Hardware:

• Pentium, Celeron, or higher processor.

• 200 MB disk space.

• 512 MB RAM. 1 GB or more is recommended.

• OpenGL graphic card recommended.

• IntelliMouse recommended.

Operating systems & Software:

• Rhino 4.0 runs only on Windows 2000, XP Pro, XP Home, and Vista* including an Intel Mac with BootCamp or Parallels.
  *Vista requires Rhino 4.0 Service Release 1 or above.

• Rhino 4.0 will not run on Windows NT, 95, 98, or ME.

• Native Windows x64 is not supported and will not be until the required development tools and libraries are available. There will be a free service release available as soon as possible after 4.0 ships. Rhino 4.0 does run as a 32-bit application on Windows x64.

• Rhino 4.0 does not run natively on the Mac OSX, Linux, or any other operating system not listed above.

• Rhinoceros® Version 4 or later, 3-D NURBS modeling software for the Windows operating system.

• Flamingo® http://www.flamingo3d.com/ raytrace and radiosity rendering, animation and virtual reality plug-in for Rhino 4.0

• An Internet connection and a Temple University e-mail account.

• Matriculated Tyler School of Art students who register for this course and pay their lab fee will have access to all of the course requirements in our PC CAD Lab (Tyler room 102)

Course Objectives

You will learn how to:

• Customize your modeling environment.
• Create basic graphic objects-lines, circles, arcs, curves, solids, and surfaces.
• Draw with precision using coordinate input and object snaps.
• Modify objects with edit commands.
• Display any portion of the model.
• Import and merge models.
• Output models to different file formats.
• Create, test and verify solid models in STL file format for production of rapid prototypes.
• Render models.

 

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Note: A password is required to access the complete course lessons and exercises

 

Students who register for this course will be assigned a password when they contact Prof. Stanley Lechtzin via email at: stanley@comcast.net. You do not need a password to see the course syllabus, contents and a sample exercise; just click these links.  

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To register for this class, go to the Temple University TU Courses.

 

Your next steps after registering for this course:

Go to the Syllabus for this course. After reading the Syllabus for this course and becoming familiar with the course calendar and requirements. I have or soon will subscribe you to the CAD/CAM I email Listserv. Please read my Listserv welcome message and introduce yourself by sending a message to the list. Now open the  Course Contents Page. Select Lesson 2 and begin the lessons and exercises.  

Stanley Lechtzin, Professor

Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Metals/Jewelry/Cad-CAM Area

stanley@comcast.net

 

Acknowledgements:

I wish to thank the following individuals and organizations for their invaluable assistance in the preparation of this online course.

• Daniella Kerner, Adjunct Associate Professor of Crafts, Tyler M/J/C-C Area, for reviewing and editing this entire course.

• Robert McNeel & Associates, for providing their Rhinoceros® Training Manual

• April Reigart,  Tyler M/J/C-C MFA Candidate for creating a number of new exercises.

• Rebecca Strzelec, Tyler M/J/C-C MFA Candidate, for converting the Rhinoceros® Training Manual to HTML and creating a number of new exercises.

• Kelly Uhrik, Tyler M/J/C-C MFA Candidate for creating a number of new exercises.

• Julia G. Korony, Tyler M/J/C-C MFA Candidate for updating and editing exercises.

• Jennifer Theokary, Tyler M/J/C-C MFA Candidate for creating a new exercise.

• Alyssa Heidinger, Tyler M/J/C-C MFA Candidate, for updating and editing exercises for Rhinoceros® Version 4.0.

• Mary-Lou Montagna, Tyler M/J/C-C MFA Candidate, for updating and editing exercises for Rhinoceros® Version 4.0.