Real life product design examples made in Rhino

For many hard to model things, or for the splitting up/planning of models for fabrication Rhino is heavily used. Also many toolmakers use it to make non-parametric changes. Heavily used in pretty much all consumer products that have been designed and crafted and don’t look like a lazy Solidworks tutorial.

That’s very interesting. So they’re using it for the more organic shaped parts. Do you happen to know what they use for the parametric modeler alongside Rhino?

LOL, yeah. I’m a mainly SolidWorks user up till now, and wanting a better tool for more complex / organic / free form shapes. Longing to see some great real-life examples here :slight_smile:

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Matthew Gueller at the HD design center told me what they were using for a solid modeler. I had heard of it before but I can’t remember it now.

Pretty much everything you see on this page
https://www.businessaircraft.bombardier.com/fr/avions/global-7000#!#bba-pdp-section-3
And here http://www.brioinnovation.com/brio-innovation--realisations.html

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Ha! So you know exactly why I mean. Solidworks is great for mechanical modeling and some simple surfacing. Also it works quite well with Rhino. You can import your ‘challenging blobs’ and use them as a starting points of your parametric featuring. Then you can update your imported reference… and sometimes the model will update, sometimes it’ll break. You’ll figure it out quickly where that happens and why.

I worked at Bose for a chunk of my life, half of their products are designed in Rhino. All complex automotive parts were Rhino. Quite a lot of the organic headphones are Rhino or Siemens NX, depending of who did them. All hard to figure out speaker grilles are done in Grasshopper.

Funny story: I worked on a project with a very fancy supercar company, who is known for using Catia. And they brag about it a lot. Their chief engineer had a laptop in a basement, off the grid for ‘emergencies’. Where he would go and bring a file of a problematic model or complex fit issue in a thumbdrive, launch Rhino and work a solution there.

Rhino is the porn of CAD. Everyone says they don’t use it and that they have better methods, but if you pay attention… it’s everywhere. (Bob, you can use this for Marketing)

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I use Rhino and Grasshopper and own tools to create patterns on car exteriors in conjunction with Icem Surf Usually we use Rhino as an assistant cad software, because of Rhinos excellent coding abilities, which not only lets you fast and easily create custom solutions, but also opens up a world for a great and feature diverse plugin library.

One of my favourite project during the last years:

Every pattern on the exterior you see here, was made by me using Rhino, I also participated in the surface engineering of the “facelift” parts. Although these patterns are rather “boring”, it took quite an effort to solve problems regarding technical aspects, safety, flange angles, flow of highlights and filleting in general. Everyone using Rhinocommon may know its limitations regarding freeform surfacing.

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:rofl::laughing::grin:

Philip

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As a Rhino user who drives a '17 GTI, thanks for giving me another reason to love my car!

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This is The Morpheus Hotel, designed using a few thousand Rhino models, backed up with a few hundred Grasshopper scripts, equating to a document of around 200,000 pages !! Its a little beyond my average modelling skills, when I’m having a frustrating day I think about the team who must have scratched their heads many times producing this building :slight_smile:. Zaha Hadid Architects I believe, view[here]


(http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/city-of-dreams-hotel-tower-cotai-macau/) morpheus1920x980|690x352

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Hi @cbecks

Just a few examples of “real” products made in Rhino - medico, audio, security, access control… the list goes on and on. All shapes and sizes :smiley:

Regards, Jakob

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Good thread, intersting to see real life examples from the horses mouth and not a bunch of googled renders

Organ Console, navy dolphin in rhino then CNCd

Organ Console and Casework

Organ Console design and all carvings in Rhino

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Hard to find any actual photos of that hotel and I was starting to wonder is it was another ‘rendered reality’ creation like Hadid yachts. However I did find this but it sounds like it is a bit behind schedule, wonder why?

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The worlds full of ‘beautiful’ renders :slight_smile:. No idea why its not finished, maybe it’s not meant to be finished yet, or maybe because its hard to do its taking time, who knows, but mostly designed in Rhino, you can find a feature video on the Rhino Vimeo channel here

The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is another “not finished” project where Rhino is used:

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hahahaha, yeh and they been building that for 100+ years :slight_smile:

Gereard Petersen at UK Rhino User Meeting 2011\ 280x333
Kenau

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Wow, that is exquisite. Saw the whole build process on your website. Congratulations on a beautiful design.

Thanks Jakob. I’m an audiophile, and I love Dynaudio loudspeakers. Some of the absolute best in the business.

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Yes, I know exactly what you mean :slight_smile:

Some bike manufacturers seem to be using SolidWorks surfacing quite well to create very highly stylized organic shapes. But I wouldn’t think it would be the first choice for that.

We designed one product with Pro/E surfacing (back in the day). Then we switched to SolidWorks and I designed his baby brother. You can tell in the photographs that the surfacing of Pro/E was much more fair than SolidWorks. I won’t be getting Pro/E (or Creo) as a freelancer, so looking to Rhino to improve my surfacing.

Will try importing some Rhino surfaces as starting points in SolidWorks model. If updating that first imported “seed” surface ever allowed all downstream SolidWorks features to rebuild, that would be quite impressive.

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