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and work together to deliver expert Grasshopper training through both scheduled public live courses and bespoke private classes.
This is an exercise from a recent scheduled Grasshopper training delivered by the team.
In this Grasshopper exercise, participants learnt to generate and fabricate minimal surface geometries using computational design tools. Starting from orthogonal planar quad meshes, the workflow employs Kangaroo for mesh relaxation and form-finding to achieve minimal surface forms, followed by refining the mesh to maintain planarity and developability. Using the Stripper plugin, the design is then divided into developable strips along the UV directions, unrolled, and prepared as laser-cut-ready files. The session bridges digital form-finding, geometric rationalization, and fabrication, offering a complete workflow from concept to physical prototype.
Our scheduled Grasshopper courses commence with Level 1 which aims to improve your workflow with Grasshopper and give you an overall understanding of parametric thinking. The native tools of Grasshopper and their relationship to Rhino3D are explored as well as their data structure and general concepts such as data types, data matching and lists.
Progress to Level 2 and broaden your parametric knowledge with Advanced Data Trees, Form-Finding, Meshes and SubD’s.
Check out our upcoming course dates at the Simply Rhino website or DM us if you would like to discuss bespoke Grasshopper training for you or your company.
