Patterning

Create and control repeating patterns in Rhino 9, across curves, surfaces, and meshes with flexible tools for distributing and scaling geometry exactly where you need it.

Designing for production often means repeating the same element many times, precisely, and without doing it by hand. Rhino 9 gives designers and production teams the tools to array, scale, and map geometry across curves and surfaces, so patterns stay consistent, natural, and fully under your control.

ArrayCrv

ArrayCrv makes it easy to distribute and align objects along any curve, with interactive control over spacing, scale, orientation, and repetition. Industrial designers can quickly create patterns for products like speaker grilles, footwear, tire treads, or textured surface finishes, while automatically adapting objects to the shape of the geometry.

ScaleEach

Designers often include repeated elements or patterns in their work. Make your designs more realistic and visually appealing by applying a fade-in size using ScaleEach . No Grasshopper or coding required!

ShapeMap

ShapeMap is a Grasshopper add-on that maps 2D curves or image-based textures onto a complex 3D shape with minimal distortion. This makes texture design on models intuitive and efficient. Great for jewelers, industrial, and footwear designers who need to wrap and adjust textures and patterns on their designs, without the complexities of long-winded parametric definitions.