JEH Guitars goes from Art to Part with T-Splines and RhinoCAM

Learn how JEH Guitars sped up its manufacturing and design process with T-Splines and RhinoCAM.

Organic modeling contest thru Sept. 15: win a iPad, iRhino3d, and great software prizes!

Three weeks remain in our organic design contest: Model your organic designs in CAD.

There's still time to create a distinctive portfolio piece, get lots of free publicity, and win one of three iPads with iRhino3D and other great prizes.

The contest deadline is September 15, 2010.

Read contest details.

Special thanks to contest sponsors ASGvis and Shapeways.

Jumpstart your T-Splines modeling!

Attend our free webinar with Kyle Houchens this Thursday, August 26, at 12 PM Eastern to learn some T-Splines basics. Kyle will show how to create an organic model from a 2D sketch. He’ll be modeling a helicopter. Register now.

T-Splines training in Los Angeles Aug 28

T-Splines trainer Kyle Houchens will be presenting a T-Splines for Rhino training session at Los Angeles Valley College.

It will be from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on August 28. The cost is $100 and includes lunch.

To register, email Casey at ideasreg@lavc.edu

Details here.

Carbon fiber bench

Belgian designer and long-time T-Splines user Peter Donders shared one of his latest projects with us -- a carbon fiber bench! This was designed using T-Splines, Rhino, Grasshopper and modo. Pictures follow.

Basic form



Strips being laid out with Grasshopper



Model in T-Splines, NURBS, and strips generated in Grasshopper



Renders in modo







Making a small prototype









Making the carbon fiber bench



















The final bench!

Free webinar: modeling 3d forms from 2d sketches

Sharpen your skills for our organic design contest! Register for this free webinar on Aug 26 to learn how to create 3d organic models from 2d sketches.

New T-Splines premium services

We are being increasingly asked to make models for designers or firms. They love the organic look of T-Splines, but are either in a time crunch, or don't want to invest in learning T-Splines until they see proof that it will work for them.

So, we decided to officially launch T-Splines premium services.

Our experienced team of licensed designers can leverage the unique power of T-Splines to quickly make a high-quality model of your design.

Rush job? No problem; with the patented power of T-Splines and our top design talent, we can probably meet your deadline.

Carefully deciding whether you want to use T-Splines yourself? We can help by providing video tutorials or step-by-step .3dm files showing how we created your model.

Sample deliverables
Final models in T-Splines, Rhino, SolidWorks, or PRO/E
Video tutorials showing how the model was made
.3dm files with steps saved out to show how the model was made
Final renders

Sample projects
Creating new designs: we can help you set up a T-Spline model that you can easily tweak to explore design iterations
Rebuilding old CAD models and making them more organic with T-Splines.
Converting obj files to NURBS or T-Splines
Creating NURBS surfaces or T-Splines surfaces from an .stl mesh

Call 877-801-8411 (toll free), 801-841-1234, or email services@tsplines.com for your free estimate and consultation.

Analyze your T-spline surface while still in Rhino

Scan&Solve™ for Rhino is a new plugin (currently free!) that lets you perform simple analysis on your models while still in Rhino.

The video below shows how to use Scan&Solve to perform a simple stress test on a T-spline surface that was converted to NURBS.

On a personal note, I met the head researcher behind Scan&Solve, Vadim Shapiro, at COFES this year. Turns out that he had known my dad from years ago. I talked with him at length about our experience writing a Rhino plugin, so I'm glad he went ahead and did it!