{"id":415,"date":"2012-04-11T17:31:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T17:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012spring2b\/?p=415"},"modified":"2012-04-12T19:30:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:30:25","slug":"intro-to-rhino-a-few-commands-that-go-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012spring2b\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Rhino: A few commands that go far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/40250015?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"397\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>NB Video.<\/strong> Jump forward to ~1:30 to begin!<\/p>\n<p><strong>NB 1.<\/strong>\u00a0 When there&#8217;s a length or an option, you can type it (if you can)<br \/>\n<strong>NB 2. \u00a0<\/strong>Use a two button mouse, use a big\/second screen (if you can)<\/p>\n<p><strong>drawing:<\/strong>\u00a0(you can either click to draw or type the dimensions you want)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>points<\/li>\n<li>circle<\/li>\n<li>line<\/li>\n<li>rec<\/li>\n<li>polyline<\/li>\n<li>curve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>measurements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>length: length\u00a0of line or curve<\/li>\n<li>distance: distance between two points<\/li>\n<li>area: area of a surface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>geometric transformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>orient: good when the thing you&#8217;re moving is asymmetric\/sided\/chiral<\/li>\n<li>offset: scale and copy<\/li>\n<li>scale1D: good for resizing lines<\/li>\n<li>scale2D: good for resizing flat shapes<\/li>\n<li>scale (you can indicate with numbers the scaling factor)<\/li>\n<li>move<\/li>\n<li>copy<\/li>\n<li>arraycrv: orient and copy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2d-3d-2d:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>loft: make connecting surface between two lines\/curves<\/li>\n<li>extrude<\/li>\n<li>make2d: create 2d shape of selected surface, according to current view<\/li>\n<li>unrollSrf: turn a volume into flat components<\/li>\n<li>dupBorders: produce curve from boundary of a surface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>cutting\/expanding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>explode<\/li>\n<li>split: divides a line\/curve\/surface at a center point\/line\/intersective-surf\/curv<\/li>\n<li>trim: split + delete<\/li>\n<li>extend<\/li>\n<li>rebuild<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>make many out of one:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>divide: dividing lines\/curves into equal parts<\/li>\n<li>rebuild: either turn cuves into lines or make ugly curves pretty curves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>housekeeping\/getting-around:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>layer: show layers window (use many layers!)<\/li>\n<li>show\/hide<\/li>\n<li>setPt<\/li>\n<li>zs: zoom set, show you just the selected object in the active transport<\/li>\n<li>join: make one curve out of many segements<\/li>\n<li>group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NB Video. Jump forward to ~1:30 to begin! NB 1.\u00a0 When there&#8217;s a length or an option, you can type it (if you can) NB 2. \u00a0Use a two button mouse, use a big\/second screen (if you can) drawing:\u00a0(you can either click to draw or type the dimensions you want) points circle line rec polyline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012spring2b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012spring2b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012spring2b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012spring2b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012spring2b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012spring2b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012spring2b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012spring2b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012spring2b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012spring2b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}