Lab 1 part B was the most difficult section of lab 1. Some of the surface commands are not as intuitive as others, but it was a good exercise in talking to rhino. When using a command, the command bar will ask you questions, and you have to decipher what its asking for. The command bar can be very insightful when it asks you questions because if you’re not sure exactly what a command will do, you can still make a guess based on what the command bar is asking.

For the first class in Form we downloaded Rhino and played around with the software. The first time seeing the program was overwhelming. There are so many tabs and tool bars and each one contains too many buttons to count. However, everything can be found through the tool bar, which makes Rhino a whole lot less daunting. I played around with making making cubes and circles, and I even figured out how to type some things.

I took a Computer Aided Design class in high school where we designed things like tables, chairs, cars, etc… so I am incredibly excited to learn a new software and this time actually print stuff out!

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

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