Rhino 9 Documentation Project

Rhino 9 Features

RhinoAI

Connect an AI assistant to your live Rhino and Grasshopper document.

Direct3D

Increased display stability for Rhino.

Transfer Settings

Transfer settings between Rhino easily cross-platform.

Instant Aliases

Enable Hotkeys for Rhino and accelerate your modeling workflows.

Icon Redesign

Rhino icons have been updated to be more intuitive and visually appealing.

Rhino User Interface

A cleaner and friendlier UI, consistent across Windows and Mac

Toolbars, Refined

Rhino 9's toolbar and RUI system has been rebuilt from the ground up for …

ScaleEach

Add variations to your patterns. Apply random or gradient scaling to your …

ArrayCrv

Quickly and easily repeat objects along any curve with full control

SubDMatch

Hybrid modeling made easy! Connect SubD and surface edges to get the best …

InflateCrv

Give curves a dimensional, puffy look with just a few clicks.

Knife

Quickly add topology to your SubD or Mesh models.

UndoSelection

Browse back and forward through your selections, without undoing geometry …

Soft Transform

Adjust large numbers of control points by applying a falloff influence to …

Gumball: Control Polygon

Massage single or multiple control points in their own U, V or N direction. …

Patch

Create untrimmed and 5+ sided surfaces that reach up to curvature …

Fillet and Blend Edge

Soften sharp edges on solids or polysurfaces in one go. Create beautiful …

Surface Fillets

Create rational and non-rational fillets between two surfaces or a surface …

Rebuild

New adaptive rebuild technology to match the shape of the input curve with …

Zebra: Surface Analysis

Analyze continuity between surfaces and visually display tangency and …

Global Edge Continuity

Quickly analyze position, tangency and curvature continuity between …

Surface UV Indicators

See surface direction at a glance, right where you edit.

Inset: Shaping Detail

Easily add details to your designs. Create internal per-face boundaries or …

PushPull

Grab faces and push or pull them. Speed up modeling by using curves to add or remove volumes from existing surfaces.

Gumball: Rotate-Extend

Quickly Move, Rotate, Scale, Copy, Cut, and Extrude geometry without typing commands or clicking a toolbar button making the Gumball a versatile direct modeling tool.

Concept Display Mode

Quickly communicate early-stage designs with a presentation-ready look straight from your 3D model.

Isolate to Viewports

Hide objects in select viewports

Rendered Mode: Transparency

Colored transparency displayed correctly in the viewport.

Decals

Decals are commonly used for representing labels and graphics on products, …

Caustics and Dispersion

Caustics and dispersion are useful for creating realistic images of jewelry …

Markups

Markups are an easy way to communicate changes with your design team or …

Grasshopper: Hatch

Hatch patterns are now available for your parametric models in Grasshopper.

Grasshopper: Clip & Section

Clipping planes and sections directly in Grasshopper.

Grasshopper: Render Materials

Create, edit and save materials within Grasshopper.

Grasshopper: Textures

Grasshopper: Texture Mapping

Create, assign and edit the texture mapping of objects with Grasshopper.

Grasshopper: ShapeMap

Grasshopper add-on that maps 2D curves or image-based textures onto a …

Grasshopper: Content Viewer

Preview geometry and non-geometry data directly on the Canvas

Grasshopper: Viewport Widgets

Drive your Grasshopper definitions directly in the Rhino viewport.

Grasshopper: Value Picker

Find, select, and filter from a long list of values.

Audit 3dm Files

An interactive tool showing the relative size of objects in your 3dm file. …

Block Editor

An improved workflow for managing and editing blocks

Performance

Improved performance for handling large projects

Worksessions: Refined

Collaborate on large files across Mac and Windows.

Drafting Symbols

Standard 2D symbols of common 3D objects for drafting.

Non-Rectangular Details

Detail borders that adapt to the shape of your design. Non-Rectangular …

Layout Groups

Flexible and intuitive organization for complex drawings.

Hatch Patterns

Create custom hatch patterns in Rhino or use the extensive built-in …

GD&T

Add GD&T annotations to your engineering drawings. Ensure precision for …

Linetypes

Linetypes draw stylized curves with pattern, width and taper to communicate design or artistic flair.

Text Formatting

A full-featured text editor, allowing for bulleted lists, kerning, and more for formatting text annotations.

Black and White Switch

Automatically flip pure black or white curves and wires to the opposite color of the viewport background.

Section Styles

More robust creation and management of Section Styles.

Clipping Drawings

Create 2D drawings from your 3D model in a few clicks and maintain the live connection.s

Polyline: Offset

Draw walls, roads, and paths faster with automatic offset lines.

Rhino 9 | Grasshopper 2

Hop onto the next level of Visual Programming: looping, metadata, multithreading / cancelling.

C++ SDK on Mac

Build with C++ for both Windows and Mac

Rhino.Compute on Linux

Access the Rhino and Grasshopper SDKs through a stateless REST API. Now …

Grasshopper 2 Components

A beginners guide to creating your first Grasshopper 2 Component

Move to Grasshopper 2

Migrate your Grasshopper 1 Components to Grasshopper 2

In-Viewport User Interface

Controls and grips directly in the Rhino viewport

C++ to .NET Interop

Named Callbacks in C++ for easier access to .NET functionality

.NET 10 Upgrade

.NET 10 framework running on both Windows and Mac.

Python Updates

Support for Python 3 in Rhino and Grasshopper.

Scripting Improvements

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

RhinoCommon

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

Rhino 9 Stories

Rhino 9 | Patterning

Rhino 9 includes a rich toolset for recreating uniform or gradient patterns in 2D or 3D.

Rhino 9 | Drafting

Get from 3D model to finished drawing faster, with a new Block Editor, section tools, custom hatch patterns and markups in Rhino 9.

Rhino 9 | Freeform Modeling

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

Rhino 9 | Direct Modeling

Directly interact with your geometry and see your ideas shape up in realtime.

Rhino 9 | User Experience

Spend less time on commands and more time designing, with more direct, visual control over your models in Rhino 9.

Rhino 9 | Grasshopper 1

Go beyond geometry without scripting: rendering, drafting and interactive viewport control.

Rhino 9 | Grasshopper 2

Hop onto the next level of Visual Programming: looping, metadata, multithreading / cancelling.

Rhino 9 | Organic Modeling

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

Rhino 9 | Presentation

Present more realistic and expressive designs, with new concept visuals, realistic glass and gems and richer materials in Rhino 9.

Rhino 9 | Large Projects

Keep big, complex projects under control with better collaboration, file management and performance in Rhino 9.

Rhino 9 Industries

Rhino for the Jeweler

Rhino can accurately and efficiently model all types of jewelry.

Rhino for the Marine Industry

Rhino uses accurate NURBS surfaces to help model any aspect of a vessel.

Rhino in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

Rhino with Grasshopper is a robust 3D modeler for the AEC Industry.

Grasshopper - Visual Programming for Designers

Grasshopper is the visual programming environment built into Rhino for …

Rhino for Furniture Design

Rhino is a great freeform modeling tool that helps designers generate …

Rhino for Education

Students and teachers save up to 80%

Rhino for Landscape Design

Information for landscape designers.

Rhino for Bridge Design

Parametric bridge design, analysis and BIM with Rhino and Grasshopper.

Rhino for Industrial Design

Rhino is a great freeform modeling tool that helps designers ideate simple …

Rhino & Artificial Intelligence

Put an AI assistant to work inside Rhino.

Rhino 9 Features

Rhino 9 Stories

Rhino 9 Industries

Rhino 9 Tutorials

Rhino 9 Meta

Rhino Commands