What: Hands-on practical course. The afternoon of day 3 is bespoke allowing for you to work on your projects and portfolio.

When: 3-day course

Time: 9:45am - 4:00pm

Location: London Software Training, 17 Sheep Lane, London E8 3FA. 

Or Online: Learn from your home or office with online screen sharing.

Your course price includes:

• Free group course re-take within 18 months

• Expert teaching from practising architects, designers and software pros

• Hands-on, practical lessons - tailoring of syllabus and work on your projects

• Class recordings for revision and development

• LST certificate of completion for your CV and LinkedIn

Your tutors are designers, makers and architects, as well as software pros. They will guide you on the best way to apply for design roles or set-up a creative business, whilst teaching you all the key technical skills to make your CV and portfolio stand out from the crowd.

Introduction to Rhino and Interface

• Understanding Rhino’s command

• Using toolbars and buttons to a toolbar

• Navigating the geometry menus

• Using the command line and status bar

• Using the Properties window

• Opening and saving files

• Understanding the three types of entities: curves, surfaces, and solids

• Bezier curves, B-splines, and NURBS objects, isocurve surfaces and mesh surfaces.

• Setting measurements units

Navigation

• Introducing the viewport

• Using construction planes

• Shading modes

• Navigating the viewport with pan, zoom, rotate and reset controls

Workflow basics

• Creating basic objects: curves, surfaces and solids

• Performing basic transformations

• Organizing a project using layers

• Drawing: 2D Geometry

• Understanding lines and polylines

• Building rectangles and polygons

• Creating arcs, circles and ellipses

• Drawing freeform curves

Modelling: 3D Surfaces

• Comparing different types of 3D surfaces

• Extruding surfaces to create features in a model

• Creating surfaces with lofts

• Using Revolve and Rail Revolve to create surfaces

• Using Swwp Rail to create a 3D claw

• Creating complex surfaces using Network Surface

Modelling: 3D Solids

• Introducing solids

• Making solids with primitives

• Extruding curves to create solids without primitives

• Creating unique shapes with the union, difference and intersection

• Boolean operators

• Editing with the solid edit tool

• Creating and transforming holes in solids

• Working with the Grid Snap modelling aid

• Using the Ortho modeling aid

• Using the Planar modeling iad

• Incorporating the Snap modelling aid into your workflow

• Setting cursor constraints

Editing and Transforming Objects

• Editing corners with Fillet and Chamfer

• Trimming and splitting with curve Booleans

• Moving and rotating objects with the Drag and Nudge tools

• Copying and pasting objects

• Grouping objects

• Scaling objects

• Duplicating objects using the Mirror command

• Analysis and Degrees

• Defining degrees of curve and surfaces

• Creating screen captures for quick proofs

• Creating 2D views

• Rendering a project

Preperation for 3D Printing and Manufacturing

• Preparing a model for prototyping by confirming that all gaps are closed

• Using the shell technique to create wall thickness for 3D printing

Rhinoceros 3D, known as Rhino 3D, is a commercial CAD software with multiple 3D modelling tools. It enables you to create shapes with great precision and detail and is compatible with most design softwares. 

This London Software Training Rhino course will take you from a beginner to an intermediate level, teaching you how to create 3D shapes from working with curves or mathematical formulas (NURBS). You'll work through engaging exercises, guided by the lecturer. By the end of the course, you will be able to take your sketches and accurately model and document your design ready for product realisation in achitecture, engineering, manufacturing,  rendering or animation.