Rhino 3D & Grasshopper for Beginners & Intermediates

Rhino 3D & Grasshopper for Beginners & Intermediates is a practical, exercise-driven guide for students, designers, architects and makers who want to finally understand parametric design — not just watch tutorials and get confused.

Instead of long theory, this book teaches Rhino and Grasshopper through 50 carefully structured projects. You’ll start with simple curves and surfaces, then move into patterns, panels, attractors, form-finding and fabrication-ready geometry you can actually use in school or real-world work.

Each exercise is broken down into clear, repeatable steps: what to click, why it matters, and how to tweak the parameters to create your own versions. Along the way you’ll build confidence in both Rhino’s modeling tools and Grasshopper’s node-based logic.

Whether you are coming from zero, from SketchUp, or from traditional CAD, this book will help you think like a parametric designer: working with relationships, rules and smart geometry instead of redrawing everything from scratch.

By the end of the book, you’ll have a personal library of Grasshopper definitions, Rhino models and workflows that you can adapt for studio projects, portfolios, competitions and digital fabrication.

Inside you’ll learn how to:
– Navigate the Rhino 3D interface and core modeling tools
– Build clean curves, surfaces, solids and NURBS geometry
– Use Grasshopper to control patterns, repetition and parametric variations
– Create panels, façades, structures and organic forms with logical rules
– Prepare models for 3D printing, laser cutting and CNC fabrication
– Avoid common beginner mistakes that lead to messy, unusable geometry

Designed for self-study and classroom use, this book is ideal for architecture students, product designers, digital artists, makers and anyone curious about computational design with Rhino 3D and Grasshopper.