Rhino 8

Special features include:

• Uninhibited free-form 3D modelling tools like those found only in products costing 20 to 50 times more. Model any shape you can imagine.
• Accuracy needed to design, prototype, engineer, analyze, and manufacture anything from an airplane to jewellery.
• Compatibility with all your other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software.
• Read and repair meshes and extremely challenging IGES 
• Accessible. So easy to learn and use that you can focus on design and visualization without being distracted by the software.
• Fast, even on an ordinary laptop computer. No special hardware is needed.
• Development platform for hundreds of specialty 3D products.
• Affordable. Ordinary hardware. Short learning curve. Affordable purchase price. No maintenance fees.
• Rhino for Mac: The world’s most versatile 3D modeler, available on macOS.

Rhino 8 brings new modeling tools like ShrinkWrap, a huge speed boost for Mac users, SubD Creases, PushPull workflows, better drafting tools, a more customizable User Interface, a faster Render engine, new Grasshopper data types, and much more.

ShrinkWrap creates a watertight mesh around open or closed meshes, NURBS geometry, SubD, and point clouds: ideal for creating meshes for 3D printing.

ShrinkWrap is ideal for creating:

• Meshes for 3D printing.
• A solid union mesh from multiple objects.
• A solid mesh from 3D scan data fragments.
• Meshes without internal self-intersections.
• Offset meshes for shelling.
• Meshes from point clouds when reverse engineering.
• Valid closed meshes from broken or often hard-to-repair geometry.

Rhino now looks and feels the same nomatter you are on Mac or on Windows. Rhino 8’s user interface is substantially similar between platforms (except for the Command Prompt). Tools are in the same place; icons look the same. You can share Window Layouts with others – even between Windows and Mac.

Rhino for Mac is faster than ever, running natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, and using the Apple Metal display technology. We’ve also brought the User-Interface on Mac closer to its Windows sibling.

Rhino for Mac is now faster than ever on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. Powered by Metal, our new display pipeline delivers hardware-accelerated graphics for high frame rates and large resolutions.

Even in complex, detailed models—especially those with lots of lines, curves, hatches, and annotations—you can now pan, zoom, and orbit fluidly without dropping frames. Depending on your model, speed increases can be 24 times or more.

SubD Creases create a feature between a smooth and a sharp edge, without adding complexity to the SubD control net, great for making fillet-like features.

Accurate, organic modeling just got easier. Push and pull to explore complex, free-form shapes in realtime.

SubD objects are highly accurate and can be converted directly to manufacturable solids. You can also convert scan or mesh data into SubD objects, then optionally to NURBS.

Rhino 8 unlocks new modeling workflows — like PushPull — and adds intuitive new features to the Gumball, Automatic CPlanes, Inset and more

Rhino 8 adds new features to make modeling more playful and accessible. Combining these tools reduces friction for common solid creation/editing tasks. This allows you to stay in single Perspective view while modeling.

PushPull simplifies and speeds up Solid Modeling by using curves to add or remove volumes from existing geometry.

Quickly Move, Rotate, Scale, Copy, Cut, and Extrude geometry without typing commands or clicking a toolbar button. This makes the Gumball a versatile direct modeling tool for concept modeling interior and exterior architectural forms, certain furniture styles, SciFi models, and working with SubD objects.

Inset offsets edges inward on a mesh, SubD, or polysurface face: an easy way to make sub-faces that can be PushPulled to define a concept in a few clicks.

Smarter CPlanes automatically align to eligible selections. It’s now easier to place and edit geometry in the right orientation, without having to cycle through multiple views.

Rhino 8 introduces a number of clipping and sectioning enhancements to help support various drafting and fabrication workflows.

The Section Styles is a property of objects and layers. It includes hatch, fill, and boundary settings. Clipping Planes use this property to create section views and drawings of your model.

Clipping allows you to slice through your design, turning off the display of parts of the model. Now, with Selective Clipping, you can choose a subset of objects and layers to clip. You can even set a custom depth to isolate a specific part. With complex models, this focuses communication where it matters most.

Dynamically output vector geometry that updates with model changes.

Use section views that clip parts of your model to help illustrate and communicate the interior details. Rhino supports workflows to generate fast-clipped section views that you can reference in 3D viewports and Layouts.

Clipping planes can be used to extract sections through your model to use in prototyping and fabrication processes such as laser cutting. You can also extract slices of a big model to fabricate using CNC routers or 3D printers.

In Rhino 8, we’ve updated the Cycles Render engine, smoothed out the UV Workflow, improved our procedural textures, added a display mode, and more.

Rendering: Fast Feedback. We’ve updated the Cycles engine for faster, GPU-accelerated raytracing.

UV Mapping has been improved with a floating UV Editor, new unwrapping.

Native, per-pixel procedural textures in raytraced and rendered modes.

A clean, minimal Display Mode – Monochrome, perfect for showcasing architectural work.

Improved Rendering UI. More compact, efficient, and interactive management and editing.

Rhino Data Types allow you to bake geometry with custom attributes, import more file formats, control blocks, use native materials in the display pipeline, create hatches and annotations, and many other expanded workflows.

Grasshopper: Object Attributes. Manage Rhino object attributes directly from Grasshopper.

Grasshopper: Annotations. Define the look of annotations in Grasshopper.

