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 stability, predictable editing, and easier sharing.

ScaleEach

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

ArrayCrv

Quickly and easily repeat objects along any curve with full control

MatchSubD

Hybrid modeling made easy! Connect SubD and surface edges to get the best of both worlds: easy form exploration while respecting manufacturing constraints.

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 changes.

SoftTransform

Adjust large numbers of control points by applying a falloff influence to surrounding points. Create more organic and natural changes to your shape rather than hard, mechanical ones.

Gumball: Control Polygon

Massage single or multiple control points in their own U, V or N direction. Tune surfaces faster and more intuitively, directly in the viewport.

Patch

Create untrimmed and 5+ sided surfaces that reach up to curvature continuity to neighboring surfaces in a few clicks.

Fillet and Blend Edge

Soften sharp edges on solids or polysurfaces in one go. Create beautiful transitions for your high-end consumer products.

Surface Fillets

FilletSrf and ChamferSrf have received many workflow and quality …

Rebuild

New adaptive rebuild technology to match the shape of the input curve with higher accuracy.

Zebra: Surface Analysis

Analyze continuity between surfaces and visually display tangency and curvature conditions between surfaces.

Global Edge Continuity

Quickly analyze position, tangency and curvature continuity between surfaces

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 across multiple faces.

PushPull

Grab faces and push or pull them. Speed up modeling by using curves to add …

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 in 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, packaging, and signage. Add reflectiveness, textures, and bump maps.

Caustics and Dispersion

Caustics and dispersion are useful for creating realistic images of jewelry or consumer products that contain reflective or transparent elements.

Markups

Markups are an easy way to communicate changes with your design team or client. Annotate or redline directly on your model or drawing.

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 complex 3D shape with minimal distortion.

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. Troubleshooting made visual.

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 Details help create visually appealing technical drawings.

Layout Groups

Flexible and intuitive organization for complex drawings.

Hatch Patterns

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

GD&T

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

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 …

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 available on Linux Servers.

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

Write and publish Python 3 and C# scripts in Rhino and Grasshopper using the new unified ScriptEditor

Scripting Improvements

Customize and extend Rhino to suit your workflows with Python or .NET.

RhinoCommon

RhinoCommon is the cross-platform .NET plugin SDK for Rhino and Grasshopper, allowing developers to write once and run on both Windows and Mac platforms without changes.