Rhino Grasshopper Parametric Wall Design

Master Grasshopper fundamentals by defining clear input and output, isolating problems, researching beyond help resources, saving versions regularly, and maintaining readability with colors, groups, and well-named files.

Explore Grasshopper’s interface, a window-in-a-window workspace with model background, canvas inputs, and tabs for geometry, curves, and meshes; save, view options, and plug-ins like lunchbox streamline design.

Navigate the Grasshopper canvas with mouse controls, zoom and select, apply preview, enable, and bake to manage geometry, and organize with grouping, internalize or extract, and quick command search.

Set up inputs by organizing top and bottom curves in Grasshopper script. Place commands to keep geometry on the same plane and shape the curves so they can be solid.

Organize the Rhino Grasshopper workflow by grouping objects, dividing curves, and forming panel ends, then twist and loft the wall. Duplicate sides with a control knob to keep inputs consistent.

Learn base functions in Rhino Grasshopper by dividing curves to create points for panels, using an integer slider to set counts from 20 to 100, and building lists for shifting.

Sort point lists for pan by shifting and separating the point list from geometry to create original and reduced lists; monitor a panel and apply suppressions to build top panels.

Draw lines between point pairs and find midpoints to define twist axes for panel edges. Create an axis from the midpoint and an offset point, then rotate to twist.

Learn advanced functions to rotate panels in a parametric wall design, applying the same rotation to the bottom and the middle panels.

Loft three curves using a weave to graft them into a structured tree, twisting the middle curve to create a 3D wall, and prepare exports for deployment.

Explore Grasshopper tools to create and customize paneled surface patterns on various surfaces, adjust the look and feel, plug patterns into your function, and enhance your parametric wall design workflow.

Explore how the Painting Tools plugin uses curves and surfaces to create panels and form 3d constructs that are more buildable and fabricable for wall designs. Download the latest version.

Explore creating a 2D paneled wall in Rhino by using Grasshopper with the Paneling Tools plugin to generate a surface grid and borders, with options for 3D panels.

Create a three-dimensional paneled wall by building a ground plane to a top surface, offsetting to form a grid, and using morph and paneling tools to generate and bake panels.

Celebrate finishing this course by presenting your panel wall and runway designs using Grasshopper, and share your final project in the class.