As a car designer at Pininfarina in the late '90s and early 2000s, I worked extensively with Rhinoceros 3D, versions 2 and 3 beta. My job was to design cars and then turn those designs into 3D models for milling at a 1:1 scale. These models were then refined by model makers into the final product. While I didn’t follow every project to completion, each one began with my design and modeling. Below are a few examples of this work, showcasing the potential of Rhinoceros 3D and the creative process at Pininfarina.
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Baku Heydar Aliyev Airport Forecourt Canopy and Entrance Bubbles:
Airport Design by Arup
Built by Waagner Biro Steel & Glass
Canopy + Bubbles by F. Deacon, B. Schneider
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Hi. Just wondering if you can recall the name of the documentary or perhaps the company name, mentioned in this post:
Many thanks,
Gavin
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Here’s a boat I designed in Rhino:
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From Manual Process to 3D Workflow:
Before using Rhino, I relied on a combination of hand drawings, CorelDraw, and 2D CAD to create patterns and then models in composite. Creating masters to produce production molds was extremely time-consuming, so I decided to switch to 3D to expedite the process. At that time, I was also beginning to use SolidWorks for other purposes and explored its surfacing capabilities. However, SolidWorks’ basic surfacing capacity was not yet fully developed.
There was a plugin called SurfaceWorks rumored to be effective for surfacing. After testing it, I found it had two notable features: it would quickly turn your hair gray and make any other surfacing program seem effortless by comparison. This was quite an accomplishment at the time.
Around 1999-2001, I read an article in Professional Boatbuilder Magazine about a new software called Rhino that caught my attention. After testing Rhino, it seemed like a godsend in comparison, so I purchased Rhino V1.1. I started my project with it and completed it using Rhino V2. I used figures from Poser in different sizes and positions to ensure people within the target weight and height range would fit comfortably in the cockpit.
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Yes, yes, another boat.
But they are design it!
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Ohhhh…
It’s the Plasma.
Can you describe how you go about designing a foil? How do you draw a wing in Rhino or is it generated outside of Rhino and then refined? Would love to design my own foils but still scanning commercial foils or using wing hopper to generate them.
How does one get started?
This dude is apparently big into Rhino (as evident by his intro movie):
Which means that this (beautiful but utterly stupid) bike is most likely made at least in part using Rhino:
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I’m curious, why the “stupid bike” comment? It appears to be a well thought out and cleverly designed thing?
what about it do you not like?
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Well, the basic version might be fine, but it literally has the weakest motor on the market (while claiming the opposite) and the battery is only rated for 500 charges in its lifetime.
And the “pro” version requires an app with a paid for subscription service. A bike should not require neither an app nor a subscription service, so it seems to be a techbro bike made with zero regard for longevity, unfortunately.
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Bike Topics, you caught my attention!
I am also quite new to rhino, but it helped me to build stuff i couldn’t do before!
I was tired of so many wooden bike designs, that tried to imitade what was clearly developed for steel, aluminum or carbon.
It follows the linear woodfiber and traditional manufacturing process.
With the plans made in Rhino i was able to build the frame within 2 weeks without the use of cnc! Would have slowed me down anyway 
Weights about 16,5 kg, okay for first prototyp for such a big frame that is meant to be a city bike. It rides suprisingly stiff. The Pros are the resources used and being able to produces frames in traditional carpenty shops for a deglobalisation aspect.
I am still flirting with the thought of a parametric bike design controlable via Grasshopper, where you just input stuff like body dimension, driving style ect…
I hope I didnt drown the post with pictures!
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Beautiful design and execution, thanks for sharing! Is the wood you used Ash? How did you solve the connection to the front fork axis?
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Hey thanks and thank you for your content on youtube i used it to get better in layout and found some tricks drawing for sheet metal parts;)
Its very thin layers of ash veener and some glue. Did some breaking tests the aluminium beformed before the veener wood ripped.
Yes its Ash!
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You could create a post for this project in the gallery category.
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Beautiful and very smart design
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