Rhino Architecture - Modeling a House from CAD drawings

[@HowtoRhino]

Rhino for Architects Course 👉 howtorhino.com/rhino-for-architects-course/ Project Files 👉 www.patreon.com/posts/29317506

[@huiarchitect]

This is en extremely simple but powerful and useful tutorial video for architectural modeling... So many precise application of commands and great tips taught in one single video....I watched it 5 times to capture all those little tricks you shared and I can use it everyday. Now building 3D model is becoming a joyful thing to do rather than loosing time using wrong commands and approaches and get frustrating not meeting deadlines....... Thank a lot.... Great job and well done 👍👍👍!!!

[@HowtoRhino]

Hi Ahui, Thanks bunch, we're glad you like the tutorial! If you'd like to take this a step further and have a complete step by step approach in learning Rhino and Grasshopper that includes our personal coaching, you may want to check out our Rhino for Architects 2.0 Course! Please reach out and send me an email at [e-mail] if you're interested and I'll tell you a lot more about it there and share the course platform with you as well! Cheers! :)

[@kurkobein1390]

Im a 1st semester student, this video completely saved me , new sub and like

[@HowtoRhino]

glad to hear 👍🏻 good luck!

[@agarddrxppy684]

My man's dedication is over the top!

[@HowtoRhino]

Hey Agard, thanks! Hope you enjoyed the tutorial! :)

[@asamercer810]

Thanks so much for this video! Was looking for this kind of tutorial for ages :) Love it!

[@HowtoRhino]

You're welcome Anya!

[@mahboobehrezaei1516]

Fantastic tutorial, to the point and quick. Thank you! Keep up the good work.

[@HowtoRhino]

Thank you Mahboobeh, glad to hear you enjoyed the tutorial! :)

[@yuhhweahz3505]

Thank you for making the tutorials longer. Can you also make the future tutorials longer like the ones where u model complex geometry it’s good seeing the process form start to finish thanks

[@HowtoRhino]

Hey Pasifique, You're welcome :D I'll see what I can do about that ;)

[@topongyembamchang8778]

I did my course but I'm loving your tricks and the way you explain 🔥 Thank you 💕

[@HowtoRhino]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial! :)

[@amalkardaly1652]

Thank you this advanced my skills beyond anything it were❤

[@HowtoRhino]

We're happy to hear that!

[@noursarim]

wow amazing, Its powerful and useful tutorial video for architectural modeling thank you so much

[@HowtoRhino]

Hey Nour, happy to hear! You're welcome :)

[@adamheeley285]

Super helpful to see workflow

[@HowtoRhino]

Glad you like it! :)

[@juanricardogeraldotorres8545]

hey in this video if I learned a lot, many tricks and tools that I did not know like orient, the way you handle yourself. for example, when I had to do when I had to merge two faces, I did it one by one

[@v7e4n8om]

Orient just made my life easier.

[@juanricardogeraldotorres8545]

@@v7e4n8om is really nice

[@HowtoRhino]

I had the same feeling once I discovered orient haha

[@HowtoRhino]

@@v7e4n8om Kudos to that! :D

[@vwgm]

Can you tell me how to snap to the current polyline I'm drawing, like in Autocad? Snap works for other objects but not current polyline. Thanks, keep up the great videos.

[@quitran4414]

Thank you so much for sharing. However, the house is quite simple. I hope you will soon have a video on home decoration. eg: Molding, Relief or Column decoration I really need those. thank you.

[@HowtoRhino]

Hey Qui, thanks for the suggestion!

[@manueltlaches6441]

Great video! It helped me a lot! Thanks man. Greetings from Mexico.

[@HowtoRhino]

You're welcome Manuel :)

[@md.shahid2127]

Nice very helpful for archi student ... plz upload complex structure from autocad to 3d rhino..

[@eevanoir197]

Thanks great lesson - I wish I found you before

[@HowtoRhino]

You're welcome! Glad you're onboard with us :)

[@massaalbesher2220]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS !

[@HowtoRhino]

Hey Massa, you're welcome! Glad you liked the tutorial :)

[@willtempleman1993]

Can you explain how to import these files in the first place. Can you import drawings as a jpeg and draw over them? Thanks

[@hayleyvella1894]

Awesome video! Thanks

[@HowtoRhino]

Hey Hayley, Thanks! Glad you like the tutorial! If you'd like to take this a step further and have a complete step by step approach in learning Rhino and Grasshopper that includes our personal coaching, you may want to check out our Rhino for Architects 2.0 Course! Please reach out and send me an email at [e-mail] if you're interested and I'll tell you a lot more about it there and share the course platform with you as well! Cheers! :)

[@v7e4n8om]

@3:30 if you have worked all your wall drawing in wall layer. You could just "select objects" in the wall layer and get all the wall lines selected.

