Rhino: Furniture Design

Learn how to design furniture for game engines with Rhino 3D. Explore methods for exporting your furniture design for rendering, 3D printing, or game development, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. General Concepts About Furniture Design

• What is furniture design?
• Furniture and the body
• How furniture supports different activities

2. Physical and Spatial Characteristics of Furniture

• Questions that drive form
• Form and shape
• Furniture and the design of interior space
• Furniture types

3. Case Study #1: Cafe Chair, Model 14 (Thonet, 1859)

• Background and analysis
• Defining form using the Extrude, Boolean, and Two Objects tool
• Adding details using the Sweep 1 Rail tool

4. Case Study #2: Zig-Zag Chair (Gerrit Rietveld, 1934)

• Background and analysis
• Defining form using the Tween Curve tool
• Creating surfaces and thicknesses using the Planar Curves and Extrude tool

5. Case Study #3: DCM chair (Charles and Ray Eames, 1946)

• Background and analysis
• Defining the form and creating the frame
• Building the shells and mounts

6. Case Study #4: Wiggle Side Chair (Frank Gehry, 1972)

• Background and analysis
• Defining form using profile curves
• Creating contours

7. Design Process (Define the Problem, Research, and Schematic Design)

• The design process
• Define the problem, research, and schematic design
• Finishing schematic design

8. Design Process (Design Development and Documentation)

• Design development: Refining the chair legs
• Design development: Determining a material and fabrication strategy
• Design development: Finishing the chair
• Documentation

9. Translating to Other Software

• Exporting your model: Unity assets
• Exporting your model: Rendering
• Exporting your model: Printing

Conclusion

• Next steps