An active discussion is happening here internally about how we can better support students as they are learning Rhino in School- We are specifically interested in your experiences related to: videos and social media, is the content we have already useful? What do you like, not like? can you find …

what I’m hearing from this is you are missing features that you want, which is 100% valid for a different topic. what I’m asking is what gets in your way of learning rhino. In my mind these are two different things. [image] David: “why can my mate do this in Solidworks/Plasticity, and I can’t …

Yes… and also no. Missing features and the learning process are highly connected I think. The features and software capability form part of the approach, method, and therefore must form part of the learning process. I think there are many things that are and should be different in Rhino, and I app…

I’m going to jump in here, Kyle, and just say – for anyone who doesn’t know this-- McNeel offers private lessons with staff members. As you know. I have found them very helpful.

As like the others have said, doing projects is key. You can watch videos until blue in the face and never learn anything. You got to do to learn. —-Mark

I learned rhino in the R5 days. I don’t think I became truly proficient until around late R6 early R7. When I was learning as a student, one of the most helpful parts was the indepth first party information. I found that I could google a description of what I wanted to do, then typically some kind o…

I am teaching rhino to students at an Australian university. I teach 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th years and offer support to 5th years. Students pick up basic commands very easily. Biggest issues are - camera and plane control, unworkable model size and millions of curves coming out of Make2D. 1st year: …

There is a lot of theory behind surface-modeling. Neither the existing official tutorials, nor many teachers themselves properly address it IMHO One useful thing to have is a complete cheat-sheet for corner fillets and blending situations. If I would guess, there are at least 20 different types of…

Have they tried a 3d mouse by “3Dconnexion”? It’s a huge deal when it comes to navigation in the perspective viewport. Even the cheapest 3d mouse has a hardware button to zoom to selection (also can be set to open a customized radial menu with multiple options).

[image] Arcade Smith: camera and plane control, unworkable model size and millions of curves coming out of Make2D Thank you for detailed answer. Really great summary. Rhino 8 might have addressed some of the issues you mentioned. Please let us know if features like “Auto CPlane” (to orient w…

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theoutside (Kyle Houchens) May 16, 2024, 7:30pm 14

thanks! appreciate your insight-

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