Rhino Basics, Week 02

Posted by adam on Jan 20, 2010 in Tutorials | 2 comments

This is the second week in a series on the fundamentals of Rhino, as taught at Otis College of Art & Design in the spring semester of 2010. To follow the tutorial from the beginning, start here. There is a parallel series covering the basics of SolidWorks here. Enjoy!

This week, we’ll be looking at the fundamentals of precision drafting in Rhino using the grid snap, OSnaps, numerical tool inputs, transform tools, and the trim/explode/join tools. We’ll hit on some 3D here, but we’ll mostly be working in 2D for this week.

This is the fifth video in a ground-up Rhino class taught at Otis College of Art & Design. Topics covered:

- [grid] snap
- using exact dimensions in rectangles, circles, and polylines

Four more vids after the jump:

This is the sixth video in a ground-up Rhino class taught at Otis College of Art & Design. Topics covered:

- basic move tool
- basic rotate tool
- basic scale 3D, 2D, and 1D

This is the seventh video in a ground-up Rhino class taught at Otis College of Art & Design. Topics covered:

- basic ‘OSnap’
– int, mid, end, near, and cen
- using OSnap with move, rotate, and drawing tools

This is the fifth video in a ground-up Rhino class taught at Otis College of Art & Design. Topics covered:

- example: draw a 16:9 24″ rectangle
- intro [tab] key
- basic trim tool
- basic explode/join
- solid extrude curve
- surface extrude curve

This is the ninth video in a ground-up Rhino class taught at Otis College of Art & Design. Topics covered:

- drawing a USB logo to dimensional spec