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Getting to know Notilus Piping: Piping and HVAC design in Rhino

Notilus Piping is a 3D piping and HVAC plugin for Rhino 7 and 8, used by yards and design offices to model every system on board on the same model as the hull and structure.

Draw a pipeline directly or convert existing lines into pipes with elbows and segments, drop in valves and fittings, and let the bill of materials, weights and spool drawings follow the model as the design changes.

Key features

• Draw pipelines or convert lines and polylines into pipes
• HVAC ducts, cable trays, and hoses modeled with the same tools
• Valves, flanges, reducers,and fittings that snap to pipe size and spec
• Equipment library with exact dimensions and inlet/outlet positions, all information in one place
• Automatic penetrations against the surrounding structure
• Live bill of materials, pipe and fluid weight with center of gravity
• Spool drawings with dimensions and component lists

From mega yachts, workboats and ships to small boats plumbed with hoses, it covers fuel, ballast, bilge, urea, seawater, and HVAC systems.

Notilus Piping works with Rhino 7 and 8 for Windows. A 15-day evaluation license is available.

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Rhino User Meeting Vienna 2026 (November 26)

Organized by McNeel Europe, ATP, and Bollinger+Grohmann at Reaktor.

Looking for a day packed with innovation, creativity, and hands-on action? Join us for the Rhino User Meeting in Vienna and dive into the latest and greatest in Digital Design and Fabrication.

Here’s the deal

• Learn from industry pros in Architecture, Design, Engineering, Fashion Design & Accessories, 3D Printing, Robotics, AI, and more!
• Discover cutting-edge updates on Rhino Beta, Grasshopper 2, and other tools.
• Watch live demos and get inspired by exhibitors showing what’s possible.
• Bonus? It’s not just all tech talk—there’s networking and drinks to wrap up the day! Perfect for meeting like-minded folks and making connections.

Tickets (click on the link to buy)

• General: €90 (+ VAT if applicable) early bird until 27 Oct – then €120 (+ VAT if applicable)
• Student: €60 (+ VAT if applicable) early bird until 27 Oct – then €90 (+ VAT if applicable)

food4Rhino webinar: Arch-e – AI Decision Intelligence for Rhino and the AEC Industry (October 15, 2026, at 4 PM CEST)

What if AI could do more than generate content or answer questions? What if it could actually help architects and engineers make better design decisions?

Join TwinMaster and Rhino for an introduction to Arch-e, TwinMaster’s AI-powered decision intelligence platform for architecture, engineering, and construction.

Arch-e works with the tools and project data AEC teams already use, transforming building information into an intelligent environment where professionals can ask complex questions, explore alternatives, and reason across the interconnected decisions that shape a project.

During this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how Arch-e helps teams evaluate competing objectives such as cost, carbon, energy performance, daylight, compliance, constructability, and other design criteria simultaneously, rather than analyzing each in isolation, and then push the optimized results right back into their Rhino models.

We’ll also explore how Arch-e works with Rhino, how TwinMaster’s multi-agent AI and semantic digital twin technology support decision-making across disciplines and project phases, and why we believe the next evolution of AI in AEC is not simply about generating more designs but about helping professionals understand which decisions to make, and why.

Attendees will see Arch-e in action and learn how TwinMaster is building a vendor-neutral intelligence layer across the AEC software ecosystem.

Speakers:

Dr. Prasanta Bose
CEO, CTO & Co-Founder

Prasanta has spent more than four decades developing intelligent systems, predictive technologies, and advanced software architectures. He earned his master’s degree in computer science from UMass and his PhD from USC, with both focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

At Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center, Prasanta spent more than a decade working on advanced technologies, autonomous systems and mission-critical AI and Digital Twin software powering DARPA, NASA, and internal R&D programs. His work spanned symbolic and neuro-symbolic AI, autonomous systems, predictive modeling, machine intelligence, and digital twins. He later served as a senior technology executive at Starbucks, leading large-scale AI and Advanced Analytics, IoT, and enterprise technology initiatives.

His career bridges several generations of artificial intelligence—from early symbolic AI and autonomous systems to today’s agentic and generative AI—and provides the technical foundation for TwinMaster’s multi-agent decision-intelligence architecture. His work has received multiple technical honors, including a 2023 Outstanding Achievement Award from the UMass Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences.

Michael Jansen
Chief Business Officer & Co-Founder

Michael is an architect, technology entrepreneur, and business leader with more than three decades of experience at the intersection of architecture, digital technology, and global enterprise development.

Educated in architecture at Yale (US) and Cambridge (UK) and a Fulbright Scholar, Michael led the Asia practices of two major U.S. international architecture firms before the age of 30. In 2004, he founded Satellier, an AEC technology-enabled BIM services company backed by Sequoia Capital and Silicon Valley Bank that grew to more than 700 employees within four years and served 30 of the world’s top 50 architecture, engineering, and construction firms.

His recent work has focused on digital twins, smart cities, AEC technology, and commercializing emerging technologies for the built environment. He has raised over $50 million in institutional and private capital for three companies, developed global enterprise customer relationships, and established partnerships across the AEC technology ecosystem. His lifelong contribution to the AEC industry has been featured on CNN, CNBC, the BBC, and in numerous AEC trade publications worldwide.

At TwinMaster, Michael leads corporate strategy, commercialization, strategic partnerships, customer development, and global distribution—connecting Arch-e with leading AEC firms and major AEC software ecosystems.

Free registration…