Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Undergraduate Architecture Program
Arch 213
Representation III
Fall 2011
Instructor: George Showman – email: gshowman@pratt.edu
Date: 09/02/2011... Class 1
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Basic Navigation
Parts of the Rhino interface:
Viewports
Menus
Status Bar
Layers
Toolbars
Command Line
Piloting:
Zooming (mouse wheel or CTRL-rightmouse-drag)
Panning (SHIFT-rightmouse-drag in 3D view, just rightmouse-drag in 2D views)
Centering (“Zoom to”) (“z” plus options, similar to AutoCAD) – very useful
Rotating (rightmouse-drag or SHIFT+CTRL+rightmouse-drag)
Viewport control – maximize, visualizations, ViewportTabs command, and resetting after rotation
Lens control – (CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+rightmouse-drag) or Viewport Properties->Lens Length
Other:
Selecting (right-to-left vs. left-to-right, as in AutoCAD)
Aliases... changing, managing... load the AutoCAD aliases to make life easy
Layers – crucial for organizing your file, and let you create ‘rigging’ (per the tutorial)
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Basic Modeling
Setting Units – always check this when you start a file!
Creating some basic shapes (type-in vs drawing, “@” sign for relative coords., like AutoCAD)
spheres
cylinders
Planes
boxes
cones
lines – Line, Lines, Polyline, InterpCrv, and Pipe to make tubes...
Notion of the Construction Plane (CPlane – will be very important later)
Snaps (F9), and OSnaps (this is the key to all precision!)
Use of the SHIFT and ALT keys to control snaps and right angles, etc. (try to be fluent w/ these)
Basic Transformations
Move
Copy
Rotate
Grouping/ungrouping
Scale (also Scale1D, Scale2D...)
Mirror
Stretch
(note: “Vertical” option on most commands to go up or down)
Creating Geometry from individual Lines/Curves
Extrude
Revolve
Pipe
Working with Geometry
Booleans
Trim and Split
Extend
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Basic Input/Output
PictureFrame – put images in Rhino. Then you can scale the PictureFrame…
Saving Rhino files (IncrementalSave... or do the incrementing manually … IMPORTANT)
Render command, saving renderings (as .jpgs!)
How to take Screenshots:
ScreenCapturetoFile command will take your active Viewport and save it as a file.
NOTE: please use .jpg files always, not the default .bmp