If you’re an industrial designer or concept modeler who needs to take your initial ideas closer to manufacturable products, Rhino 9 offers a rich environment for SubD modeling. It includes new creation and editing tools, plus workflow enhancements that give you more control for “clay” sculpting. Read on…
SubDMatch
For designers exploring form-finding while facing manufacturing requirements, 
SubDMatch
bridges the gap between SubD and Surface modeling, allowing you to connect boundary edges of both geometry types. It includes smooth tangent control.
InflateCrv
InflateCrv
quickly transforms closed curves into smooth, inflated forms, giving you control over thickness and corner softness. It’s an easy way to move from flat profiles to dimensional geometry, providing that “puffy” look without complex surfacing.
SubD Knife
Knife
is a tool for quickly adding topology to your SubD or Meshmodels by drawing polylines on it. It works like a cutter that allows you to create accurate face layouts in a few simple clicks. Yay!
Gumball Relocation
The 
Gumball
now remembers its orientation and location for SubD
Sub-Object Selections
and Groups. This is a time-saver when working back and forth with selection sets and multiple objects.
Selection
Selection of vertices, edges, faces or control points is how designers fine-tune their concepts. Rhino keeps your previous selections in memory. Use 
UndoSelection
and 
RedoSelection
to move between previous selection sets without the hassle of having to reselect. A true workflow accelerator!
Soft Transform
For Concept Modelers and 3D Artists, select a SubD’s vertex, edge, or face and use a
SoftTransform
falloff curve to influence surrounding geometry. Sculpt organic shapes effortlessly!
Gumball: Massage your Quads
Gumball: Control Polygon
supports multiple SubD points (quad faces) or sngle extraordinary vertices. Push or pull your SubD points in the Normal direction or along the control net, analyze with the 
CurvatureGraph
and spend less time preparing your shape for production.
