In Progress for v9 - Display

Rhino’s display pipeline is fast and uses features found on modern graphics hardware, like GPU sensitive shaders and memory optimizations. This results in fewer GPU-specific display glitches and more consistent, beautiful, and frequent frames, even with large models.

Features include extremely fast 3D graphics, unlimited viewports, shaded, working views, perspective working views, named views, floating views, full-screen display, 3D stereo view modes, draw order support, two‑point perspective, clipping planes, and one-to-one scale to view models at full size.

Some models will display significantly faster in Rhino 7 on both Windows and Mac:

• Files with nested blocks (often from SolidWorks, STEP, and SketchUP import)
• Layouts with many detail views
• Files with lots of text objects

Blocks: Polysurface, mesh, and extrusion objects inside nested blocks are cached for rapid display. Nested blocks often come from STEP, SolidWorks, and SketchUP files. Our test models have shown up to 10x performance improvement in wireframe and shaded modes.

Layouts: Details in layout views are cached as OpenGL textures. These textures are reused when panning layouts and modeling in the layout view.

Text: Text displays faster while it is being edited.