Drafting

Rhino 9 transforms 2D drawing production by seamlessly linking precision floor plans, elevations, and sections to your 3D model, while shared Section Styles, symbols, and Markups streamline team workflow and keep designs coordinated throughout the project. And there’s more…

Technical Drawings: Dynamic drafting

Generate faithful 2D technical drawings from your 3D models! Place ClippingSections on the model where you need floor plans, elevations, and sections, then extract ClippingDrawings directly in Rhino.

Non Rectangular Details

Non Rectangular Details are an important feature for drafters. Urban landscapes, consumer products or natural forms are often irregular in shape. Adapting a detail border to the design shape leads to better-fitting and visually appealing drawings.

Hatch: Make it, don’t fake it

Create your own Hatch patterns using Rhino 2D geometry! Use lines, arcs, circles, curves and create custom hatches for project-specific needs. You no longer have to depend on external libraries or be limited to existing *.pat files.

Section Styles: Save and reuse

For architects and designers who produce plans, sections, and elevations from their models, save your Section Styles and reuse on any object, layer, or clipping plane. Previously, every custom style was a one-off. Ten layers of concrete meant ten styles to edit. Now it is one.

One style named Concrete holds the hatch pattern, background fill, boundary linetype and color, and print colors. Change its hatch pattern scale and every section in the drawing set follows.

Complex Linetypes

Shapes and Text in Linetypes help architects and drafters turn complex drawing conventions into reusable line styles. Represent utilities, fences, wall types, and other repeated linework while keeping it connected to the curve.

Parallel Lines

The new Offset option in the Polyline command enables parallel drafting. Architects and drafters can draw walls, pipes, streets, and other paired-line elements in one step.

Drafting Symbols

Drafting Symbols help architects and drafters create 2D drawings in Rhino with ready-made symbols for context, annotation, and drafting details. Using drafting symbols gives users a faster start, reduces repetitive drafting work, and helps keep drawings consistent across files and teams.

Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing

Create standards-compliant GD&T annotations for your engineering drawings. Rhino 9’s new GeometricTolerance annotation uses symbols in engineering drawings to communicate the acceptable variation in a part’s geometry for manufacturing.

Layout Groups: Organize your drawings

Organize complex drawing sets with precision. Layout Groups eliminate tedious naming conventions by intelligently grouping sheets by status, discipline, location, or any criterion. Streamline printing, exporting, and collaboration while cutting time spent searching through dozens of layouts.

Text is now richer

Get the best out of Text with new formatting options for tabs, numbered and bulleted lists, superscript and subscript. Add text masks to frame and highlight information. Create a closer visual connection between your text and drawings.

Black and White Switch: Turn off the lights

With a simple switch, your curves no longer disappear into your background! The new option automatically flips pure black or white curves and wires to the opposite color of the viewport background. Never lose a curve against a matching background.

Markup: Communication made easy

For architects and designers, Markup is an easy way to communicate with the design team directly on the model! Whether giving feedback on the 3D model or redlining 2D drawings, Markups are a great tool for collaboration.

Block Edit: Drill down

Editing blocks is now more precise and less disruptive. The refreshed BlockEdit workflow lets you isolate and edit nested geometry cleanly, even inside busy or non-uniformly scaled assemblies.

Overlap: Cleaning up

The new Overlap command helps you clean up messy 2D drawings by finding and selecting duplicate and overlapping linework within a user-defined distance. The command detects whole and partial overlaps as well as linework with different properties, making it easier to detect similar geometry as opposed to exact duplicates.

Use-Cases:

• Clean 2D drawings so you can more easily annotate, add hatches or change linetypes.
• Clean large/heavy files of unnecessary, near-duplicate geometry.
• Avoid issues with downstream operations selecting multiple or wrong geometry that can slow down your workflow.
• Improve toolpath creation (multiple passes over the same segment).
• Improve laser/plasma results (extra burn time, overcutting, inconsistent kerf).