[@HowtoRhino]

Yes, exactly! Many different ways to the same task in Rhino. That's the beauty of it :)

[@v7e4n8om]

@@HowtoRhino only if people who uses sketchup understood this... Also what if you edited the door cad block? For eg. if you made the 2d cad block into 3d, all the door would have become 3d right?

[@HowtoRhino]

@@v7e4n8om it depends. Rhino can't edit blocks from other programs. If you import a block from Autocad, it won't be native Rhino block, so first, you'd have to convert that cad block into Rhino block. Once you do that, you can just edit that block in 2D, create the 3D geometry inside the block editor and you'll have that transformation everywhere. Hope that clears up things a bit :D

[@abuimthiyaz5788]

Very useful one..😊

[@HowtoRhino]

Thanks Abu! :D

[@feimeng1156]

...I have change a new version, but I can't find the Mergeallface, clould you teach me thanks.

[@HowtoRhino]

MergeAllCoplanarFaces

[@feimeng1156]

@@HowtoRhino Thanks a lot~

[@ayamustafa5418]

i already boolion unioned the wall before i could model the window and when i command sweep 1 it doesn't work right,do you have an easier (but accurate method) method?

[@amaronahueld7311]

Nice video. A question: how do you constraint direction to modify with Solidpt + move in min 30:49 ? You keep the direction and use a midpoint reference.

[@amaronahueld7311]

nevermind. Tab key is the key c:

[@supremebrick4555]

great skill

[@HowtoRhino]

Thanks!

[@veenashibu8910]

Amazing tutorial for Rhino ! Can you please upload a tutorial for curved building designs from cad drawings too ?

[@HowtoRhino]

Hey Veena, we have this in our course, you can apply for it here howtorhino.com/apply

[@softwaretraining-naval]

Thanks.

[@giacomorsantoro]

MergeAllFaces is not workin anymore on Rhino7... any suggestion how to fix it?

[@HowtoRhino]

Try MergeAllCoplanarFaces ;)

[@apgp1448]

Do you have to use an Autocad drawing to start or can you make the drawing in Rhino as well

[@HowtoRhino]

Absolutely, you can make the drawing in Rhino as well :)

[@alienaccia]

Hey there! Your work is brilliant! I'm following your channel like one of my best tv series. I'm learning a lot from How to Rhino! Could I ask you if is that possible to have a video for modellig a terrain with slopes and contours? Should be really interesting when we usually model a little part of the project area in its context. Thanks for your inspiring videos. Alessandra.

[@HowtoRhino]

Hi Allessandra, You're welcome! Thanks for your comment and your kind words! I'm glad you find this content useful and that you're learning and improving your skills in Rhino :) Keep practicing! I'll see what I can do about terrain modeling for some of the future videos :D Cheers! Dusan

[@giegoar]

Hi, I am having a hard time doing daylighting or energy analysis (Honeybee) using a proper extruded geometry (similar to this house in your video). Was only able to do it with a simple geometry (e.g. box for rooms without thickness in walls and windows). Can you show how to assign rooms/zones and windows using that House you made in that video? Many thanks!

[@katiehill508]

Hi, I have tried to booleanunion and merge all the faces. but it turned out that the surfaces becomes one surface, but seam lines still show.

[@HowtoRhino]

Hey there! This is because the geometries that you've created are not exactly modeled correctly 100%. Feel free to send me your model at [e-mail] and I'll take a closer look and tell you where the problem is :)

[@gonzalocharon3747]

Hi do you have a tutorial talking about how to set the toolbar and witch options to toggle on in order to model faster?

[@HowtoRhino]

Hey Gonzalo, Yes, we cover all of that in Rhino for Architects Course. If you're interested you can apply for it here for a chance to get admitted to the course: howtorhino.com/apply/

[@isaiah4600]

What is the ribbon tool set that is all pink? I have used it before but forgot the name. Thank you if you can answer.

[@HowtoRhino]

That's T-splines plugin that doesn't work anymore :) Now we have SubD Tools for Rhino 7 as a replacement :)

[@javizagala9770]

If it's not too much to ask, could you put timestamps on your videos? I go back to them a lot for reference and it would be cool if there was a more instant way to scrub through your video. Regardless, great stuff always, how to rhino!

[@HowtoRhino]

Hi Javi, Maybe in the future, when we have more people hired :D

[@1hameden]

perfect thank you

[@HowtoRhino]

Glad you liked it!

[@krutivora7098]

Most helpful video i could get as an architecture student. Geat work! I can see alot of additional tools on the horizontal toolbar which u used to isolate, select specific colour objects etc. could you tell me how to get them?

[@HowtoRhino]

Hi Kruti, thanks for your support! Glad to hear that you've found the video helpful. When it comes to all these additional tools on the horizontal toolbar, you can simply right click on empty space in any horizontal toolbar and then choose the menu from the list that you want to appear, the ones I have are "select" "visibilty" "set view" and then once you select them, they will appear on the screen as separate windows. Just pick them up and dock them anywhere you want in the screen :)

[@krutivora7098]

@@HowtoRhino Thank you! really adore your work :)

[@krutivora7098]

@@HowtoRhino also, when i do mergeallfaces, some seam lines are still there! what is the issue?

