino for Mac
05 - System requirements and supported hardware
06 - Downloading and installing Rhino for Mac

1. Getting Acquainted with Rhino for Mac

07 - Start window
08 - Menu bar
09 - Viewport
10 - Sidebars
11 - Command icons
12 - Command line
13 - Modeling constraints
14 - Gumball tool
15 - Associative History toggle
16 - Status bar
17 - Rhino themes
18 - Customizing unit and grid settings
19 - Navigating viewports
20 - Customizing viewports
21 - File management
22 - Rhino objects
23 - Selecting objects
24 - Staying organized with layers
25 - Help and troubleshooting

2. Differences between Rhino for Mac and Rhino for Windows

26 - What's missing from Windows
27 - Keyboard, mouse, and peripheral differences
28 - Contextual menu differences
29 - Commands and command line differences
30 - Toolbar and panel differences
31 - Autosave differences

3. Curves

32 - Curve basics
33 - Drawing straight line curves
34 - Drawing polygons
35 - Drawing circles, ellipses, and arcs
36 - Drawing spirals and helixes
37 - Drawing freeform curves
38 - Analyzing curve length
39 - Analyzing curve angles
40 - Analyzing curve radius
41 - Analyzing curve curvature
42 - Analyzing curve continuity
43 - Analyzing curve direction
44 - Exploding and joining curves
45 - Editing curve control points
46 - Smoothing curves
47 - Extending curves
48 - Splitting curves
49 - Trimming curves
50 - Offsetting curves
51 - Matching curves
52 - Filleting curves
53 - Rebuilding curves

4. Surfaces

54 - Surface basics
55 - Making extrusion surfaces
56 - Basic lofted surfaces
57 - Lofting surfaces with loft options
58 - Surfaces from edge curves
59 - Creating revolved surfaces
60 - Making sweep 1 rail surfaces
61 - Making sweep 2 rail surfaces
62 - Network surface creation
63 - Analyzing surface direction
64 - Analyzing surface radius and curvature
65 - Analyzing surface continuity
66 - Editing surface control points
67 - Exploding and joining surfaces
68 - Smoothing surfaces
69 - Extending surfaces
70 - Splitting surfaces
71 - Trimming surfaces
72 - Offsetting surfaces
73 - Matching surfaces
74 - Filleting surfaces
75 - Bending surfaces
76 - Rebuilding surfaces

5. Solids

77 - Solids basics
78 - Creating solid objects
79 - Freeform solids creation
80 - Analyzing solids - Edge analysis
81 - Editing solids - Boolean difference
82 - Editing solids - Boolean union
83 - Editing solids - Boolean intersection
84 - Editing solids - Boolean two shapes
85 - Editing solids - WireCut
86 - Editing solids - Chamfer

6. Transforming Geometry

87 - Moving objects with drag, move, and gumball
88 - Rotating objects with rotate and gumball
89 - Scaling objects with scale commands and gumball
90 - Duplicating objects with copy and gumball
91 - Duplicating objects with array commands

7. Accurate Modeling

92 - Understanding coordinate systems
93 - Using construction planes
94 - Modeling constraints - Ortho
95 - Modeling constraints - Planar
96 - Drawing with reference images - Picture frame
97 - Drawing with reference images - Background bitmap
98 - Persistent object snaps
99 - One-shot object snaps
100 - Grid snap settings
101 - SmartTrack

8. Rendering

102 - Render settings and scene setup
103 - Lighting setup - Two-point lighting
104 - Lighting setup - Three-point lighting
105 - Applying and customizing materials
106 - Rendering

Conclusion

107 - Next steps