Intro to Rhino & Grasshopper 3D Design Certificate

Rhino is the foremost application used in jewelry and all other design industries for the creation of three-dimensional models for prototyping, digital fabrication, mechanical drawings, and visualization.

This is an introduction to Rhino and covers most of Rhino’s functionality. Students will learn user interface, command access, editing curves, surfaces, and solids for jewelry design.

This course also covers Grasshopper’s functional understanding, concepts, and parametric design. Grasshopper enables automated production and discovering new forms, shapes, and patterns.

Requirements

• Basic computer skills

• Understanding jewelry construction is a plus, but not necessary

• Outside of class time, students can use the Computer Lab at FIT or download an evaluation version on your PC computer

• The book "The Essential Guide to Digital Jewelry Design" is not required, but recommended

Learn How To

• Do 2D drafting and 3D modeling with precision

• Interpret 2D sketch / drawing to 3D models

• Create, analyze, and edit curves, surfaces and polysurfaces

• Develop strategies, problem solving skills, and shortcut techniques

• Create .stl files for 3D printing

• Understand jewelry construction and apply your design idea to build 3D models

• Gain overall understanding of parametric design

• Understand data structure and data types