[@HowtoRhino]

@@krutivora7098 Yes, that means that those faces are not completely flat when you modeled your geometry, it probably wasn't 100% accurate and that's why you have this issue. If you zoom deep enough you will see that the geometry on that particular line is not flat.

[@digital_hos1]

yo man! when you use solidpt to stretch the door's frame is a good technique but the door won't fit it!

[@HowtoRhino]

Hey Yousef, Yep, you're right. I probably forgot to also increase the width of the door! Nice eye ;)

[@TheSameer37]

So no object based modelling like Revit?

[@HowtoRhino]

Rhino and Revit are two different programs. Rhino is used in the conceptual stage of the project while Revit is a BIM tool used in the construction phase.

[@denizdemian2818]

Does anyone know if there's something like "intelligent objects" in Rhino (e.g. when having to change one door, all other doors will adapt to the new geometry automatically)? I think it's called a symbol in VectorWorks.

[@찐따방구]

Thanks for the great help How to Rhino Bros. But I cannot use Alt+Drag+Ctrl. How can I use it? I don't understand:(

[@HowtoRhino]

Not sure how to help you out. Just follow the process :) Alt(hold) + Drag (mouse hold) + Ctrl - release mouse

[@dave77yeo]

Hi... thanks for sharing this tutorial for me to learn the basic rhino lesson... i have a question here, is it possible to do union boolean for all solid or whether by extrude (surface, closed curve, cap), sweep, loft, revolve object ? thanks in advance

[@HowtoRhino]

Boolean Union would work only with closed geometry, it cannot work with surfaces and open polysurfaces

[@defrag1]

Nice video, but why not use a BIM software like Revit or Archicad from the start and avoid all this???

[@HowtoRhino]

Simply because this is a channel on how to use Rhino in architecture, not revit or archicad :)

[@aditiyadav5392]

Hello, i have recently started using rhino and i am not able to follow your tutorial when exploding, converts hatch into surface, please help..

[@HowtoRhino]

How can I help you Aditi?

[@aditiyadav5392]

Thanks for the video, I tried that again after modifying my cad file and I was able to do it.

[@dudleybarker2273]

hi there, and thanks for a great tutorial - my question is, why are you importing .dwg from autocad when they can be drawn directly in rhino?

[@HowtoRhino]

Yes, this can be drawn directly in Rhino as well, but it wasn't included in this tutorial :) There is a separate tutorial on that topic :)

[@dudleybarker2273]

@@HowtoRhino i can't find this on your page, could you drop the link here, please.

[@digital_hos1]

Hey! I m pretty sure that this video is very interesting, but can we get the DWG file? Thank you!!

[@HowtoRhino]

Hey Youssef! Sure, just send me an email at [e-mail]

[@digital_hos1]

@@HowtoRhino okayyy

[@3isico]

Is Rhino comparable to Blender?

[@HowtoRhino]

It could be, but I don't many architecture offices that are using Blender in their workflow. Blender is a great software, but it's not that famous in architecture circles.

[@drrajeshwarir8640]

That was a nice video...Some photo realistic rendering and beautifying the ground would improve the tutorial...but best effort to explain features of Rhino..

[@HowtoRhino]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the tutorial!

[@weissybmx555]

door 2 will not close. :( Great video though!

[@TheAcousticframe]

Nice Videos :) Could you tell me what those Pink icons in that bar at the top are ?

[@HowtoRhino]

Thanks! That is T-splines plugin for Rhino 5. However, it is not possible to get it anymore as it was bought by Autodesk.

[@Gelincik8lc]

boolean union failed why :(

[@dinmukhamedbogenbay6774]

@How thank you for this tutorial PLZ, can I have the DwG files that you used? I sit in this Gmail

[@HowtoRhino]

Hi! Just check the first comment in all videos. You can get all the project files on our Patreon page here :) Project Files 👉 www.patreon.com/posts/29317506

[@dedu98]

write the commands on the screen so its easier to follow!!!

[@HowtoRhino]

They are written in the top right corner of the viewport every time I execute a command :) For example: 6:15

[@numancoolguy]

Oh my.

[@HowtoRhino]

Too much? :D

[@HowtoRhino]

Too much? :D

[@omranishag3900]

Hi there thank you very much for your Chanel that to provide us useful content So I have simple instance from you can I have the DwG files that you used

[@HowtoRhino]

Hey Omran, very soon I'll make all of the files available for you guys to use over. Stay tuned.

[@eatersfamily]

and sa tNice tutorialng other way around

[@HowtoRhino]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

[@mladendurkovic2426]

free dwg file is here dwgmodels.com/223-house.html

[@carepointglobal1356]

You are moving to fast and making the viewer very dizzy 😵

[@المتعيزن]

*باوک حیزینە*😂😂

[@HowtoRhino]

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