Rhino 3D v8

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What’s New in Rhino 8

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Licensing & Administration

Rhino is easy to install, license and configure. There are three ways to licence Rhino: Single-Computer for one install, Zoo to float a set of Rhino licences within your private network, and Cloud Zoo to make your licences available anywhere in the world through a login.

	Single Computer	Zoo	Cloud Zoo
Easy Setup	Yes	No	Yes
Run Anywhere	Yes	No	Yes
Licence Available Offline	Yes	No	Yes
Licence All Your Computers	No	Yes	Yes
Share Your Licences (excl. educational)	No	Yes	Yes
Manage Teams Worldwide	No	Yes	Yes
Track Licence Usage	No	Yes	Yes
No Client Configuration	No	No	Yes
No Servers to Maintain	Yes	No	Yes
Automated Licence Provisioning	No	No	Yes

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More Features in Rhino

SubD Objects

Subdivision Objects (SubD) is a new geometry type to create editable and highly accurate shapes that are ideal for designers who need to explore organic forms. Push and pull these complex free-form shapes in real time, and convert them directly into manufacturable solids. If you’re familiar with the T-Splines plugin popular with older versions of Rhino, SubD editing is the feature you’ve been waiting for!

Rhino.Inside.Revit

Embed Rhino inside other 64-bit programs using Rhino.Inside technology. Rhino.Inside.Revit allows Rhino and plugins (e.g. Grasshopper) to load directly within Revit. Bridge the gap between Rhino’s free-form modeling and the world of BIM, opening Grasshopper’s rich ecosystem to the Revit environment and enabling completely new design workflows.

QuadRemesh

Quickly create a quad mesh from existing surfaces, solids, meshes, or SubDs—ideal for rendering, animation, CFD, FEA, and reverse-engineering.

Documentation

Many parts of the documentation workflow have been improved while also focusing on graphically-rich illustration tools like transparency and gradient hatches.

Grasshopper

Grasshopper has become a robust development platform and provides the solid foundation for many incredible third-party components ranging from environmental analysis to robotic control.

• One Install — Grasshopper installs with Rhino for Windows.
• High DPI — High DPI displays are supported.
• Components — Including Make2D, Symbol Display, Bend, Flow, Maelstrom, Splop, Splorph, Stretch, Taper and Twist.
• Kangaroo — The interactive dynamic relaxation/physics engine is included.
• Multi-Threaded Components — Some components solve much faster using parallel computing.
• GhPython — Included and featuring its own GHA compiler and a major node-in-code speed-up.

Presentation

Rhino has improved with the aim of helping you present your work. With major changes to Rendering, Materials, or just plain capturing the viewport, it’s easy and fast to present, discuss, make decisions and iterate.

Quick Capture Your Idea
Snapshots allow you to save — and return to — appearance states of your model.

Raytraced Viewport Mode
Fast, interactive raytracing in the viewport, accelerated on the GPU of modern CUDA and OpenCL graphics cards.

Improved Defaults

Defaults are modelled on a typical product design studio: white background with an automatically adjusted ground plane, soft shadows and lighting from large studio light panels—beautiful reflective diffused lighting all around your model, even in deep cavities. Convert older models by pressing “Reset to Defaults” in the Rendering Panel.

Materially Better

It’s easy to create and assign materials, with a material library packed full of real-world-scale textures. The material browser makes it easier to work with and manage hundreds or thousands of materials and textures.

Per-face Material Assignment eliminates extracting faces just to change the material.

Everything in one place

Everything you need for rendering is in the Rendering panel. Choose a viewport or named view (or a snapshot), set resolution and visual quality, lock aspect ratio, add a background, change the lighting and hit Render.

• Decal Placement
• UV Unwrapping (works on multiple objects)
• Fresnel Reflections
• Clarity controls for reflection and transparency
• Image Alpha for Cutouts
• Mirrored Textures

Display

Rhino’s display pipeline is fast and stable, using features found on modern graphics hardware—GPU shaders and memory optimisations—for fewer glitches and more consistent, beautiful frames, even with large models.

Speed

GPU Tessellation moves surface, polysurface, and extrusion wire drawing onto the graphics card, significantly improving speed on supported GPUs.

Improved Display Modes

Viewport display modes produce stunning high-resolution output images at interactive frame-rates.

Realtime Rendering

Rhino has a realtime ray-traced viewport mode and realtime previews with SSAO, Decals, image-based lighting, and screen/world-based mapping.

Curves and Points

Curves are smoother and faster to draw; points are displayed with beautiful clarity.

Documentation

Modelling is just one part of the design process; you also need to show how to build what is on the screen. Enjoy a refined documentation workflow, a reworked annotation-style interface, better DWG support, and RichText throughout.

• Dimensions and Annotations — Faster, crisper on-screen display in model views and layouts.
• Annotation-styles — Control the look of dimensions, leaders and text.
• Rich Text — Set multiple typefaces and fonts in a single block of text.
• Fields — support to display document/object data in text and annotations.
• Tolerance options — plus/plus, symmetrical and deviation.
• Fine-grained Control — Override annotation styles per object; zero-suppression settings for annotation items.
• Well Oriented — Orient text toward the reader when viewed from behind.
• And more…

Make2D

Make2D provides faster, better, cleaner, more customisable results.

• Clear UI — More control over Make2D output.
• Hidden Line Layers are dashed.
• Make2D from Grasshopper — Create 2D compositions with custom logic.
• Clipping Planes are supported; intersections are calculated.
• Whole-scene Silhouettes are computed.
• Make2D Everything — Meshes, blocks, dots and annotation objects all work with Make2D.
• Developer Access — Interfaces to silhouette generation, hidden line drawing and the Make2D command.
• Enhancements:
  — Faster in every way.
  — More accurate details.
  — Correctly classify curves as Hidden, Visible or Duplicate.
  — Keep whole curves (no tiny segments).
  — Progress reporting during drawing creation.

Rhino Refinements

Small quirks add up to painful paper cuts over a long session. McNeel has fixed and consolidated disparate—but similar—features into single commands, making Rhino much more refined.

Development Platform

Rhino is more than just a modeller. With a rich ecosystem of plugins and an open set of development tools, Rhino is a powerful platform for those pushing the envelope of design.