New in Rhino 8

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: Turn Garbage To Gold

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

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Built for 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…

Built for Mac: Metal

Blazingly fast 3D drawing, a massive speed boost for Mac users.

Window Layouts

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

Universal App

Rhino for Mac runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

Layer Manager

A complete rewrite, on Windows and Mac, including all new features.

Rendering: Fast Feedback

We've updated the Cycles engine for faster, GPU-accelerated raytracing.

SubD Creases

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.

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Modeling: Simplified

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

Modeling Simplified

Rhino's model creation tools make it flexible, accurate, open, and very popular.

Auto CPlanes

Smarter CPlanes automatically align to eligible selections.

Gumball

The move, scale, rotate widget gets new grips for extending and extruding.

PushPull

Grab a face and push or pull it, extruding or extending.

Inset

New Options and support for Surfaces and Polysurface Faces.

Clipping and Sectioning

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

Section Styles

Clipping planes and section styles give more control when using clipping …

Selective Clipping

Selective clipping and viewing depth.

Dynamic Vector Drawings

Create dynamic vector drawings of clipping sections.

Clipped Views

Use Clipping Planes Views in 2D Layouts.

Sectioning for Fabrication

Extract section curves and slices for fabrication.

Presentation

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

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

Procedural Textures

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

Monochrome

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

Improved Rendering UI

More compact, efficient, and interactive management and editing.

Grasshopper: Rhino Data Types

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.

Rhino Refined

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

Linetypes

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

RefitTrim

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

Surface Fillets

FilletSrf has a new UI with dynamic radius previews.

Window Layouts

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

Supported File Formats

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

SectionTools Integrated

Dynamic 3D Sectioning and 2D Drawings.

Reflected Ceiling Plans

A reflected parallel projection viewport mode, perfect for RCPs.

Blocks

The Block Manager is now more flexible and powerful.

Mesh Booleans

Completely rewritten and more reliable Mesh Booleans.

Offset

Offset can now create multiple closed regions.

Dark Mode

Switch the Rhino User Interface to the Dark Side.

Development Platform

Rhino 8 brings a new code editor, support for CPython and .NET 7, major improvements to our free SDKs, with API refinements, and some major new features that broaden and deepen the foundations of the geometry development platform…

Scripting

Entirely new editor for Python 3 and C#, in Rhino and Grasshopper.

Code-Driven File IO

Read/write any format that Rhino supports entirely through code.

rhino3dm Rendering Assets

Read and write rendering assets from openNURBS or rhino3dm.

.NET 7

Target Microsoft .NET 7 on both Windows and Rhino for Mac.

RhinoCommon

New APIs for Shrinkwrap, Flair, Code-Driven File IO, and more...

And More

Looking for a complete list of new commands? If you’re not seeing what you’re looking for above, please check out the documentation’s New in Rhino 8 for a complete list…as well as new command options.

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