This is a bit of a long reply, but I think it offers a little more perspective on what the process is like in school and how it carries over into the real world. But I also use rhino/grasshopper quite often as well, especially now that there is supported integration with Rhino.Inside finally being available for Revit. I've been working for about 5-6 years now and every firm I've worked for uses it religiously for everything. Professionally, you will likely end up using Revit more than any program. I went to grad school as well and I used both rhino, grasshopper and revit extensively, and even made my entire thesis about generative design using grasshopper and rhino.
Since 3ds Max is a mesh modeller instead of a nurbs environment like rhino, it basically makes it impractical to use as a modelling tool when trying to generate scale drawings with smooth and accurate linework. I took a 3ds Max class in undergrad and we didn't really do anything in it aside from making basic forms, learning about modifiers and learning how to render which was the main focus.
And by the end of my undergrad I was doing most of my modelling in rhino to model building forms and site modeling, grasshopper to do facade design, and then imported that file into revit to use their "mass by face" type of tools to generate a model for clean plans, which made it easier to get proper doors, stairs, etc into the models. I took my first revit class in my second year. However it is not the greatest for making actual drawings (floor plans, sections, etc) without plugins, which even then are pretty limited.Įventually you will move onto revit. If your university follows a typical curriculum trend, you will probably also get involved somewhat in grasshopper, which is where rhino really shines when it comes to computational and generative design and a major proponent of why it is so popular. You can just "Smash" or "unroll" your model into surfaces that you can plot out to scale to cut chipboard by hand, or plop them into the laser cutter. It is especially handy in school when you need to make physical models. It takes a bit more time to learn than something more simplified like SketchUp, but the advantages are way too great to ignore, especially in school. I learned Rhino as a freshman when getting my bachelor's degree in architecture school and it was, and still is one of the most flexible softwares you will ever use.
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