Display Modes

A diversity of displays to view and analyze your model or showcase your designs in rich and customizable styles.

Native Display Modes:

Rhino comes with a series of built-in display modes. Some are intended to facilitate the modeling process and others as presentation and visualization modes:

Wireframe: The classic CAD working mode: an unshaded wireframe.
Shaded: Shaded mode uses a mesh to shade surfaces using the layer and object colors.
Rendered: A fast simulation of the rendered objects using assigned materials and textures.
Ghosted: A semi-transparent shaded mode, great for seeing the insides of models.
X-Ray: Wireframe and point objects are shown, even if they would be hidden by surfaces in front of them.
Technical: Uses real-time silhouette, intersections, creases and borders. Fully customizable for other types of technical effects.
Artistic: Simulates a pencil drawing with soft lines.
Pen: Get the look of a pen drawing with black lines.
Monochrome: Combines the effects of a white studio look and a sketch feel.
Concept: Translates materials, lighting and context while preserving a sketch feel.
Arctic: Turns all objects white, turns the background white, and adds soft shadows.
Raytraced: Rendered mode with Cycles, a real-time raytracer.

Concept
New in 9

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

For Architects

Concept mode gives architects & designers a fast, one-click starting point for presentation-quality visuals that still look like design, not production.

For Industrial Designers

Concept allows architects & designers that often need to present models in early-design stages, to depict their designs in a way that feels intentional and sketch-like, as opposed to overly rendered or technical.

Concept: Advantages

Maintain a clean visual feedback that reflects the design intention as you model.
Quickly communicate early-stage designs with a presentation-ready look straight from your 3D model.
Apply Concept mode to your Detail and Layouts to create consistent architectural drawings.