A groundbreaking Rhino3D plugin that seamlessly incorporates Spherene minimal surfaces.
Revolutionize your Design Workflow
sphereneRHINO empowers unique shapes, efficient material use, and reduced reliance on support structures for manufacturing.
Experience unmatched design flexibility with precise control over parameters such as density, wall thickness, coverage, and a spectrum of other customizable options for your parts.
"Integrating Spherenes into my Pedorthic Information Modeling workflow was remarkably straightforward.
This underlines the significance of interconnected computational design systems, driving my enthusiasm to explore further possibilities in my field!"
Public Beta Released: Join now!
sphereneRHINO, a revolution in how we think about design and manufacturing. Its capabilities reach across sectors including computational design, footwear, orthopedics, automotive, aerospace, and more.
Download sphereneRHINO Public Beta directly in Rhino's package manager and register an account on our portal.
Visit the sphereneRHINO documentation and join our Discord community for more details.
The Public Beta is currently free of charge.
"Having explored a few Rhino/Grasshopper plugins for minimal surface generation, sphereneRHINO distinctly stands out. It has a straightforward interface, paired with spherene's concise tutorials and cloud integration, ensuring rapid iterations of our design studies."
Slicelab
Features
With sphereneRHINO, you can create intricate and optimized structures for your designs, unlocking new levels of precision and efficiency.
Control the complex using simple geometry modifiers and field points. Use all tools, Rhino3D provides to set up your design framework. Rhino scripting, Grasshopper or manually placing points, work as you like.
Seamlessly morph between aperiodic minimal surface, hollow space and irregular arranged lattice (amorphous stochastic lattice).
As output you get a single surface or a solid mesh, ready for 3D printing in any additive manufacturing method using any material.
Envelope
Define the space where your spherene structure will be generated.
Fields
Adjust variables like density, wall thickness, and surface bias to suit your specific needs.
Cavities
Opt for more complex geometries to suit unique design challenges.
Modifiers
Control how spherene structures interact with other surfaces, whether growing onto them or creating partial or enclosed hulls.
"Minimal Surfaces are great, but when you are able to adapt density and thickness in design, it turns out an amazing lattice tool for footwear creation"
René Medel, framas Kunststofftechnik GmbH
Use Case: sphereneRHINO for Footwear
Replay the Footwearology webinar: "minimal material, optimal performance"
From Inspiration to Geometry
3D scanned bike saddle converted to a SUBD mesh as design base for creating boundary geometry to grow on to. Application of density points to control the ADMS density in sphereneRHINO
Controling variable wall thickness by simply placing points in your 3D scene using sphereneRHINO
Use standard Rhino tools creating complicated density, thickness and surface bias fields. In this example artistically recreate a femur in sphereneRHINO.
Cavity field points allow for very easy and fun placement of cavities in and on your geometry. Control the radius and combine multiple field points for more complex outcomes.
Apply simple points and geometry to control complex Spherene behaviour. In this example we make use of grasshopper for Rhino3D to generate a density field from a baropodometry image, downloaded from wikipedia.
Use field points to control thickness asymmetry and surface bias. Thickness asymmetry allows shifting the solid surface towards a volume. Surface bias allows shifting the single surface (Ideal minimal surface) towards a volume.
Demonstration on how to achieve similar results of an engineered, simulated and additively manufactured aluminium satellite bracket using sphereneRHINO.
Using modifier geometry, sphereneRHINO allows precise control of the visible open structure.