Grasshopper: Blocks. Create block definitions and instances in Grasshopper.

Grasshopper: Content Cache. Update existing Rhino objects from Grasshopper.

Grasshopper: UserText. Add user text to Rhino objects.

We’ve fixed hundreds of bugs, but we’ve also added new Linetypes, improved Mesh Booleans, enhanced our surface editing tools, and more.

Linetypes in Rhino 8 can draw stylized curves with both width and taper.

Take control of structure and continuity for well-made surface models.

FilletSrf has a new UI with dynamic radius previews.

Customize, save, share, and restore your favorite interface layouts.

Now supporting USD export, glTF, E57 in Rhino for Mac, Dynamic Blocks.

Dynamic 3D Sectioning and 2D Drawings.

A reflected parallel projection viewport mode, perfect for RCPs.

The Block Manager is now more flexible and powerful.

Completely rewritten and more reliable Mesh Booleans.

Offset can now create multiple closed regions.

Switch the Rhino User Interface to the Dark Side.

You can create organic shapes with our new SubD tools. Run Rhino and Grasshopper as a Revit® Add-On with Rhino.Inside.Revit. Use the robust QuadRemesh algorithm to create a beautiful quad mesh from NURBS geometry or meshes.

For designers who need to explore organic shapes quickly, SubD is a new geometry type that can create editable, highly accurate shapes. Unlike other geometry types, SubD combines free-form accuracy while still allowing quick editing.

Accurate, organic modeling just got easier. Push and pull to explore complex, free-form shapes in realtime.

SubD objects are highly accurate and can be converted directly to manufacturable solids. You can also convert scan or mesh data into SubD objects, then optionally to NURBS.

Rhino.Inside.Revit brings the power of Rhino and Grasshopper to the Autodesk Revit® environment and manipulate Revit native geometry from simple geometric elements such as axes and family parameters.

Rhino.Inside is a new technology that allows embedding Rhino into other 64-bit Windows applications. Rhino.Inside.Revit is based on this technology and provides a platform for an unprecedented level of integration between Rhino and Revit.

Technically speaking, it is an add-on for Revit that loads Rhino and its plugins (e.g. Grasshopper) into Revit’s memory, just like any other Revit add-ons. Grasshopper brings a collection of new components for interacting with Revit, as well as providing access to the two software APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) using its script components.

Practically speaking, Rhino.Inside.Revit provides a set of tools for bridging the gap between Rhino’s free-form modeling and the world of BIM, opening Grasshopper’s rich ecosystem to the Revit environment, enabling completely new design workflows and possibilities.

Quickly create a quad mesh from existing surfaces, solids, meshes, or SubDs—ideal for rendering, animation, CFD, FEA, and reverse-engineering.

A series of improvements to viewport presentation and rendering tools such as PBR materials, removal of noise artifacts from renderings using Artificial Intelligence algorithms, emissive materials, light intensity fallof.
Refining ways of working and introducing new elements of layer management and visualization, transparent and gradient hatches, named selections, single line fonts, tools for molding and reading and writing improvements native formats from and to other software.
Update views to the latest OpenGL standards for modern hardware and performance improvements.
New tools for documenting models such as layout management, fields with text attributes in rhino but also in blocks with global attributes such as project name, date, author, but also specific to geometry such as layout name or geometric area.
A package manager that simplifies the management, search and installation of add-ons for Rhino and Grasshopper.

Rhino 7 is now available for Windows and Mac. Use your Rhino 7 licence to work on a Mac or on a Windows session. Just sit down at a computer, login to your Rhino account while using the Cloud Zoo and start working. A familiar Rhino interface and almost full functionality is now available to Mac users. Grasshopper is also included and some plugins have support for Mac also.

An improved presentation features in Rhino 7 enables you to communicate better in every stage of design, from conceptual work to final product presentations and animation. A wide range of preset materials, a new rendering engine and OpenGL support for gaming and professional video cards make Rhino the perfect tool to capture, render and present your projects more beautifully.

The world’s foremost parametric modelling software for architects and designers now comes included in Rhino 7. All of your past scripts are fully compatible with Rhino 7, along with some other improvements like: high dpi output, parallel processing, ability to code inside a Grasshopper node.
In the past decade Grasshopper has become a very robust development platform that offers a solid foundation for may incredible third party components ranging from environmental analysis to robotic control.

Take advantage of new drawing tools that transform your 3d model into 2d representations for documentation and illustration. Customize the appearance and deliver vector format 2d drawings of your 3d vision.

Use a full range of customizable annotations to document your projects with rich text and layout tools. Presenting the process of your project hasn’t been easier in 2d or in 3d visualizations.

Edit Mesh geometry with ease. Check mesh integrity, repair, create or modify mesh geometry. Convert NURBS to mesh and prepare geometry for fabrication.

Extend your Rhino functionality with an ecosystem of plugins and an open set of development tools. Now its even easier to find documentation online with guides and API references for advanced programming. Go to Food4Rhino for a full resource of scripts definitions, tutorials, materials or plugins to extend the functionality of your Rhino 3d modeller.

Take advantage of Rhino’s licencing options available:

1. Cloud Zoo (New) – Make your licenses available anywhere in the world through a login (a Rhino accout is required).
2. Single-Computer – License Rhino to one single computer.
3. Zoo – Float a set of Rhino licenses within your private network (a Zoo server is required).